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PASSING EVENTS 1195 tional park, traveling by way of the Jackson Hole country. The party had been driving through Wellsville canyon for some time when Dr. Van Cott stepped out of the machine to get some water for the radiator, and sank to the ground and expired instantly. Dr. Van Cott, who was a well known Salt Lake physician, was born in Salt Lake December 18, 1875, receiving his early education in the public schols of this city. He was graduated from the University of Utah in 1897, and received his M. D. degree from Rush medical college, Chicago, in 1903, after which he came to Salt Lake, where he has since practiced medicine and surgery. Besides his widow, Mrs. May Siddoway Van Cott, he is survived by three children: Llewellyn, Eleanor and Ernest Van Cott, Jr., and by several brothers and sisters. President Anthony W. Ivins returned, Aug. 16, from the Hawaiian Islands, where he has inspected the sugar plantation and visited the various branches of the Church. The plantation produced during 1923 15 75 tons of cane sugar, bringing gross receipts of approximately $250,000. The cane is sent to a commercial plant in Hawaii, where it is converted into the crude product, thence shipped to California, where it is refined. The in- dustry is fairly profitable, according to President Ivins, and is operated by the Church largely to give employment to natives who are members of the Church. About 200 are employed on the plantation, which produces pineapple as well as sugar. He reports that there is a general feeling of prosperity and contentment among natives in the islands. He also visited the branches of the Church in the islands. With him were Mrs. Ivins, Elder Richard R. Lyman and Mrs. Lyman, Miss Fulvia Ivins and Miss Williams. The German Reichstag accepted the Dawes reparations plan, Aug. 29, after a stormy debate. France, having previously accepted it, it only re- mained to construct the necessary machinery for carrying it out. Among the concessions made to the nationalists in return for their forty-eight votes in favor of adoption of the reparation agreement was a promise by Chan- cellor Marx and Foreign Minister Stresemann that the present German government would make formal disavowal of the German admission of war guilt incorporated in the Versailles treaty. Immediately after the vote was recorded, the chancellor, on behalf of the government, authorized the publi- cation declaring Germany did not accept the war guilt declaration and de- manding that the odium of war guilt be lifted from the German people. Germany, on Sept. 2, paid the first installment on reparations under the Dawes plan, by depositing 20,000,000 gold marks in the Reichsbank on the account of the general reparations agent, Mr. Young. Mrs. Harriet Pamelea Partridge Kimball, wife of Albert H. Kimball, died at the family residence, 50 Gordon avenue, Sept. 7, after an illness of one year. She was born at Salt Lake November 14, 1858, and was a daughter of the late Edward Partridge and Sarah L. Clayton. She was married to Albert H. Kimball at Salt Lake, May 15, 1876. Mrs. Kimball had always been active in political and L. D. S. Church work, having been associated as an officer and member of the Relief Society of the Eighteenth ward for many years. At the time of her death she was president of the Woodrow Wilson club and had served in that capacity for four years. She was at one time assistant historian of the Society of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, of which organization she was always an active member. Mrs. Kimball was the oldest grandchild of the late William Clayton, who wrote the famous hymn, "Come, Come Ye Saints," and one of her sons, Edward P. Kimball, is organist of the Salt Lake tabernacle. Mrs. Kimball was the mother of eight children, six of whom survive her. The grand stand on the Fair grounds was destroyed by fire, Aug. 29, while a Rodeo performance was given. Of the 10,000 spectators present a few were burned and bruised and bad to be taken to the hospital, but

1196 IMPROVEMENT ERA the great majority of the crowd escaped in the panic. The stand was completely destroyed in about ten minutes, and a number of automobiles were damaged. The total loss was estimated at $50,000. The origin of the fire was traced to a cigaret smoker, who threw the burning remnant between seats. A fireman went for a bucket of water as soon as the first sign of smoke appeared. In the meantime somebody cut the burning area out with a pocket knife. The ashes fell on the roof of a rabbit pen below. The fireman returned and poured water on the place where the ashes and cinders had fallen, and it was thought all danger was over. But an hour and a half afterwards, flames burst out in this section of the stand. In all probability the cigaret stump had not been found, or not been rendered harmless. Andrew Kimball passed away at the home of his father-in-law, John Connelly, Salt Lake City, following an illness of some weeks. Funeral services were held in the 27th ward, September 2, 1924. Andrew Kimball and his twin sister, Mrs. Alice K. Smith, wife of the late President Joseph F. Smith, were born in Salt Lake City, September 6, 1858. Their par- ents were President Heber C. Kimball and Ann A. Gheen. For many years he was employed on the railroad running south from Salt Lake into Juab county. He was married to Olive Woolley, daughter of Bishop Edwin U. Woolley and Mary A. Alpin, February 2, 1882, and to them were born eleven children. Shortly after his marriage he was called on a two-year mis- sion to the Indian territory mission and later was made president of that mission, which is now the central states mission. Shortly after his return home, he was made president of the St. Joseph stake of Zion with head- quarters at Thatcher, Ariz., where he has lived up to the time of his death. He served as chairman of the Arizona board of agriculture and horticulture. He also served in the Utah constitutional convention. He is survived by his wife, Mary Connelly Kimball; six children and eighteen grandchildren. His body was taken to Thatcher for burial. Arthur L. Thomas, fourteenth governor of Utah, and for many years postmaster of Salt Lake City, a promiment citizen of Utah since 1879, passed peacefully away while in natural sleep on the night of September 14-15, 1924. He was born in Chicago, August 22, 1851, and later removed to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where he attended the public schools and entered politics as secretary to the Allegheny county Republican committee when eighteen years of age; was appointed a committee clerk in the House of Representatives, Washington, when Ulysses S. Grant was president. He was appointed to serve in Utah as secretary of the territory in 1879, re- appointed in 1883, and served untill887, holding many political offices of importance simultaneously. He was governor from 1889 to 1893, being then succeeded by Gov. Caleb W. West. He was appointed postmaster of Salt Lake City Feb. 1, 1897 and was helpful in establishing the rural free mail delivery. He was president of the Cambrian Association of Utah at the time of his death. For sketch of his life see Improvement Era, Sept., 1901, Vol. 4, No. 11. The dinosaur cavalcade bringing dinosaurs from Jensen under direc- tion of John T. Kay, Vernal, 220 miles, entered Salt Lake City and pro- ceeded up South Temple street to the University of Utah on the afternoon of September 17, 1924. It was a unique caravan — nineteen four- horse teams tugging at their heavy loads of old fossils enroute to the University. There were eighteen wagons loaded at an average of 4,500 pounds each. Moving pictures were taken of the caravan which resembled a freight train familiar to Utahns over fifty years ago. The University of Utah has been ten months or more chiseling out the five specimens of ancient dinosaurs from their natural graveyard near Jensen in eastern Utah. The bones will be built in place at the University later.

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