The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-04-12
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!. SALT LAKE
CITY AND NEIeHBoRHooD.

by the large number of visitors to the
Mormon conference, along with other
convention gatherings, taxed the hotel
and rooming capacity of the city to the
utmost. Proprietor Wey of the Wind
sor now wishes there was another
story to his hotel. He expects to
change the Wey to a rooming hotel,
eliminating the dining room.
Peter Mortensen, awaiting trial upon
the charge of numbering J. r. Hay,
has set himself assiduously to work to
learn to play the guitar, receiving in
structions from Bert De Shazo. Perched
on a tobacco can, before a small table
upon which is spread an instruction
book, Mortensen spends the greater
part of his time bending over his
guitar slowly picking out the notes
and learning to manipulate his fingers.
Since turning his attention to musical
pursuits, Mortensen has rearranged the
tune of "She Was Happy Till She Met
YOU" so that it would fit some words
entitled Take Her Back, Dad" With
ruler and pencil the prisoner has made
numerous copies of his composition,
and the unsteady inclined prisoners
are busily engaged learning to sing it,
under the instructions of the composer.
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The Telegram prints the following
facts about the sheep industry of Utah:
This years clip viii aggregate IL, 000, 900
pounds, an increase of Is per cent over
last seasons product. There are nearly
100000 sheep in the state, and the
number is rapidly increasing. The quail
tty Of Utah wool shows a great i'm
provement during the past five years
Price, Milford, Mount Pleasant, Cotton
and Brigham City are the principal
shearing places. The shearing season.
which lasts from April l to May Is
gives RrnnlnNn1pnt IN q IA Of
shearers. many of whom earn from Sc
to $40 per day. The value of the wool
produced in Utah this year will be
nearly 100000.
In Salt Lake there is practically no
variation in the price of coal from one
end of the year to the other Coal from |
Wyoming, Colorado and Utah is the |
same throughout, SIS ton for lump, |
$4.75 for nut, and $3.50 for slack.
Anthracite coal shows the only de- |
parture from this rule, being shipped |
from Colorado. This takes A drop
of so cents ton during the months of /
July and August, due to the oversup- |
ply during the warm months
There is no foundation for the pub
lished reports that the Carpenters
union contemplates a strike" said
Secretary c. A. Strickland. 1--WE ex-
pect, and have every reason to believe,
that our demands will be granted with
out any trouble with the builders. The
president of the Master Builders or
ganization has now posted in his shop
a notice that outside wages will be As
cents an hour after May l."
Hoyt Sherman has returned from
Denver more impressed than ever with
the remarkable growth of the town. He
% was told that during the last year /, 500
new houses had been built in Denver.
and still there was a house famine /
People are coming into the city so
last that houses are rented before they
are completed, and before the carpen-
tiers can sweep out their Shavings and
rubbish, tenants are moving in. There
VIII be some 1000 or more houses built
In Denver the current year.
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B. F. Browne, who recently returned
from the City of Mexico, found a very
unsanitary condition of affairs there.
This is due to the laying of a sewer
system which will take in the entire |
city, and which has been a crying need
ever since the city was built For CEN
turtles the cesspool system has been in
vogue until the entire soil on which the
city is built has become saturated with :
Nth, and now that it is being dug uE
for sewering, the effluvium and miasma
given off is something terrible. How
ever, Mr.. Browne says that the sewers
Will all be laid inside of two years, and
then the great city viii have chance
to become clean. At present the death
rate is very heavy and is likely to con- .
tinue so for some time, from fevers
mostly.
j. J. Shaugnessy, better known as :
Jack Shaughnessy, one of the best :
known and most popular commercial )
travellers in the west, is dead. News
was received of his demise in San
Francisco of pneumonia last Saturday. +,
For twenty-one years Jack" \
Shaughnessy had been in the employ :,
of E. Lillienthal and the Crown DiStil- :
lerles, and wherever he went he made \
friends He had scores of friends in
Salt Lake and other places in Utah.
As an example of his character. the !.
incident is told that he saw some time s
ago in a Montana town laboring man &
Killed. leaving a widow and five chill
dren penniless. While number of
people were talking sympathetically, G
Shaughnessy took off his hat, threw I
800 into it and announced
Il sympathize S100 worth. How much
dc you sympathize?" T
He raised $500 for the widow and r
children in less than an hour
Mr.. Shaughnessy was born in New
York forty-five years ago. He studied ?
law and later was secretary of the o
Bullion Mining company at Virginia a
city, New His parents are dead and r
the funeral was arranged by his sister
Mrs. w B. Hobson of San Jose. Cal
MIR. Shaughnessy was member of the E,
Seattle lodge of Elks. e.
Governor Wells issued his annual
fixing April Is. Arbor day, Fl
as a legal holiday. The proclamation
follows:
1.-The people of Utah are hereby re- II
minded that Tuesday the 18th of April.
1902. is Arbor day, designated and set
aside by law as a public holiday to m
afford them an opportunity to adorn
their homes and their surroundings
with trees. shrubs and vines. 1t is in
therefore, hoped and recommended that
the day will be devoted to the purposes
specified, and ii is especially enjoined "
upon officers and teachers of schools m
that instruction be given and exercises ST
prescribed that will illustrate to the
children the Importance of forest Gull
ture as the greatest of all beautiiers q,
IF the complexion of nature"
The seventy second annual confer OF
snce of the Mormon church. which hC
in the tabernacle. proved to re
be the largest gathering of the kind in Al
recent years Ideal weather prevailed
and the streets of the city were crowd
ed with visitors. w
In his annual address President Jo
seph +. Smith reviewed the work of
The church the past year and congrat- in
llated its members for having done