The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-08-13


spend two days in Salt Lake City.
Salt Lakers drink water of unusu
purity, according to a report filed wi
Secretary NJ. r. Brothers of the boai
of health by State Chemist HERNIA
Harms. The report contains the sati
( flying intelligence that there are fe
impurities of any nature in eith'
source of the city's water supply M
Harms findings are the result of tes
and comparisons.
Work on the y. NJ. c. A. building
Progressing rapidly. the walls hayin
passed the second floor Forty me
are at work and the roof is to be i
place and the concrete floors laid j
twenty-oue days after the completio
OF the walls. This, it is thought, Wi
be early i'm September. Funds are sti
coming in for the building, and Nh
Cox sees no reason why it should no
be dedicated early in the coming year
Miss Sarah Whalen, a teacher in tn
state school for the blind, has bee
asked by Dr. Mil of the Royal I'm
perial school for the blind at Vienna, {,
write for the magazine published un
DER his editOrShip. Dr. Nell was i'm
pressed with Miss Whalen's method;
as exhibited at the fair in st. Louis anC
wishes her to become a regular con.
tributor.
An unaccustomed thirst for root beer
was apparently developed by the large
crowd al Callers park Sunday That
is, it was unaccountable to Deputy
Sheriff Stout until he purchased a bottle
of the beverage and sampled it, The
1..r.
suspiciously like plain every day lager
beer and when he tasted ii his sus-
picion was confirmed.
Byron Groo, secretary of the state
board of land commissioners. has writ
len TO State Engineer Doremus. asking
him to investigate the upper site OF the
Bucllhorn Flats reservoir proposition
Should the state engineer find the pro-
ject to be a feasible one, then the land
board will undertake the construction
Of d reservoir for the reclamation of
thousands Of acres Of good soil in that
vicinity.
One of the most encouraging features
of the local situation is the number, of
people who are moving into Salt Lake
from all sides and from a number
Of adjoining states to make their per-
manent homes here. The number of
small houses that have gone up and
the number more that are under con-
struction is j matter OF surprise to all
Visitors.
B. 3. Quinn is out for the Democratic
nomination for county assessor and
seems very likely to get it. Barney
llled the office once before very ac-
ceptably.
Michael W. Earl, one of the best
known members of the fire department,
was given a well-earned promotion by
Chief William II. Bywater, which was
confirmed by the city council Monday
night. Captain Earl has been secre- /
tary of the department for the last
year, and was promoted to the cap
taincy Of the chemical at station 2.
Utah mines for the month of July
made a splendid dividend record, they
paying to shareholders nearly 81, 000, 600. |
The Utah Consolidated heads the list
with S450,000. The United States COM |
pany paid 100000, and the Silver King |
100000. Other dividend-payers were as |
follows: Daly-West, $72.000 Gemini- |
keystone, $4,000; Grand Central. |
$4,000; Mammoth, $4,000; Annie Lau-
RE. S12, 800, with several others for |
smaller amounts. There is less said |
about Utah mines than of other states,
yet they may be depended upon to each |
month pay splendid profits to the for
tunate owners.
A warrant was drawn by the state
auditor Monday for s5S67S as the
states portion for grasshopper boun-
ties in Sanpete county. This warrant
IS issued for 5000 pounds of hoppers
destroyed between June 20 and July 26
oy J. y. jacobson, who received as
county SSS0.10 from the auditor of
oanpete county. The county, under
he law. pays one-third of the bounty.
Castillo Springs is closed for the
present season" Such was the an
'ouncement made by John G. Critch-
ow, trustee for the creditors on return
ng from 4 recent visit to the resort
after careful investigation Mr..
,ritchloW decided that it would not be
'ood business to attempt TO keep the |
esort open longer this year i'm as much
IS no excursions are booked for the
OF the season.
Attorney c. c. Kinney is engaged i'm
eNlsing his treatise on Law Of Irri- !
alton ana Water Rights The book. | !
mich Is recognized as the leading =
YORK on Irrigation law and the west {
IN theory of water rights. was pub I
shed by tie author in 1898. Since
nat time cases involving the subjects
reated nave been decided to the num-
er OF about 5000. Besides incorporat-
~ IN his revised edition the rulings in
II cases that have been tried since
oSS MIR. Kinney viii also add eleven |
loIe chapters TO the work and publish |
IN Two octave volumes. Since the
resent volume was published the 7
uestlons have arisen in relation to in e
irrational and interstate waters and
lese VIII be fully treated in the re-
ised edition. h
John Kelly, one Of the early pioneers
Utah died suddenly last week at his
ONE in Fillmore at the age of eighty a
ne years. Mr.. Kelly came out with d
ne OF the hand cart companies in the | s
ally fifties. He has made his home s
Utah ever since and was well known | a
YER the state as Honest John" Kelly.
eceased was father of T. n. Kelly of
lie firm OF Rowe & Kelly, this city. r
rank Cochran, a sheepman, brought
the CITY last week a Compound Gin
anon bear, which he killed in East a
inyon, at the head of City Greek can {;
)n, with the aid of Matt Cochran's g
lssourl foxhounds. The Cochrans
ave a drove Of sheep on summer pas
ire IN the Bardscrabb and East
-nyon wilderness, and they report
iars quite plentiful there, both of tie
nnamon and black varieties The dis L
let is only seventeen to twenty miles
ON the city, but it is one of the wild :,
L regions 10 be found in the state. it V
ing impossible to traverse large por-
ons or ii even on horseback 1t is
lly with well-trained dogs that the n
ar can be hunted successfully.
3 a
Judge Edward +. Colburn of this f.
" has rendered valuable servicn TO |