--- 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: 26 number: 8 published: 1923-06 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* 26, no. 8 (June 1923): 763–767.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2608unse 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: improvementera2608unse start_page: 763 end_page: 767 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1923-06) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2608unse publication_year: 1923 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 1923, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Passing Events Rome celebrated the 2676th anniversary of the founding of the city, on April 21, with military display and speeches. Mussolini, the premier, made April 21 the "labor day" of Italy, instead of May I. Elder William A. Morton succeeds the late Nephi Anderson as secre- tary of the Genealogical Society and editor of the Genealogical Magazine, His appointment was announced April 14. A disastrous fire in Salina, Sevier Co., Utah, May 1, caused a loss of $70,000. The flames broke out in the rear of Salina Cash Store and spread rapidly. The fire is said to be the most disastrous in the history of the town. John Michael Redmond died, April 21, at Mill Creek, Salt Lake Co., at the age of one hundred years and ten days. He came to Utah from Eng- land in 1877. He has been a faithful temple worker during the latter part of his life. Captain Roald Amundsen started for the North Pole, April 13, leaving Nome, Alaska, for Wainwright, by dog team. He intends to begin the last stage of his trip in June, in an airplane, and hopes to reach the pole by that means. He left the United States last summer. The Federal reserve bank building will be constructed without delay, according to a Washington dispatch dated April 10. It appears that the secretary of the treasury, after a conference with Senator Reed Smoot, authorized the beginning of work on the building, which will cost $250,000. The baptism of Mr. Geo. A. Hicks, of Spanish Fork, May 6, is reported from that place. He has lived there since 1850, but has not identified him- self with the Church until now. His age is given as 88 years, and it is said that he, as a child, heard and saw the Prophet Joseph in Nauvoo, where he lived with his parents. Mrs. Franceanya Rogers Miller died, April 20, at Springville, Utah, of ailments incident to old age. She was a pioneer of 1847, having come to this valley in September of that year. She was born in New York, July 29, 1840, and has lived in Springville since 1862. Her husband died there in 1892. Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Park Sutton were held in the Nephi South ward chapel, May 6, Bishop A. H. Belliston being in charge. She was born in Warwick, Canada, March 30, 1843, and cam* to Utah in 1847, in the Edward Hunter and John Taylor company. She is said to have been the last of the 1847 pioneers in Nephi. The Alumni Association, of the Brigham Young University, announces a big class reunion and encampment to be held in Provo, June 7. Com- mencement exercises will be held the following day. All former students of the B. Y. U. are invited to be present and to affiliate themselves with some class. ?64 IMPROVEMENT ERA The Amalgamated Sugar Company had a net income of $818,913,54, for the year ending Feb. 28, 1923. The statement on profit and loss shows that the deficit had been reduced from $1,081,372.17* to $516,668,50. The company has five factories in Utah and three in Idaho, representing fen investment of $8,754,837.65. American property lias been confiscated by Russian officials, accord- into to a report from Vladivostok to Washington, April 29. The property belongs to American business houses and is valued at several hundred thousand dollars. The confiscation is done under a Soviet law declaring that all privale property belongs to I lie stale. The Indian trouble in Utah will be settled, by the allotment of land to the Indians near Blanding, Utah, on the same basis as allotments have been made to the Ute Indians. On April 16, Secretary Work, after a con- ference with Senator Smoot and Acting Indian Commissioner Merrit, de- cided to send A. W. Lemington and Superintendent McKean to Blanding, to make allotments of public lands to the Piutes. The marriage of the Duke of York, the second son of King Onrge an 1 Queen Mary, and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, daughter of the Earl and Countess of Strathmore, was solemnized April 26, in Westminster Abbey, in the presence of a brilliant assembly. This is the second wedding in the royal family in a little over a year, the first being that of Princess Mary to Viscount Lascelles. Mrs. Aim Eliza Hyde died, May 4, at Spring City, Sanpete Co., Utah, at the age of 82 years. She was the widow of Apostle Orson Hyde. She was born at Madison, 111., January 26, 1841. With her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Moses Daily, she came to Utah in 1850, and in 1860, with her husband, she went to Sanpe*e county, where they made their home. They endured all the hardships of pioneer life, including scarcity of food and hostility of Indians. Across the Continent in less than 27 hours was the feat completed May 3 by Lieutenants Oakley Kelly and John A. Macready, who made the trip in airplane from New York to San Diego without stopping at any intermediate point. The actual time was 26 hours, 50 minutes and 48 2-5 seconds. The record made, however, cannot be recognized, it is announced by the Na- tional Aeronautic Association, on account of a technicality which requires that in every official test the plane must return to its original base. The Communist Party of Anierica was dissolved, April 11, at a recent convention held in New York, and the Workers' Party of America was recognized as the only American organization affiliated with the Third Internationale of Moscow. The Communists dissolved, according to a pub- lished statement, believing that "the support which the Worker's Party of America has already won among the working masses will enable it, openly and publicly, to carry on the struggle for communism in the United States." Louis Stewart, of Provo, died in that city, May 2, at the age of 81 years. He was born in Nauvoo, 111., March 22 1842, and when a boy 11 years of age he made the journey across the plains by ox team with his parents, who settled in Prcvo. The family later moved to Nevada and then moved into Sanpete county, where they lived for a few years, moving back to Provo in 1860. Mr. Stewart was an Indian war veteran and at the time of his death was a member of the high priests' quorum of the Utah stake. PASSING EVENTS 765 Alfred Lambourne was honored by the presentation to the state, April 19, of the pedestal which will support his bust. The presentation took place at the L. D. S. School of Music. The workmanship is that of M. M. Young. The following lines are inscribed upon the plate: "To Alfred Lambourne, Utah artist, from his fellow Utah artists, in grateful recognition of the in- spiration to them of his lifelong devotion and service in Utah." Carl W. Scott, member of the Ujtah Art Institute, made the speech of acceptance, and Nephi L. Morris made the presentation address. Germany offers to pay thirty billion gold marks, money to be raised by a bond issue, in order to liquidate her obligations under the Versailles treaty. The offer was sent in a note dated May 2, to the government of the entente and the United States. If the offer is not acceptable, German^ suggests that the question be submitted to an impartial international com- mission on the lines indicated by Secretary Hughes. The French cabinet, May 3, unanimously rejected the offer on the ground that the sum men- tioned was not high enough, and that the guaranties of payment were not satisfactory. Anna Hauser, of Bloomington, llUr.dis, a member of the Northern Illi- nois conference, recently died and her funeral was held on the 18th of March. Some 300 people attended. President J. N. Transtrum and Elder D. J. Paul conducted the services. The quarterly meetings of that con- ference were held at Bloomington on the 24th and 25th of March. Presi- dent John H. Taylor was present and delivered timely talks. The confer- ence in general was in splendid condition, all the members endeavoring to live and teach the gospel. — J. N. Transtrum. Seven persons were killed in a wreck on the D. & R. G. W. rail- road, at Woodside, Utah, May 2. Thirty-seven were reported injured. Professor Ernest D. Alton Partridge, of the B. Y. University, Provo, was among the dead. Two engines pulling a train of eleven cars were over- turned in the treacherous canyon. The baggage and smoking cars crashed into the wreckage of the engines. Two Pullmans left the tracks, but were not overturned. The other cars remained on the track and the occupants escaped, except for the shock. Three of the dead and five of the injured were Utahns, and five of these were from Salt Lake City. U. S. Senator Knute Nelson died, April 28, suddenly on a Pennsylvania railroad train on his way from Washington to his home in Minnesota. The death was due to heart failur^. He was 80 years old and has served in the Senate 28 years. He was the oldest member ol that body and had the longest service record. He was born in Voss, Norway, Feb. 2, 1843, and came to this country when six years old. He served three years in the Civil war. In 1892 he was elected governor of Minnesota, and in 1895 he resigned that office, to which be bad been re-elected, and went to the United States Senate. He has been called "the grand old man of Minne- sota." The Lausanne conference on the Near East reassembled, April 23, at Lausanne. It broke up Feb. 4, in a deadlock, Turkey refusing to agree to some of the demands made by the allies. Some of the questions at issue are: (1) England and France demand the continuation of their own courts in Turkey, for their nationals. They (2) want control of the Dardanelles; and (3) they demand that Christians in Turkey be exempt from military conscription. The United States is interested because the concessions granted by the Turkish government to an American business concern, to which both France and Great Britain are opposed, as far as they may in- fringe on previous grants to French and British companies. 766 IMPROVEMENT ERA Mortgage debt on farms in the United States amounts to more than one-tenth of the value of both lands and buildings, according to a Wash- ington report published April 10. Iowa, premier farming state of the country, had mortgage debts on its farms aggregating almost one-seventh of the country's total. The mortgage farm debt of the United States was estimated at $7,857,700,000 on January 1, 1920. The value of all farm lands and buildings at that time was $66,316,002,602. The figures for the Mountain and Pacific states are: Montana 154,940,000 Utah 35,550,000 Idaho 115,350,000 Nevada 11,880,000 Wyoming 32,970,000 Washington 116,740,000 Colorado 138,400,000 Oregon 91,090,000 New Mexico 23,670,000 California 425,460,000 Arizona 31,790,000 Completion of the Delta-Fillmore railroad was celebrated May 3, by Governor Mabey driving the golden spike, in the presence of many specta- tors. The line thus completed binds together the eastern and western sections of Millard county. The ceremony incident to the driving of the golden spike was simple and brief. The special was halted as it pulled into the Fillmore yards, and the Governor, Mayor Morris Lambert of Fillmore, Daniel Stevens, president of the Fillmore Commercial club, T. C. Clark Callister, chairman of the reception committee, and a score or more com- mittee members and citizens welcomed the arriving guests and then rode into the station on the engine of the special. Little Catherine Clark, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. C. M. Clark, of Fillmore, presented the Governor with the golden spike, which was held in position by General U. G. Mc- Alexander, commandant at Fort Douglas, who also was an honor guest of the occasion. The Governor after the completion of his task was rewarded with a beautiful bouquet of Fillmore flowers. The Right Rev. Daniel S. Tuttle died, April 17, at his home in St. Louis, of the effects of an attack of la grippe. He was the presiding bishop of the Episcopal church in the United States, and the oldest Anglican bishop in the world, in point of service. At the time of his death he was 86 years old. Bishop Tuttle was born in Windham, N. Y., January 26, 1837, he was the son of a blacksmith. A bishop since 1867 and head of the Missouri diocese since 1886, Daniel Tuttle received his elementary education in the rural schools about Windham and paid his way through Columbia Uni- versity by tutoring sons of wealthy men of New York, and was graduated from the General Theological seminary, New York, in 1862. Four years later he was elected the first missionary bishop of Utah, Montana and Idaho. Only 26 years of age at the time, he had to wait one year before being consecrated, as an ecclesiastical law makes 30 years the minimum age for a bishop. For nearly twenty years the bishop carried on the work in the west and was considered one of the great figures of pioneer life. Bishop Tuttle was loved by all who knew him. President Charles W. Penrose, when told of his death, said: "We were always the greatest of friends. With his passing the world has lost a good and able man. I always found him fair and just in his dealings with all people." The body of Old Posey was found in a niche of a canyon near Comb Wash, according to a report from Blanding, Utah. He was one of the leaders of the recent effort of the Piute Indian band to resist the enforce- ment of law in that part of the state, and he was killed during the fight with the sheriffs posse, March 28. The body was buried by the Indians PASSING EVENTS 767 in a secluded spot. The location of the grave was kept secret at first. "Old Posey" was also known as William Hatch. He was one of the inhabitants of the San Juan basin when the first white settlers came there. In the early days he was known for his bravery and also for cruelty, the Bland- ing dispatch says. The "dry law" is in force in American waters, according to a decision of the Supreme court, April 30. Under the law, as now interpreted, no vessels may carry intoxicants within the three-mile limit, but outside, even American vessels may sell intoxicants. The opinion was rendered in ten cases brought by foreign and American steamship companies. Justice George Sutherland held that foreign vessels had the right to bring liquor into American ports, but not to land any of it. Congress will probably be asked to pass a law prohibiting the sale of liquor outside the three-mile limit on any vessel flying the American flag. It is rumored that an effort will be made to bring the question before the World Court. Charles H. Wahlquist, of Myton, died, suddenly there, April 20, of heart failure. He was district attorney for the Fourth judicial district. Mr. Wahlquist was born in Sweden Feb. 5, 1857, and came to Ut<m as a boy of 11. The family settled in Heber, where he grew to manhood. He taught in the Wasatch county schools for a number of years, then fulfilled a mission to his native land where he edited the Star, published in Copen- hagen. For six years he was Wasatch county clerk and also served a couple of terms as county attorney. He had served one term as district attorney. In Nov., 1898, he was appointed bishop of Buysville, serving until the ward was combined with Daniels. He was at various times connected with the Y. M. M. I. A. The Snow Junior College, Ephraim, Sanpete Co., was given a new Board of Trustees, April 27, as follows: L. R. Anderson, president of the South Sanpete stake; Soren M. Nielson of the North Sanpete stake; R. D. Young of Sevier stake, Moroni Lazenby of the North Sevier stake, J. E. Magleby of the South Sevier stake, Joseph K. Eckersley of the Wayne stake, C. T. Bowen of the Garfield stake, L. P. Oveson of Emery stake; J. B. Jacobson of Manti, J. N. Dorius and Dr. A. L. Nielson of Ephraim. The retiring officers are C. R. Dorius of Ephraim, Adolph Merz of Mount Pleasant, Dean Thomas A. Beal of Salt Lake, and Louis Andeison of Manti. L. R. Anderson was elected president, S. M. Nielson, vice president; J. N. Dorius, treasurer; Wayne B. Hales, secretary. The executive com- mittee comprises L. R. Anderson, chairman; S. M. Nielson, J. B. Jacobson, Dr. A. J. Nielson, and J. N. Dorius. The UtaJi Agricultural Experiment Station has recently published the results of a three-year experiment on the irrigation or barley, which was conducted on the Greenville farm just north of Logan. It shows the results of using different quantities of irrigation water on barley and of applying it at different periods in the growth of the plants. The highest yields were produced when 15 to 17 !% acre-inches of water were applied to the crop each season. More or less water than this reduced the yield. Flooding the field after the grain was planted but before it was big enough to shade the ground seriously decreased the yield. Water applied aj soon as the plants shaded the ground enough to prevent baking gave the largest returns for each acre-inch used. Later irrigations were of relatively less importance for each irrigation. The largest yield was produced with three 5-inch irrigations applied when the plants had five leaves, when the leaves were "in the boot," and when the grain was in full bloom.