--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 7 number: 11 published: 1904-09 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Events of the Month," *Improvement Era* 7, no. 11 (September 1904): 889–896.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0711unse 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: improvementera0711unse start_page: 889 end_page: 896 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1904-09) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0711unse publication_year: 1904 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 1904, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Events of the Month EVENTS OF THE MONTH. 891 Legion, and walked in the procession. Daughters of the Pioneers waited on the tables of the guests of honor. The park was a vast dining table, where from 7,000 to 15,000 people ate their lunches. In the afternoon there were sports for the children. James Leach, born May 2, 1815, was given a gold-headed cane by the children as the oldest male pioneer who arrived in 1847; and Mrs. Mary I. K. Home, born November 20, 1818, was given an umbrella, as the oldest woman pioneer of 1847, present, Governor Heber M. Wells delivering the presentation speeches. The day closed with a fine display of fireworks. The day was generally celebrated in many of the settlements in Utah. There were only few accidents. A company of 100 were poisoned in Mendon, Cache county, by eating tyrotoxic ice cream, but all recovered. Cloud Bursts in Southern Utah.— New Harmony, situated at the head of Ash Creek, a tributary of the Virgin, Washington county, suffered severely from a cloudburst on the 26th. The creek became a raging torrent, which destroyed crops, fences, outhouses, residences, and household effects to the value of $3,000, mostly in small amounts, owned by many settlers. Local storms of great severity occurred in other parts. Valuable Relics Donated the Historical Society. —In the latter part of July, Mrs, E, F, Holmes gave to the Utah State Historical Society the stone plate that was affixed to the tower of President Young's private schoolhouse, also the bell that hung in the tower, and the weather vane which surmounted the same. The stone plate is two and a half by five feet in size, and bears the following inscription in Deseret characters: "President Brigham Young's Private Schoolhouse, Erected in 1860." The society also obtained the old bee hive which surmounted the Bee Hive House, a new one having been placed upon the building. Missionary Dead. — On Friday, 22nd, Andrew C. Peterson, a missionary from Sanpete county, returning from New Zealand, who attempted to take his life on the 19th, on his arrival in San Francisco, in a fit of despondency, died from the effect of his wounds in a San Francisco hospital. He left Utah last January, and in his field of labor his health was badly affected, so much so that he was released to come home. Reunion. — On Friday, 22nd, the High Council of the Salt Lake Stake of Zion tendered a reception, which was both edifying and refreshing, to the bishoprics and presiding officers of the auxiliary organizations of the stake, in the Fourteenth ward hall. The object of the gathering was to form a better acquaintance among the oflScers, in the new stake, and to discuss questions of interest to the welfare of the stake. Several of the general authorities were present. — 892 IMPROVEMENT ERA Hot Weather. — On Wednesday, 27th, the thermometer (official) reached 97 degrees in the shade, in Salt Lake City,the warmest day thus far this year. The weather continued very warm for a number of days causing a few prostrations and two deaths. On the 25th Hyrum Smith, son of Andrew Smith, gate-keeper at the Temple, died from the effects of sunstroke, in Salt Lake City, and on the following day Hannah Nelson, aged 18, died at Provo from the same cause. A severe electrical storm, doing some damage to grain in various parts,passed over Utah on the 29th. Died. —In North Ogden, Weber county, July 12th, Sarah E. Ellis, born England, April 10, 1832. She came to Utah with her husband and three children in 1867. —In Salt Lake City, Wednesday, 13th, Richard Collett, born England, April 10, 1842, baptized when 14 years old, and emigrated to Utah in 1863. —In Tooele, 13th, Archibald C. Shields, a pioneer of Tooele county. He was born in Scotland, and came to Utah in 1849. — In Malad, Idaho, Thursday, 14th, Edward Evans, a pioneer of Malad. —In Beaver, Friday, 15th, Alexander Morgan, a high priest, and an active worker in his stake, born Cedar City, Utah, 1856. — In Liberty, Weber county, James Burt, Sr., who joined the Church in Scot- 15th, land and emigrated to Utah in 1862. — In Tooele, Sunday, 17th, George Craner, born England, July 1, 1829, and came to Utah in 1851. He was a pioneer of the county and a high priest in the stake. In Heber, — Wasatch county, Mary R. Lowry Montgomery, Thursday, 21st, born Scotland, April 25, 1830, and joined the Church in 1847. She was a — pioneer of Wasatch county. In Coalville, Monday, 25th, Sarah Hulett ¥/ilde, born England, September 25, 1817, joined the Church in 1836, — a pioneer of Coalville, aged 85 years. In Salt Lake City, Thursday, 26th, Judge Irvin A. Wilson, of heart trouble. He was a leading lawyer. —In Idaho Falls, 27th, from the effects of being thrown from a carriage on the 23rd, Elizabeth W. Jeffs, an old resident of the Six- — teenth ward, Salt Lake City. In Cedar City, Joseph S. Hunter, a pioneer of the county, and member of the High Council of the Parowan stake, born Scotland, November 20, 1849, and moved to Cedar City in 1853. In Lindon, Utah county, Thursday, 28th, Joseph Wadley, born England, December 23, 1830, joined the Church in 1850, and came to Utah in 1853. He was a pioneer of note, foremost in horticulture, and an Indian war veteran. August, 1904. Democratic State Convention. — was decided by the state com- It mittee that the Democratic state convention will meet in the Salt Lake theater on Thursday, September 8th, 10 a. m., to nominate a full ticket of national and state officers. EVENTS OF THE MONTH. 893 Pacific Islanders. — On Wednesday, August 3rd, this organization with missionaries, held a reunion at Lagoon, The event was an entire success, and gave great joy to the Saints and missionaries, who delighted in the usual Polynesian cheerfulness. Among the throng of 5,000 people were 200 natives, in home costumes, from Hawaii, New Zea- their land, Samoa and Tahiti. The venerable chief, Hirini Whanga, of New Zealand, was present, and the First Presidency and many other Church dignitaries attended. A program of speeches, songs, and music, was enjoyed. There was a grand dinner in the bowery, native games, and many amusements, with prizes. President Joseph P. Smith spoke happily on mission labors in the Pacific. To Chairman, John T. Caine, is due much of the praise for the success of the outing. General Chaffee in Salt Lake. — Gen. A. R. Chaffee, chief of staff of the U. S. army, arrived in Salt Lake on the 4th, and was met on South Temple Street by five companies of the 29th Infantry. He was given a salute of seventeen guns, and after arriving at Fort Douglas he immediately proceeded to the practical inspection of the post. Lieut. Gen. Chaffee has been connected with the army since 1861, when he entered as a private, steadily rising until he was made Brig.-Gen. in May, 1898, and Major-General in July, the same year, and Lieut.-General last winter. He was in command of the American forces during the temporary occupancy of Pekin, and is a great favorite with the army. L. D. S. University. —In the list of 42 names constituting the Faculty of this growing educational institution, which begins the school year September 12th, is found Joshua H. Paul, M. A., Ph. D., D. L. D., president and professor of philosophy; John M. Mills, M. A., principal of the high school department and professor of history; Bryant S. Hinckley, B. D., B. Pd., M. Ace, principal of the normal school and professor of economics; Henry Peterson, D. B., professor of pedagogy (on furlough at the University of Chicago); Osborne Widtsoe, B. S., instructor in English (on furlough in Harvard University); John T. Miller, D. B., D. Sc, professor of physiology and instructor in German; Joseph S. Home, B. S., B. D., professor of mathematics. Died. — In Murray, 3rd, Elizabeth Jane Stewart Stickney, born New Hampshire, March 19, 1828, joined the Church in 1842, arrived in Salt Lake 1862. She was active in church and educational work, and a pioneer resident of Sanpete county. Her husband, Joseph Clark Stickney, died May 19th last. — In Payson, 4th, Jerusha Searle, a pioneer of Payson, where she arrived in 1850. She was 72 years of age, and bore the first child in Pajson, who, dying, had the first funeral in the place. — In 894 IMPROVEMENT ERA. Springville, 6th, Thomas Tew, born Birmingham, England, June 27, 1833, came to Salt Lake in 1851, and to Springville in 1852, and was a veteran of the Indian war. — In Ephraim, 11th, J. H, Osterstrom, born Norway, 1850, came to Utah in 1856, and was a pioneer of Sanpete Valley, locating in Ephraim in 1857. — In Hooper, Weber county, 11th, Anthony Haynes, born England, September 22, 1827, joined the Church in 1851, — and came to Utah in 1864. In West Weber, Weber county, 13th, Charlotte Mills, in her 66th year. She came to Utah 1861, and was in an early settler of West Weber. — In Santaquin, 13th, Alice born Jarvis, England, 77 years ago, and come to Utah in 1862. ' Domestic—July, 1904. Beep Trust Strike.— The strike of the laborers in the packing houses of Armour, Swift, Morris, Cudahay, and other companies believed to be associated with the beef trust, which was ordered on the 12th when 50,000 men quit work, is still in force. It was made in behalf of the unskilled workmen. On the 28th, the freight handlers union directed that no freight be handled for the packers, thus involving the railroads but this is withdrawn and held in abeyance. Crimes of violence are reported in nearly all the cities affected; Kansas City, Chicago, Omaha, St. Louis and Sioux City. There are a number of smaller strikes in other parts of the country, affecting many thousand workmen. Political Campaign Opened.— On the 26th, at Oyster Bay, L. L, Theodore Roosevelt formally opened the political campaign of 1904 at his country home. Sagamore Hill. Standing on a spot made dear to him by the associations of a lifetime, surrounded by his family and relatives and friends, and in the presence of an assemblage of men distinguished in all walks of life, he formally received and accepted the nomination of the Republican party for President of the United States, as tendered him at Chicago. Speaker Cannon was the spokesman, and the President made reply in a forceful speech of acceptance in which he referred to his record by which he is willing to stand or fall. Foreign —July, 1904. Paul Kruger Dead. —In the village of Clarens, on Lake Geneva, Switzerland, on the 15th, Paul Kruger, ex-president of the Transvaal Republic, died — "the grim old hero, with the muscles of steel, the heart of oak, the courage of a lion, and the faith of a martyr, who threw down the gage of battle to the mightiest empire the sun has ever shone upon." He had requested to be buried in the Transvaal. His petition was granted by the British Government, the day following his death, and he will be buried beside his wife in his own country. He was a remark- EVENTS OF THE MONTH. 895 able man, but his end was unfitting. Instead of following his fortune to foreign lands he should have died by the hands of the British, or as their prisoner, but for all this he was a man of simple habits, primitive piety, and great resolution and courage. He was in his 79th year. Assassinations in Russia. —On the 28th, at St. Petersburg, while minister of the Interior Viatscheslav Constatinovitch Von Plehve was on his way to render his weekly report to the Czar, he was killed by a bomb thrown by an anarchist. Von Plehve who was largely of Polish descent, and born in 1848, was appointed Minister of the Interior, April 18, 1902, succeeding M. Sipiaguine, who was assassinated April 16, 1902, by a student named Baimashoff. He had formerly been director of the Department of Police, which position he practically assumed of his own accord, when in charge of the department of political prosecutions, owing to the incompetency of the official who was in charge of the police when Emperor Alexander II, was killed, March 13, 1881. He was appointed in May, 1903, to carry out the Emperor's reform decree. His power was second only to that of the Czar. He had lately been active in repressing the liberties of the Finns, in the massacre and plunder of the Jews, and the curtailment of the Zemvas. It will be remembered that on the 16th of June, Count Bobrikoff, Governor-General of Finland, was shot at the entrance of the Finnish Senate, at Helsingfors. The deed was committed by Eugene Shaumann, a son of a former senator, and he immediately committed suicide. The act was the result of the severe re" pression policy now carried on by Russia against Finland, and appears to have been purely personal on the part of the patriot Shaumann who wished to call attention to the sufferings of his country. Bobrikoff took charge of Finnish affairs in 1899, and in April the Czar invested him, under Von Plehve, with dictatorial powers by which he could arrest and imprison without local action, close shops, forbid meetings, and expel from the country whom he pleased. Prince Obolensky succeeds as Governor General. On July 17th this year, the Vice Governor of Elizabethpol was also assassinated. Anarchy at home, foreign complications, and an unsuccessful war are all certainly depressing and distracting to the Russian government, whose autocracy is quite generally condemned throughout the civilized world. The Czar is looked upon as a weak sovereign, and the victim of reactionary men who rule the destinies of a great empire in the most arbitrary manner. Raisuli's Ransom. — The ransom of $70,000 for Perdicaris, as mentioned in July Era, has been paid by France to Raisuli, the bandit, from its new French loan of $12,500,000, and France takes the credit for securing the release of Perdicaris which gives that country an opportunity 896 IMPROVEMENT ERA. to strengthen and increase her control over Morocco, as permitted by the recent Anglo-French treaty. Raisuli gets also the governorship of four large tribes covering some 500 square miles of territory between Tangier and Larache and Alcazar. The Morocco customs will have to pay these bills. Late in July, Perdicaris was in Paris urging the French to establish order in Morocco by sending thither a force of ten thousand soldiers to demonstrate its power and determination for the protection of life and property in Tangier. If this is not done, he suggests that the next best thing is to support Raisuli, whom ho thinks sincere, and the strongest man now available, to deal with the turbulent conditions. France and the Vatican. — Merry' del Val, the Papal secretary, has ordered the recall of the Papal Nuncio at Paris, Monsignor Lorenz- and so broken off diplomatic relations with France. When the elli, French Bishops were summoned to Rome to give an account of them- selves to their religious superiors, they were forbidden by the Govern- ment to leave their posts.The Vatican replied threatening extreme penalties in case of continued disobedience, and gave a denial of the right of the Government to interfere in church discipline. The French note gives this justification for the government's action: "After having on several occasions pointed out the serious blows struck at the Government's rights under the Concordat by the Vati- can's dealing directly with the French bishops without consultation with the Power with whom the Concordat was signed and seeing that the Pontifical Secretary of State in his reply of July 25th affirmed those pro- ceedings, the Republican Government has decided to conclude ofl&cial re- lations, which at the Holy See's desire had become objectless." August, 1904. French Statesman — Former Premier Waldeck-Rousseau Dead. ' died at his country home in Corbeil, eighteen miles from Paris, on the 10th. He was born at Nantes, December 2, 1846. He studied law at Saint Lazare, and was elected Deputy from Rennes, in 1879, identifying himself with the Republicans. He was a prominent orator, and worked for the reform of the Judiciary. 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