The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-08-12

flOu OIL prosperity IS anedu OF lne
state.
Increase of business of the local post
office during the quarter ending June
80, over the corresponding quarter d
last year. is marked. according 10 the
regular statement which has reCn is
sued IN April, May and June, 1894
SAT 2O013 business was transacted
while in the same three months of 1906
the total amounted to $54.436.2S. This
is an increase of $I236.15, or 1913 per
cent.
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A handsome French automobile ma dc
i'm Paris the body of which was con-
suucted in New York, has just Seen
received by Mrs. Edwin f. Holmes of
this city. The cost of the machine was
$4,000. In the whole of The United
States there are only three other such
machines-one in New York, one in
New Orleans and one in Washington.
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A new county Jail building, nearer
the city and county building, is being
considered by the county commission
ers. The present Jail is not large
enough for the number of prisoners it
has TO house. Further than this, it
is. in the opinion of officers, so far
from the courts that taking prisoners
TO and fro has an element of risk. In
convenience always attends taking
prisoners to and from trial.
Jacob Alt. a pioneer liquor dealer of
Salt Lake died Sunday from paralysis.
He WAS widely known in Utah, where
he had lived many years.
A plan to make productive a tract of
from 10000 TO 10000 acres of remark
ably rich farming land near Green
River Utah, is under consideration by
number of well known Utah men,
who have already gone so far as to
take preliminary steps for the organi-
cation of a company, and to file on
valuable water rights along Green riv-
er Joseph H. Young, now Of Denver;
Colonel +. A. Wall and Duncan Mac
Nichie, of Salt Lake, are among the
men interested in the project.
School census returns for 1905 in the
ifty-two districts of Salt Lake City
were completed recently in the office
F. Of Secretary of the Board of Education
J.. z. Judd. The figures showed a to-
tai enrolment of boys of $685. while
there are S,623 girls. OF these there are
thirty colored boys and like number
of colored girls. The enumerators
found $50 boys who could not read or
write, and SOD girls in the same plight.
$50 girls attend private schools.
In Il formal communication to the
city council signed by Joseph II. Smith,
as president Of the corporation, the
Utah Light 6, Railway company Mon /
day night accepted the franchise passed
by a majority vote of the council. 1t
had been understood that the company
would act without delay and its accept
al aft i41
expected.
The time in which Soting machines
might have been adopted in Titan for
use - next Novembers election has
now passed. The law provides that no
machine shall be used that has not
been approved by the state commits |
sion ninety days before the succeeding
election. As the election falls on Nov.
Z. it would not now be possible to ex-
anime and approve a machine.
The example set by Barnum's circus
seems to be contagious. The labor
unions at Ogden were the first to fall
in line, or, rather, not to fall in line. |
and pronounce against parades. Now |
the salt Lake unions have decided 10 |
dispense with a parade on Labor day, /
Sept. q. Instead the workers viii IN |
dUlge in huge clam bake at Lagoon. /
CLANS will be free for every one V no |
goes. Three tons OF the crustecanS
have been ordered from Seattle, and |
the bake viii be in charge of an expert |
from California
The Newman Shoe company. 12O
Main street, made an assignment to /
John .. Critchlow. manager of the |
Utah. Association of Credit men. The !
assets are stated to be about $4,000 1
and the liabilities about $1,000, but
definite figures and a list of creditors |
viii not be given out until an inven- |
tory is taken and the books are given |
an examination. Fire losses FASTENED |
the assignment.
one Of the biggest mining rushes in |
this sections history is now on with |
the Uintah forest reserve as its OBJ |
jective point. Thousands of claims |
nave already been staked in the addi- |
tional strip of forest reserve set aside
by President Roosevelt in his procla-
nation Of June IA. Salt Lake men have
sent out many prospectors, one outfit |
of sixty having been gotten together
in this city.
There is a loud demand for teachers
from all over the state, and the state
superintendent office is flooded with
iJBedlS itOll DOdlOS OF eQuCdIlOn TO
supply them with teachers and prin-
cipals. Sewer county is in need of
four principals. Summit county also
needs four, while Toolee and Juab
need one each. Superintendent Nelson
has no means of supplying teachers to
the several counties that want them, j.
but when a teacher applies for place
he will cite him to the counties in need
Of instructors There is need Of four
or five hundred teachers in the state
to complete the roster required for the
schools this fall. The first examina-
ton under the new law resulted in
the failure Of fully so per cent of the
applicants.
Judge John a. Marshall of the Utah
district has been asked by Circuit
Judge Sanborn to preside for two
months over the federal court for the
western district of Missouri, in place
Of Judge Phillips, who is incapacitated
for duty because of illness. Judge
Marshall has consented to serve and
viii leave here Sept. for Kansas
City TO take up his duties. He viii
hold court at st. Joseph, Jefferson City
and Springfield as well as at Kansas
City. Mo. The selection of Judge Mar
shall to preside over the Missouri
court is quite a compliment to the
Utah iurist, who is recognized as one
OF the ablest among the United States
district judges of the country. TheI
court for the western district of Mis-
souri, is one Of much Importance. many
cases involving large amounts and in