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Passing Events. The plague in India, according to official figures for February, shows 88,498 deaths in a single month. The most persistent attempts to check the epidemic have failed, according to the reports to the BritishIndia office. The German census, taken last December, shows the population of the Fatherland to be 64,903,423, an increase of over four and a quarter millions since 1905. The figures show that there are 850,000 more females than males. Henry Beck Evans, a member of Zion's Camp in 1834, a Utah pioneer of 1850, a territorial militiaman and Indian missionary, born Ohio, October 25, 1830, son of the late Bishop David Evans and Mary Beck Evans of Lehi, died in Coalville, April, 1911. His funeral was held from the stake tabernacle, April 5. Postal savings banks in Utah are found in Provo and Bingham Canyon, and a new order makes Logan the third city in the state designated for a bank of this kind. The postoffice department at Washington has decided to have a bank in each second class city of the country, the postal bank idea having passed beyond the experimental stage, and been pronounced a success wherever tried. New district judges and attorneys have been named by Governor William Spry in conformity with legislative action adding one more judge each to the 2nd and 3rd districts, as follows: for 3rd judicial district, Frederick C. Loofbourow, judge; E. O. Leatherwood, attorney; for 2nd district, Nathan J. Harris, Ogden, judge; E. T. Hulaniski, attorney. The appointees are all well known members of the Utah bar, and give universal satisfaction. A terrible fire in a ten-story factory building in New York City, occupied by a shirt-waist factory, destroyed the lives of about one hun-

PASSING EVENTS. 657 dred and forty persons, within one hour after the fire was discovered, on the afternoon of March 25. Most of the people destroyed were girls. There was only one fire escape at the place, which was of little use, and the elevator escape was soon cut off. The national income tax amendment to the national constitution, submitted by resolution of Congress in July, 1909, has been acted on favorably this year by nineteen legislatures, eleven states have thus far rejected it. Since the amendment must be approved by three-fourths of the states, nine more states are necessary for favorable action. Since the constitution fixes no time limit to legislative action, the legislatures which rejected it this year may approve it next. Utah so far has not joined in favor of the proposed measure. "The United Order," by Joshua H Midgley, is a pamphlet of seventy-five pages, treating on the United Order and giving outlines of its practical accomplishment. It is a plan, according to the author, that will "enable workers to take more than they put in, and to have a government of, for and by themselves." The author says, "The work relates to the unification of mankind through the abolishment of rank injustice, and enforced inequality, and this by a peaceful, natural and practical means." The special session of the Sixty-Second Congress convened April 4. On the 5th President Taft sent his message to Congress, which treats entirely and exclusively with the proposed reciprocity agreement with Canada. He urges its early adoption, saying, "I am constrained in deference to popular sentiment and with a realizing sense of my duty to the great mass of our people, whose welfare is involved, to urge on your consideration early action on this agreement." Champ Clark was chosen speaker of the House of Representatives. The bill passed the house April 21, by a vote of 264 to 88. An aviation meet was held at Bonneville field, near Saltair, from April 6 to 11, which attracted at least eighty thousand visitors, many of whom saw bird-men and flying machines for the first time. When the weather was favorable, the exhibitions were all that could be expected. Walter Brookins and Philo Parmalee, Wright aeroplane drivers, and Eugene B. Ely and Charles F. Willard with the Curtis type of byplanes, all of international fame, took part. An incident that should not go unnoticed is that the Wright people, as usual, refused to fly on Sunday. The thanks of the community are due them for this commendable example.

658 IMPROVEMENT ERA. The situation in Mexico with the "Mormon" colonies continues serious. Casas Grandes was abandoned by the Federals early in April, and this left the surrounding country without civil or military law, which enabled robbers, roving bands and outlaws to make raids upon the unprotected. On the 11th, Juan Sosa, a "bad" Mexican, was killed in Col. Juarez, and Frank Lewis, a "Mormon" colonist, was wounded. The colonists have been absolutely neutral, but were armed and prepared to defend themselves against marauders, in the absence of both beligerent factions. At an Insurrecto court martial the colonists were exonerated from responsibility for the death of the "bad" man. Bishop Joseph Warburton, for over forty years bishop of the First ward of Salt Lake City, died on March 18, 1911. He was born in Radcliff, England, September 31, 1831, baptized a member of the Church in 1851. He left England in 1856 with his wife, and worked in Massachusetts until 1860, coming to Utah by ox teams, landing in Salt Lake on the 2nd of October, 1861. He was ordained bishop of the First ward in 1870, filling the position until a year ago, when he was released and ordained a patriarch. For several years he was a captain in the militia under General William S. Burton. He engaged also in the mercantile business for many years. The Annual Sunday School Union Conference was held in the Salt Lake Tabernacle, Sunday evening, April 9. A feature of the exercises was the reciting of the Articles of Faith in the language of fourteen nations to which the gospel has been preached,including French, Danish, Tahitian, Hawaiian, Welsh, Norwegian, Japanese, Maori, Turkish, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish and German, with the whole congregation repeating the articles in the English language. From the report of Secretary George D. Pyper it appears that the parents' department of the Sunday schools now numbers nearly 23,000, and that the Sunday schools have increased their membership in the past ten years nearly 52,000, reaching at present 175,425. President Joseph F. Smith spoke on the need of teaching the gospel to the children in simplicity. The great Roosevelt dam, on the Salt River, Arizona, was officially opened on March 18, at 5:48 p. m., by ex-President Theodore Roosevelt. Standing on top of the dam, he pressed an electric button which set in motion a mass of grinding machinery, which in turn raised three of the six-thousand-pound iron gates. Through these came rushing torrents of water, running madly down towards the valley, sixty miles onward, where it would be diverged within sixteen miles of Mesa and Phoenix, at the great diversion dam, to assist in irrigating about two

PASSING EVENTS. 659 hundred and fifty thousand acres of desert land, which has lain for ages without water, and is as level as a floor. The dam is the greatest in America, and next to the Assuan dam on the Nile, the greatest in the world. It forms a reservoir twenty-five miles long and two hundred feet deep. President Diaz's cabinet resigned on the 24th of March. The retiring ministers are advanced in years, the youngest baing sixty-five, and several much older, on which account there had been much dissatisfaction. Mostly new, young men have been selected, but Jose Y Ives Limantour remains Minister of Finance, with Manuel Gonzale Cosio, Minister of War and Marine. Enrique Creel is succeeded by Francisco Leon de la Barra as Minister of Foreign Affairs. The situation in the country remains very critical, with no apparent improvement over last month, as far as a settlement of the insurrection is concerned. In a fight at Agua Preita, near Douglas, Arizona, on the 14th of April, United States troops interfered, after the Mexican rebels had swept the town with a volley, killing several, and wounding some Americans. All day long April 17, a great battle again raged. At Juarez on the 20th, the Insurrectos threatened an attack. The Pacific Land and Produce Exhibition was held from March 18 to April 2, at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California. On Utah day, March 27, a special program was carried out in honor of the Utah delegation, which consisted of prominent citizens, including Governor and Mrs. William Spry, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Pratt, Dr. and Mrs. P. F. Pfoutz, Captain and Mrs. J. E. Caine, and D. C. Jackling. Every effort was made to convince the public of the fertility of Utah's soil, and of the industry of her people. Trophies and cups won by the state in many previous exhibitions gave proof of Utah's prominence. "Utah's exhibit far surpassed that of any other state," says Gerald Anderson. The Commercial Club and the officials of the Salt Lake route deserve great credit for the splendid exhibit. Particularly did the fine specimens of dry land grains shown draw crowds of admirers. Mr. L. A. Merrill, of the Agricultural College, explained the merits of the exhibition to all interested. James Jack, one of the old workers in the President's office, died of diabetes on the evening of March 27, 1911. He was born in Perth, Scotland, November 29, 1829, and emigrated to America in 1853, crossing the plains with ox teams. An expert accountant, he was for many years chief clerk and treasurer to the First Presidency of the Church,

660 IMPRO VEMENT ERA. working under Presidents Brigham Young, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, Lorenzo Snow, and Joseph F. Smith. In January, 1909, owing to ill health, he retired, having since that time lived a quiet life. Interested in many activities outside of the Church, he had been vice-president of the Saltair Railroad, treasurer of the Utah Central Railroad, treasurer of Salt Lake City for twenty years, also treasurer of the Salt Lake Theatre and the Deseret News Company, and was one of the original incorporators of the Utah Sugar Company. One of his notable achievements in early days was the driving of an ox team with three thousand pounds of flour and bacon for the relief of the hand-cart company of 1856. Governor Ford's last daughter was laid to rest without eulogy or prayer on March 20, 1910. A short time ago the Era printed an article showing the fate of the Ford boys. We now give this sad account of his last daughter from a dispatch printed in the Los Angeles Times, March 21, 1910: Peoria, (III.) March 20, 1910.—[Exclusive dispatchj. With but four mourners, the body of Mrs. Anna Davis, last daughter of the late Governor Thomas Ford, was interred beside her mother, father and sister, as darkness settled over Springdale cemetery this evening. No word of eulogy was spoken, no minister read a prayer. After three years in the Deaconess Hospital, at Lincoln, 111., during which she had been the subject of Logan county hospitality, Mrs. Davis died Thursday night, aged seventy-two, penniless, and with but one living relative, a daughter, Mrs. Watson of Okaloosa, Iowa, who, with scant funds, brought her mother's body here for burial. Ford, one of Illinois's greatest governors, and publisher of a history of Illinois, like his daughter and oth3r members of his family, died penniless in 1850. He raised Illinois from bankruptcy, and paid its three million dollar debt. » New wards and changes for the month of March, 1911, as reported by the Presiding Bishops' office: W. Woodruff Clark was sustained as presiding elder of Cokeville ward, Bear Lake stake, to succeed Silas Wright; James E. Garn, sustained as bishop of Cedar Valley ward, Alpine stake, to succeed William Cook; Reginald Evans, sustained as presiding elder of Kemmerer ward, Woodruff stake, to succeed Charles L. Wright; James C. Anderson, appointed stake clerk of Fremont stake, to succeed William E. Gee; Erastus Walker, sustained as bishop of Bybee ward, Rigby stake, to succeed Joseph W. Jones; Willis E. Robison, appointed stake clerk of Millard stake, to succeed William A. Reeve; John J. Shumway, appointed stake clerk of Bear River stake, to succeed James R. Kennard;] Almy ward, Woodruff stake, reorganized, James

PASSING EVENTS. Blight bishop; Joseph H. Welling, sustained as bishop of Riverside ward, Bear River stake, to succeed M. J. Richards; Edward Sawley, sustained as bishop of Grass Creek ward, Summit stake, to succeed John B. Pendleton. The ancient ruins of Guatemala are being investigated. A telegram to one of the papers in Greeley, Colorado, dated March 26, 1911, saysAdvices from the exploration party in Guatemala, Central America, under the supervision of Dr. Edgar L. Hewitt, of the American Archeological society, who is conducting a thorough research of the prehistoric ruins of temples, etc., in Central America, is that the party is hard at work felling the immense trees of the tropical forest, many of which measure twenty-three feet in diameter for a distance of twenty feet upward from the base. These trees and an almost impenetrable growth of vines and shrubs grow from the sides and the tops of ancient ruins, giving some idea of the age of the buildings. The party intended to conduct its researches also in Honduras, but the government would not allow it on account of the rebellion there. Hundreds of photographs of the monuments,obelisks and pillars have been taken by Prof. Jesse Nusbaum of this city, who is with the party, and a careful record of each find is being kept by Prof. Hewitt, who is making satisfactory progress in opening up these ancient treasure houses of the p&st. Besides the rare ivory, stones, utensils, jewels, etc., he expects to find in the drier territory manuscripts revealing the life of the cultured race living there thousands of years ago. At the ruins of Quirigua there have been found sculpture as beautiful as any that Egypt or Assyria ever boasted, and hieroglyphics even more interesting which no man has yet been^able totranslate. Joseph Leland Heywood, son of Benjamin Heywood and Hanna Rawson, died October 16, 1910, at Panguitch, Utah. He was born in Grafton, Worcester county, Massachusetts, August 1, 1815. He visited the Prophet Joseph in December, 1842, and was baptized by Elder Orson Hyde, in the Mississippi river, the Prophet Joseph assisting in cutting the ice. He was confirmed under the hands of Orson Hyde, Joseph Smith and Jedediah M. Grant. He was one of the trustees for the disposal of Church property at Nauvoo. He left that city in the spring of '48 for Winter Quarters, and arrived in Great Salt Lake valley on the 19th of October, 1848. He was appointed by the government as postmaster of Salt Lake City,in 1849. He visited Washington and asssisted Delegate John M. Bernhisel in securing territorial government for Utah. In the winter of 1855-6, he aided in obtaining the re-appointment for governor of Brigham Young. He was the first bishop of the 17th ward, Salt Lake City, being appointed to that position in February, 1849. He was the founder of Nephi, Juab county, assisting Jesse W. Fox in laying out the

662 IMPROVEMENT ERA. city,and presided there for three years, beginning in 1851. In 1855,he,with a company of elders, formed a settlement in Carson valley, Nevada, where he acted as guard for the Hon. George P. Styles, who held a session of the district court in Carson valley. He went to Washington, in 1856, to arrange his business with the government as the United States Marshal for Utah, which office he then held, and to which he was appointed by President Millard Fillmore, in 1851, and reappointed by President Franklin Pierce, in 1855. On his return journey he was winter-bound at Devil's Gate, on the Sweetwater, living with a number of others for about six weeks mostly on cooked rawhide. They arrived in Salt Lake City in time for the general conference, in April, 1857. In the spring of 1863, Elder Heywood moved to New Harmony, Washington county, where he resided until February, 1872, when he removed to Panguitch. At St. George, on February 3, 1874, he was ordained a patriarch by President Brigham Young, and was appointed to preside over the high priests' quorum of the Panguitch stake of Zion in April, 1877, which position he held until September, 1898. He was a remarkable character, and remained true to his faith and the Church until the day of his death. New York: "There she lies, the great Melting Pot—listen! Can't you hear the roaring and the bubbling? There gapes her mouth—the harbor where a thousand mammoth feeders come from the ends of the world to pour in their human freight. Ah, what a stirring and a seething! Celt and Latin, Slav and Teuton, Greek and Syrian, black and yellow, Jew and Gentile, East and West, and North and South, the palm and the pine, the pole and the equator, the cresent and the cross—how the great Alchemist melts and fuses them with his purging flame! Here shall they all unite to build the Republic of Man and the Kingdom of God. Ah, Vera, what is the glory of Rome and Jerusalem, where all nations and races come to worship and look back, compared with the glory of America, where all races and nations come to labor and look forward!" —Zangwill, The Melting Pot. "Be such a man, live such a life, that if every man were a man like you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's para= dise."—Phillips Brooks.

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