--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Thomas Hull collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 5 number: 3 published: 1902-01 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* 5, no. 3 (January 1902): 236–240.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0503unse 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: improvementera0503unse start_page: 236 end_page: 240 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1902-01) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0503unse publication_year: 1902 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 1902, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Events of the Month EVENTS OF THE MONTH. BY THOMAS HULL, GENERAL SECRETARY OF Y. M. M. L A. Local — November 20 — Martha Knight Kimball, a Utah pioneer, 97, died in Hooper, Weber Co 21 — The first car of Logan sugar reached the Salt Lake market The Tooele County- Board of Health quarantines against Salt Lake children, owing to preval- ence of scarlet fever and diptheria in latter place 22 — Police Chief, Thomas Hilton is asked to resign by Mayor Ezra Thompson of Salt Lake 23 — The consolidation of the Co-op. Wagon and Machine Company, and the Consolidated Implement Company, the two largest implement houses in Utah is announced Ex-Queen Liliuoka- lani of Hawaii was tendered a reception in the Bee Hive House, where a suitable program was rendered, and an appropriate address of welcome given by President Joseph F. Smith 24 — Queen Liliuokalani attends the Salt Lake Tabernacle service, at which prayer was offered by W, W. Cluff, and is later tendered an organ recital attended by many thousand people 25 — Governor Wells opened the third an- nual exhibit of the Utah Art Institute. Geo. H. Taggart received the $300 state prize, for his painting "Prayer" George Wardle, a pioneer of 1847, bom Leek, England, February 3, 1820, died in Vernal, Uintah Co 26 — William S. Haynes, a Chicago traveling man, was shot in the Knutsford lobby by nineteen-year-old Roy Kaighn Soren L. Petersen, of Huntsville, born Aarhus, February 20, 1835, died Thomas Hilton declines to resign as chief of police. Salt Lake 28 — Senator Kearns arrives in New York, after a six weeks' sojourn in Europe. At a game of foot ball, the University of Nevada boys defeated the University of Utah 6 to 2 Dr. P. J. McKenna fell from a Rio Grande, Park City, train and was ser- iously injured Thanksgiving was generally observed, it being a year of plenty and blessing seldom equalled in Utah 29 — Protests were wired to Washington by leading citizens opposing leasing EVENTS OF THE MONTH. 237 of Uintah mineral lands Dr. Patrick J. McKenna, a man whose heart was always touched by poverty and sickness, died from the effects of his injuries in falling from a train in Parley's Canyon The Short Line makes a wheat rate of 40 cents per hundred from the north- west at request of millers. December 1 — The stock sales for November were, 1,989,406 shares for $1,488,121.30; ore and bullion settlements, $1,794,000 A natural gas gusher was struck near Brigham City , 4 — The President's message is generally regarded very favorably by Utah people The Salt Lake stock exchange abolishes "futures." Captain Edward Brown, born England, January 7, 1835, a veteran of the civil war died in Springville, Utah Co 5 — Eugene Hum- phreys, a miner, was killed by a snowslide in Big Cottonwood Canyon General Miles informs Senator Kearns that he favors the enlargement of Fort Douglas 6 — A court martial is appointed to meet at Fort Douglas December 12th for the trial of Major Peter R. Egan, U. S. A; the charges being made by Major G. S. Young of the 18th infantry which came to Salt Lake from the Philippines in October John S. Critchlow is chosen president of the new inter-mountain base-ball league 7 — It is definitely decided that Hon. A. L. Thomas will be renamed for postmaster of r^alt Lake City 8 — Henry Bailey, born April 6, 1811, in England, died in Ogden 13 — J. Walcott Thompson succeeds George L. Nye as reporter of the Supreme Court, the latter resigning to assume the duties of city attorney of Salt Lake, January 1st 14 — D. S. Davidson, a well known Salt Lake stockman, died, age eighty-three years 15 — The Western Union Telegraph relay office was removed from Ogden to Salt Lake , which reduces the Ogden force ten men and increases the Salt Lake force that many .15 — The Lehi beet factory consumed 78,000 tons of beets this season and made eighteen million pounds of sugar up to the hour of closing for the season tonight 16 — W. S. Haynes who three weeks ago was shot by Roy Kaighn died- of his wounds Postmaster A. L. Thomas was today nominated by President Roosevelt for postmaster of Salt Lake Senator Kearns requests, and the department of justice in Washington promises, that "Mormon" mission- aries shall be protected from mob attacks like the one recently made in Georgia The Agricultural Park is chosen as the site of the state fair grounds 17— James R. Hay, secretary of the Pacific Lumber Co , disappears, and his body buried under a shallow covering of earth is later found, not far from his home, in southern Salt Lake, showing that he was foully murdered Jane Walker, born 238 IMPROVEMENT ERA. Scotland, May 7, 1843, came to Utah in 1868, died in Coalville.. Pehrnilla P. Anderson, a pioneer of Ogden Valley, and mother of Edward H. Anderson, born in Sweden, December 9, 1816, came to Utah in 1864, died in Huntsville, Weber Co. Domestic. — November 19 — Secretary Hay, at a New York banquet, defines the foreign policy of the United States in these words: The briefest expression of our rule of conduct is the Monroe doctrine and the Golden Rule The Commercial Pacific company awarded the contract for making and laying the first section of its cable from San Francisco to Honolulu 20 — Thirty men were caught in a burning Colorado gold mine, and only one rescued alive The Reciprocity convention in session at Washington urges the creation of a department of commerce and industry 22 — Major Wm. Crozier is made Brigadier-General, to succeed Gen. A. R. BufSngton, retired, as chief of ordnance 23 — President Roosevelt and family spent the day cruising on the Potomac Harvard defeated Yale at football: score 22 to 0 24 — The New England coast was swept last night and today by the heaviest storm in years, causing great destruction to property 25 — A Cuban delegation called on President Roosevelt, urging the necessity of reduction in American tariff upon Cuban products 26 — Secretary Root's annual re- port discusses relations with Cuba, urging prompt reciprocity arrange- ments 27 — Clement Studebaker, the wagon manufacturer, died at South Bend, Ind Ex-Governor, D. H. Waite, of Colo- rado, dropped dead at Aspen, Colo 29 — All the business houses at Plainfield, Wis., were destroyed by fire 30 — The House Republicans in caucus at Washington, renominated Speaker Hen- derson and other officers of the last House; the Democrats, James D. Richardson for Speaker West Point defeated Annapolis in the annual football game: score 11 to 5, December 1 — Several small engagements occurred in Batangas province, Luzon, P. I., last week; seventy per cent of the population, covering fifty-eight per cent of the island's area, are living now under civil government 2 — The Fifty-seventh Congress opened, the House elected Speaker Henderson and other officers as before The Supreme Court held that duties on goods coming from the Philip- pines were unconstitutional, and that duties collected on goods in Puerto Rico from the United States were legal 3— President Roose- velt's message was read and heard with great interest in both houses of Congress. It is nearly free from partizan politics, but its recommen- dations are the burden of the party in power, in both the executive and EVENTS OF THE MONTH. 239 judicial branches. He advocates government aid in reclaiming the arid west, favors the ship subsidy bill, is amicably disposed towards the great cor- porations, a little cold towards protective tariff, in favor of better trained soldiers and sailors, but opposed to the increase of the army, while he advocates persistency in building up the navy. He denounces anarchy and declares that the time has come to treat the Indian as an individual and not as a member of a tribe, and favors a Pacific cable, and promo- tion in all departments by merit. He is very vigorous in treating the Philppine question, and thinks we are in danger of displaying "too great a humanitarian spirit." On the whole, it is a masterly document 5 — The text of the new Hay-Pauncefote isthmian canal treaty was made public Uintah Utes visit the President at the White House The American Federation of Labor convention opened at Scranton, Pa., with 285 delegates 8 — The director of the mint suggests that the limit of the stock of subsidiary coin should be in- creased to $120,000,000 An $18,000 school house fell into a heap, owing to being undermined by water, at St. Anthony, Idaho Andrew Carnegie offers ten million dollars to the cause of univer- sity extension in the United States 9' — H. J. Fleishman, cashier of Farmers' and Merchants' bank at Los Angeles, de- camps with $100,000 13 — The Schley court of inquiry made its reports public. Admiral Dewey makes a separate report, sustaining Schley in most points, while Admirals Benham and Ramsay condemn him in eleven points 14 — Caleb W. West, formerly governor of Utah, was appointed special Treasury agent of the San Fran- cisco district A cold wave covers the entire east of the United States Signor William Marconi, at St. Johns, N. F , announces that he has received electric signals across the Atlantic from his station in Cornwall, England, which if true is the most marvelous achievement of modern times 15 — Floods in Pennsylvania have caused great damage ."..,16 — The Senate approved the Hay-Pauncefote canal treaty, by a vote of 72 to G 17 — Charles Emory Smith has tendered his resignation to President Roosevelt, as Postmaster-Gen- eral, and Henry C. Payne, of Wisconsin, will be named as his successor early in January. Foreign. — November 20 — Colombian rebels captured the town of Colon, and marines were landed from the U.S. warship Machias to guard the railway station 21 — Religious riots in Athens, aroused by the proposition to translate the Gospels into modern Greek, result in the police and marines firing upon the populace, killing seven persons and seriously wounding thirty 23 — Transit across the isthmus of 240 IMPROVEMENT ERA. Panama continues uninterrupted 24 — The Greek cabinet resigned owing to the religious riots over the translation of the Gospels. A new cabinet was named, with M. Zaimis at the head 25 — U. S. ma- rines took charge of transit over Panama King George of Greece suspended the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, Athens 27 — The Peruvian republic has abolished the payment of postage on all kinds of newspapers The University of Copenhagen granted George Brandes an annuity of 5000 kroner for his services to Danish literature 28 — Czar Nicholas received Marquis Ito of Japan in audience..... Socialists forced the Belgian chambers to adjourn because the government would not entertain a proposition for universal suffrage 30 — The Isthmian war closed today by the surrender of the Liberal forces at Colon to Captain Perry of the U.S.S Iowa, who in turn handed the men and their arms over to Gen. Alban, who guaranteed life and property to all who recently bore arms against the government of Colombia A banquet was given Gen, Bul- ler at Hotel Cecil, London, with great enthusiasm for the guest. December 1 — Great preparations are being made in Pekin for the return of the imperial court, and all the palaces and temples are re- painted and regilded 4 — A deficit of $1,446,480 was reported at the annual meeting of the British South Africa Co., London 7 — British trade statistics for November show a marked decrease in both imports and exports 9 — Lord Onslow, of the British Colonial Office, announces that the concentration camps in South Africa have been placed under civil control 10 — The official date of King Edward's coronation was proclaimed in London as June 26, 1902 The Imperial diet opened at Tokio, by the Emperor of Japan 14 — Sign or Marconi solves the problem of signaling- over the Atlantic without wires, a distance of 1700 miles The negotiation for the release of Miss Stone was turned over by the lega- tions at Constantinople to the missionaries.