Events of the Month

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

Local —May 13—By vote of twelve to one Salt Lake City Council granted the franchise on 4th West for the Oregon Short Line, which provides for the building of a $100,000 depot 14 —Reed Smoot announces that he is a candidate for the United States Senate The City Council approves a contract between the city and the canal companies for a pumping plant at Utah Lake 15 Many — peace meetings were held throughout the state, with programs, consist- ing of speeches, songs, and recitations The University of Utah won the championship in a debate between its students and those of the Nevada University — 16 Mrs. Zina Pratt Bishop, wife of the well-known assayer, Captain F. M. Bishop, died, age 51 years The citizens of Sanpete County have entered the grasshopper fight in full force Glenwood, Sevier County, is overrun by cater- pillars 17 —The Norwegians celebrated the 88th anniversary of the independence of Norway Northern Utah by is visited a heavy rain storm 18 — Mrs. Judge Thomas Marshall, 66 years old, died in Salt Lake City Mrs. Rebecca Douglas Lowe, for the past four years President of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, was given a reception at the Bee-Hive House Judson Bliss Tomlinson, missionary, died in Samoa 19 A severe frost visited Sanpete Valley, which, together with the threatened grasshopper invasion, insures a poor prospect for the crops 20 —The annual Oratorical contests of the Y. M. M. I. A. of Salt Lake Stake were held in the oratorical districts of the city this evening — 22 James J. Ruban, an aged shoemaker of Salt Lake City, who early joined the Church in France, and came to Utah in 1867, was accidentally burned to death 23 The banking — house of T. R. Jones and Co., one of the oldest in Salt Lake City, sold out to McCornick & Company The fifth convention of the Utah

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Congress of Mothers opened in the Assembly Hall, Mrs. E. E. Shephard giving the annual address Councilman Alexander Wilkins of Provo, born Canada, 1834, died suddenly, stricken with apoplexy 24 —E. H. Harriman visited Salt Lake The Mother's Con- gress closed; Mrs. Emily S. Richards was chosen president Joseph Mills died at West Jordan, 83 years of age 26 Governor B. B. Odell, of New York, and party arrived in Salt Lake City The Salt Lake City Board of Education opened sixty- seven bids for school books — 27 George M. Hanson was recommended by Congressman Sutherland as Postmaster at Ogden, to succeed Charles Meighan John W. Hoover, Provo, born Pennsylvania, November 18, 1834, came to Utah in 1852, died — 28 After eighteen days, and issuing 1,105 subpoenas, and examining 589 persons, a jury was obtained in the Mortensen-Hay murder case — 30 Memorial Day was observed with appropriate ceremonies through- out the state, and in Salt Lake City there was a magnificent street parade of the G. A. R., Utah Volunteers, National Guard, and regular soldiers Nearly 30,000 people visited the pleasure resorts which opened today The grasshopper plague in Sanpete County continues unabated The annual conference of the Mutual Improvement Associations opened, officers' meetings being held at 10 and 2 — 31 The State School Book Convention opened, presided over by the State Superintendent C. A. Nelson More than a hundred new buildings are being erected in Salt Lake City, at a cost of a million dollars Mary Ann Mason, pioneer of Springville, died, aged seventy The Middle States mission has been established with headquarters at Cincinnati. — June 1 The Mutual Improvement Associations held three sessions in the Tabernacle, at 10, a. m. 2 and 7 p.m., President Joseph F. Smith presid- ing Bishop Orson F. Whitney delivered the baccalaureate address to the members of the graduating class of the University of Utah, ninety-nine in number, at the Assembly Hall 2 Brigham Young's birthday anniversary celebration is held at Saltair, attended by three hundred and fifty descendants ranging from seventy- six to three and a half years J. A. Wright resigns from the faculty of the Agricultural College to become editor of the Inter-Moun- tain Farmer and Rancher 3 —Reed Smoot, Jesse Knight, and others of Provo, ask for a franchise for an Electric railway and telephone system through Utah County 4—Dr. J. F. Merrill was chosen president of the University Alumni Association The University held its 33rd annual graduating exercises at the theatre,

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addressed by Hon. Moses Thatcher, and Governor Heber M. Wells. There were eight college graduates — 5 Salt Lake Canal Companies posted notices in Utah County of the appropriation of the unappropriated waters of Utah Lake and waters flowing therein and therefrom The School Book Convention adopted Werner's Arithmetic and Reed and Kellogg's Grammar — 8 Senator Joseph L. Rawlins returned from Washington Rewards of $1 per bushel for grasshoppers are offered in Sanpete County. Three boys bagged seven bushels in one day At the Salt Lake Stake quarterly conference George A. Smith was sustained as superin- tendent of the Y. M. M. I. A., vice Richard R. Lyman, resigned to attend school in the East — 9 The thermometer registered ninty-five degrees in Lake City Salt — 10 The State rested in the Mortensen trial, and Mortensen's defense occupied fifty-five minutes The flowing wells at Lehi are failing Archie M. Sheppard, age 21, fell in front of a street car and was killed 11 The State School Book Convention closed its labors Mrs- Barlow Ferguson, who has fasted for thirty-six days as a cure for con- vulsions, began eating — 12 The graduating exercises of the High School were held, there being eighty-six graduates in the class Albert E. Walker, son of the late J. R. Walker, born April 8, 1877, died in Salt Lake City The Electric Line to Ogden, it is now said, will commence building August 1st, and be completed by May of next year 14 —Peter Mortensen was by the jury found guilty of murder in the degree first The nomination of Reverend John T. Axton, as army chaplain is announced...., Flag day was generally observed. — — Domestic May 13 The Senate adopts a resolution appropriating half a million dollars to the West Indian sufferers Eugene F. Ware takes the oath of office as commissioner of Pensions —14—The U. S. Cruiser Dixie sails with 1220 tons of merchandise for the Martin- ique sufferers 16— Herbert G. Squires is nominated Minister to Cuba 18 —A tornado swept southern Texas and over one hundred persons are reported killed—Wm. Taylor, the great Methodist missionary, died in Palo Alto, California — 19 Two hundred miners are killed in a mine explosion at Coal Creek, Tennessee — 20 Secretary Hay announces the Independence of Cuba to all the nations of the world 22— Lewis Nixon having resigned the leadership of Tammany because he could not run it and retain his self- respect, Charles F. Murphy, Daniel P. McMahon, and Louis P. Haffen are appointed to run the organization 24— The statue of Rochambeau

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(who came to America with 5,500 men in July, 1780, and later made possi- ble the victory of Yorktown,) erected in Washington, is dedicated with im- posing ceremonies, in the presence of the French commission Lord Pauncefote, Ambassador of Great Britain, dies in Washington The coal strike continues, and the soft coal miners of Virginia and West Virginia threaten to strike June 7 — 23 The report of the creed revision committee of the Presbyterian Church was presented to the 114th General Assembly New York, and adopted in less than two hours .-27 —Robert S. McCormick, U. S. minister at Vienna, is named as Ambassador to Austria Hungary 27 —The Ohio Republican state convention express a sentiment for Senator Hanna for the presidency — 28 General Wood arrives in Washington from Cuba — 30 President Roosevelt makes a Memorial day speech in Washington, in answer to the charges of cruelty against the army — 31 The President orders a reduction of the strength of the army to 66,497 men; a decrease of 10,790 Senor Buencamino, a Filipino leader, makes a statement before the House Committee on Insular affairs, favoring American sovereignty in the Philippines. June 1 —The French Battleship Gaulois sails from Boston, having some of the members of the French Rochambeau mission 2 Eighty per cent of the engineers and firemen of the anthracite coal region obey orders to strike 3 —The Philippine Civil govern-

ment bill passed the Senate by a vote of forty-eight to thirty, three Republicans, Hoar, Mason and Wellington voting against it, and one Democrat, McLaurin, for it The Isthmian canal bill is takeD up The House begins consideration of the bill to protect presidents, known as the Anti- Anarchy bill 4 There is— serious rioting in Chicago 5 —President Roosevelt holds that there has been no violation of the neutrality laws at Chalmette, La. by the British 6 —The President in reply to an appeal to end the coal strike, holds that there is no legal authority by which he could intervene 7 — Germany and Russia ask Secretary Hay to join in concerted action by the powers against anarchists 9 —The celebration of the centennial anniversary of West Point, U. S.

Military Academy began The Utah Press association, fifty-

four in number, arrived in Boise, Ida 11 —Central Illinois is

visited by the most distructive storm in sixty years The West Point graduates are addressed by President Roosevelt and the celebration closes — 13 The House passed the irrigation bill by a vote of one hundred and forty-six to fifty-five. The Utah Press

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association is entertained in Portland, Ore Volcano Kilauea, Hawaii, is in eruption President Roosevelt, in a special message to Congress, pleads for Cuban concessions. — — Foreign May 12 The Brazilian aeronaut Severo, is killed by the explosion of his air-ship in Paris 13 President Loubet — starts on a visit to Russia 16— Preliminary ceremonies for the week of the coronation of the King of Spain take place at Madrid. 17— King Alphonso XIII is crowned in Madrid 18 —Many arrests follow the discovery of a plot in Madrid to kill King Alphonso. 20 —Senor Estrada Palma is inaugurated President of the Cuban repub- lic President Loubet reaches Russia 21 — fresh outbreak of Mt. Pelee causes a panic at Fort de France, Martinique, and many people leave for other islands — 22 Loubet is warmly received in St. Petersburg The king of Spain ex- presses a desire to substitute horse-racing for bull-fighting 24—Senor Quesada nominated Cuban minister to theU. S is

25—Returning from Russia, Loubet lands Copenhagen, Denmark, and in

is welcomed by King Christian IX cordially 26 —A provis- ional government with M. Boisrond Canal, president, formed is in

Haiti 27—The coronation procession has a rehearsal at London King Christian accepts the U. S. proposal to extend the time limit for one year for the ratification of the Danish West Indian treaty President Loubet returns to France 29—The seventh International Red Cross convention opens at Peters- St.

burg 31 — Governor Taft has an attack of which tonsilitis,

prevents him from opening the Philippine negotiations at the Vatican. June —The Boer war 1 ended. A dispatch from Lord Kitchener is

to the British war office announces that the terms of surrender have been signed in Pretoria by all the Boer representatives 2 The peace terms are made public in London 3 Lord Kit- — chener is made viscount by King Edward who asks Parliament for a £50,000 money grant to the warrior Michael Henry Herbert will succeed the late Lord Pauncefote as Ambassador to the U. S. from England. The Pope receives Governor Taft who states the objects of his mission, and the Pontiff approves of the American Government's plans 7 —Whitelaw Reid, special envoy of the U. S. to the coronation, arrives in England 8 —England holds thanks- giving services throughout the land, the king and queen attending St. Paul's in London 12 —Up to date 11,225 Boers have sur- rendered, many of whom are boys from eleven years and upwards.