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•7«M;;r"! -•■ :f ~. !'■•• >|r/:^.;s*'vl Ji..--,-.'.'.i-^?''*i| Hostilities between Poland and Lithuania were reported from Paris, Feb. 18. Twenty-five were reported killed and two hundred wounded in an encounter near Orano, on the Grodno-Vilna railway. Cabinet changes were announced, Feb. 27, as follows: Postmaster Gen- eral Work to succeed Albert Fall as secretary of the interior, and Senator Harry S. New, of Indiana, to become postmaster general. The Sixty-seventh U. S. Congress adjourned Feb. 4, at noon. The house closed its work with a concert by the marine band and improvised quarter. Uncle "Joe" Cannon, who retires, after forty-six years of servica, received a great ovation. Ralph Guthfie succeeded Noble Warrum, March 8, as postmaster of Salt Lake City. He was born in Leesbury, Ohio, and came to Salt Lake City in 1892. For some time he has been the manager of the Newhouse Investment company. M. Delcasse died suddenly at Nice, France, Feb. 22. He was one of the most prominent statesmen of France during the past quarter of a century, and is generally considered as the author of the Anglo-French entente. He was born March 1, 1852. Hon. and Mrs. Joseph A. West, Logan, celebrated their golden wedding, March 4, when they entertained their twenty-four children and families, including many grandchildren, at the Hotel Eccles. Mr. West is a fre- quent contributor to the Improvement Era. For tomatoes Utah farmers will be paid $10 per ton during 1923, as an- nounced recently by President W J. Parker, of the Utah Canners' Asso- ciation. This is $1.50 per ton above the price paid last year. The outlook for canners this year is very bright and a banner year is expected. Funeral services for Mrs. Rhoana H. Hentie were held in the Panguitch, Utah, South ward, where she died recently, of ailments incident t> old age. She was born May 19, 1832, in Cataraugus county, New York, and came to Nauvoo, 111., with her parents, in 1841. She went through the experiences of the Saints in the exodus of 1846, and came to Salt Lake Valley in 1847. A Hindu is not a free white person, in the meaning of the American naturalization law, and can, therefore, not become an American citizen. The U. S. Supreme Court so ruled, Feb. 19, in the case of Bhagat Singh Thind, who had been given naturalization papers in Oregon, against the objection of the federal government. Funeral services for Elder Kenneth A. Thomas, who died while labor- ing in Mexico were held in the Thirty-fourth ward, Salt Lake City, Feb. 22. The body arrived Feb. 20, accompanied by President Rey L. Pratt of the Mexican mission. He departed for a mission to Mexico, Jan. 13, 1923, and was taken ill after having been there two weeks. He succumbed to pneumonia. A human skuM of the tertiary period has been found in southern Pata- gonia, near Paso Ibanez, according to a report by Dr. J. G. Wolf, of La Plata museum, Feb. 27. The fossil was picked up by a white settler. If the find is genuine it is of tremendous importance, but scientists will demand

PASSING EVENTS 583 evidence which it may not be possible to furnish after the relic has been removed by unscientific methods, from the place where found. Mrs. John A. Logan died in Washington, D. C, Feb. 22, of influenza, 84 years of age. She was the widow of the famous Civil War general. Since her husband's death in 1886 Mrs. Logan had written extensively on Civil War happenings and other historical matters. She was a world-wide trav- eler and collected a valuable group of war souvenirs and trophies as a memorial to her son, Major John A. Logan, who was killed in battle in the Philippines in 1899. A calf club will be organized by 160 boys of the Alpine school district. This club will probably be the largest in the state of Utah, according to I. B. Ball, superintendent of the agricultural section of the State Depart- ment of Vocational Education. Each boy proposes to raise a pure bred calf. Seventy boys in Logan recently formed a club, and contemplate rais- ing as many pure bred Holstein heifers, seventy head of which were ordered from Wisconsin. Tlie cost of the war to Great Britain, according to a statement issued by Chancellor of the Exchequer Baldwin, March 10, was 946,023 men killed and 2,121,906 wounded, out of a total of 9,496,370 enrolled in all branches of the military and naval service. From the United Kingdom alone the casualties were 743,702 killed and 1,693,262 wounded. The expenditures during the financial years between April 1, 1914, and March 31, 1919, amounted to $45,073,000,000. Ad Iph A. Ramseyer of Forest Dale, passed away at a hospital in Salt Lake City, Feb. 28, after a brief illness, at the age of 58 years. He has been active in the Church since his youth, and done much work during the past fifteen years as temple recorder. He was a good linguist and a lover of good reading. Few men were better versed in language than he was. He was born in Switzerland, studied medicine in Paris, and joined the Church in his 18th year, coming to Utah in 1886. Fire destroyed the Armour packing plant, Omaha, Feb. 14, causing a loss of about $2,000,000. When firemen who responded to the first alarm reached the scene they found all hydrants frozen and the water pressure so poor that they could not throw streams past the sixth story. The alarm was turned in just as the peak of the cold wave hit the city. The firemen became ice-incrusted in a few minutes and many literally froze to the pipes. Dense smoke and falling walls added to the dangers of the firemen. Mrs. Josephine Beatie Wells died March 2, as a result of recurrent pneumonia. She was the wife of Bulon S. Wells, of the First Council of Seventy, and the daughter of H. S. and Marion F. Beatie, pioneers of 1849. She was married to Bulon S. Wells, Jan. 18, 1883, and was the mother of seven children, six of whom are living now. Funeral services were held in the Eighteenth ward chapel, Sunday, March 4, when consoling and faith- promoting addresses were made to the relatives and sympathetic friends present. The United States paid Norway $12,000,000, Feb. 26, awarded by the international arbitration court at the Hague, in settlement of claims grow- ing out of the seizure of Norwegian vessels during the war. In a note to the treasury department, Secretary Hughes explained that the government, by paying, "gives tangible proof of its desire to respect arbitral awards, and it again acknowledges devotion to the principle of arbitral settlements, even in the face of a decision proclaiming certain theories of law which it cannot accept." Mrs. Julia Felshaw Merrill, died, Feb. 27, at the home of her son, Frank Felsbaw Merrill. Salt Lake City, 91 years of age. She was born June 27,

584 IMPROVEMENT ERA 1832, at Spafford, N. Y. Her1 parents, William Felshaw and Mary Gilbert Felshaw, were among the early converts to join the Church. The family crossed the plains, arriving at Salt Lake in 1852. They moved to Fillmore inl853 and Mrs> Merrill made her home there until 1901, when she returned to Salt Lake. Mrs. Merrill's father was employed on the Kirtland temple and also on the Nauvoo temple. N. C. Hanks of Heber City, Utah, whose story, "Up From the Hills," appeared in the Improvement Era recently, according to a telegram from Cambridge, Massachusetts, Feb. 24, 1923, had conferred upon him the high- est scholarship at the University of Harvard on the week ending February 24. This is an additional honor that has come to one who is handless and totally blind, and who has worked his way up in the wonderful way por- trayed in the article referred to. His advancement is exceedingly remark- able and a result of many years of hard labor. Mrs. Lydia D. Alder died at her home in Salt Lake City, March 1. She was born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, July 2, 1846, and came to this country with her parents in early life. As a young girl she served as a nurse during the Civil' War. She was the first pr sident of the National Woman's Suffrage Association in Utah. She visited Palestine and published a volume entitled, "The Holy Land," in 1912 on her observations there. Twelve of her poems appear therein. She was a frequent contributor to local periodi- cals and many of her poems and writings have appeared in the Era. Twenty-three inmates were burned to death, Feb. 18, in the Manhattan state hospital for insane, New York, in a fire which swept the west wing of the building. Three attendants met the same fate. One of the calmest men in the burning building was a man known as John Doe, a deserter from the American army during the war, and also from the German army which he joined after having left his own comrades, and now insane. He was seen, in the midst of smoke and flames, to guide other inmates to safety, but when it was all over, he did not seem to realize that he had been a hero. Moving picture taxes collected by the government for the year ending June 30, 1922, amounted to $73,373,937. On theater and circus admissions the taxes amounted to $1,850,075. That is to say, the receipts at moving picture shows were almost forty times as much as at theaters and circuses. Considering the difference in prices of admi«sion, it becomes evident that more than a hundred people went to the movies for one who went to a theater or the circus. It is to be observed, however, that the government receipts from picture shows fell off 20 per cent from those of 1921. while theater and circus receipts increased about 9 per cent. In the Ruhr, about fifteen miles from Essen, two French officers were assassinated. The victims were: Lieutenant Coltins of the Alpine chasseurs, and Francois of Joly, a French technician, in charge of the railway station at Buer. The assassination caused great excitement in the Ruhr, and the French have put into effect a list of reprisals, with the announcement that the measures are temporary, and severe penalties against the municipality are to be instituted. French agents announce that they have discovered the existence of three secret murder societies in the Ruhr district, the ob- ject of which is the assassination of French and Belgian officer Lieutenant Paul M. Connor, of the Air Service, was killed, March 1, when the Curtis airplane in which he was making a practice flight slipped into a tail spin over Woodward field, Salt Lake City. His neck was broken, as were his legs below the knees, and his head was crushed. The plane fell from an altitude of about 200 feet. Lieutenant Connor was a pupil of the West High school, Salt Lake City. Two years ago he enlisted in the army, and last March he was commissioned a second lieutenant, reserve corps. He had the reputation of being one of the best pilots urned out from

PASSING EVENTS 585 Mather field. Sergeant Donald Templeman, who was in the plane with Connor, was slightly injured and taken to a hospital. Hovemveep is the name given to the histori.al ground between Bluff City, Utah, and Dolores, Col., which contains famous Indian ruins and which has been taken over by Secretary Work, it having been set apart, by presidential proclamation, as a national preserve. A custodian is to be appointed, and the area will be protected against marauders. The ma- jority of the structures belong to uniqu types not found in other national monuments and show the finest i rehistoric masonry in the United States, according to Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, chief of the bureau of American ethnology. They are situated about fifty miles west of Mesa Verde national park in Colorado, and, having been constructed by the same race that built that park's famous cliff dwellings, are specially attractive and important. The Summer Session of the Brigliam Young University will begin June 11; registration will begin June 9. According to Dean Hugh M. Woodward there are to be six men and one woman of national repute from outside of Utah connected with the regular faculty. They are Charles A. Elwood, professor of Sociology, University of Missouri; Frederick E. Bolton, Dean of School of Education, University of Washington; Robert R. Leonard, Dean of Education, University of California; Knute K. Rockne, director of Athletics, Notre Dame University, Iowa; Henry C. Cowles, professor of Ecology, University of Chicago; Cyrus D. Mead, assistant professor of Education, University of California; and Mary Shenck Woolman, author and lecturer on Home Economics, Columbia University. For information re- garding the summer session write to Dean Hugh M. Woodward, Provo, Utah. Tlwt the United States become a member in the international court of arbitration organized by the League of Nations, was urged by President Harding in a message to the U. S. Senate, Feb. 24, in which he asked that the senate advice and consent to such a step. The same day Ambassador Harvey, in a speech in London, predicted that the United States would soon take an active part in European affairs. The foreign relations committee of the U. S. Senate, however, practically decided to postpone action on the President's message until the meeting of the next congress in December. That, it has been said, would make it probable that the question of member- ship in the international court would be a political issue in the election 1924. just as the League of Nations was in 1920. Senator King, of Utah, Feb. 27, served notice on the senate that an endeavor would be made to force a vote on the ratification of the proposition. Edivard T. Ashton died Feb. 19, at his home in Salt Lake City, after a brief illness. He was born in Salt Lake City July 14, 1855. He was first counselor in the Salt Lake stake presidency, and was also well known and recognized as a man of sound judgment in business circles. When the con- struction of the Utah state capitol Was decided upon Mr. Ashlon organized what is known as the Utah Consolidated Stone company, which furnished all the stone for the exterior of the building. He was a first class workman, and many buildings, especially electric power plants, in Utah were erected under his supervision. For many years he was bishop of the 24th ward. He filled a mission in 1889 to Great Britain, and on his return was ordained bishop by President George Q. Cannon. Funeral services were held in the Assembly hall which was crowded with friends. Fitting tributes w^-e paid to his useful, noble, faithful and industrious life. The Boise, Idalio ward has been divided in two wards. First and Sec- ond. At the closing session of the quarterly conference, Elder Alfred Hogensen was appointed bishop of the First ward, with Samuel W. Worth- ington as one counselor. The second was not then named. Elder Joseph G. Salisbury was made bishop of the Second ward, with Wm. Robinson and J. Elmer Harris as counselors.

586 IMPROVEMENT ERA Bishop Samuel Isom, born at Virgin, Washington county, Utah, April 27, 1869; died at Hurricane, Utah, February 2, 1923. He was a leader in the community and a stalwart citizen in its development. He aided in the building of the Hurricane ca- nal, the LaVerkin bridge and in the estab- lishing of public buildings for the rapidly increasing population of the south. Besides being a home-builder and a cultivator of fields and orchards, he took special pride in domestic animals; and in the home was an ideal husband and father, a forceful pub- lic speaker, and an effective and convincing teacher. He filled an honorable mission, and as Bishop of Hurricane since the ward was organized in 1907 won the lasting love of the people. Dr. Charles L. Olsen died at a hospital in Salt Lake City, March 8, of intestinal trouble. Funeral services were held in the Assembly Hall, March 11, Bishop Arthur Welling presiding. Fitting tributes were paid to his life and character by a number of speakers, including Adam L. Peterson, Ole Gulbranson, Bishop William Burton of Ogden, Bishop C. A. Carlquist of the Fifth ward, and Michael Mauss of Murray. Dr. Olsen was born in Christiania, Norway, June 5, 1856. He was a graduate from the Eclectic Medical College, of Cincinnati, Ohio. For many years he was secretary of the state board of medical examiners, and at the time of his death, was an examiner on the board of registration. His first wife, Antionette Holladay, died in 1897. He later married Pauline Heinz of Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr. Olsen was an active Church worker, having filled two missions, one to Scandinavia, in the early 90's where he labored as a writer for Skandinaviens Stjerne; and the other mission to the United States. He was well known to the readers of the Era through a number of valuable contributions, and has contributed freely also to other Church publications. Dr. Olsen was a diligent student of ..he principles of the gospel, as well as of social problems, and he wielded a facile pen. His body was interred in the Wasatch Lawn Cemetery. Bishop Albert Douglas Dickson, pio- neer of Morgan, and the first bishop of Richville ward in that stake who, acted for 37 years, from 1860, died at his home in Richville, Friday, February 16, 1923. He was born in Porter county, Indiana, January 26, 1840, joined the Church and moved to Nauvoo. In 1852 he came to Utah, settling in Davis county; and in Richville, Morgan county, in 1860. From that time on, he has been prominently identified with all the progressive move- ments in Morgan county. Funeral ser- vices were held in the Morgan stake house, Monday, February 19, and inter- ment was in the Richville cemetery. Among the speakers were President Dan- iel Heiner, W. H. Rich, Bishop Rose F. W. Clark, all of whom eulogized hjs character and integrity. W'f '^^^W' I*, HL''v ^w^tadH i i-'-.>J3EM Bcv -.'iHH ''' ifcwg