Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-01-06
Utah Joins the United States of
America.
OATH TAKEN BY It's OFFICIALS
Inauguration Ceremonies at Salt
Lake.
ALL BUSINESS SUSPENDED

SALT LAKE, Utah, January 6.-Another
state has been added to the Union, and the
rights of self-government have been ex-
tended to quarter of a million Industrious
and intelligent people.
The oath of office was administered to
the state officials of Utah at noon today,
and new state. with her vast resources
starts off with the promise of bright and
glorious future.
The city was crowded with people from
all parts of the state. Acting Governor
Richards had. by proclamation, declared
the day holiday. All business was sus-
pended. and the buildings along the prin-
cipal streets were decorated with the ma
tional colors.
The day was ushered in by the ringing
-of bells and the sounding of all the steam
whistles in the city.
At IL o'clock the street parade, under
the direction of Grand Marshal Eurton
moved from the corner of Main and Sd
South streets. The parade included Gen.
Penrose and staff, federal troops and the
National Guard OF Utah, members Of the
legislature, civic societies and citizens.
While the parade was taking place the
artillery on Arsenal hill was firing a sa-
lutte of forty-five guns.
Acting Governor Richards, as master of
ceremonies, called the house to order, and
prayer was offered by Winfred Woodruff
president of the Mormon church. He
prayed for the welfare of the nation, to
which Utah will ever be loyal, and for the
prevalence of justice. mercy, truth and
peace, so that every soul might be free to
worship he sees fit.
'The Star Spangled Banner was rem
dered by a chorus of one thousand voices.
After this the proclamation of the Presi-
I, dent of the United States granting state
hood to Utah was read by ex-Deiegate
Joseph l.. Rawlins.
The oath of office was administered to
the governor and state officers by Chief
Justice Zane Of the supreme court of the
state.
Gov. Wells Inaugural.
Gov. Wells then delivered his inaugural
address. He said:
Let us congratulate the pioneers-that
heroic band of patriots who blazed way
for western civilization-who turned the
waters upon the burning soil and wrung
from that desolation the bounteous har-
vests which we are reaping-who planted
the stars and stripes on yonder peak, and
In the name of freedom began the work
which we are consummating now.
las for those Of US who followed in their
wake, whether we came to Utah in the
slow-moving prairie schooner of frontier
days or in the lightning express train of
more r cent years, or whether born upon
the soil, let US clasp hands upon this natal
day, and congratulate each other upon the
happy solution of all past contentious and
our succession to the full rights and privi-
leges of citizenship in a free and sovereign
state OF the SrandeSt repubhc the world
has ever seen.
Ard while felicitating ourselves and our
state upon her admission into the Union,
let US not omit to congratulate the Union
on the accession of another commonwealth
of superb possibilities.
IF We're asked to enumerate in more
specific terms the riches that Utah af-
foIds the country recompense for her
statehood would say she offers the gold
and silver, lead and copper and iron of her
mountains, the luxurious soil of her val
leys, the matehless life-savng climate, a.
most efficient public school system and the
gratitude of a happy homogeneous and pa
tr-otic people,
Efforts to Secure Statehood.
The governor then reviewed in detail the
many efforts made by Utah to secure state
hood from 1S47 to the present day.
Continuing, he said:
What better evidences of the entire sin
cerity of all people in tteir present con-
v:ctions could be given than that Chief
Justice Zane, who, in the past, acting I'M
der conscientious regard for duty, has
sentenced hundreds of Mormons to the
penitentiary, Low sits upon this platform
as the hcnored choice of the electors of
Utah for the highest judicial Office in the
state; and that Mormon, born and rear
ed. should be delivering from the same
platform this address as the governor of
Ctah?'
The governor then gave an exhaustive
review of the financial and industrial con-
d,tion of the state. The ceremonies closed
with patriotic music.
The inaugural ball will be held at the
Salt Lake Theater tonight.