The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-07-09

:. Little Rock special car, twenty :.
I. people. Arrive $50 a. m; :;
!. Baltimore, three special cars, !
.- seventy-fve people. Arrive 2:30 y. =
=. m, leave 1l:5o p. m, Salt Lake :,
:. Route. :.
- " people, Arrive 20 p, m, leave !.
= 1850 p. ~. over the Salt Lake ::
!. Route, ::
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II was a busy day for the member;
of Salt Lake Lodge No. So, b. p. o, f..
on Thursday. It was Purple day, anc
that meant that it would be unusually
strenuous. Then there were thousands
of visiting Elks expected This was
more strenuous. Then came mes
sage saying that q wreck would dc
lay the arrival of Rio Grande trains
and this meant more work, for friends
of the delayed delegations beslcged
the clubroom in person and by phone,
seeking information which the various
committees were unable 10 furnish,
Then there was the crowd who would
visit the lake that had to be cared for,
Hence, as said, it was an extraordinarily
strenuous day, and then some. The
first arrivals Thursday morning were
the Denver bunch They arrived at
$3.50 O'Clock,
DeUVeI bulCu 0Olly Oue-
IT will be a cold day when Salt Lake
City sees a warmer herd of Elks than
the bunch from Denver All of the
antlered leaders from the Queen City
Of Mountain and Plain came along
with n special Colorado tram, number
ing more than $50 in all, - The world
moves. and so does Turner is ia
miliar to Denveritcs, buf the way that
George f.. made Saltsir move Yesterday
was an eyc-openar for the slow fel-
lows. Alec Nisbet, famous as enter
-tainer story-teller and the best sheriff
that ever ruled at the junction of
cherry creek and the Platte river,
held the crowd to law and order rules.
Senator Milton Anfenger, lawyer, wit
nnd statesman. enlivcned the travel
wearcd ones D. Michael saw that
every tobacco lover kept the air filed
with smoke all the way,
The Denverites had a good time. de
spite telegruphic orders received by
Chief of Police Barlow to arrest Fred
Bartels and Perry y. Clay, publisher
Of the old Clay;s Review, on suspi-
sion 1T was soon discovered that
Chief of Police Armstrong and Cap
tain of Detectives "Wash' Rinker,
heads of the Denver force, had con
spired to Jolly the merrymaltcrs on
.heir way TO the grand lodge. About 3
clock in the afternoon another wlre
from Detective " johnny Kenny, stat
ing that Deputy sheriff Leonard De
Lne of Denver swore that II. j. Charl-
ton is badly wanted - in Los Angeles
on charges of exceeding thc speed limit
in several particulars, but Gus Dome.
dian and T.. r. knight went on his
bond, and he was released. Thomas NJ.
Hunter, president of the Denver Press
club, was fined twenty mint lollypops
for failing to tell the truth more than
eight times in succession. and Sam
Mayer was sentenced to be ducked by
the whole party on arriving at Long
Beach
Denver Delegates.
The Denver delegation took lunch at
the Louvre, where a party of Salt Lake
friends serenaded them. Professor
Charles Kent sang "Auld Lang Syne"
so beautifully that the visitors almost
made mp their minds 10 stay here. The
Denverites sang number of delight
ful parodies arranged by Walter Juan
Davis, the Denver POSTS real poet.
Among the other charming ballads
sung were; .,TheEe's a Hole in the
MARY" ~ She Turned the Damner Up"
and lsWell Well! Well" The Den
yer Elks carried a pretty purple book,
setting out the itinerary of the party,
with spaces for autographs They left
at 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon after
being shown over the city by the mem
hers of the local lodge, over the Salt
< Lake route. The run to Los Angeles
will be made III twenty three hours.
1t seemed as if fate was pursuing the
members of the order and their friends
who were routed over the Rio Grande,
for after being tied up for forty eight
hours by landslide at the west end
of the Royal gorge, the Grand canyon
of the Arkansas. and then being taken
back 10 Colorado Springs 10 be moved
over the Colorado Midland to Grand
Junction, they were again tied mp by
a wreck and again delayed. This wrecl,
occurred on the Joint track between
(ilenwood Springs and Grand Junction
thirty miles east Of the latter point, two
{ heavy freight trains colliding head-ou
destroying the engines and many ears
and piling the debris over the track
4 and putting an embargo on traffic for
another twelve hours.
Other railways were also slow in NOV
ing the special trains. The Cincinnati
/ specials with Garry Hermann and party
I $50 strong, due TO arrive at 7:30 clock
4 a. m. over the Oregon Short Line, did
not get in until o clock p. m.-about
seven hours late-due TO trouble on the
Union Pacific; hence. the programme
Y arranged for this party was necessarily
\ enrtailcd.
Will Always Remember Zion.
4 The Buckeyes, however, left Salt Lake
!. EIth a pleasant taste in their mouths
and with kindly feelings toward Salt
Takers for the royal manner in which