Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-09-03
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home.
The board OF governors OF the Com.
mercIal club elected p. l.. Doran and
4. c. Smith TO membership last night
An effort Is being made TO organize
mems club In the First Congregation
al church. and a meeting will be held
there next Monday night with that
end In view.
The Salt Lake Collegiate instiiu,,e
opens today, with an increased attend
ance and pleasing prospects for the
coming school year.
The coast survey outfit that is to set
up a new official scale OF lake meas
urement near saltair are expected In
town this evening, from the north.
A fine perspective of the new unlyer-
sity club building was on exhibition az
the Walker Bros. bank this morning.
The architect II pushing the working
plans OF the building.
Rev. DR.. r. C. Iiiff, formerly of this
city, and who Is now one Of the gem
aral secretaries OF the Church Exten-
sion society OF the Methodist church,
preached last Sunday at Boise.
An the Masonic bodies which have
been taking q vacation during the hot
season, are now resuming their usu6i
meetings and work.
Arthur Murphy, formerly the wei
known and efficient guard on the High
School football team, leaves on the 18th
inst. to enter Cornell university. His
friends expect TO hear great things
from him when the football season
opens.
Deputy State Supt. of Schools Mar
shall returned last evening from 81.
George, where he attended the teach
ers institute. He reports that a very
successful institute was held.
Mrs,M. A. Harper and daughter. Miss
Halle, are spending a few days In the
city with relatives, enroute. TO their
home In Denver after quite an extended
visit IN California.
The funeral OF Mrs. Nettle Clark
Palmer will take place from the fam
lily residence, 222 north First West
street, tomorrow, Thurssay, at 3 PPM.
Friends are invited.
County Auditor Wood win pay the
salaries OF all the county officials, depu-
ties and clerks, tomorrow for the month
OF August. The amount OF the pay
roll is about $4,000
There will be a meeting Of the teach
ers Of the city schools In the high
school building on Saturday morning at
10 o'clock. State Superintendent Nell
son VIII address the meeting
Meetings for the consideration Of
Mutual Improvement work, are held
every Tuesday morning at 1880, by the
stake SUPPLEMENTARY The place of
meeting IL room $40 Templeton build
Ing.
A copy OF the articles Of incorpora-
ton of the Idle Hour Duck club OF o.
den. was filed with the secretary Of
state today. The capital stock Is $500.
divided into $50 shares Of the par value
OF IS each. II. II. Henderson Is pres
ident, c. G. Adney. vice president, Il.
c. Dundy. secretary and r. A. Moyes,
treasurer. The object OF the corpora
ton IL TO secure q suitable duck hunt
ing ground for its members and to con-
struct club houses on the same.
Word from Fort Douglas this after
noon stated that the lost ammunition
has been received at the depot, and was
being removed TO the post. so that the
batteries will be able to start out to-
morrow morning on their march TO the
Strawberry. The ammunition Is mostly
32 inch shells.
Major Bird has received the sad news
of the death of his brother, Levi c.
Bird Of Delaware City, Del, at the age
of so years, The deceased was the
youngest of a family Of eight, the ia
ther dying not long ago at the age OF
QS, He was a graduate OF Harvard and
was considered one of the most dstin-
gushed members OF the state bar A
Wilmington paper says Of him, The
state Of Delaware has lost an honored
and respected citizen. the profession Of
the law one OF its ablest exemplaries,
and the people one OF their truest and
best loved friends"
g. II. Savage has returned from Iron
county where he has been to take
numerous photographs OF the great
iron region, and is now busy finishing
up a large lot for distribution by the
Kimberly people. Mr.. Savage was told
while there by these investors that
there were 4OO,0eo.O0o tons OF iron in
sight In those mountains, 10 say moth
ing of what may be below the surface
They believed that eventually Iron
county. Utah, would become the great.
est iron center In the world.
The old Phillips congregational
church is being torn down TO make
way for the new structure.
Rev. r. A. Simpkin Of the Phillips
Congregational church preached the
sermon this morning at the funeral In
the state prison chapel OF the slain con-
Wet Fred BabcocK, alias Mike McCor-
mick. He preached to the living rather
than the dead. and what he said evil
IDENTIFY had good effect upon the pris-
on audience listening to him. Mrs. f. B.
Rathbone. representing the W. c. T. u.
assisted and brought flowers, and three
ladies sang very acceptably. The re-
mains were not exposed TO view as de-
composition had set In. and they were
not presentabe. Six TRUSTEES acted as
pallbearers ana bore the coffin TO the
prison Cemetery, where with brief and