--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Hull, Thomas collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 4 number: 7 published: 1901-05 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Thomas Hull, "Events of the Month," *Improvement Era* 4, no. 7 (May 1901): 556–560.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0407unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera0407unse start_page: 556 end_page: 560 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1901-05) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0407unse publication_year: 1901 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1901, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Events of the Month EVENTS OF THE MONTH. BY THOMAS HULL, GENERAL SECRETARY OP Y. M. M. I. A. Local —March 18, 1901. —The county attorney and sheriff close the gambling houses at Murray; and at Salt Lake and Ogden there is a gen- eral fight against gambling and other vices 19 The Salt— Lake City council grants a franchise to the Salt Lake City Railway com- pany for its Calder's Park line Nephi Tarbet, county com- missioner and an old settler of Cache county, died in Smithfield — 20 The San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railway company files its articles of incorporation, and its charter is issued by the secretary of state William H. Folsom, born Portsmouth, N. H., March 25, 1815, the architect and temple-builder, died last midnight Receiver Wood of the Roy canning factory sold 12,000 cases of tomatoes and demoralized the market — 21 Roy Briggs, a young man of 19, met a fearful death by the caving in of a well in Curlew Valley The San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake directors held their first meet- ing It is announced that President McKinley will surely visit Salt Lake on his western trip — 22 Benjamin Kimball Bullock, born Grafton County, N. H., January 27, 1821, who joined The Church in New York, and came to Utah in 1852, died in Provo 23 At a special meeting of the stockholders of the Union Pacific Railway, the stock was increased $100,000,000, making a total capitalization of $296,178,700, the largest in the world. The stock will be exchanged for Southern Pacific which road is thus practically absorbed by the U. P* The state received an incorporation fee of $25,000 It is an- nounced that the Lucin cut-off to Ogden will be built surely — 24 Members of the Chicago Commercial Club were entertained with the sights of Salt Lake The ministers preached on city reform The American Tract Society announces that colporteurs are placing tracts in every "Mormon" home, thus reaching the children and youth W. H. H. Spafford, a soldier of the civil war, age EVENTS OF THE MONTH. 557 60 years, died in Salt Lake City where he had resided for twelve years. — 25 The Inter-Mountain Baseball League published its schedule of games for 1901, Salt Lake gets 47, Ogden, 24, and Park City, 13. In the water fight between the Ogden city council and the company, the company's officers are arrested for turning off the water. — 26 E. H. Buchanan, a well-known Utah newspaper man, was accidentally killed in a mine in Tintic — 27 B. F. Knowlton, born in Hancock County, 111., January 30, 1838, an early settler in Utah, died at his home in Farmington, Davis County William Curtz a miner and resident of Riverton, 35 years old, perished in a snow storm near Lehi "Silver Tip," one of the Robbers' Roost gang was acquitted by a Wayne county jury Eliza 'Deal, a pioneer of Springville, age 73, died Reuben P. Miller, born Nauvoo, December 22, 1844, died at his home in Mill Creek, Salt Lake County. 28 — One hundred men began work on the roadbed of the Los Angeles and Salt Lake railway at San Pedro 29 President — George Q. Cannon is reported quite ill in Monterey, Cal.; his sons John Q., and Hugh J., and nephew John M. Cannon have been summoned to his bedside Several Utah boys arrived in San Francisco on the Logan with the 34th infantry from Manila 30 The ore and — bullion settlements for the month was $1,729,097, and the Utah mine dividends amounted to $229,500, while the stock sales aggregated $1,016,247.12 Oil is reported discovered in Uintah County. April 1 —The Ogden waterworks company files an injunction,and suit for damages for $5,000, against the mayor, city and city council of Ogden, in the federal court 3 — President Lorenzo Snow's birthday was joyously celebrated at his home by the temple workers and many friends. He is 87 years of age, hale and hearty Zina D. H. Young was taken seriously ill 4 — The Oregon Short Line buys the Utah and Pacific The Utah dairymen hold a convention The Utah Presbytery opened its spring session Bowman Cannon, born 1847 in Boston, came to Utah in 1850, died Harriet P. Parry, born in Wales, October 18, 1822, and mother of Edwin F., and Joseph Hyrum Parry, died in Salt Lake City. She came to Utah in 1853. — 5 The 71st annual conference of The Church opened with a very large attendance Hon. Frank J. Cannon was summoned to the bedside of his father, President George Q. Cannon, whose condition is worse 6 —Governor Wells proclaims April 15, Arbor Day. 7 —The Oregon Short Line began the construction of a road from Uvada to Los Angeles William E. Cowley came to his death by foul means at Helper. He was 63 years old General 558 IMPROVEMENT ERA. Fitzhugh Lee passed through Utah for the West 8— Superin- tendent F. B. Cooper of the Salt Lake schools is elected superintendent of Seattle, Washington, schools 9— Ogden City was enjoined in the federal court in the suit of the water company, from interfering with the collection of water rentals W. H. Bancroft was elected president of the Utah and Pacific 10—At a meeting in Salt Lake an effort is made to have the S. P. Ry., enter Salt Lake via the south shore Fifty settlers leave Lehi for Alberta, Canada The Mothers' Congress elected Mrs. E. E. Shepherd president — 11 Robert Craig Chambers, born Lexington, Ohio, January 16, 1832, a wealthy mine-owner and well-known citizen of Utah, died suddenly in San Francisco — 12 President George Q. Cannon, whose history is interwoven with religious, political and commercial Utah from its first settlement, died in Monterey, California at 1:20 a. m Frank M. Driggs was elected superintendent for the State Deaf and Dumb and Blind schools, at Ogden — 13 The baseball season opened with league games in Salt Lake and Ogden — 14 The Short Line has ex- tended its track five miles into Nevada; 250 men are camped between Uvada and Tunnel No. 6, forty of whom are of the Clark company William Calder, an old time resident of Salt Lake, born in Edinburg, Scotland, September 23, 1835, died — 13 Arbor Day was observed by the schools, and the state and other officials During the half month, $220,000 were distributed in Utah mining divi- dends The remains of President George Q. Cannon arrived in Salt Lake at 5:40 p. m., over the Rio Grande. Large numbers of people were at the depots, both in Ogden and Salt Lake. — — Domestic March 18, 1901. Memphis, Indiana, and Bismarck, Mis- souri, are wiped out with fire, and in St. Louis a fire destroys two blocks of buildings ....19 — A blizzard swept over the Missouri valley — 21 It is announced that the military government in the Philippines will give way to the civil on June 30 — 22 H. E. Henderson, of Dallas, Texas, whose wife resides in Ogden, Utah, con- fesses that he took part in the kidnapping of Cudahy 23— General Funston, with ten Americans and some native scouts, has started out to capture Aguinaldo — 25 George J. Gould ac- quired the controlling interest in the Rio Grande Western, thus giving the Missouri Pacific a voice in the Ogden gateway Seventeen persons are killed and 35 injured in a tornado which swept Birmingham, Ala — 26 The United States has warned China against enter- ing into any agreement with any power without the full knowledge of all the powers — 27 A dispatch from Manila announces the EVENTS OF THE MONTH. 559 capture of Aguinaldo, March 23, by General Frederick Funston. He was taken in his hiding place in the province of Isabella, Luzon New York and Michigan are visited by floods and there are severe storms along the Union Pacific Railway General Stewart Van Vliet died in Washington, aged 86 years. He was in Utah with Johnston's Army — 28 General McArthur thinks the capture of Aguinaldo will end hostil- ities in the islands; he recommends Funston's appointment as Brigadier- general in the regular army — 30 The following important army appointments were announced at the White House tonight: To be — Major-General United States army Brig.-Gen Lloyd Wheaton, vice Miles, promoted to Lieutenant-General. To be Brigadier- General in Reg- ular Army — Col. Jacob H. Smith, Seventeenth United States infantry, Brigadier-General Volunteers, vice Daggett, retired; Brig.-Gen. Freder- ick Funston, United States volunteers, vice Wheaton, promoted. Four Utah men are also appointed— F. A, Grant and George H. Penrose to be Captains and Assistant Quartermasters— George F. Downey to be Pay- master with rank of Major — Charles E. Stanton be Paymaster with to rank of Captain, mounted. — April 1 Great frauds are reported discovered in the commissary department in the Philippines Lieut. Commander Jesse M. Roper of the U. S. gunboat Petrel loses his life in a fire on his vessel while attempting to save his men 2 —Aguinaldo has taken the oath of allegiance accepting the supreme authority of the United States and renouncing all allegiance to the so-called revoluntionary govern- ments in the Philippines Carter Harrison was re-elected mayor of Chicago, this being his third term Western Pennsylvania by a heavy snowfall is visited — 6 A student at the University of Michigan is stricken with a mild attack of Bubonic plague — 9 Aguinaldo has signed the peace manifesto which practically stops the rebellion in the Philippines. The Filipino loss during the war was 50,000 men , President McKinley delivers an address at the unveiling in Washington of an heroic bronze equestrian statue of Major- Gen. John A. Logan 10 —Nine cars burn and five people are injured in a S. P. wreck near Bradley, Cal 13 —President Mc- Kinley's itinerary to the Pacific is arranged. He will visit 23 states and territories, going 10,500 miles, touching Salt Lake and Ogden, June 2 and 3 The Manila commissary fraud investigation began S. P. employees at Pomona, Cal., clash with the officials in an attempt to lay tracks on the proposed right of way of the S. L. and Los Angeles — 14 The trades unions of New York decide to go into poli- tics and start a labor party — 15 The steel-workers at the 560 IMPROVEMENT ERA. McKeesport plant of the American Sheet Steel Co., Pa., are about to strike. Foreign — March 18, 1901, —Diplomatic relations between England and Russia are at high tension over Chinese affairs 19 General Botha rejects the peace terms of England 20 —There were two plots frustrated to assassinate the Czar of Russia President Diaz returns home in good health after a three months' ab- sence in Cuerneva The Russian general at Tien Tsin demands an apology from the British for taking down the Russian flag and with- drawal of forces. The English commander refuses to comply The Philippine Commission have met success in organizing governments in the southern islands of the group — 21 The Tien-Tsin trouble between the Bear and the Lion was settled by both withdrawing their troops — 22 A 'committee of commissioners have been appointed to discover China's resources and report on her ability to pay the indemnity demanded by the powers — 26 A mine was dis- covered under the palace of the Czar, near St. Petersburg, and many nobles are implicated. Student troubles, and the policy of his ministers in the far east, have made the Czar very nervous 27 —Great Britain protests against China signing the Manchuria convention The Russian government has decided to make concessions to the students — 30 Lord Salisbury, England's premier is very ill Japan protests to St. Petersburg against the Manchurian convention. April 1 — Count Leo Tolstoi,who was recently excommunicated from the church, has been banished from Russia, because of an attempted as- sassination of the chief procurator of the holy synod which was attrib- uted to desire to revenge the count's excommunication Rus- sia submits to China an ultimatum practically saying that if the Manchuri- an convention is not signed friendly relations will cease 3 The Chinese government formally notifies Russia of its refusal to sign the Manchurian treaty — 5 The crisis in Manchuria has been averted by the promise of Russia to withdraw its troops 8 — A plot to assassinate President Loubet of France, is discovered A rebellion has broken out in China 9 —The British capture the Boer capital Pietersburg 10 —Gen. Botha renews peace nego- tiations with the British 11 —Gen. Dewet is being insane, it reported that he fears for his life among his own soldiers 13 Senator Thomas Kearns, and Perry Heath of the National Republican Committee, had an audience with Pope Leo at Rome 15 General French and 500 British troops are reported captured by the Boers.