Passing Events

Passing Events. Sir William S. Gilbert, author of Pirates of Penzance, Patience and Pinafore, died May 29, seventy-four years of age. A Memorial to Queen Victoria was unveiled May 16, at Buckingham Palace. The statue is of marble and represents the queen sitting enthroned and dressed in robes of state. The Utah Independent Telephone Company was sold at auction, June 5, to the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company, for $1,200,000, without the secondary franchises. The two plants will be consolidated as soon as possible. Beautiful Hotel Utah opened its doors at 8 o'clock Friday morning, June 9. The structure complete marks an expenditure of two million dollars—$1,500,000 for construction, $300,000 in furnishings, and $200,000 for a light, heat and power plant. It is one of the great hotels of the United States, and signals a new era for Salt Lake City and Utah, in their relations to the traveling public. A Utah granite memorial monument to the late President John R. Winder was unveiled May 30, in the Salt Lake City cemetery, and dedicated by President Joseph F. Smith, in the presence of the Winder family and many Church officials, including the First Presidency. President Anthon H. Lund delivered an address, and the Temple choir furnished sweet music. The Commercial Bank of Tooele was robbed, on June 7, of nine thousand dollars stolen from the vault by two men who covered Cishier S. I. Shafer with revolvers, as he was about to close the vault for the night, dragged, bmnd and gagged him, and locked him in the rear room, then walked calmly from the bank and made for the foothills. Sj far they have not been apprehended, though two suspects were arrested June 10, John Vining and John Castle, the former twenty-nine and the latter forty-four years of age. Carry A. Nation, made famous because she began a campaign in Wichita, Kansas, December 17, 1900, against the saloons, by smashing furniture and windows with a hatchet, died in Leavenworth, Kansas, June 9. Carry Moore was born in Kentucky, in 1846, and in early life married a man who became a drunkard. When he died, she determined

852 IMPROVEMENT ERA. to devote her life to the suppression of the liquor traffic and the tobacco habit. With her favorite hatchet she left a trail of ruined bar-rooms in the state of Kansas, wherever she unheralded appeared. She was married to David Nation, in Kansas City, who divorced her ten years ago. The University of Utah lost its suit, begun nearly "four years ago, against the Montello Salt Company, in the United States Supreme Court, May 29, for title to large tracts of salt lands, under an act of Congress granting the state of Utah lands for university purposes. The district and state supreme courts had both decided for the University. The salt beds in question are said to be so extensive that had the suit been favorable to the state.the University would have been richly endowed. The Elsinore chapel was dedicated on Sunday, May 2L. There were five hundred and seventy-five people present, the largest audience ever gathered in Elsinore, Utah. The dedicatory prayer was offered by President Joseph F. Smith. President Anthon H. Lund and President Smith later addressed the people on prohibition and the evils of the saloon, the proper training of the young people, and the living of exemplary lives. The beautiful new chapel cost $13,600, out of which the Church paid $5,500 and the ward the remainder. The ladies of the ward paid $1,250, by the sale of eggs laid on Sundays. Lehi has celebrated a Home-coming, devoting a week to the functions. There were at least six hundred former residents, since the city's settlement in 1850, who "came home'' during the week June 5-12. The town was decorated in white and blue. There we e visitors from Canada to Mexico, from nearly every intermediate western state. The programs, in the daily reminiscent meeting, over which not a few of the old bishops of Lehi presided, were full of interesting incidents of early history and people. Presidents Joseph F. Smith and Anthon H. Lund and Governor William Spry were among the speakers. Band and choir concerts, base ball games, young and married people's dances, and old-time parties, theatrical entertainments, organ recitals, band music, and a large number of family reunions, were features of the occasion. Friends and relatives met in glad association after many years of separation. Every home was open to the visitors; there was no graft; everything was free; and everybody had the "time of their lives." The launch "Galilee," Captain Edwin G. Brown, capsized in Utah Lake on Sunday, June 4, in nine feet of water, with sixteen passengers aboard. Six of them were drowned, and ten rescued after great suffering. Three of the drowned were children of Captain Brown — Vera M.,^age 21;|Frank, age 24; and Helen E., age 19; and a fourth

PASSING EVENTS. 853 was his intended son-in-law, Edward B. Holmes, age 26, who was engaged to Vera to be married June 21. The other two were Benjamin W. Raymond, age 36, and his five-year old son Sherwood, all of Salt Lake City. The bodies were later all recovered. The party was celebrating in honor of the coming marriage of Mr. Holmes and Vera Brown. The boat suddenly capsized, for what cause will never be known, as Captain Brown, a trustworthy sailor for twenty-three years, can give no explanation of the terrible calamity, which has elicited for the sufferers the sympathy of the people of the whole state. The Third Housekeepers' Conference of the Home Economics Department of the Agricultural College of Utah, at Logan, was held June 19 to July 1. It is designed to aid the women of Utah in their household needs. The first week of the course was devoted to lectures in sewing; the second week's Cjurse consisted of instruction in cooking and laundry work. Miss Caroline L. Hunt, expert in nutrition, office of Experiment Station, Washington, D. C, gave a practical lecture, daily, on such topics as choosing the home, saving steps, simplicity in house furnishing, planning meals, public housekeeping, etc. Members of the regular faculty of the College lectured on subjects such as, use of color jn the home, house planning, the kitchen, clean milk, sanitation for town and country, dress, etc. This new movement for housekeepers to take a week or two to study their work, is in keeping with the necessities of the home. The conference is designed to aid the women of the state, by giving them information and a new point of view, in their occupation. The profession of home-making has taken upon itself added interest among those who attended. New Wards and Changes for the month of May, 1911, as reported by the Presiding Bishop's office: Jos. Levi Staples was sustained as bishop of Elsinore ward, Sevier stake, to suiceed JH3 I. Jensen; John J. C. Webster, as bishop of the Cedar East ward, Parowan stake, to succeed Henry T. Lunt; James P. Jensen, bishop of the Sanford ward, San Luis stake, to succeed William 0. Crowther; William 0. Crowther was sustained as first counselor in the presidency of San Luis stake; Thomas Halls was sustained bishop of the Mancos ward, San Juan stake, to succeed George Halls; Samuel S. Sadorus, as presiding ekhr of the Sarilda branch, Yellowstone stake; Sarilda branch was organized in the Yellowstone stake, dependent upon Oraward; William H.Gardner was sustained as bishop of the West Jordan ward, Jordan stake, to succeed John A. Egbert; H. C. Heley was sustained a presiding elder of the Green River branch, Carbon stake; James W. Davis, as bishop of the Clifton ward, Oneida stake, to succeed E. G. Farmer; Jesse Ray Pettit. bishop of the Fifth ward, Pioneer stake, to succeed S. M. T. Seddon;

854 IMPR VEMENT ERA. Aaron Hardy, stake clerk of North Sanpete, dead, and Peter Matson was sustained as acting stake clerk in his stead; Wilford C. Nuttle was released as ward clerk of the Cherry Creek ward, Milad stake; Oscar Atkinson was released as stake clerk of the Holbrook ward, Malad stake; John Weech was sustained as ward clerk of the Pine Grove-ward, Union stake, to succeed Chis. I. Goff; Chas. W. Welker. as ward clerk of the Auburne ward, Star Valley stake, to succead Daniel T. Wood; Henry J. Hauser, as ward clerk of the Trentoa ward, Bensoi stake; Basil De Witt, ward clerk of Sarilda branch, Yellowstone stake; Richard Daniels, ward clerk of Mercur ward, Tooele stake, to succeed Alex. Moss; John C. Russell, ward clerk of St. Johns ward, Tooele stake, to succeed William McFarlane; Hyrura W. Maughan, ward clerk of Kimball ward, Alberta stake] to succeed Robert Sherwood; Frank B. Wood, ward clerk of the Cedar East, Parowan stake, to succeed S. J. Foster. Affairs in Mexico came to a climax on May 26, when President Diaz having resigned the presidency the day previous, secretly left the city at 2 o'clock a. m., bound for Vera Cruz, and took the ship Ypiranga on the 30th for Spain. Francisco Leon de la Barra, formerly Ambassador at Washington, was inaugurated provisional president, the ceremony occupying ten minutes. Minister Jose Yves Limantour resigned his office on the 25th, and turned over to the new sub-secretary of the treasury, Jaime Guerza, $60,400,000 in gold, and all other, government funds, taking receipt therefor. Madero resigned his office on the 26th a3 provisional president, and in a manifesto declared the complete triumph of the revolution, and that in the new government there would be justice equally for the rich and poor. De La Barra was given office "solely with the idea that he might serve his country as an intermediary between the despotic government of General Diaz and the eminently popular government which will result from the coming general election,'' October 1. Francisco I. Madero will be the leading candidate for president. He left Ciudad Juarez for Mexico City—after narrowly esc iping assassination at a ball, June 1—on June 2, arriving triumphantly on the 7th, being received with frenzied shouts of "Viva Madero." He was met by President De la Barra, and the two embraced in characteristic Mexican fashion. Madero will stay as advisor of the president until the details of the reorganization of the government are arranged. On the early morning of the same day that he arrived in Mexico City, there was a terrific earthquake in the city and other places. Nearly two hundred people lost their lives, and much property was destroyed. The volcano Colima is jn active eruption, and showers of ashes smothered the country for miles around. The states of Colima and Jolisco are reported as having suffered most.