Events of the Month

EVENTS OF THE MΟΝΤΗ.

BY THOMAS HULL, GENERAL SECRETARY OF Y. M. M. I. A.

LOCAL-September 18-R. C. Kerrens arrived in Salt Lake City in the interest of the Los Angeles railroad movement................ Spring- ville, Utah County, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of its settlement. .....19-In the absence of Governor Wells and Secretary Ham- mond, in Idaho, Aquila Nebeker, President of the Senate, became acting governor........... The funeral services of Elder J. G. Frankland, who recently died at Ansley,Alabama, while on a mission, were held in the Twelfth Ward, Salt Lake City.... 20 -Governor Roosevelt arrived in Ogden, where he spoke to a large audience in the Opera House, after a lively reception.......A meeting in the interest of the Los Angeles road was held in the Salt Lake council chamber.... 21-Governor Roosevelt was given a unique reception in Salt Lake City by the Rough Riders; he spoke at Saltair and in the Theater....... 22-The executive committee of the Scofield mine disaster decided to distribute the balance of the relief fund, $94,000 to two hundred persons interested..............President George B. Leighton, of the Los Angeles terminal, arrives in Salt Lake..... 23-Ray Savage and William Brothers made a trip from the Jeremy Salt works to Antelope Island by team over salt beds or incrustations from one-half to one inch in thick- ness......... ....Christian Christiansen, born Denmark, October 7, 1824, among the first to join The Church in that country, died in Manti. .......24-The Los Angeles terminal committee favors the grant- ing of Pioneer Square for depot grounds. A petition to this effect is presented to the City Council........ .....26-The Lehi sugar factory began work and will manufacture about 2,000 sacks of sugar every twenty-four hours...................Simon P. Eggertsen, born February 7, 1826, who came to Utah in 1857, a leading citizen of Provo, died. ......... The funeral of William J. Irvine was held in the Fourth Ward

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meetinghouse in Provo -The State Supreme Court decided 29 that the vote in a special election controls in the appointment of regis- trars.............The oreand bullion settlements for the month: $2,153,455. ....State Superintendent of Schools Dr. John R. Park, born in Ohio in 1833, and president of the Deseret, now Utah, University for 23 years, died in Salt Lake City at 12:30 this evening. October 2-Senator W. A. Clark states positively to the City Council that the Los Angeles railroad is to be built. Thomas Kearns gives a banquet to Senator Clark..........The sixth annual meeting of the State Medical Society, A. S. Bower, president, was heldinSaltLake City. .......The Great Salt Lake has fallen eight inches in the past fifteen days, and twenty-one since September 1...................3-The funeral services of Dr. John R. Park, were held in the Salt Lake Taber- nacle................The State Medical Society finished their labors with a banquet at the Alta Club,and chose Dr. J. W. Aird, president and Dr. J. C. King, secretary ..... 4-The annual report of thecommissioner of the general land office shows Utah to have 42,867,451 acres of unap- propriated and unreserved public land, and that during the last fiscal year 177,454 acres were patented under grants to aid the public schools and other state institutions in Utah.......... ...5-The seventy-first semi-annual conference of The Church opened in the Salt Lake Tabernacle, President Lorenzo Snow presiding................Ten thousand children visit the state fair...... ... Senator William M. Stewart, Nevada, and George B. Chandler, Chicago, delivered Republican addresses at the Salt Palace. Kearns' St. Ann's Orphanage was opened in Salt Lake City. ..6-The state fair closed; the attendance was considerably lighter than in 1899, the receipts showing about one thousand dollars less............Elder H. D. Bronson, of Oneida County, Idaho, was drowned in Oconee river, Georgia, in trying to ford it....... 7-The semi-an- nual conference closed. President Snow spoke of the building of the temple in Jackson County, and the speedy gathering of the Saints there, and President Cannon foreshadowed a change in missionary work, looking to the reduction of the number sent out to certain old fields........... At the Sunday School conference, it was announced that the Juvenile In- structor would likely pass into the hands of the Sunday School Union. .............St. Ann's Orphanagewas formally opened...............8-Emma J. McVicker was namedby Governor Wells as superintendent of public instruction, a place made vacant by the death of Dr. Park.............9- John Q. Packard deeded a lot one hundred feet by ten rods, south of the Alta club, to Salt Lake Cityfor a library building spot; he also promised tobuild thereon a building to cost about $75,000, providing the city

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would maintain it for a library. The city accepted the great gift . .........The Scofield fund was divided, $72,730.70 being distributed in ad- dition to $21,628.27 already divided; there is a remainder of $ 20,954.60, the whole fund being $ 115,238.25......... ...The Salt Lake, 4 per cent municipal water bonds, $250,000, were sold to Shepard & Co., at par and $3,829 premium ................ 11-The annual meeting of the Presby- terian Synod opened in Salt Lake City............... Mrs. William Hilton announces that she will contest the will of Dr. John R. Park, in which he bequeaths his estate valued at $45,000, to the University of Utah . .........12-The Presbyterian synod decided to take steps urging Congress to pass an anti-polygamy amendment to the Constitution.............13- Bishop Joseph S. Rawlins, of South Cottonwood, born in Illinois, April 9, 1823, ordained bishop in 1872, died............Orewell Simons, of Payson, died, aged 79 years.................. The honey crop of Uintah, Emery and Carbon counties will amount to $ 20,000 in 1900 . DOMESTIC- September 19-The Philippine Commission report that a large number of Filipinos long for peace, and are willing to accept gov- ernment under the U. S ..................Twenty-five Americans were killed in an engagement with one thousand Filipinos at Siniloan...............21 -The first blood flowed in Shenandoah, at the great strike. A mob at- tacked the sheriff and his deputies, and two persons were killed, one of them a littlegirl; four regiments of the National Guard and a battery have beenordered to the scene of trouble.................. 22-The United States decline to accept the German conditions for peace proposals in China ....23- Cloudbursts near Dallas, Texas result in the loss of many lives and much property........ 24-The situation in the anthracite coal regions remains unchanged......... ............Eight people arekilled in a tornado at Morristown, Minn ...... .Con ......men- ger is ...... tionedas mediator to bring the powers and China together 25-Ex- Senator General John M. Palmer died in Springfield, Ill., age ..

83 years ..................Gen. Chaffee is ordered to remove all U. S. troops, except 1500, from Pekin ...26-A mob of toughs attacked Governor Roosevelt as he was leaving Victor, Colo ..................27-One personwas killed and fifteen injured in a wreck on the S. P. R. R., near the Utah-Nevada line........... 28-Gen. McArthur cables that Captain Devereaux Shields, with 51 men, Co. F, 29th Infa.... which left Santa Cruz for Torrijos , have beenslain by insur ntry,.... gents ... 30-The Philadelphia and Reading Co.,posts notices offering the striking miners an advance of 10 per cent. October 2-A mob at Electric, Ga. , burns a negro at the stake ..........Lincoln, Neb., gives Roosevelt a grand reception ...........Bryan

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traveled fifteen hours and delivered eighteen speeches...The greatest labor demonstration ever held in Pennsylvania takes place in Wilkesbarre, in which 16,000 men and boys take part.............3- The coal companies have offered to arbitrate the differences with their employees, besides a 10 per cent raise in wages .The nation- al convention of Democratic clubs met in Indianapolis .......4- The United States answers a second German proposal for peace in China establishing satisfactory relations between Washington and Berlin ..10-A great labor parade takes place in Scranton, Pa., and a riot occurs at Oneida, Pa., while strikers attempt to close amine. ....13-Every indication points to a prolongation of the coal strike, although the miners have decided to accept the 10 per cent in- crease in wages. FOREIGN-September 19-Germany notifies the powers that it con- siders the delivering up of those who were responsible for the Chinese outrages an indispensable preliminary to peace negotiations with China. .......20-Lord Roberts cables that the Boer army is no longer an organized force, its last stand being made at Kometipoort............22- France gives a feast to over twenty thousand persons, in honor of the exposition. More than twenty-one thousand servants were employed to serve the menu...............23-The London Standard fears that the posi- tion of Uncle Sam will weaken the influence of the Allies in Pekin. The Chinese declare that in no case will the Empress Dowager be delivered up, nor will she return to the palace............25-Great Britain declines to agree to the German plan for peace in China 29-The Chinese government voluntarily orders the trial and degradation of leaders re- sponsible for the Pekin outrages. Prince Tuan is deprived of his salary and official servants .......30-The Russian legation and the bulkof the Russian troops leave Pekin for Tien Tsin............Lord Roberts has been appointed commander-in-chief of the British army. October 4-England has instructed Sir Charles McDonald, minister at Pekin to enter into peace relations with the Chinese just as Minister Conger of the United States has been instructed............8-The Chinese imperial court refuses to return to Pekin; court has removed to Sin Yan, 300 miles from Pekin...............9-In response to the German demand, three leading Chinese Boxers will be executed, and three others given life prison sentence, and others banished.