The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-02-14
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CITY AND NEIGHBoRHooD.


the employ of the Associated Pres
have signed a petition asking for al
increase of 20 per cent in their salaries
The men work from eight to ten hour;
every day, but they claim that theil
work is the most taxing on the nerve!
and brain of any in the world. Their,
are four operators employed in tn
Salt Lake branch, and they receive
from S27 TO $S1 week.
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Mr.. Frank A. Burrelle has just de.
livered to the Postal Telegraph com
pany the twenty albums containing the
published obituaries of the late John
W Mackay. The labor of gathering
and placing in album form was begun
last July. There are $3.50 clippings to
each set, covering 1885 pages of Irish
linen leaves 10xI2 inches This is the
largest collection of material ever gath
cred concerning the death of a private
individual and the kindly expression of
the press of the country was unani-
nous. Four sets of books were ordered
by the postal company, one set being
designed for Mrs. Mackay, the second
TO Mr.. Clarence Mackay, one to the
Postal Telegraph company and one to
the Commercial Gable company.
The Press club, at its annual meet
Ing, elected officers for the ensuing
year. The reports that were submitted
showed the club to be in a Furnishing
condition in every sense of the word.
A vote of thanks was accorded to each
Of the outgoing officers A. G. McKen-
zie was elected president for the ensu-
ing year. succeeding William Igleheart;
J. T. Goodwin, first vice president; w.
D. Vigus, second vice president; c. c.
Chapman, secretary; George E. Car
penter. treasurer, and A. c. Reese, Rus
sell Lowry. w. F. Flanagan and Will
liam Igleheart to constitute the board
of managers, with president, secretary
and treasurer. Senator-elect Reed
Smoot and Frank J. Gustin were elect
ed associate members, and w. D. Van
Blarcom was elected an active mem
Der. A vote of thanks was given Jacob
Moritz for a set Of ivory billiard balls
and six ivory tipped billiard cues, and
Mr.. MOritz was voted a standing invi-
tation to all club entertainments.
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Mr.. f. J. Hagenbarth, general man
ager of the Wood-Hagenbarth Cattle
company, has just returned from trip
10 Mexico, where he went to look after
the principanry purchased by his COM
pany last November 1t may be re-
membered that back in the eighties
John w. Young and his associates pur-
chased various tracts of land in the
state of Chihuahua, Mexico. amount
Ing to two and one-half million acres.
and extending for a distance of 100
miles across the border. A company
known as the Northwestern Colonial
ton & Improvement company was or
ganized, and bonds We're issued and a
colonization scheme was well
under way when the troubIous financial
crisis of 1898 came along and swamped
the whole thing.
Last summer the Wood-Hagenbarth |
Cattle company was organized, COM
posed Of such well known financiers as
J. D. Wood, w. S. Mccormick. Joseph |
Barnett, H. c. Wood. o. NJ Stafford, a |
wealthy banker of Cleveland, O., and |
T. J. Hagenbarth. Negotiations were /
entered into with the bondholders of |
the Northwestern Colonization com |
pany, which resulted in the purchase OF
this immense tract of land at an out
lay of 100000