--- 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: 8 published: 1902-06 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. 8 (June 1902): 637–640.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0508unse 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: improvementera0508unse start_page: 637 end_page: 640 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1902-06) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0508unse 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. — April 22—President Roosevelt nominated William Grant Van Home for judge of the Court of First Instance, Cairo, Egypt; also Joseph Lippman, of Salt Lake City, to be United States Attorney for Utah Senator Rawlins, of Utah, opened the debate in the Senate on the Temporary Government Bill for the Philippine Islands Postoffice inspectors discover that Postmaster Charles Meighan of Ogden, is short in his accounts about two thousand six hundred dollars, and the office is turned over to his bondsmen 24 —Joseph Lippman was confirmed by the Senate as United States Attorney for Utah, to assume his duties May 1st J. C. Jack has been appointed to the of- fice of Superintendent of Saltair — 25 The Denver and Salt Lake Railway, Mining and Tunnel Company, capital $5,000,000, has been incorporated in Denver Postmaster Charles Meighan of Ogden was arrested, and his bail fixed at $2500, furnished by Dr. A. S. Condon and James Ballard Clyde Felt, charged with the murder of Samuel Collins, was released under $4,000 bonds The base- ball season opened with games at Salt Lake and Ogden 27 George Tristram, 79 years old, of Henefer, Summit Co., who came to Utah in 1866, died — 28 George W. Heintz, for many years assist- ant general passenger agent of the Rio Grande Western, Salt Lake, has resigned, and his office is abolished 325 club women from New England passed through Salt Lake on their way to the annual con- vention at Los Angeles — 29 The Omnibus Public Building Bill passed the House, having an appropriation of $125,000 for a pub- lic building in Ogden, and $100,000 for Evanston, Wyo 30— The Utah Club Women, delegates to the general federation of Women's Clubs, arrived at Los Angeles and were quartered at Hotel Angelus At the state encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, held in Ogden, William M. Bostaph was elected commander A heavy 638 IMPROVEMENT ERA. rain passed over Salt Lake Valley, making the month's precipitation 1.46 inches above the average. May 1 —Senator Kearns arrives from Washington. He announces himself to be in favor of Roosevelt for President in 1904 Webb and Austin have sheared 80,000 sheep at Lehi 2 — Geo. A. Smith was appointed executor of the will of the late Mrs. Matilda Moorehouse Barrett. She bequeaths $42,000 to Church institutions, in addition to $20,000 given to the Latter-day Saints' University It is announced that Ft. Douglas will be converted into a regimental post, and $740,000 is to be expended by the government in improve- ments — 3 Plans for the new Brigham Young Memorial building of the Latter-day Saints' University are completed by architect Don Carlos Young, and the foundation begun 5 —The Campbell Building company, Chicago, will be awarded the contract of building the United States Public Building, Salt Lake City, they being the lowest bidders— $409,000, with thirty-six months to complete the building The trial of Peter Mortensen, charged with the murder of James K. Hay, is taken up, and the labor of impanneling a jury begun — 6 Thomas H. Hilton, chief of police, resigned, and the mayor and city coun- cil nominated and confirmed Samuel Paul to succeed him as chief of police of Salt Lake City David Keith purchases the Tenth Ward square for $45,000 John P. Grant, oldest son of Major F. A. Grant, just returned from Manila, died in Salt Lake City There were 56,030 pieces of baggage handled at the depot in Ogden in April; an increase of 12,753 over 1901 Mrs. W. A. Nelden was selected for a place on the Board of Directors of the Fed- eration of Women's Clubs — 7 Senator Thomas Kearns and David Keith organize a great mining company of 1200 acres west of the Silver King property, in Park City Dr. Allen Fowler, 60 years of age, a well-known physician of Salt Lake, died . Samuel Paul took charge of the Police Department ..9 The — Federal Grand Jury at Ogden, returned an indictment against Postmaster Charles Meighan, charging embezzlement The first battalion of the twelfth infantry arrived in Salt Lake and encamped in Ft. Douglas 11— The second annual reunion of the Christian Endeavor and Epworth League and Baptist Young People of this state opened at Ogden with an attendance of 500 — 12 President C. D. Fjelsted departed from Logan on his way to Copenhagen, Denmark, to take part in the dedication of a new "Mormon" church in that country. Andrew Jenson will accompany him to publish a new edition of the Book of Mor- mon The Ogden city council decides to pave Washington avenue. EVENTS OF THE MONTH. 639 —April — Professor Nicholas Murray Butlor was Domestic. 19. in- stalled as President of Columbia University, with imposing ceremonies, attended by President Roosevelt 23 — President Roosevelt orders General Funston not to speak at the Middlesex banquet, Boston, owing to a criticism made by the general on the senior senator from Massachu- setts A tri-weekly mail has been ordered from Boise to Thunder Mountain, and postoffices are established at Thunder Mountain and Roosevelt — 24 Attorney-general Knox directs the United States District Attorney to institute proceedings against the beef trust 25 —The trial, by courtmartial, of General Jacob H.Smith on the charge of conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline began to- day at Manila; General Lloyd Wheaton presiding 26 — Chi- cago will be made the centar of Uncle Sam's fight on the beef trust A tornado at Joplin, Missouri, destroys many thousand dollars' worth of property, and makes 50 families homeless Hon. J. Sterling Morton, formerly secretary of Agriculture, died at Chicago 27 —The rebel leader, Guevarra, with 180 men and 161 rifles surrendered to General Frederick G. Grant's expedition in the island of Samar 28 —Seven people are killed and 40 are injured in a tornado at Morgan, Texas In the court-martial of General Jacob H. Smith, at Manila, Major Littleton W. T. Waller testified to receiving, from Gen- eral Smith, the orders to "kill and burn" and "render Samar a howling wilderness," the treachery of the natives being the reason for such an order 29 —The headquarters, band, Lieutenant-Colonel Hask- ell,Major Wood and companies A, B, C and D of the 12th U. S. Infantry recently from the Philippines are assigned to Ft. Douglas, Utah William H. Moody, Mass., was nominated to be Secretary of the Navy. May 1. —Major Edwin F. Glenn, 5th infantry, a participant in the administration of the "water cure" will be court-martialed by direction of the President Now that J. Pierpont Morgan controls the trans-Atlantic steamship combination, he governs trusts amounting to $5,210,993,386. Five million men, women, and children, are dependent on him for a living — 2 Congressman Amos J. Cummings, of New York, born May 15, 1841, died 3—The trial by court-martial, of General Jacob H. Smith at Manila, ended General Chaffee notifies the War Department that the campaign against Sultan Bayan, a principal Moro chief, has been completely successful. Many Moros were killed 6— Rear-admiral William T. Sampson, retired, died in Washington, D. C A fierce discussion of the Philippine question raged in the Senate 8— Paul Leicester Ford, a novel- ist, was shot and killed by his brother, Malcolm Webster Ford, at New 640 IMPROVEMENT ERA. York 11 —All coal mining in the anthracite region, Pa., is stopped owing to a strike order — 12 In a naphtha explosion at Pittsburg, Pa., 20 lives were lost and 200 persons badly injured, of which 65 per cent will die President Roosevelt, in a special mes- sage to congress, recommended that an appropriation of $500,000 be made for the relief of the 50,000 people who are homeless and hungry in the Island of Martinique, where at least 30,000 lost their lives in the earthquake. — — Foreign. April 25 Two hundred Chinese landed from the steamer "Empress of China," in Van couver, B. C, on their way to Johannes- burg, Africa, to work in the mines — 26 Queen Wilhelmina, of Holland, is seriously ill with typhoid-fever — 27 The French elec- tions resulted in defeat for the government —not one ministerialist be- ing elected to the Chamber of Deputies, in Paris 30 —The city of Dacca, near Calcutta, India, population 200,000, was devasted by a tornado, in which 416 persons were killed. May 2. —Advices from Guatemala, Central America, state that a thousand lives were lost in the earthquake of April 18th 3 The serious illness of Queen Wilhelmina causes great apprehension in Europe — Bret Hart, born Albany, New York, August 1839, 6 F. 25, died near Aldershot, England 8 — The British steamer "Roddam" reports that St. Pierre, Martinique, is completely destroyed by earthquake 9 —Further details from Martinique confirm the report that St. Pierre, and 40,000 of her inhabitants, and all her property and shipping, were destroyed by a rain of fire, and streams of lava, caused by the eruption of Mt. Pelee. It is one of the greatest calamities in the history of the world 10— Advices from the West Indies state that a number of the smaller islands near Martinique, especially St. Vincent, have suffered greatly, both in loss of life and property, by earthquakes. All the roads leading from St. Pierre are choked with the dead — 11 Advices from St. Thomas to London state that St. Pierre was destroyed in the twinkling of an eye, and not 40 inhabitants escaped. The whole northern part of the island is burning and is a rocky wilderness President elect Palma arrived in Cuba and was greeted by thousands.