The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-06
HOTEL GOSSIP.

Pheasant Grove intends to keep abreast
OF me times. said w T. Clark, mayor
terday. / am at present in town 10 figure
with State Engineer r C. Gemmel regard
Ing our proposed waterworks, which the
city intends to erect in the near future
there is our proposed power plant which Is
to supply Pleasant Grove, American Fork
ana Lehi with 1000 lights The enterprise
is TO cost SIS, 600, but when the entire ma
chinery is placed in the house it will cost
from first TO last, nearer $4,000. Half OF
the machinery. sufficient for present pur-
poses, has been ordered, the power house
is nearly ready to hold il, and a gang Of
men are busy putting in the pipe line"
During his stay in town, the energetic
young mayor has not let the grass grow
under his feet and has been buttonhOling
people right and left, among his victims
being Traffic Manager stephen II. Bah
cock Of the Rio Grande Western, who
promised him that he would look into the
matter of putting the line in touch with
Pleasant Grove.
The guests at the Kenyon last evening
were entertained for the space of one hour
by a young man named Ossian Lopez, who
furnished a novel musical entertainment
with the aid of thirty-two beer schOoners,
accompanied by a guitar and mandolin
Lopez filled the glasses with different
measures of water and succeeded in rem
dering a Hot Time. ''Cavaliera RuSti-
cana" and other musical selections in a
tun6ful manner. The young man came
here with Hi Henrys minStrels but, being
stricken down. with paralysis. was taken
to st. Mark hospital, where he has been
until this time. He is now giving his en-
tertainmeat IN sthe hotels as means 10
raise the wind in order 10 get out of
town.
z. L. Goodridge of Canyonville. Ore. is
among the guests at the White House
Goodridge who is visiting Utah in order
mi
southern part of the state, predicts great
things for Oregon. In speaking of the
situation in that state last night ne SAID
Oregon today can show the finest gold
quartz in the country, and mining is at
the present time occupying the attention
of tWo-thirds OF the population, especially
in the vicinity of Baker City. where some
Al properties are being developed. Rail-
road building, too, is causing considerable
comment. and several new enterprises are
under way, One line. which is being pro
jected by private enterprise, is ninety
. miles of track running between Klamath
balls to klamathtOn. where it will con-
meet with the Southern Pacific. This line
will open up a big stock and timber coun-
try and, as a consequence, lumbermen are
rushing into that locality. Against this
road there is another into the same dis
trict,- which is now under way from The
Calles to Lakevllle. with me OBJECT IN
the state, in the region OF the Columbia
river
DIT. E. F. Gait Of Lethbridge, Alberta,
Canada, stayed over in Salt Lake for a
few hours prior TO jOurneylng north 70
his home, The practitioner has been
spending some weeks in sunny California
for rest and recreap ion- He faId: The
business men in Los Angeles are jubilant
over the proposed cutoff with SAT- Lake
via UVaCa ana the santa ana are
sanguile chat the project VIII be pushed
through right away. l never saw such a
of
at the present time, not only Americans,
but they seem TO have gathered from
every civilized country on the face of
the globe and nearly every last one of
/ them is what the Californians term
'!ungers.' When l left Los Angeles four
days ago, the mercury registered SO in
the shade. while the peach and almond
trees were shedding their blooms"
NJ. A. Rapken. a Russian who was ma
turaliZed British subject in Australia,
was seen at the Kenyon last night. The
Slav originally came TO san FRANCISCO a
of going TO klOndike. He did not go,
however, and at the present time he is
opening up a branch tea house for the
San Francisco firm OF Llevre, Frick AZ
Co. in this city Rapken who is built
on the T. Henry model, has the tea bust
ness at his finger ends, but is more inter-
esting when he talks upon the hnd of
the ear. He said last night that while
Russia has the finest army in the
world" no one need be alarmed at her
taking the aggressive in an European
war, as she was wise in her generation
and deemed such a proceeding 10 be too
expensive a pastime. Russia, he said.
required all of her sons 10 go through a
course of military training. but, provided
a man had the wherewithal, il was an
easy matter 10 evade the irksome duty
and pay a man to be his substitute. Rap
ken placed himself on record as being
an admirer of the equestrian feats of the
Cossacks and Calmeiks, whom he said
could give the western cowboy cards and
spades when it came 20 circus tricks on
horseback. But after all, he did not think
Russia the best place on earth 10 dwell
TOO much passport and rye bread.