Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-12-17
JANUARY.

LIN an Interview al Washington,
j g., Senator Reed Smoot resented the
imputatIOn that he had been elected to
represent anyone but Utah,
News reached SprIngyllle. Utah, that
Mrs. Lula p. Alexander son ana
daughter had persisted In the lroquoIs
'aeater disaster
President and Mrs. Roosevelt gave a
blllant reception no the White House.
~ II. Cirliiiths a portrait artist CONF
mltted suicide In the SAT- Lake CITY
'all by examining a handkerchief down
ais throat
2-Empress Eugenle was reported se-
riousiy IN I'm Paris.
state board of parlons committed the
sentence Of James Lynch, convicted OF
murder % life imprisonment.
Horace O.. Burt resigned the prcsl-
dency OF the Union Pacific rallroaod.
4.-Frank J. Hewlett was elected
president Of the salt Lake city coun-
eli.
Adelna Patti arrived In salt Lake
and save O concert IN the Tabernacle.
6-Rep0ts indicated prospects Of
continued peace IN the far east
In a wreck on the Rock Island near
Topeka, Kan, 20 persons were Killed
and many injured
Secret service men were reported In
Salt Lake after Perry Heath, IN con-
nrCtlon with postal scandals.
j. b. MOreton. clerk of the Salt Lake
City school board, was removed from
Office and l.. l., Judd appointed In his
stead
clone hlghwayman held up Salt
Lake streetcar at intersection Of Thlr-
tecnth East and Second South streets,
killing MOtorman Amosa Gleason and
mcrtally woundug Conductor Thomas
Brighton, who died later
~. NJ. shockley was arrested,
charged with the murder Of the two
street car men. He later confessed,
S-Senator Dietrich charged with
bribery, was found not guilty.
Ex-senator smoot filed his answer to
charges against him.
Steamer Clallam went down In Puget
sound, % people being drowned.
l0.-Assassln ShoclSley told the story
Of his awful crime. denying any intcn.
tlon to kin when he committed the
hodup
i2-E. d. Empey was shot aud killed
az Moab, Utah, by Town Marshal
Bohny.
War appeared imminent In the far
east.
l3-Lloyd Chlpman, 10 years OF age
was accidentally shot and Killed at
American Fork,
15,-W. II. Bancroft was elected Vice
president and general manager Of the
Union Pacific.
+. j. Hagenbarth Of Salt Lake was
elected president OF the National Live.
stock association.
iG-Mrs. James w. Hart, ST., was
Killed in a runaway near Bloomington,
Ida
2O-The Utah lake irrigation project
received a decided impetus al meet
Ing held in East Jordan.
I.--The Guffey- Galley syndicate be-
gan boring for oil at Pennington, Da-
Wis county
"a Moundvlle, Ala, was swept by
tornado and practically wiped of the
map.
23.-Rear-end collision on Lucln cut
on resulted In three persons being
killed and six injured
25-smIth Woolley was confirmed L.
s. assayer at Boise.
26.-Fifteen miners were crushed to
death at Independence, Colo
Nearly 200 men persisted In a Penn |
sylvanla coal mine.
Whitaker Wright committed suicide
IN London by poisoning, after being
found guilty Of fraud and sentenced to |
seven years penal seryltude.
2d-rhe Lace House, Salt Lake con- |
fessed bankruptcy.
Twenty persons were injured in a |
Street car collision at 81. Louis
"a disastrous fire visited Murray. |
d. d. Baron & Co. being burned out
3O'-Mercur was visited by a $4,000 |
blaze, the Opera House and other |
buildings being destroyed
Mrs. Susannah Gerber, an insane wo-
man, committed suicide by hanging at |
State Mental hOspital