--- 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: 6 published: 1902-04 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. 6 (April 1902): 477–480.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0506unse 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: improvementera0506unse start_page: 477 end_page: 480 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1902-04) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0506unse 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. I. A. Local — February 19 — Solomon Saxton, born England, February 21, 1824, joined the Church in 1847, came to Utah in 1861, died at his home in Coalville, Summit county 22 — The people of Cache county petition for a forest reserve in the east mountains 23 — Daniel Alexander, a prominent Salt Lake business man, 57 years old, accidentally shot and killed himself L. B. Adams, a leading resident of Ogden and prominent citizen of Utah, born in Germany 59 years ago, died from the result of an accident to his foot some ten days ago 24 — Five thousand square miles of public land in Utah are withdrawn for forest reserves, pending investigation 25 — Mrs. Joseph Chamberlin, born Springville, October 29, 1871, died of ptomaine poisoning 26 — The plan to obtain government aid for Utah lake reservoir is abandoned owing to disagreement between canal companies The state irrigators convention opens in Salt Lake, attended by 345 delegates. Hon. Abel John Evans chosen presi- dent 28— Stock sales for February, 1,972,246 shares for $999,326.13; mining dividends in Utah for the month, $314,000; ore and bullion settlements, $1,434,900 W. S. McCornick, of Salt Lake, is prominently mentioned for Secretary of the Interior in the event of the resignation of E. A. Hitchcock Robert Knox Wilson, born Scotland, February 29, 1824, a pioneer of Brigham City, died. March 1 — The Irrigation Convention, having made a permanent organ- ization, and memorialized Congress asking that all arid lands in the state be cefied to the state for irrigation systems, adjourned till April 2 — James M. Hixon, born Indiana, April 5, 1834, a pioneer of Summit county, died in Coalville 3 — Work began on the Leaming- ton cut-off 0. S. L 4— The Utah Sugar Co. sold some 70,000 shares of stock to eastern parties at $18.00 5 — The meet- ing house at Kamas burned; loss $5,000 6 — John Bailey, born England, April 28, 1816, died in Kaysville, Utah 8 — ■ Utah has $1,101,685 invested in grist mills, which produced in 1900 $1,829,840 10— Maj.-Gen. McArthur arrived at Fort Doug- las 11 — Nancy Tracy, a pioneer of Weber county, aged 85 years, died in Marriott David Candland, born England, 478 IMPROVEMENT ERA. October 15, 1819, died in Mount Pleasant, Sanpete county 12 — Mrs. Henry George, born England, January 11, 1822, came to Utah in 1853, died in Salt Lake City 14— The Utah baseball league was organized in Ogden A snowstorm passed over the state. Five inches of snow fell in Salt Lake The Tabernacle Choir started for San Francisco under the leadership of Prof. Evan Stephens. Domestic — January 26 — A heavy blizzard and severe cold prevail in Nebraska The Umbria and Etruria exchanged Mar- coni messages over 110 miles at sea, breaking the ocean record 27 — Six persons were killed and one hundred in- jured in an explosion in the rapid transit subway, New York 28— Rear Admiral Lewis A. Kimberley, retired, died at West Newton, Mass Program for the entertainment of Prince Henry from Feb. 22 to March 1, is made public 29 — The Ways and Means Committee of the House decided to frame a bill repealing all war taxes, before taking further action on Cuban reciprocity Andrew Carnegie presented the deed of gift of $10,000,000, to the Carnegie In- stitution trustees.. The birthday of late the Prest. McKinley was generally observed throughout the land 30 — A bill creating a permanent Census Bureau passed the House of Representatives 31 — Gov- ernor Taft appears before the Senate Committee and gives an encourag- ing statement of the situation in the' Philippines. February 1 — Leslie M. Shaw succeeds Lyman J. Gage as secretary of the Treasury John D. Rockefeller has given one million dollars to the Harvard Medical school 2 — Great economic gains were shown in most of the farming industries in ths United States in 1901 4 — The Senate passes Senator Hoar's bill increasing salary of U. S. judges 25 per cent 5 — Governor Van Zandt asks the Minnesota legislature for an appropriation to pay the legal ex- penses in his fight against the railroad merger 6 — Miss Ellen Hay and Payne Whitney are married in Washington The Philippine sedition laws are discussed in the Senate 8 — Rear- Admiral W. T. Sampson and B. J. Cromwell are placed on the retired list of the navy 9 — The business section of Patterson, N. J., is destroyed by fire; loss ten million dollars 12. — Lincoln's birth- day was generally observed throughout the country Washing- ton is surprised by the manifesto of the Salt Lake Ministerial Associa- tion 14 — Mr. Wheeler of the House delivers an inopportun e speech on "foreign flunkeyism," and greatly criticises Secretary Hay and the administration policy 15 — The National Woman's Suffrage EVENTS OF THE MONTH. 479 Association in session at Washington appropriately remembers Susan B. Anthony's 82d birthday 16 — President Charles M. Schwab of the U. S. Steel Combination returns from his European trip 17 — The House unanimously passes the bills repealing war taxes The Senate ratifies the treaty with Denmark for the cession of the Dan- ish West Indies The state and city of New York is snow- bound 22 — Senators Tillman and McLaurin of South Caro- lina indulge in a fist fight in the U. S. Senate, and both are declared in contempt At a great fire in Park Avenue hotel, New York, eighteen people are cremated 23 — Prince Henry of Prussia, visiting the United States to witness the launching of his brother, Emperor William's, yacht, Meteor, reached New York and is cordially welcomed Attorney-General Knox recommends the dismissal of Judge Noyes of Alaska 24 — Prince Henry of Prussia dines at the White House with President Roosevelt Senator Tillman's invitation to dine at the White House is cancelled by President Roose- velt because the former is in contempt of the Senate The U. S. Supreme Court decides it has no jurisdiction in the great railroad merger case The Philippine tariff bill passes the Senate; neither Tillman nor McLaurin are permitted to take part in Senate pro- ceedings 25 — Tillman and McLaurin are restored to the Senate rolls , Mothers' Sixth National Congress opens in Washington The Kaiser's schooner yacht Meteor is christ- ened by Miss Alice Roosevelt and is launched at Shooter's Island, New York, without mishap 26 — Prince Henry is dined by the Staats Zeitung and the American Press 28 — The Senate passed a resolution of censure for Tillman and McLaurin, and the inci- dent is closed. March 1 — Floods in Pennsylvaia throw thousands of workmen out of employment 2 — Prince Henry visits Kentucky, Tennessee, and Indiana and is warmly received 4 — Prince Henry lays a laurel wreath on Lincoln's statue, in Chicago, and then is banqueted in Milwaukee 6 — Harvard confers honorary degree Doctor of Laws on Prince Henry 7 — Prince Henry returns to New York, having traveled 4,358 miles and visited 13 states The President has signed the act creating a permanent census bureau 10 — Secretary Long, of the Navy, has tendered his resignation and the President has chosen William Henry Moody, of Massachusetts, as his successor, change to take effect May 1 The Illinois trust law is declared unconstitutional, and proceedings against the railroad merger are begun in the U.S. Circuit Court at St. Paul 11 — 480 IMPROVEMENT ERA. Prince Henry sailed on the Deutchsland for Germany 12 — John P. Altgeld, former governor of Illinois, died in Joliet, 111 14 — The Senate ratified The Hague treaty regarding war customs on land. Foreign — January 30 — The Socialists won a seat in the German Reich- stag, from a district in Saxony, the tariff being the issue 31 — The cost of the Boer war for the past year was £61,070,000 - On the island of Hondo 210 Japanese soldiers lost their way and froze to death. February 1 — At Honda, Mexico, 106 men were killed in a mine ex- plosion For the 3d term J. Santos Zelaya was inaugurated presi- dent of Nicaragua Count Leo Tolstoi is seriously ill. 2 — Prince Henry left Berlin for Kiel whence he will depart for the United States reaching there on the morning of Washington's birthday 3 — In a storm on the coast of England, many ships are wrecked and 33 lives lost 4 — Britain declines Holland's proffered mediation in the South African war Damad Mahmud Pasha, the Sultan's brother-in-law, and a fugitive in Paris, is condemned to death for con- spiracy against the Sultan 5 — Lord Kitchener reports the capture of De Wet's last gun and 131 Boers 6 — The total losses to the British in Africa is reported by the war office: casualties, including wounded, 5,240 officers,- and 100,701 men 7 — Thos. Sidney Cooper, English Academician, age 99 years, died near Canterbury 8 — The Kaiser orders Christian Science and Spiritualism to be stamped out in Germany Onslow's tablet to Ruskin is unveiled in the poets' corner of Westminster Abbey 9— Lord Kitchener's ef- fort to capture De Wet fails, the latter escaping by a bold dash. Boer losses 283, British 10 13 — The city of London tenders the free- dom of the city to Jos. Chamberlain 15 — Prince Henry sets sail for the United States 16 — The British are ambushed on Klip river and lose two officers and ten men 17 — It is now learned that 2000 lives were lost in the great earthquake in Shamaka, Russia, last week, and 40U0 houses were destroyed 20 — In labor riots, Barcelona, Spain, 500 persons, workmen and troops, are re- ported killed or wounded on both sides Miss Ellen M. Stone, the American missionary, who with Mme. Tsilka, was captured by brig- ands last September, was set free at Strumitza, Macedonia, this morning. Mme. 'silka and her babe were also released. All well '. 26 — France celebrates the centennary of Victor Hugo, festivities will last five days 28 — The British on the block house line make a combined move against the Boers; 600 Boers are killed and large sup- plies captured; 451 Englishmen and 16 officers were taken prisoners. March 1 — A rebellion has broken out near Nankin, China 2 — The home of Victor Hugo in Paris is formally turned over to the municipality 4 — E. Ducretet, a French engineer, has stated to the Academy of Science that he has discovered a means of wireless telephony through the earth... 6 — The American liner Waes- land was sunk in a collision off Hollyhead, Wales, all aboard being saved but two 10— Gen. D. Larey of the Boers captures Gen. Methuen. Three British officer.-*, and 38 men killed, 77 wounded, 200 missing.