The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-07-15

The state board of equalization mas
made verbal report showing that the
total valuation of property in the state
this year will be approximately Sl4O,-
10000 This shows that Salt Lake
county has more than 36 per cent OF the
taxable wealth of the state.
The paving on both sides of Brigham
street as far east as Seventh East
street viii be finished within the next
six weeks, is the expectation of Colonel
L. A. Wall of the board of puDhc
works This WILL when finished, be the
finest street in the city.
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Pioneer day, July "a. which falls on
Monday this year, viii be celebrated
with street parade in the morning,
ending with Sunday school picnic at
Liberty park in the afternoon.
Physical culture in the public schools
OF Salt Lake is advocated by the home
and education section of the Ladies
Literary club.
Those who made possible the building
of the Y. NJ. c. A. building were the
honored guests, to the number of $50,
of the association mana cement and the
Women's section at a reception Monday
evening. The reception, which was the
first formal function rendered the
donors to the Y. NJ. c. A, was given on
a scale that called forth many compli-
mentary remarks.
A band of 100 Bannock Indians will
probably lead the parade in Salt Lake
on Pioneer day, July "A. They will
bring with them their tepees, their lit
tie papooses their war clothes and ev-
erything which has to do with their
daily life and will be one of the finest
exhibits yet seen in any parade.
An opinion was handed down by the
supreme court affirming the judgment
of the lower court in the case of Daniel
Hickey against the Rio Grande Western
Railway company. The judgment of
the lower court was for $500 damages.
Hickey was loading a wagon at the
company's depot in Salt Lake, when
escaping steam from an engine caused
his team to run away, injuring him Sc
Verely.
Acting Mayor Hewlett signed the res
olution providing for the construction
of a bridge across City creek, in fur
therance of the Commercial clubs plan
for the improvement of the boulevard
from City Creek canyon to Fort Doug
las. The Commercial club has raised
$4,000 of the $4,000 proposed to be eX-
pended on the boulevard.
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A tragedy of polygamy is shown in
an opinion handed down in the supreme
court Tuesday, wherein a pOlySamous
wife is prevented from claiming the
home she had occupied for forty years,
but which was willed by the man she
called her husband to the Mormon
church. In vain the woman appealed
to the courts to enforce what she
deemed was her rights. The supreme
court shows its sympathy, but never
theless the memorable law, in these
words:
Living there. it may be true as she
says, that she acted the part of a du-
tiful wife to a husband; that she be
came greatly attached to the home
where she reared her children: and that
now i'm her old age she ought not to be
compelled to leave that home How
ever this may be. whatever misery she
may think has overtaken her, neither
law nor equity can, under the circum-
stances, grant her any relief. The mis-
fortune, if i'm fact it be misfortune,
she must attribute to her own act-her
own NOlition 10 become a plural wife
for thenceforth she was without
the pale of the law of inheritance as to
any property in which her husband had
acquired or might thereafter acquire"
Workmen on Wednesday began clear
ing the ground for building that will
have the largest street frontage of any
business block in the city 1t will occu-
py the northeast corner Of Market and
West Temple streets. The frontage on
Market viii be $50 feet and that on
West Temple seventy-four feet. part
of the site is now occupied by the
Armory building. This will be torn
down to make room for the new struc-
ture. The Houston Real Estate Invest
ment company and O. J. Salisbury will
be the joint owners.
Salt Lake, i'm common with the entire
western country, is suffering from an
unusually hot wave. which has hung
over the region west Of the Rocky
mountains for several days Not a
drop Of rain has fallen in the entire
section west Of the Rockies, nor are the
indications for even sprinkle very
encouraging.
Reports from Box Elder county are
to the effect that from 40 to so per cent
of the tomato crop between Willard and
Brigham City has been entirely ruined
by a blight, which destroys the plants
as well as the fruit.
10 establish whether or not any
wrong methods are pursued in the man
ufacture of ice cream by the several
caterers of this city, State Chemist
Harms is engaged i'm collecting a few
samples for the purpose of testing
them In some of the eastern cities
very vigorous measures have been
adopted to prevent the sale of impure
ice cream, and the findings of Chemist
Harms i'm relation to the Salt Lake
product viii be awaited with interest.
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Daniel J. Jacobs, "A grocer residing at
the corner of Twelfth East and Twelfth
South streets, is critically i'll at his
home with an attack of lockjaW The
lockiaw is the result of a powder burn
received on July 4, and while the case
was early taken in hand and the latest
remedies known to medical science are
being applied, it is not likely that Mr..
Jacobs win recover. While celebrating
Independence day Mr.. Jacobs burned
his right hand with a small firecracker.
The harlequin parade to be given by
the Elks on the evening of July 20,
promises to be one of the most pic
turesque affairs ever seen in Salt Lake.
Those having the matter in charge are
working out the details rapidly and
there is no question that the parade
viii be something entirely out of the
ordinary.
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