Passing Events

Viscount Mocley died Sept. 23, at Blackburn, England. He was former- ly lord president of the council and secretary of state for India. He was 85 years old. Passive resistance has been abandoned in the Ruhr, according to an announcement made Sept. 24 by the German chancellor, M. Stresemann. The surrender is unconditional. The Stresemann government resigned, Oct. 3, after the Reichstag had rejected the compromise proposed by the government. Dr. Stresemann was charged by President Ebert to form another cabinet. The forty-fifth exhibition of the Utah State Fair Association was opened Oct. 1, at the State Fair grounds, with beautiful weather and a large attend- ance. The exposition is characterized as the best and most instructive by the organization. Insurrection in Bulgaria was reported to have broken out, Sept. 23. It was stated that a hundred thousand armed peasants were marching on Sofia. Communists were reported to be active among farmers and laborers in industrial centers. Sidney R. Lambourne died Sept. 22, at a local hospital in Salt Lake City, of heart trouble, following influenza. He was formerly superinten- dent of the city parks and has left a lasting memorial in the results achieved in that line all over the city. The American Federation of Labor will not form a separate political party. That is the decision arrived at in the convention held at Portland, Ore., Oct. 9. Samuel Gompers denounced the Russian soviet government as an enemy of both democracy and labor unions. A strong plea for peace was the burden of the speech of David Lloyd George, at Montreal, Canada, Oct. 8, before an audience of 7,000. He de- scribed the horrors of the last war, and pointed to the still greater horrors of a future conflict, and he pleaded for unity of action among all races of the world, to end war. Elder John Quincy Adams has been released from presiding over the Samoan mission, and is expected to return home, with his family, on Nov. 7. He has lived at Apia, Upolu, the last four years. Elder Adams is "a resident of Riverside, Idaho. He has now filled two missions in Samoa anjj has written extensively about the islands. Ernest LeRoy Butler has been chosen president of the mission to succeed him. Marriage is slavery, says Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont, of New York City, president of the National Womans' Party. The statement was made in an

90 IMPROVEMENT ERA interview at Colorado Springs, Colo., Sept. 21, on her arrival there to attend the equal rights memorial pageant. According to the report, she said she would not recommend marriage for any girl, but it does not show that she had any substitute to propose instead of the divine institution. A naval disaster of deplorable proportions occurred Sept. 8, when seven U. S. destroyers were wrecked on the rocks off Arguello lighthouse, seventy- five miles north of Santa Barbara, California, during a fog. One of the victims of the wreck was John Young of Salt Lake City, son of John and Phoebe Young, 460 East Fifth South Street. He was buried with full naval honors from the Eighth Ward chapel, Oct. 1. The services were presided over by Bishop Joseph Fetzer. Greece not guilty. That is the report of the international committee investigating the murder of Italians at Janina. It would now be in order for Italy to salute the Greek flag and pay for the murder of the Greeks on the island of Corfu, the bombardment and loss through the foreign invasion. But, although Greece is declared without blame in the matter, the council of ambassadors decided that Greece must pay fifty million lire to Italy. The sum was handed over, as ordered on Sept. 29, and the incident was said to be "closed." Martial law was proclaimed throughout Germany, Sept. 26. The Ba- varian government, on the same day, proclaimed the Versailles treaty null and void. The change of policy in Germany seems to have provoked riots with many fatalities. On Oct. 1, it was reported from Dusseldorf that 21 per- sons, including five French officers, had been killed in the Rhineland, and that 200 wounded were in the hospitals. Fighting between Republican and Nationalist troops was reported from Kuestrin the same day. Elder Lafayette Thatcher Hatch died, Sept. 25, at Rotterdam, Holland, of acute diabetes, at the age of 24 years. He had been in the mission field only three months, having left Logan, his home town, on June 10, this year. He was born in Logan April 4, 1899, and was the son of H. E. and Georgia Thatcher Hatch. His early life was spent in Logan, where he attended the grade and high schools and finally the Utah Agricultural College. The body was shipped from Rotterdam, Oct. 3, on the U. S. S. New Am- sterdam. The death of Thomas Orr, a Utah pioneer of 1847, is announced in a press dispatch from Sacramento, dated Sept. 30. He died in Shingle Springs, near Sacramento, at the age of 92 years. He was born near Glasgow, Scot- land, March 26, 1831, and emigrated to America with his parents when three years of age. After living in New York for a short time the family, moved to Commerce (afterwards Nauvoo) , Illinois. Orr often recalled the slaying of Joseph and Hyrum Smith and the wounding of John Taylor at Carthage. A Special election was held in Oklahoma. Oct. 2, and the voters decided that the legislature should be empowered to meet without the call of the governor, for the purpose of instituting impeachment proceedings against any state officer. The house tried to meet on Sept. 26, but was dispersed by the military forces, at the order of Governor Walton. A legal struggle followed, and the election was held with the result stated. Governor Walton has been strenuously opposing the illegal acts charged to the Ku Klux Klan, or so-called "invisible empire". The Klan, so far, seems to have the upper hand in Oklahoma.

PASSING EVENTS 9 1 John D. Dixon, prominent banker of Provo and former state treasurer, died suddenly, Thursday, October 4, at Provo, Utah. He was born in Salt Lake City on July 16, 185 7, and was the son of Henry Aldous and Sarah DeGray Dixon. At an early age he came to Provo and has been active in religious, political and business capacities in that city and in the state. He filled a mission to the Southern States in 1898, and was for many years superintendent of the Y. M. M. I. A. of the Utah stake. He was a man of sterling integrity and of excellent character and is mourned by the whole com- munity, both in the city where he lived and in the state at large. His funeral services were held on the 7th of October at which leading citizens of the state and Church eulogized his life. Berkeley, Calif., was ravaged by fire, Sept. 17, when five hundred residences were destroyed. The flames broke out in brush in Contra Costa county. At 2 o'clock p. m., they had reached the crest of the ridge on the eastern slope, where many of the wealthier citizens resided. Within an hour, notwithstanding all efforts to check the destruction, the fire had spread in all directions. For four hours the flames prevailed, but by 7 o'clock they were under control. A quarter mile square extending from Cedar to Shasta streets to the east of Euclid Ave., was reduced to ashes. Among homes reduced to ashes are those of President Benjamin Ide Wheeler, president emeritus of the university, and John Howard Taylor, architect. All the houses on upper Leroy are destroyed as well as the houses on La Loma Ave. Houses on Shasta, Tamalipas road, Tallac, Shasta street, Hillside Ave., Haw- thorne terrace, Rosewood, Spring and houses on Arch street from Vine south, also were burned. Another area south of Cedar Street and west of Euclid Ave. was razed and forty homes destroyed. Homes in another area extending to Spring street are burned. The path of the flames has been gen- erally southeast and southwest from the Berryman reservoir, the seat of the conflagration. The university buildings were not harmed. Brief History of Panguitch Farm by J. R. Bateman, Farm Superinten- dent— The Panguitch Farm, or State Experiment Farm, as it is now locally known, is located three miles north of Panguitch in Garfield county. It comprises something over one hundred acres of the choicest land in the valley. About 1900 the Government saw fit to establish an Indian school in this section, and the above mentioned farm was bought for this purpose. The young native Americans were to be brought up along the lines of agriculture and domestic art. The farm was equipped with tools, class rooms, and living quarters to care for about fifty students. However, due to climatic conditions, and trouble getting the youngesters to stay at school, the pro- position was soon abandoned and the property turned to the State. From this time on the Experiment Station has had direct control of the place. They first stocked it with Holstein-Friesian cattle but found they were not very profitable or in great demand at that time. In 1920, a herd of registered Shorthorns were placed on the farm. Since then the choice males have been sold for bulls and the females kept to improve the old stock, which are culled every year, and the culls sent to the butcher. The old school buildings have been razed and made into sheds and fences, so at present the farm is well equipped to handle livestock in such a section. The aim of the farm is to produce a good uniform herd of cattle, the bulls from which will be sold to Southern cattlemen to improve their native stock.