The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-09
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!. SALT LAKE
CITY AND NEIGHBoRHooD.


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Statistics that have been completed
at All Hallows college disclose the
interesting fact that over a third of
The students at this Catholic inStitu-
ton are on-Catholics. The total en-
Tollment for this school year is Is,
of which fifty-five are not Catholics.
Five of these are Jews, thirteen Epis-
copalians, three Unitarians three
Christian Scientists. three Presby-
terians, two Methodists and the rest
affiliated with no church in particular.
Edward f. Milholland, business rep
resentative of Miss Eugene Blair. left
Salt Lake City in the incipient stages
of pneumonia as the result of the most
reckless wager laid with hotel clerk
Mr.. Milholland went to the lake Fri
day, stripped to the skin and plunged
into the water. He had never bathed
in Salt lake before, and that fact, as
much as the $40 forfeit, was response
BILE for the course he took.
MIR. Milholland is a veteran newspa-
per man. He has visited the city reg
ularly for several years in the theatre
cal business. but has always been here
at times when it was impossible TO
battle. His feat was duplicated by
visiting priest from Ireland about two
ant, suffered no i'll effects from his dip
in the briny
An epidemic is going about among
the horses of Salt Lake that threatens
to carry off many valuable animals;
already several have died and many
more are seriously ILL., 1t is estimated
that 80 per cent Of the horses in this
city have been attacked. The disease
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monia or lung disease; in its lighter
form it partakes of the nature of in
1Iuenza.
DR.. Charles w. Num-, one of the well
known veterinary surgeons of Salt
Lake. said:
This disease is in the nature of sub
acute bronchitis in its first stages. 1t
Is not fatal if cared for in time. l
have treated 200 horses in the city and
have lost but two. My treatment is
black oil on the tongue and mustard
given in mush. Fully 80 per cent of
the horses of the city have been at
tackled by the epidemic, including such
fine horses as Keith's and KearnS'. All
the horses of the Troy laundry are suf-
fering from the disease. The epidemic
is travelling west and came to Salt
Lake from the east. 1t was quite fatal
in such cities as Omaha, Kansas City |
and Denver"
Queen Alexandra, following the eX-
ample of the late Queen Victoria, is |
sending Christmas gifts to the troops |
in South Africa. For this purpose she !
has ordered thousands of briar pipes, |
each silver-mounted and bearing the |
st mp Of the crown and her majesty's |
monogram.
Salt Lake is to have another national |
convention next year, that of the In
ternational Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers. 1t will meet on the second |
Monday in September and the dele
gates, practically 800, to say nothing
Of their families and friends who will
accompany them, will be in the city
for a week or ten days. This will be
more than national convention. It
viii partake in a measure of the nature
Of an international convention. because
the convention just held in st. Louis
had delegates not only from every
state and territory in the Union, but
from the Hawaiian islands and Can
ada as we'll
The last official census shows that !
1871 per cent of the population of Utah
Is foreign born. That means that
63,717 of the people now in Utah were
born outside of the United States
Added to these are Ais per cent of the
population, or 1l5,635 persons in the
state born of foreign born parents. :
These two classes combined constitute
sos per cent of the total population
OF the state, or three people out of ev- I
cry five Another phase of the ques-
ton is that there are in Utah 1868
children between the ages of > and 90
years. OF these 1876 are fOreign-born,
and more than half, 54,76O, are of for I
eign parents.
Exalted Ruler Freed has taken the {
initiative for the reception of the B.
p. Q. E. grand lodge next year by ap- !
correspondence committee,
whose duty it is to answer the hun
dreds of letters that are coming in | a.,
There is little doubt that there will |
be ample funds with which to redeem
The first issue of Mormon church bonds.
to 100000, when it natures
two years from next January Presi-
.ent Smith, it is understood. will work )
10 that end, and, if possible, will call in
the second issue when it natures six
months later The church is in a pros '
porous condition, and tithing will be a =
strong theme with the present admin
stration in order that the interest
Weakened among the Saints by Presi-
lent Snow may not be allowed to flag. {, 1