The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-05-16
WILL PUBLISH
NEW HISTORY
Knights of Columbus Will AS
SiSt Dean Harris in COL
Letting Material.
(From The Salt Lake HeraId.)

The Salt Lake council of the knights
of Columbus, with the cooperation of
the other councils of the same order in
Utah, will shortly undertake the compil-
ing and publishing of a volume of the
Catholic history of Utah. The Very Rev.
Dean Harris, who will be the author OF
the proposed work, outlined briefly last
evening at a banquet of the knights OF
Columbus of Utah the scope of this work.
1t was stated last evening that much of
the earliest history of Utah had never
been published.
In 1776 three Franciscan fathers made
their way north from Santa Fe, n. M.
and camped for one month and three
days on the shores of Utah lake among
the Indians. They explored the country
in its entirety, and on their return wrote
a complete report of their explorations,
and in this report is found the earliest
authentic report of the Great Salt lake,
of which they were the real discoveries
This report Dean Harris hopes to secure
in Spanish from the antiquarian library
of the Mexican government, in order to
translate it and to include it in the his
tory which is soon to be written by him
under the auspices of the knights of Co
lumbuS.
Franciscan priest in this party was
Father Escalante, who had charge of the
expedition, and who made a report in
great detail of the exploration of this
party. This report, written in Spanish,
has never been published in its complete
ish was for a time in the National library
at Washington, but inquiry by Dean Har-
Tis developed the fact that it has been
lost. There is however, a copy of the
report in the antiquarian library in. the
City of Mexico. Dean Harris has written
Paul Hudson. editor of the Mexican Her
aid, who will secure for the reverend
author a transcript in Spanish of this doc
ument.
In State Council.
The banquet given last evening by the
Knights of Columbus concluded the ses-
sion of the state council of the order
held in Salt Lake yesterday. At this
meeting James Killeen, pastg rand knight
of the Salt Lake council. was elected. as
state deputy supreme knight, to succeed
officers are: S. Abbott McGinnis of Og-
den, reelected state secretary; John
Welsh of Park City, state treasurer; j. D.
Stack of Eureka, state advocate, and j.
A. Fa!lon of Park City, state warden.
Park City was designated as the place
at which the next meeting of the state
council will be held.
The delegates attending the meeting of
the state council, in addition to the state
officers, were: S. a. McGinnis and J. II.
City, John ]. Sullivan and James F. Han
ley of Eureka and T. ]. OBrlen and
James Killeen of Salt Lake. w. l.. Nc
Ginnis, retiring state deputy supreme
Ol OBOSIlI y. d. OOSBTllI VI OdIl
Lake, former state treasurer OF the order;
George Jay Gibson of Salt Lake, retiring
state advocate, and State Warden John
A. Fallon of Park City were also members
Of the state couT Gil
Thirty candidates were initiated into
the third degree last evening by the Salt
Lake council, with the assistance of Judge
McGinnis and the state degree team. The
first and second degrees were eXemplified
in the afternoon and the third in the even
ing. Following the comforting of the
third degree came the banquet, which was
served by the ladies of the Altar society
of St Marys cathedral.
At this banquet Roy Byrne of Omaha
officiated as POSTMASTER. In addition to
the Very Rev. Dean Harris. the speak
ers were: The Very Rev. Denis Kelly,
vicar general of the diocese of Salt Lake.
who represented the Right Rev. Bishop
Laurence Seaman; the Very Rev. Father
Guinan, president of All Hallows college;
Rev Father A. Ryan, T. J. O'Bren, grand
knight of Salt Lake council; State Dep
lty w. L. McGinnis and James Devine of
Ogden.