The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29
JUL

July douglas A. Swan, prominent
railroad man and old resident of Utah.
oles in Salt Lake; Charles O. WhittemOre
general counsel for the Salt Lake Route,
resigns to become vice president and
general counsel for the new Las Vegas
& Tonopah railroad; Mrs. Henrietta Nc
Laughlln McEnery, a Salt Lake society
leader, dies in Son Francisco.
July -Four cars Of powder explode
near Beck Hot Springs injuring two
persons and imperiling the lives of hun.
dreds of passengers on nearby trains.
July 5-Henry Eckman, Finn miner. is
murdered while at work in the tunnel of
the Phoenix mine at Bingham
July ELLA May Elite, 10 years old is
drowned in City Creek canyon; eleven are
injured IN salt Lakes Fourth of July
celebration.
July 6-Jim Donaldson, one of the bun
CO men who robbed Alexander and VII
nam McWhirter of S1O.3l3 is found guilty
OF grand larceny; Captain Jack Cotton. a
pioneer indian scout, died at Vernal.
July Louis Lynn. business agent of
the Electrical Workers union. disappears
July S-Dr. James E Talmage resigns
the chair of geology at the University of
Utah; Get Acquainted" week brings
many visitors from all parts of Utah into
Salt Lake
July 9-Brigham GoIding. 70 years old.
accidentally shoots and kills his sister.
Marguerite GOlding. is years old ar their
home in Salt Lake; two convicts who had
just been released from the state penf-
Tertiary steal valuable team from the
prison barn.
July 1O-Professor ]. r. Kingsburv of
Salt Lake is elected vice president of the
National Education association at its Los
Angeles convention: John W. Haywood a
prominent Elk. dies in Salt Lake.
July n-Real Estate day at Saltafr
proves a huge success; attorneys for Mrs.
Anna Bradley, charged with the murder
or FORMER Senator Arthur Brown in
Washington, d. C, make application for
bail for the prisoner; the Elite gambling
house at Ogden is broken into and 81. 800
is stolen
July PLANES NJ. Campbell. a Salt Lake
real estate dealer, falls from Lagoon train
at Bountiful and is fatally injured.
July 13-Mrs. Anna Bradley undergoes
a serious but successful operation in
Washington hospital
July 14-Linus W. Timby, well known
salt Lake insurance man, ends his life
by leapinS from window of St Marks
fever.
July 15-Ban for Mrs Anna Bradley is
fixed at $1,000; r. B. Donough. of Salt
Lake travelling freight agent for the ore
gOn Short Line, is scalded to death under
switch engine in wreck at Kemerer.
WyO.
July 16-James A strane. instructor at
the University Of Utah, is accidentally
drowned in the Minnesota river near. ST
Paul; effort is begun TO make Fort Doug
las brigade post: Mrs William Ross OF
Ogden narrowly escapes being burned to
death by blazing gasoline accidentally
thrown at her
July 17-George A. Sheets. chief of DO
lice of Salt Lake. is bound over to the
district court by Justice of the Peace Ne-'
phi Timpson of Forest Dale. to await
trial on charge Of criminal conspiracy:
Los Angeles city officials form a com
pany 10 control large deposits of oil dis
covered in the Virgin oil fields in Utah:
State Retail Merchants association holds
its annual convention in Ogden. r Fl
Borrow of Salt Lake attempts suicide at
Ely, New, by slashing his throat with
razor; the Bingham Consolidated Mining
company purchases a smelter site in
Tooele county.
July 1S-The State Retail Merchants as
ISOLATION elect Edwin Williams of Ogden
president and choose Spanish Fork as
the place for the next annual convention
Miss Beatrice Cheesman of Salt Lake and
Lieutenant Robert n. Campbell L s A
are married in Salt Lake; District Attor-
reg Fred c. Loofbourow files information
in the district court charging Chief of Po-
lice George A. Sheets with criminal CON
spiracy in connection with the McWbir1er
robbery; Dr. f. J. Pack is appointed to
succeed DR.. James Z. Talmage as pro-
fessor of geology at the University of
Utah.
July 1s-salt Lake Boys band starts on
a 10OO0-mile tour of the country; Elmer
b. Jones of Salt Lake secures option on
securities of Utah Independent Telephone
company held at Rochester, n. Y. by
the United States Independent Telephone
company; big oil strike is made a few
miles from St. George. Utah. in the Vir-
gin oil field district. The Utah, the Ida
no and the Western Sugar companies
combine in Salt Lake and form an ANAL
gamated company, to be known as the
Utah-Idaho Sugar company, controlling
practically the entire output of sugar in
Utah and Idaho
July 20.-RetaiI dealers of the state in
meeting in Salt Lake. inaugurate a cam
paign against catalogue houses: teaching
force at the University of Utah is in
creased and standard of entrance quail
fications is raised; new city directory
shows population of Salt Lake to be
Sc. 362
July 21.-Telephone linemen agree to
submit compromise agreement with Bell
Telephone company to settle strike to ref
erendum vote of the unions.
July 22.-Chief of Police George A
Sheets of Salt Lake is arrested on a
charge of accepting bribe as the result
of a confession made by W. W. st. Clair.