The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-08-27

BY means Of a coupe effected by
Judge W. O. Powers between the dele
cations from Fl Paso and Salt Lake
Il combine has been made practically
guaranteeing the permanent location
OF the American congress for the Nor
mon capital.
!. H. Brady. chairman of the Re
publican state committee OF Idaho, was
i'm the city Tuesday. He is also the
president and general manager of the
American Falls Light and Power COM
pany Of Idaho.
When the harvest of 1904 is complet-
ed in Utah and Idaho the volume of
small grain VIII be found greatly in
excess Of previous years, so growers
say; and at no time in the past twenty
years have farmers been confronted
with as heavy crops generally, nor a
season in which grain has ripened over
such a large area in so short a time
Great changes for the better are
in progress in Mexico City, ac-
cording to b. F. Grant, who has just
returned to salt Lake from a trip to
the old republic. American schools and
methods have everywhere been intro
duced. The architecture of the country
is undergoing changes and the Amer
lean style of residences is everywhere
being observed. Mr.. Grant believes
that a change from the silver to the
gold standard al this time would prove
disastrous.
James Whitehouse, sculptor on the
new Catholic cathedral is dead. He was
an experienced carver and did the work
or the Emery Holmes apartment
houses, the y. T. Walker block. and
other prominent buildings. His success
sor on the cathedral viii be Walter
Baird. The steeples of the cathedral
will be of stone, surmounted with il
Illuminated crosses. The building is al
most ready for roofing.
James F. O'Brien, a former Ophir
miner, died Monday afternoon in a
hack which was carrying him frim the
Rio Grande depot to the Sisters hos
pital from heart failure, due to loss
of vitality from Inflammation Of the
bowels.
Utah cantaloupes and melons are ar |
irving freely and daily. The California |
variety is entirely out of the market. |
Rocky Fords. which have been supplied |
20 the uOLtlS ddL1 4tSAodi dAAAS VI AcitSr /
viii stop coming into town this week, |
as this years product is about over.
Frost did no small amount of dam !
age in the low lying farm lands near
Salt Lake Sunday night. Monday re-
ports came into the city from all direc-
lions, particularly from the north and
east, OF destruction of more tender gar
den plants Tomato vines suffered par
tiCularly and melons were also badly
bitten in some localities Just how
great the aggregate damage is, even in
the approximate, is not known, but it
Is safe TO say that ii will amount in all
10 several thousand dollars, most of
which was suffered by small farmers.
Orchard fruit was not particularly
harmed. For the most part it was
ground plants and vines.
Vivian ?. Strange, civil and mining
engineer, with offices in the Mccormick
block, returned from Goldfield the other
day. Mr. Strange has located some
ground. He says one may find
n little of everything and all kinds of
society at Goldfield, provided one is
not particular about the society.
The Crib at Bethlehem. on exhibition
inside the window Of the confectionery
No. Is e. First South,
viii be disposed Of at rattle some time
in the near future. Mr.. O'Donnell, the
patient artist who Whitfield with pen
knife the statuettes representing the
scenes in the life Of Christ. has decided
10 give some person an opportunity to {
win the product Of his labor of love
Whoever wins it will possess prize as
unique as it is rare. In fact, nothing
like it elsewhere.