The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-03
HOTEL GOSSIP.

81 made a mis-step and sprained my
ankle and foot severely while getting
aboard a Rio Grande train leaving Den
yer for Salt Lake one day last week."
said A. B. Colby yesterday afternoon at
the Kenyon. My injury was so severe
on my arrival in this city that 1 was
compelled to leave the hotel and go to St.
Marks hospital where ] have been for
several days, leaving there this morning.
l can only hobble about on crutches and
will not be able to attend to my business
for few days yet. California is enjoying
good times just now San francisco Is
doing a big. export and jobbing trade
better than for a long time. L am resi-
now organizing lodges or councils, Of
the Sentinels of the Universe, benevo-
lent fraternity, Incorporated under our
California laws. The order is growing
very fast, and l shall organize a council
here in Salt Lake as soon as l am able
to get about
Oregon crops are going to be splendid
this season, with the exception of fruit
in the willamette valley. where that
crop will only be one-fourth of the
Corvallis, Ore. at the Cullen yesterday
THE reason for this fruit failure in that
valley was the cold rains that prevailed
in the late spring, and which injured the
growing buds to such an extent as to al
most kill the crop.
Salmon are running well in the Column
catch, and the output of the canneries
will be large.
Our State Agricultural college at Cor
Wallis has large attendance each year,
and has proven a great benefit to the edu-
cational system of our state i am the
chemist attached to the institution and
have come over TO Salt Lake to enjoy a
short vacation and also to call on Profess
sor Luther Foster, director of the Utah
experiment station at Logan. l am deep
ly interested in all questions pertaining
TO agriculture and irrigation as well. al
though we do not irrigate in the valleys
of Oregon. l shall also endeavor to see
experts sent out by the agricultural de-
partment 10 investigate the alkali soils of
Utah, who l now understand are pursuing
their researches in this vicinity"
81 would not live in the frozen regions
of Alaska to which the gold-seekers have
rushed in such large numbers for two
years or more. for sl0, 600 an hour" said
G. NJ. Watson of Scranton Pa, at the
prominent attorney of Scranton and is
just returning from trip in Alaska which
extended many miles to the north of the
Klondike.
Il went to the far-away north" said
he, Ito ascertain if possible the fate of
four or five citizens OF Scranton who were |
members OF a party organized at Bay
City, Mich. by w. II. Bens to work some |
prospects in Alaska, some 400 or 800 miles !
to the north of KotZebue bay, all of whom |
there We're fifteen in the party persisted /
divide between tn Koack and Kiakuk |
rivers with the exception of Mrs. Bens
she was the only woman in the party |
and, remarkable as ii may seem, survived /
the terrible sufferings of the intense cold /
of that ice-bound, desolate region and 4
the perllS of starvation and the effects of /
Il terrible scurvy, finally reaching a |
miners cabin in a very weakened and /
irrational condition. The miners cared for /
her and treated her scurvy as best they |
could until her condition was such that /
a n st. ont f.- IL.
ization with Mrs. Bens, where she OBJ |
tanned medical attention and proper nour-
ishment. After a long and terrible "trip of |
several hundred miles Mrs Bens was
brought to st. Michaels by the brave and
miners. where she remained
until her recovery was complete. She is
now in Chicago and will soon return to
her home in Bay City. / was retained and
employed by the families and relatives of
the four Scranton men Of the party to
visit Alaska to obtain positive evidence of
their deaths and have their remains
shipped home. If possible. The families
of the dead prospectors from Scranton
are among the wealthiest of our city
Il obtained positive and indisputabIe
proof of their DEATH but could not get
heir bodies. because of the great distance
rom civilization. Their remains will
never be found
George p. Bent. a prominent piano
of Chicago. Is in Salt Lake
md proposes 10 establish an agency in
yening that business was good every
where.
THE trade in pianos and organs has