Passing Events

Passing Events Martha W. Lambourne, wife of the late William Lambourne, born in Chievely, England, May 22, 1835, died May 4, 1912, at the home of her daughter Mrs. J. C. Cutler, Jr. Mrs. Lambourne crossed the plains with ox teams in 1866. She is survived by seven sons and one daughter, Alfred Lambourne, artist and poet, well-known to the readers of the Improvement Era, is one of her sons. Francis D. Millett, artist and war correspondent, who went down with the Titanic, was born in 1846, and served as a drummer and contract surgeon in the Civil War. He was graduated from Harvard in 1869, and studied art in Antwerp in 1871-2. During the RussoTurkish war and the Spanish war he was correspondent for several papers. He was director of decorations for the Columbian fair in Chicago, in 1893, and had also taken part in many other artistic enterprises. Direct Election of Senators. A joint resolution providing for an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to permit the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people was passed by the House of Representatives on the 13th of May, by a vote of 237 to 39. Having previously passed the Senate the resolution will now be sent to the states for ratification. After being signed by the President a proclamation will be issued to the states asking them to signify their wishes on the proposed change. Floods in the Mississippi Valley began about the last week in March, and during April and the early part of May were marked by the most disastrous overflows known for many years. Congress appropriated $350,000 for the strengthening of the levees on the lower river, but in spite of all that could be done the water poured out over the banks and covered thousands of square miles of the surrounding country. Many thousands of people were driven from their homes and the estimate of the loss of property reaches to one hundred millions of dollars. Secretary Knox returned to Washington on April 17, after a tour of Central America and the West Indies, on a mission to improve the relation of the Carribbean countries with the United States. He reported that his efforts in that direction had been successful. Misrepresentation of the attitude and purpose of the United States in the countries south of us has been a feature of the domestic politics therein, and this condition had been assisted directly by a small coterie

PASSING EVENTS. 757 in this country who are actively blocking reforms. He advocates the ratification of the treaty dealing with financial affair-- of Nicaragua. The Democratic State Convention of Utah, held May 14, chose William R. Wallace of Salt Lake, national committeeman, and selected sixteen delegates, with a half vote each, to attend the National Democratic convention at Baltimore, June 25, as follows: J. D. Call, Box Elder; Joseph E. Cardon, Cache; John R. Barnes, Davis; George C. Whitmore, Juab; John S. Bransford, C. P. Overfield, John W. Burton, C. C. Neslen, Samuel Russell, John Dern, Salt Lake; II. L. Nielsen, Sanpete; John Mc Andrew, Uintah; Thomas N. Taylor, Utah; William M. Roylance, Utah; E. M. Brown, Washington; A. L. Brewer, Weber. King Frederick the VIII of Denmark died in Hamburg, Germany, unaccompanied and unattended, while out walking in one of the streets after ten o'clock at night, May 14, 1912. He had been south for his health for some length of time, and was on his way to Denmark, traveling incognito. Christian Frederick was proclaimed King Frederick VIII of Denmark, January 30, 1906. He was born June 3, 1843, and was a popular king with the people. His brother is king of Greece, and his son, king of Norway. Christian X, the crown prince, was proclaimed king of Denmark on May 15th, at three o'clock. Miss Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross Society, died at Glen Echo, Md, April 12, age 90 years. In her early life she was a school teacher and when the Civil War broke out she went to the front to relieve the sufferings of the wounded. During the great Franco-Prussian War, in 1870, she was active in similar work, and during her life received honorary diplomas from ten European governments. She aided in broadening the Red Cross Society to include the relieving of suffering in great natural calamities as well as in war. She was born in Massachusetts when James Monroe was President, and her father was a soldier who had fol lowed Mad Anthony Wayne in the Revolution. The Irish Home Rule bill was introduced in the British House of Commons, April 11. It provided for an Irish parliament of a senate of forty members and a house of representatives of 164. The senators are to be appointed by the executive or head which is the Lord-Lieutenant appointed by the British government. The Irish representation to the imperial parliament is to be reduced to 4members from 103 now in the House of Commons. The bdl passed its first reading on April 16 by a vote of 360 to 266. The bill provides that the Irish parliament may not enjoy or establish any religion nor interfere with religious freedom. In case of disagreement they are to sit together. The Lord-Lieutenant may veto any bill passed by parliament. The Republican State Convention met at Provo, May 15, and

758 IMPROVEMENT ERA adopted a resolution strongly endorsing President Taft and his administration. Eight delegates were elected to attend the National Convention to be held in Chicago in June. These delegates were instructed to vote for the re-nomination of President William Howard Taft. The delegates are: U. S. Senator Reed Smoot, Provo; U. S. Senator George Sutherland, Salt Lake; Congressman Joseph Howell, Cache; Governor William Spry, Salt Lake; Jacob Johnson, Sanpete; Colonel C. E. Loose, Utah; James M. Peterson, Sevier; Charles R. Hollingsworth, Weber. Eight alternates were chosen as follows: Lorenzo Stohl, Box Elder; William D. Sutton, Summit; William Glasmann, Weber; Thomas W. O'Donnell, Uintah; John Walsh, Davis; John D. Dixon, Utah; D. R. McDonald, Carbon; Robert Welsh, Morgan. The Board of Trustees of the Utah Agricultural College has decided to organize two-year practical courses in agriculture, mechanic arts, commerce, and home economics, for the benefit of people who do not wish to take the regular college course, nor the full high school work. The aim is to make these courses of direct service to working men and women. The college attendance has now reached 1,366. The increase in advanced attendance is a notable feature of the past two years. Beginning with 1914 the college will gradually eliminate, one year at a time, the four-year high school course, now included in the college curriculum. The number of hours of work necessary for the college degree will be increased, intensifying the course of study. The Smart gymnasium will be in operation' during the summer school. The power plant at the mouth of the canyon, for light and power for the college and other buildings, will be ready for operation by next September. Following the "Titanic" disaster the ship Mackay-Bennett was sent out to take up bodies of the drowned and reported a large number recovered from the ocean. Those that were identified were taken to New York and others were buried in the sea. A committee of the United States Senate began an inquiry of the disaster on April 19. J. Bruce Ismay, head of the White Star Line Company, one of the survivors, was detained in this country together with some of the crew to give evidence before the committee. All agreed that the side of the ship was torn out by a glancing blow which so damaged it that it rendered the water-tight compartments useless. The ships of the White Star Line will be equipped hereafter with enough lifeboats and rafts to take off every person on board. An inquiry into the disaster was also held in England, before a committee of the English Parliament. Owing to the confusion in wireless telegraphy, which arose in this case, one company, by arrangement, has been given control of practically all the wireless business in the world — the Western Union.

PASSING EVENTS. 759 Frederick Dent Grant, Major-General United States Army, died April 11, age 61 years. During the whole of the Civil War he was with his father, General U. S. Grant, and soon after its close entered West Point Military Academy. In 1881 he resigned from the army and went into business. In 1885 he was appointed minister to Austria and remained in Vienna until 1893. The year following he was made a police commissioner in New York. During the SpanishAmerican war he served in the volunteer army, and in 1901 reentered the regular army. He was like his father and a great admirer of him. "My father's character has been my religion," he said. His moral courage exemplified in his attitude, on the liquor question, was as strong as his convictions. He rode at the head of a prohibition parade in Chicago, in 1909, in full uniform; and not long before his death declared decisively against the restoration of the army canteen. Mary Ann Stearns Winters died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Heber J. Grant, April 4, 1912. She was born April 6, 1833. Her mother became converted to the gospel when Mary was five years of age and moved to Kirtland, Ohio, where the mother met and married Elder P. P. Pratt. Both mother and daughter accompanied Elder Pratt to England when he left to aid in the establishment of the British mission. They later passed through all the persecutions in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois, and the pioneer hardships in founding Utah. Mrs. Winters was most intimately associated with the early leaders of the Church, and was in prison with some of them in Missouri. She married Oscar Winters on the trip crossing the plains — President Lorenzo Snow, who was returning from his Italian mission, performing the ceremony. They removed to Pleasant Grove to assist in the settlement of that place, and resided there until the death of Mr. Winters a few years ago. The children surviving are: Mrs. Heber J. Grant, Mrs. John E. Booth of Provo, Oscar L. Winters, Ogden; Arthur L. Winters, Pleasant Grove; Mrs. Heber Bennion; and the late Mrs A. O. Woodruff was another daughter. The Mexican situation continues very serious. The insurrectionists were not respecting either the lives or property of Americans. The shooting of Thomas Fountain by Orozco, captured while serving with the Federal forces, led the American Ambassador in Mexico, acting under instructions from Washington, to inform the Minister of Foregin Affairs that the United States "must hold Mexico and the Mexican people responsible for all wanton and illegal acts sacrificing or endangering American life or damaging American property." To this the Minister of Foreign Affairs replied, April 17th, that "the Mexican Government finds itself in the painful necessity of not recognizing the right of your government to make the admonition which the note contains," since the incident can not be charged to the Mexican, government. In the latter part of April a relief warship was sent to the west coast of Mexico to receive those Americans who

760 IMPROVEMENT ERA desired to leave the country. At Colonia Diaz the Latter-day Saint store was robbed on the night of May 4th. In defending their property one of the bandits was killed by the "Mormons" which resulted the following day in a brother of the dead man murdering in cold blood one of the settlers, J. D. Harvey, while at work on his farm with his three sons. Harvey had had nothing to do with the slaying of the bandit. Harvey was a native of Moroni, Utah, and was 49 years old. He left Utah for Mexico twenty years ago. The Latter-day Saints in the colonies are neutral, and generally their position is respected except by bands of bandits who are neither revolutionists nor federalists. On May 12th a great battle took place between the Federals under General Huerta and the rebels under General. Orozco near Conejos, in which the rebels were routed wi,th great loss. Report of New Wards, Changes in Bishops, Etc., for the month of April, 1912, as reported by the Presiding Bishop's office: New Branch. Grand View branch, Utah stake, with James H. Jenkins presiding elder, and Mark E. Kartchner, branch clerk. New Presidents. John W. Hart, Rigby stake, to succeed Don Carlos Walker. Martin Christopherson, Scandinavian mission, to succeed Andrew Jenson. New Bishops. Asa D. Blanchard, Woodland ward, Pocatello stake, to succeed Jacob L. Hartvigsen. Burdell Davis, Pleasant View ward, Utah stake, to succeed Levi A. Colton. Oscar W. Green, Menan ward, Rigby stake, to succeed Evan O. Clark. Parley J. Davis, Milo ward, Bingham stake, to succeed M. E. Brown. A. E. Stanger, Lincoln ward, Bingham stake, to succeed Levi J. Hawkley. Christopher E. Frank, Frankburg ward, Alberta stake, to succeed Chrisopher Frank. Wm. Henry Reynolds, Luna ward, St. Johns stake, to succeed M. H. Thompson. New Ward Clerks. Axel E. Anderson, Lorenzo ward, Rigby stake, to succeed Alfred Hansen. Wm. W. McDonald, Huntsville ward, Ogden stake, to succeed Jos. Peterson. Jesse B. Grover, Rosette ward, Box Elder stake, released. Lorenzo Prince, Harmony ward, Parowan stake, to succeed Henry A. Pace. Miss Sarah E. Roundy, Kanarra ward, Parowan stake, to succeed Wm. T. Stapley. James E. Burns, Bountiful Second ward, Davis stake, to succeed Angus Smedley. Clarence Winegar, West Bountiful ward, Davis stake, to succeed Sydney D. Dibble. John I. Benson, Clear Creek ward, Carbon stake, to succeed Alfred Hayes. Bernard Newren Scofield ward, Carbon stake, to succeed W. E. Ruff. John H. Rowley, Spring Glen ward, Carbon stake, to succeed Lillie Morrison. John Fingen, Ogden First ward, Weber stake, to succeed Albertus Brazonji. Wm. H. Bond, Heber Third ward, Wasatch stake, to succeed Chas. De Garff. Chas. A. Fernelius, Uintah ward, Weber stake, to succeed Norman Anderson. Ernest J. Seastrand, American Fork First ward, Alpine stake, J. Ernest Chadwick,