Passing Events

II #':&IS ! v. ...... -•■--•■ ,\ 11 . , ^ ,: r t > ;> The Ward Hotel in Delta, was destroyed by fire, Aug 30, entailing a loss of approximately $30,000. A Japanee warship sank, Aug. 26. in a typhon off the coast of Kam- chatka. Three hundred men went down to death in the cruiser. Lieutenant Belvin W. Maynard was killed while flying at the Ruthland, Vermont, fair, Sept. 7. He was known as "the flying parson." Two com- panions were also killed. The plane fell 3,000 feet. Charles /. Toone, aged 78, died in Salt Lake City, Aug. 11. He was born at Lcminglon. England, March 17, 1844, and came to Utah in October, 1852, having crossed the plains in Captain Howell's company. He was a veteran of the Blackhawk war. Utah's bonded debt is said to amount to $22.33 per capita, in a survey of state finances; by the Bank of America, New York. This is the sixth highest figure on the list, only South Dakota, Oregon, Massachusetts, New York, and Louisiana being deeper in the hole. Fire Chief By water, of Salt Lake City, was honored by the International Association of Fire Engineers in session at San Francisco, Aug 18, who elected him vice president of the association. This means that in 1923 he will succeed to the office of the presidency. 1 he first arrest on account of the Herrin Mine massacre, June 22, this year, was made at Marion, 111., when Otis Clark, a coal miner, was placed in custody charged with the murder of C. K. McDowell, superintendent of the Southern Illinois Coal company's strip mine. The !ioldiers, bonus bill was passed by the U. S. Senate, Aug. 31, with a vote of 47 to 22, party lines being wiped out. It carries an apropriation of fo-ir billion dollars. The bill, having been passed by both houses of Congress, was vetoed by the President, Sept. 19, and on the 20th the House passed the bill over his veto. Dr. Henry N. Couden died, Aug. 22, at his home in Fort Meyer, Va., He was known as the blind chaplain of the House of Representatives, having held the position though blind, for twenty-five years, until Feb. 28, 1921. IJ't blindness was caused by a wound received while he was serving in the Union army during the Civil war. Forty-eight miners were imprisoned in the Argonaut mine, Jackson, CaL, Aug. 27, by a fire that started nearly a mile below the surface. Res- cuers reached them Sept. 18, but found them all dead. From a mem- orandum left by one the the victims, it is surmised that they all died within four or five hours after the explosion.

PASSING EVENTS 1135 A forty -million-dollar steel company has been formed, with San Fran- cisco as the principal center of manufacturing, according to an anounce- ment made Sept. 6. The new corporation, which is financed by San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Salt Lake banking houses, contemplates the erection of a plant in Utah, to cost $7,500,000. Mrs. Angeline Luddington Bush died, at Rigby, Idaho, Sept. 1, of old age. She was born Dec, 17, 1845, in the Nauvoo House, the home of the Prophet Joseph. With her parents she arrived in Salt Lake Valley in the second company that arrived in 1847. She was one of the guests of honor at the Utah Diamond Jubilee celebrated July 24t, this year. Five men were charged with murder, as a result of an investigation held in Chicago, Aug. 29, into the wrecking of the "million dollar express" near Lang, Ind., Aug. 20, when two of the train crew were killed. Five more men were held. Confession of some of the prisoners revealed a plot to wreck the Twentieth Century Limited near Elkhorn, Ind. To pay the war debt. Representative MacGregor, of New York, made the proposition in the house of Congress that the United States cancel the war debt of Great Britain amounting to about $1,135,000,000, provided Great Britain would cede to the United States a slice of Canada, embracing the whole territory adjacent to the Great Lakes and connecting waters. Royal R. Romney died at Seattle, "Wash., Aug. 11, of cerebral hem- orrhage. He was a son of the late Bishop George Romney, of Salt Lake City. On the evening prior to his death he was the guest of honor at a dinner party tendered him to celebrate the completion of the organization of a company to market an invention in which he was interested. An injunction againsi rail strikers was issued by Judge James H, Wilkinson, Chicago, Sept. 1, at the request of U. S. Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty for the government, restraining the strikers from interfering with operation of railroads and their properties. Samuel Gompers threat- ened to advise a general strike of all union laborers in retaliation. The London Conference came to an end, Aug. 14, without reaching any agreement on German finances. France and Great Britain failed to harmonize their respective interests. The question of a loan to Austria was referred io the League of Nations. The terms on which Germany should be granted a moratorium were the chief bone of contention, the British opposing the drastic conditions insisted upon by the French. The death of Mrs. Franklin Hatch Jones was announced Aug. 30, in a dispatch from Chicago. She was the only daughter of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, popularly known as Nellie Grant. Her first marriage took place in the White House in 1874 She was then only 16 years old. In 1912 she was married to Franklin S. Jones, at the age of 59. She has been an invalid for several years. Lord ISorthcliffe passed aivay, Aug. 14, at his home in London, after three months of illness. The cause is said to have been the formation of pus in the heart, followed by blood poisoning. Lord Northcliffe was by far the most noted figure in British journalism, and the question now is what effect will his death have on the policies of the Times and his other newspapers, which since the end of the war have strongly opposed the Lloyd George administration in everything except its Irish policy.

1136 IMPROVEMENT ERA Lieutenant James C. Doolittle completed a flight across the continent, Sept. 5, from Jacksonville, Fla., to San Diego, Cal., making the distance of 2,275 miles in 21 hours and 18 minutes. The actual time used was 22 hours and 31 minutes, including a stop of 1 hour and 13 minutes at San An- tonio. Airmen say that his night flight over the Flordia swamps was one of the finest achievements in recent years. George Sutherland, of Utah, was appointed associate justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, Sept. 5, and his nomination was immediately confirmed h-" the Senate. Mr. Sutherland was president of the American Bar Associa- tion in 1916-17 and was elected U. S. senator from Utah, and served in the upper house of Congress from 1905 to 1917. His appointment was made following the resignation of Justice John H. Clarke taking effect September 18. Arthur Griffith died, Aug. 12, in Dublin, of influenza. He was the president of the Dail Eireann, and one of the most ardent champions of the cause of Ireland. Griffith was arrested at the time Sir Roger Casement was placed in custody accused of rebellion, and barely escaped the fate of this knight. Today he was honored as a patriot, even by the British prime minister, who expressed his "deep distress" on learning that the popular Irishman had passed away. The coal strike was ended, Aug. 15, by an agreement between the of- ficials and the miners in joint session at Cleveland. It has lasted since April 1, this year, and has resulted in incalculable injury to the business interests of the country, in addition to the murderous acts of lawlessness committed in different places. It was decided to recall the Utah National guard from Carbon county and send them into training camp at the Jordan Narrows. The public are now asked to pay the expenses of the coal strike by raises in the price of coal. Dr. Stanley N. Clark was made assistant superintendent of the Provo Mental hospital. He was appointed to that position Aug. 28. Dr. Clark is a recent graduate of the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, and a brother to Dr. J. Cecil Clark of Provo. He was born in Panguitch, Gar- field county, twenty-nine years ago. He was graduated in the public schools of that county and later graduated from the Brigham Young University. Upon completing his work in the medical college, Dr. Clark entered the L. D. S. hospital where he served as house doctor for a year. Elder Walter McAllister Silver died Sept. 8, at Hickory, N. C, follow- ing an operation for the removal of a carbuncle, Sept 6. He was perform- Lng missionary work in the Southern States, when taken ill. He was the son of the late Hyrum A. Silver and Mrs. May Silver, and was educated in Salt Lake City, having attended the East High School for four years, 1914-18, and the University one year. His funeral services were held in Waterloo "Ward on Friday, September 15. President Frank Y. Taylor President Charles A. Callis, Southern states mission, President Heber J. Grant, and Elder Richard R. Lyman, spoke. He did faithful and efficient missionary work. News of the defeat of ilie Greeks in Asia Minor came from Smyrna Sept. 7. Two hundred thousand Greeks and Armenians, fleeing before the victorious Turks were pouring into that city, creating a tremendous prob- lem for the American relief agencies to solve. The Greek government resigned when receiving the news of the disaster. In political circles in Europe it was pointed out that the war between Turks and Greeks in Asia

PASSING EVENTS 1137 Minor was really a conflict between Great Britain and France, and that the Greek defeat was a French victory. The Greek government, before the extent of the defeat became known, asked the great powers to intervene and arrange an armistice. Passengers marooned on the desert, because striking railroad men refused to move the trains on the lines between California coast towns and inland places, suffered keenly on account of the heat, the temperature being between 112 and 119 at Needles, Cal., Aug. 13. A. G. Wells, vice president of the Santa Fe declared that the abandonment of the trains was due to a "conspiracy, inhuman and lawless." On Aug. 14, the strike of the big four brotherhood men of the Union Pacific was called off, and east-bound trains were moving from San Bernadino, Cal. All westbound trains on the Western Pacific were cancelled. Elder David O. McKay teas appointed president of the European mis- sion to succeed Elder Orson F. Whitney, whose health has( been poor for some time, after a : operation some months ago. Elder Whitney left Salt Lake City, May 24, 1921, for Liverpool. Elder McKay last year returned from a mission around the world, undertaken at the request! of the First Presidency for the purpose of making a survey of the entire foreign mis- sion field. He held the office of Church comissioner of education for some time, but was released from that office because of his many other duties in the Church. He has also been superintendent of the Church Sunday Schools for several years and is a member of the Church board of education. Mrs. Aurelia Spencer Rogers died, Aug 19, at the home of one of her daughters, Mrs. Leone Stewart, Farmington, Utah, at the age of 87 years. She was the daughter of Orson and Catherine Curtis Spencer. She was born in Deep River, Conn., Oct. 4, 1834. In 1878 Mrs. Rogers gave serious thoughts to the needs of an organization in the Church for children, and the conceived the idea of Primary work. She discussed the matter with President John Taylor and with Eliza R. Snow and others, with the result that the first Primary association was organized at Farmington, with Mrs. Rogers president, Louisa Haight first counselor and Helen M. Miller, second counselor. Mrs. Rogers from that time continued to be an energetic, faith- ful and progressive worker. From that organization grew these wonderful associations throughout the Church. Michael Collins was shot from ambush, Aug. 29, near Bandon, about 20 miles southwest of Cork, Ireland. He was the commander-in-chief of the Irish Free State army, chairman of the provisional government, and secretary of the treasury in the cabinet. Michael Collins was born in Ross- carbor, in County Cork. In his early boyhood he was fired with an am- bition to see Ireland free, and later became such a factor in the struggle that the British called him "head of the murder gang," and put a price of $50,000 on his head. Within the past few months Collins had two narrow escapes from assassination. Collins left London, where he had been employed in the postoffice and returned to Ireland just previous to the Easter uprising of 1916. He was one of the volunteers who fought in the battles of this rebellion, but made his escape, after the British had put down the revolt. Immediately he began the work of organizing the Irish army. Since the Free State was established his efforts have all been in the interest of peace. The statue of Massassoit was unveiled at the State Capitol on the 31st of July, 1922, at 4 o'clock. The statue is the original of the bronze sculpture