---
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: 15
number: 5
published: 1912-03
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Passing Events," *Improvement Era* 15, no. 5 (March 1912): 480.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1505unse
  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: improvementera1505unse
start_page: 480
end_page: 480
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1912-03)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1505unse
  publication_year: 1912
  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 1912, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Passing Events

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Passing Events New Mexico was admitted to the Union on January 6, 1912, President Taft signing the admission proclamation on that date, and on the 8th of the month George Curry, Republican, and IT. B. Ferguson,
Democrat, the first congressmen from the new state, took the oath of office in the House of Representatives.

 The Turks and Italians are still at war in Tripoli. On January 7,
an armed yacht and seven Turkish gunboats, for transporting troops from Arabia to reinforce the Turkish army in Tripoli, were destroyed by Italian warships in the Red Sea. The Egyptian government has refused the transmission of Turkish troops through Egypt to Tripoli.

 China Became a Republic on Lincoln's birthday, 1912. The Manchu dynasty abdicated, after a/i absolute rule of three hundred years,
accepted the republic, and agreed to the conditions. A day or two later Yuan Shi Kai became the new president chosen by the Assembly, and Doctor Sun Yat-Sen, the provisional president, agreed to arrangements.
 Arizona Became a State of the Union on Wednesday, Feb. 14,
1912. President Wm. H. Taft signed the statehood bill on that day at 10 a. m. President Lincoln, on Feb. 24, 1863, signed the proclamation creating Arizona a territory, and it was expected the state would be admitted on his birthday, but the act was delayed owing to the President's absence from Washington until the 14th, which date, in 1862, is the day Jefferson Davis proclaimed the territory a member of the Southern Confederacy, fifty years ago. Utah congratulates.

 Rev. John Grier Hibben, LL. D., was elected, January 12, to succeed Dr. Woodrow Wilson as president of Princeton Universtiy. Rev.
Hibben was born in Peoria, Illinois, in 1861, and was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1887. He became professor of logic and psychology at Princeton, in 1903, and is the author of a number of books on logic and philosophy. In the meantime, Dr. Woodrow Wilson is laying his lines for the Democratic nomination to the office of President of the United States, and making some headway, notwithstanding his unfortunate disagreement with Colonel Harvey, of
"Harper's Weekly," and Colonel Watterson, of the Louisville "CourierJournal."
 Cuba and intervention by the United States were again brought to the front, January 16, when the President of the United States served notice on the President of Cuba that the United States "looks to the government of Cuba to prevent a threatened situation which would compel the government of the United States * * * * * to consider what measure it must take in pursuance of the obligations of its relations to Cuba." The threatened troubles are those that would follow the participation of the military in the approaching presidential election
 . The Cuban government and people took immediate notice, and the law forbidding the army and its officers from taking part in politics will not be repealed.