The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-05-24
SALT LAKE !
CITY AND NEIGHBoRRooD.

Work of excavating for the founda
tons of the new David Keith buildin
on Main street was begun this weel
by Contractor Curley, who will receiV
$4,000 for the work.
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The entrance examinations for Yal
university win occur in the latter par
of June, instead of July, as announces
few days ago
Governor Wells is in receipt Of ;
check for $34 from Modena, for thu
benefit of the Martinique sufferers. I'll,
communication accompanying tbs
check is typewriter and sets out tina
the $34 represents the subscriptions q
the men. women and children of tht
little city and that they symp2rhizt
deeply with the unfortunate people OF
Martinique The communication j.
signed Citizens Of Modena," in type
writing, but the check is signed by
Frank Knight, a business man of the
place The money viii be forwarded
at once to the committee in New York
having the subscriptions in charge.
Utah Kyune sandstone has been
shipped in large quantities to the Pa
cific coast within the past few years,
and now Boise, Ida, is importing il
quite freely as it is superior in quail
ity to the Boise rock and is more easily
dressed. The Potter Gray Stone COM
pany. whose quarries are on the West
ern's line, is preparing to do more
extensive business than ever, and the
Walker Bros. are about to reopen their
quarries near by the Potter company s
properties.
The Alcatraz Paving company will
not be permitted to use the soft brown
stone it has quarried at Heber for
street paving in Salt Lake. Engineer
Kelsey dropped on the scheme, and
drove out to Heber to make sure of his
suspicious, to find that they were cor
rect, and that it was from the soft and
easier quarried deposit that the paving
company was getting its material.
He forbade their using the stone and
the company filed a protest with the
board of public works; but it did no
good, and the company must use the
harder stone.
The Plymouth Land & Colonization
company of Payette has arranged to
place on the market $500 acres at
Bliss, as q system of irrigation has
been perfected for that section. There
is continuous tide of immigration re-
ported as coming from the east, par
ticularly Nebraska, and there is in con-
sequence a great scarcity of dwellings
at Payette and New Plymouth. The
new school house at New Plymouth is
already inadequate, and additional
quarters will be necessary Immediately.
1t is also said that the fruit crop this
year in the Payette valley will be a
reC2rd breaker. The new state bank
will shortly be ready for business.
John j. Daily, the we'll known mining
man, and William M. Bradley, the at
Jorney, this week presented a petition
to the probate court asking that they
be appointed executors OF the last will
and testament of DR.. Allan Fowler,
who died in this city on the 18th inst
The petition states that the value OF
the estate within the jurisdiction of
this court is $4,000, which consists
principally of personal property, cash
in the bank, Salt Lake City municipal
bonds, stock in the Daly-Judge Mining
company and Consolidated Railway e
Power company bonds etc. All of the
heirs of the deceased are residents of
Virginia and Tennessee. The hearing
of the petition is set for Saturday, May |
Il, before Judge Hall. The will has
not yet been filed.
At meeting of the board of direc- |
tors of the Utah Savings & Trust COM |
pany, held at the bank Monday after |
noon, John J. DAILY was elected vice |
president, to fill the vacancy caused by |
the resignation of T. Z. Jones, who has |
served the institution faithfully for the |
past several years, Mr.. Jones having /
sold his stock in the company. Samuel |
II. Auerbach was elected a director to |
fill the vacancy caused by the resigna-
ton of E. w. Center.
The Grand theatre was well filed last
Monday night by those who had a de-
sire TO hear Mrs. Lenora Austin Ham
lin lecture on The Commercial Value
Of Civic Beauty" The affair was held
under the joint auspices of the Com
mercial club and the home education
section Of the Ladies Literary club,
and after a few Introductory remarks
had been made by w. A. Nelden he in
troduced Mrs. C Z. Allen, who IN tern
introduced the speaker of the evening.
Mrs. Hamlln is a clear, fluent talkar,
and held the attention of her audi ance
She said that no city in the Union was
better adapted for system of public
parks than Salt Lake, and added that
lawn plats should be placed in the cen
ter or on the side of the streets, which
would not only cut down the "a ing |
expenses, but would make the city so
attractive that it would be infinitely
more valuable to the people than
union depot. She said she could rer-
ceive a lack of public interest IN 1lu-
nicipal affairs in this city. and SO long
as that condition continued there woull
be no stop to the waste of public funds
Mrs. Hamlin stated. in conclusion. tn1t
he / .
ideals in civic government they would
nave to work together not only with
the civic spirit but with intelligence.
The committee in charge of the ar
engagements for the observance of Me-
mortal day met in Colonel Kaighn's
Office last Monday night and made
for one of the most ex-
tensive demonstrations ever witnessed
in the city upon that occasion.
Those present at the meeting were
Colonel Bubb. Captain Barth and
Chaplain Marvin of Fort Douglas: S
General Burton, General Cannon and (
Colonel Park of the Utah National t
Guard; Father Murphy and Major P.
of All Hallows cadets:
Comrades Kaighn, R. C. sleater. Ru- {
dolph Aft, II. P. Burns, F. H. Clark i
of the G. A. r., and J. J. Meyers of the
Spanish war veterans.
1t was decided TO have the march
at $3.50 instead Of 10 O'Clock,
as has heretofore been the custom. :
The line of march will be from Market ,
and Main streets, north on Main TO
Second South, thence west to West
Temple, north to First South. east TO 7
Main and north to Brigham street:
on Main to Second
South, east to Second East: from here
the organizations will go to the re- +
spective cemeteries to which they are