Passing Events

Rebellion in Korea against Japanese rule, fostered by Russian Bolsheviki, is reported from Moscow. German mothers are being urged to discard tin soldiers and every other military toy, and not let their children play with things that "glorify death." M. Paul Deschanel was inaugurated as president of France, February 18, 1920, tosucceed M. Raymond Poincaire. He is the tenth president of the republic.

Ratification of the suffrage amendment was completed Feb. 12, by the special session of the Arizona legislature. The vote in both divisions was unanimous. Victor L. Berger, Socialist, who has twice been refused a seat in congress, on Jan. 16 made an ineffectual personal appeal to Governor E. L. Phillips to call another special election.

— Parowan stake, Henry W. Lunt, presi- Change in Presidency of Stake. dent; Myron D. Higbee, 1st Counselor, address Parowan, Utah. Tintic stake, Norman E. Dahle, 2nd counselor, died.

A bill prohibiting smoking in the dining rooms of hotels and other public places, was passed by the upper house of the South Carolina legislature, Jan. 22. A straw showing the direction of the wind!

The Extension Division of the University of Utah, having installed equipment for supplemental courses in shorthand, opened a class, Jan. 19. under the direction of Mr. Fred G. Barker. The class meets Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at 5:45 p. m.

Mysterious wireless signals are said to have been received from somewhere in space. If the messages are from some neighboring planet, as suggested by William Marconi, it is not from Mars, but most probably Venus, says Dr. C. B. Abbot, director of the Smithsonian Institution. The death of Mrs. Fannie Sutherland, widow of the late A. G. Sutherland, and mother of former U. S. Senator George Sutherland, occurred at Provo, Feb. 7, at the She home of her daughter, Mrs. Fannie Sulton. was born June 4, 1835, in Stratford, England, and was one of the pioneer settlers of Springville.

A temple site was selected near Mesa, Arizona, at the January conference of Maricopa stake, by President Heber J. Grant, and it is promised that work on the new temple will begin soon, the people of Arizona having already gathered considerable means for the enterprise, which will be further sustained by the Church. President Charles W. Penrose, of the First Presidency, celebrated the 88th anniversary of his birth on Feb. 4, surrounded by members of his family and intimate friends. A reception that had been planned for the previous Sunday in the Eleventh Ward chapel, was postponed, owing to the fact that President Penrose was not enjoying his usual health.

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Woman suffrage has won the day in Kentucky after a contest that has lasted for about thirty years. Governor Edwin P. Morrow recently signed the joint resolution of the Kentucky legislature ratifying the amendment to the National Constitution granting suffrage to women. It is estimated that there are about 200,000 women in the State, anxious to vote.

The woman amendment to the National Constitution was suffrage ratified by the Idaholegislature, called together by Gov. Davis for that purpose, Feb. 11. In this connection it may be stated that on Feb. 12, 1870, the Utah legislature passed a law conferring suffrage on the women. Utah is fty year: ahead of the rest of the country in this respect. A new ether is said to have been evolved by Dr. James H. Cotton, of Toronto, Canada, which is said to entirely eliminate all pain without causing the patient to lose consciousness. The patient can laugh, talk, and look on while an operation is being performed; the new ether is said to eliminate the nausea which usually follows the use of the present ether.

An archaeological find of great interest has been made in the Zion Canyon, Utah, by Eyre Powell, of the Union Pacific Press Bureau, by means of a camera with a telephoto lens. The discovery consists of the existence of some well-preserved cliff dwellings in a large ca\e, apparently inaccessible. A movement is said to be under way to send an expedition to scale the cliff and explore the ruins.

Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Husbands, two pioneer settlers of Utah, died recently in Salt Lake City. Mrs. Husbands, eighty-thice years of age, was called Feb. 8, and Mr. Husbands, 81 years old, cied Feb. 11. They had been married fifty-nine years. A year after they were married the couple started across the plains with their ox-team to the Salt Lake valley. They w Iked most of the distance, arriving in Salt Lake when it was little more than a village.

Changes in the cabinet of President Wilson were announced, Feb. 2, secretary of agriculture as follows: David Franklin Houston, who has been will take the oath of ofsince the beginning of the Wilson administration, fice as successor to Mr. Glass, who was appointed to succeed the late Thomas S. Martin as senator from Virginia; and Edwin T. Meredith of Des Mr. Moines, la., becomes head of the department of agriculture succeeding Houston. Feb. 13, after Presi- Secretary of State Lansing resigned his position, cabinet meetings during the dent Wilson had criticised him for calling of Mr. Wilson exercising a illness of the President, thus, in the view believed that the friction bepresidential prerogative. In official circles it is President and the Secretary of State is of long st anding and tween the the Presidents attitude toinvolves especially our Mexican policy and wards the peace treaty. ago, nursed the late The old Hawaiian "mammy;' who, many years fifteen years o ihewas ser- President Joseph F. Smith, when as a boy, away. Word to that e ° ect JT iously sick, in the islands, has passed received at the Church offices, Jan. 16, 100 years, but was blind for cation services of the temple. 1a long W 1920. She reached the age of Urn. She inrougii uci u I >

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