Events of the Month

EVENTS OF THE MONTH. BY THOMAS HULL, GENERAL SECRETARY OF Y. M. M. L A.

Local —May 20 — Govenor Nash and party of Ohio reach Salt Lake City and are entertained by Senator Kearns and Governor Wells — 21 Clarence S. Jarvis of St. George passed a successful examination for a cadetship at West Point Louis C. Kelsey was appointed and confirmed city engineer of Salt Lake City 22 —The Oregon Short Line has purchased the Salt Lake and Mercur Railroad 24 Deputy Sheriff F. S. Thompson of Brigham was dangerously wounded as he was entering the gate to his home, by two men, presumably accom- plices of Abe Majors The intercollegiate debate and track con- tests between the Universities of Utah and Nevada, at Reno, were both won by Nevada — 25 A windstorm did great dam- age to fruit, beets and tomatoes, in Davis, Weber, Box Elder and Cache Counties — 26 President McKinley and party ar- rived and were greeted by thousands at Ogden at 7:25 p. m.; Senator Kearns, Governor Wells and a large party of Salt Lake residents were present. Governor Wells presented the President with a silken flag made of Utah Silk as a token of Utah's patriotism The cor- ner stone of the Elks' building, opposite the Salt Lake Theater, was laid. — 27 Sheriff Condon of Box Elder offers $500 reward for the conviction of the assassins who shot Deputy Thompson „ 30 Saltair was opened for the season, about six thousand people attending. No liquor will be sold on Sundays, this year. Decoration day was fitting- ly celebrated in all parts of the State. A monument was unveiled in the Salt Lake City cemetery to the memory of John Morgan, B. H. Roberts delivering the eulogy — 31 The May dividends of Utah mines was $185,000; stock sales during the month, 2,226,195 shares for $1,048,806.25; total bullion settlements, $2,062,768. Rufus Forbush, born Winchendon, Mass., June 3, 1818, came to Utah in 1852, died in Union, Salt Lake County. June 1 — Governor Wells named John Sharp, fish and game com-

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missioner; Charles De Moisy, Provo, commissioner statistics; A. F. Dore- mus, State engineer; Walter J. Beatie, bank examiner. The centennial anniversary of the birth of Brigham Yonng was fittingly celebrated, with exercises at Saltair, where Judge R. N. Baskin, Governor Wells, Dr. Talmage and Apostle H. J. Grant delivered addresses — 2 The sixth general M. I. A. conference is held in the Salt Lake Tabernacle. , —4 The M. I. A. conference closed by a grand reception to officers, tendered by the general boards, at the Beehive House, the resi- dence of President Lorenzo Snow. Abe Majors was brought to Logan for trial — 5 Governor Heber M. Wells was married to Miss Emily Katz, the ceremony being performed by Bishop 0. F. Whitney. —6 A windstorm two miles wide, lasting from five to ten minutes, passed over Salt Lake City, blowing from 65 to 70 miles per hour. From the 8th grade Salt Lake city schools, 516 pupils graduated. —7 The Utah Sugar Co. decided to double its capital, now one million, for the purpose of increasing its output 8— Con- tracts for building the new great smelter of the United States Co. are being let — 9 The Woodmen, 2,000 strong, unveil six monu- ments in Olivet and city cemeteries to deceased members 10 The State relinquishes 230,000 acres of land in Millard county, known as the Bonneville tract, and the land is offered to settlement by the gen- eral government — 12 The commission of Edward H, Callister as collector of internal revenue for Utah, Idaho and Montana was signed by President McKinley. Prof. Ellwood Mead loses his arm in a street car accident in Washington — 14 About 200 representatives of the family of Heber G. Kimball met at Saltair in a reunion to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of this great pioneer and well-known leader in The Church. Speeches were made by William H., and J. Golden Kimball, 0. F. Whitney, President Joseph F. Smith and others — 15 Patriarch John Needham, aged 82 years, died in Logan; he came to Utah in 1850. Claude Macdonald, of England, one of the central figures in the Pekin siege, visits Salt Lake — 17 Three hundred local freight agents of the National Association from all parts of the coun- try, visit Salt Lake City and Utah, traveling over the Eio Grande. Park City's ore product for the week ending 15th exceeded all previous records, amounting to 2,750 tons — 18 A unique voluntary re- ception was given in the Twenty-first Ward by the Japanese residents of Salt Lake City in honor of Apostle Heber J. Grant and associates who go on missions to Japan. Lydia D. Alder, Josephine Booth and Jean Clara Holbrook, returned from a two years' mission to Europe. The Uni- versity Alumni Association elected P. P. Christensen, president. David Chase McLaughlin, born in Illinois, August 26, 1854, a widely-known mining man, died in Park City. Domestic — — May 17 Macardo, insurgent general, with 328 men sur- renders to Captain O'Neil of the 24th infantry — 18 Mrs. McKinley is much improved The battleship Ohio is launched from the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, in the presence of President McKinley and thousands of people The street car trouble in Albany is ended. It lasted 12 days, entailed an expense to the county of $34,000, and cost the lives of two merchants — 20 Fifty

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thousand machinists throughout the country quit work and demand a nine hour day for a scale of wages equal to the present ten hour day. The Pan-American exposition at Buffalo was formally opened. Vice-president Roosevelt being the guest of honor — 21 The Presbyterian Assembly in session in Philadelphia passes its annual reso- lution urging Congress to act on a constitutional amendment prohibiting polygamy At an important Cabinet meeting in San Francisco it was decided to cut the American indemnity from China one half, and to urge the powers to reduce their demands Gen. Fitz John Porter died, age 80, in New Jersey — 22 By order of Secretary Root five cadets are dismissed and six suspended till April 1, 1902, with- out pay, for insubordination. Cadet Charles Telford of Utah is among the latter — 23 Mrs. McKinley continues to improve, and the President spends a busy day at functions in San Francisco The Presbyterian General Assembly, Philadelphia, opens the debate on the revision of the Presbyterian creed — 25 President McKinley, after a two week's sojourn, left San Francisco for the East 10:20 a. m. — 27 The Presbyterians decide to have their church creed re- vised At a mine explosion at Dayton, Tenn., many men were killed and injured The Supreme Court of the U. S. hands down its opinions involving the relations of the United States to its insular possessions. Porto Rico, since the acquisition, has not been foreign; Con- gress must prescribe all duties — 28 The Presbyterian assembly adopts a resolution excluding members of secret orders from admission to the church, and adjourns — 30 President McKinly and party arrive in Washington, having been absent 32 days, and traveled approx- imately 6675 miles The Temple of Fame was dedicated in New York, Senator Depew giving the oration Minister Wu de- livered a notable address at the tomb of General U. S. Grant The Cuban problem is discussed in a Conference on Cuban relations in Washington — 31 The administration has decided that the ac- ceptance of the Piatt amendment by Cuba is not "substantial," and must be accepted without change, and informed Cuba that the U. S. will re- main in control of the Island until the amendment is "substantially" adopted. — June 2 John Alexander Dowie, from a Chicago platform, declared himself to be the Prophet Elijah —3 The U. S. has secured the formula for maximite, invented by Hudson Maxim, a deadly explo- sive that will pierce twelve-inch steel armor, and explode on the other side with power sufficient to destroy everything with which it comes in contact Prof. E. J. Wolfe, declares in the Lutheran Synod, Des Moines, Iowa, that there is a woeful lack of spirituality and godliness in the denomination, and that the low state of piety and the scramble for dollars, leaves little time for care of souls — 4 The cup defender Constitution sustains an accident by which her big steel mast collapses. The Supreme Court decisions in the insular cases will make no change in the government of the Philippines — 5 The London Chamber of Commerce entertains at a banquet members of the New York Chamber — 8 The United States again appeal to the powers to submit the Chinese indemnity issues to the Hague tribunal. Three cyclones sweep portions of Oklohama with great loss

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of property — 10 At Port Royal, Pa., more than 30 miners are entombed in a burning coal mine 11 — President McKinley declares firmly that he is not a candidate for s. third term — 12 Frauds are discovered in the commissary branch of the army in San Francisco — 13 Jubilee day of the Y. M. C. A., in convention at Boston, was attended by representatives from all parts of the world, and was picturesque and novel — 17 General Sumner has returned to Manila from Santa Cruz Province where he has arranged for the sur- render of the insurgent leader Gen. Cailles and his men 18 J. C. Stubbs has been chosen traffic adviser of all the Harriman railway interests Ex-Governor Hazen S. Pingree, of Mich., died ;iin London, England. Foreign —May 20—Andrew Carnegie has given ten million dollars to establish free education for Scotchmen in four Scotch universities, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and St. Andrews 22 Shamrock II is dismasted in a squall, and King Edward VII, who was on board with Sir Thomas Lipton has a narrow escape from death 28 The — Piatt amendment was substantially accepted by the Cuban Constitu- tional Convention by a vote of 15 to 14 — 29 China agrees to pay 450 million taels as indemnity, equal to $337,000,000 31 The Boers and British engage in a desperate battle near Vlakfontein, in which the latter suffer a- heavy loss. British killed and wounded, 174, and four officers killed; Boers lost 35 dead. — June 2 The allied forces are evacuating Pekin, and it is decided to transfer the government to the Chinese during June A French soldier was killed in a serious affray between the international troops at Tien Tsin — 4 A maniac invaded the Pope's ante-room in the Vatican and cried: "The Pope is dead; I am his successor; give me the crown." He was taken to the lunatic asylum — 5 Maitre Labori, the defender of Dreyfus is given an ovation by the British bench and bar in London — 6 Bonds have been ordered prepared for the payment of the Chinese indemnity..,. In an engagement near Reitz, the Boers lost 12 killed, and the British three officers and seventeen men killed — 12 The Piatt amendment was accepted by the Cuban Constitutional Convention by a vote of 16 to 11 13— The British government has decided to levy a tax of $250,000,000 on the Transvaal gold mines to pay half the cost of the war — 16 A statue of Bismarck was unveiled in front of the Reichstag build- ing in Berlin, in the presence of the Emperor, Count Von Buelow deliver- ing an eloquent tribute to the Iron Chancellor, the founder of the em- pire At Steenkoolspriut, the British are surprised by the Boers, and lose 18 men killed; 43 were wounded.