EVENTS OF THE MONTH.

BY THOMAS HULL, GENERAL SECRETARY OF Y. M. M. I. A.

LOCAL-May 13-By vote of twelve to one Salt Lake City Council granted the franchise on 4th West for the Oregon Short Line, which provides for the building of a $100,000 depot....14-Reed Smoot announces that he is a candidate for the United States Senate..... The City Council approves a contract between the city and the canal companies for a pumping plant at Utah Lake............................................15—Many peace meetings were held throughout the state, with programs, consisting of speeches, songs, and recitations....... ........The University of Utah won the championship in a debate between its students and those of the Nevada University............................16—Mrs. Zina Pratt Bishop, wife of the well-known assayer, Captain F. M. Bishop, died, age 51 years...... The citizens of Sanpete County have entered the grasshopper fight in full force......... .....Glenwood, Sevier County, is overrun by caterpillars.............. ...17-The Norwegians celebrated the 88th anniversary of the independence of Norway..........................................Northern Utah is visited by a heavy rain storm......... .18-Mrs. Judge Thomas Marshall, 66 years old, died in Salt Lake City........................................ .Mrs. Rebecca Douglas Lowe, for the past four years President of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, was given a reception at the Bee-Hive House................ Judson Bliss Tomlinson, missionary, died in Samoa..................19— A severe frost visited Sanpete Valley, which, together with the threatened grasshopper invasion, insures a poor prospect for the crops..... .........20-The annual Oratorical contests of the Y. M. M. I. A. of Salt Lake Stake were held in the oratorical districts of the city this evening...............22-James J. Ruban, an aged shoemaker of Salt Lake City, who early joined the Church in France, and came to Utah in 1867, was accidentally burned to death........ .23-The banking house of T. R. Jones and Co., one of the oldest in Salt Lake City, sold out to McCornick & Company....The fifth convention of the Utah

Congress of Mothers opened in the Assembly Hall, Mrs. E. E. Shephard giving the annual address..................Councilman Alexander Wilkins of Provo, born Canada, 1834, died suddenly, stricken with apoplexy...... 24-E. H. Harriman visited Salt Lake..................The Mother's Congress closed; Mrs. Emily S. Richards was chosen president........ Joseph Mills died at West Jordan, 83 years of age........ ..26Governor B. B. Odell, of New York, and party arrived in Salt Lake City..................The Salt Lake City Board of Education opened sixtyseven bids for school books..................27-George M. Hanson was recommended by Congressman Sutherland as Postmaster at Ogden, to succeed Charles Meighan......................................John W. Hoover, Provo, born Pennsylvania, November 18, 1834, came to Utah in 1852, died.................................... 28-After eighteen days, and issuing 1,105 subpoenas, and examining 589 persons, a jury was obtained in the Mortensen-Hay murder case....... 30-Memorial Day was observed with appropriate ceremonies throughout the state, and in Salt Lake City there was a magnificent street parade of the G. A. R., Utah Volunteers, National Guard, and regular soldiers...................Nearly 30,000 people visited the pleasure resorts which opened today....The grasshopper plague in Sanpete County continues unabated..................The annual conference of the Mutual Improvement Associations opened, officers' meetings being held at 10 and 2..................31-The State School Book Convention opened, presided over by the State Superintendent C. A. Nelson.......... More than a hundred new buildings are being erected in Salt Lake City, at a cost of a million dollars................Mary Ann Mason, pioneer of Springville, died, aged seventy...............The Middle States mission has been established with headquarters at Cincinnati.

June 1-The Mutual Improvement Associations held three sessions in the Tabernacle, at 10, a. m. 2 and 7 p.m., President Joseph F. Smith presiding........................... .Bishop Orson F. Whitney delivered the baccalaureate address to the members of the graduating class of the University of Utah, ninety-nine in number, at the Assembly Hall............... .2Brigham Young's birthday anniversary celebration is held at Saltair, attended by three hundred and fifty descendants ranging from seventysix to three and a half years..............................................J. A. Wright resigns from the faculty of the Agricultural College to become editor of the Inter-Mountain Farmer and Rancher..................3-Reed Smoot, Jesse Knight, and others of Provo, ask for a franchise for an Electric railway and telephone system through Utah County............... .4-Dr. J. F. Merrill was chosen president of the University Alumni Association.............. The University held its 33rd annual graduating exercises at the theatre,

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addressed by Hon. Moses Thatcher, and Governor Heber M. Wells. There were eight college graduates........... .5-Salt Lake Canal Companies posted notices in Utah County of the appropriation of the unappropriated waters of Utah Lake and waters flowing therein and therefrom........ .......The School Book Convention adopted Werner's Arithmetic and Reed and Kellogg's Grammar........ Joseph L. Rawlins returned from Washington............................. $1 per bushel for grasshoppers are offered in Sanpete County. Three boys bagged seven bushels in one day..................At the Salt Lake Stake quarterly conference George A. Smith was sustained as superintendent of the Y. M. M. I. A., vice Richard R. Lyman, resigned to attend school in the East.. .9-The thermometer registered ninty-five degrees in Salt Lake City..............10-The State rested in the Mortensen trial, and Mortensen's defense occupied fifty-five minutes...... The flowing wells at Lehi are failing......... ....................Archie M. Sheppard, age 21, fell in front of a street car and was killed.... The State School Book Convention closed its labors....... Barlow Ferguson, who has fasted for thirty-six days as a cure for convulsions, began eating..............................................12-The graduating exercises of the High School were held, there being eighty-six graduates in the class...... Albert E. Walker, son of the late J. R. Walker, born April 8, 1877, died in Salt Lake City.................. The Electric Line to Ogden, it is now said, will commence building August 1st, and be completed by May of next year...................14-Peter Mortensen was by the jury found guilty of murder in the first degree..................................................The nomination of Reverend John T. Axton, as army chaplain is announced......... Flag day was generally observed.

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DOMESTIC-May 13-The Senate adopts a resolution appropriating half a million dollars to the West Indian sufferers.............. .Eugene F. Ware takes the oath of office as commissioner of Pensions-14-The U. S. Cruiser Dixie sails with 1220 tons of merchandise for the Martinique sufferers..........................................16—Herbert G. Squires is nominated Minister to Cuba............ ...18-A tornado swept southern Texas and over one hundred persons are reported killed-Wm. Taylor, the great Methodist missionary, died in Palo Alto, California..........................................19--Two hundred miners are killed in a mine explosion at Coal Creek, Tennessee.......................................... 20-Secretary Hay announces the Independence of Cuba to all the nations of the world................................................22-Lewis Nixon having resigned the leadership of Tammany because he could not run it and retain his selfrespect, Charles F. Murphy, Daniel F. McMahon, and Louis F. Haffen are appointed to run the organization........ .24-The statue of Rochambeau

(who came to America with 5,500 men in July, 1780, and later made possible the victory of Yorktown,) erected in Washington, is dedicated with imposing ceremonies, in the presence of the French commission.............. Lord Pauncefote, Ambassador of Great Britain, dies in Washington....... The coal strike continues, and the soft coal miners of Virginia and West Virginia threaten to strike June 7..................23-Thè report of the creed revision committee of the Presbyterian Church was presented to the 114th General Assembly New York, and adopted in less than two hours............... .27-Robert S. McCormick, U. S. minister at Vienna, is named as Ambassador to Austria Hungary........................ ..27-The Ohio Republican state convention express a sentiment for Senator Hanna for the presidency.. ..28-General Wood arrives in Washington from Cuba...................................... .30-President Roosevelt makes a Memorial day speech in Washington, in answer to the charges of cruelty against the army.. ...................................31—The President orders a reduction of the strength of the army to 66,497 men; a decrease of 10,790................................................... Senor Buencamino, a Filipino leader, makes a statement before the House Committee on Insular affairs, favoring American sovereignty in the Philippines.

June 1-The French Battleship Gaulois sails from Boston, having some of the members of the French Rochambeau mission................................................2-Eighty per cent of the engineers and firemen of the anthracite coal region obey orders to strike.................................... .3-The Philippine Civil government bill passed the Senate by a vote of forty-eight to thirty, three Republicans, Hoar, Mason and Wellington voting against it, and one Democrat, Mc Laurin, for it..............................The Isthmian canal bill is taken up...... .The House begins consideration of the bill to protect presidents, known as the Anti-Anarchy bill...........................4-There is serious rioting in Chicago..................5-President Roosevelt holds that there has been no violation of the neutrality laws at Chalmette, La. by the British.............. .6-The President in reply to an appeal to end the coal strike, holds that there is no legal authority by which he could intervene............. ...7-Germany and Russia ask Secretary Hay to join in concerted action by the powers against anarchists........ 9-The celebration of the centennial anniversary of West Point, U. S. Military Academy began..................The Utah Press association, fiftyfour in number, arrived in Boise, Ida..................11-Central Illinois is visited by the most distructive storm in sixty years..................The West Point graduates are addressed by President Roosevelt and the celebration closes.......... ..13-The House passed the irrigation bill by a vote of one hundred and forty-six to fifty-five. The Utah Press

association is entertained in Portland, Ore..................Volcano Kilauea, Hawaii, is in eruption.................President Roosevelt, in a special message to Congress, pleads for Cuban concessions.

FOREIGN-May 12—The Brazilian aeronaut Severo, is killed by the explosion of his air-ship in Paris...................................... .13-President Loubet starts on a visit to Russia..................16-Preliminary ceremonies for the week of the coronation of the King of Spain take place at Madrid.— 17-King Alphonso XIII is crowned in Madrid.............. .18-Many arrests follow the discovery of a plot in Madrid to kill King Alphonso.— 20 Senor Estrada Palma is inaugurated President of the Cuban republic............ .President Loubet reaches Russia..................21-A fresh outbreak of Mt. Pelee causes a panic at Fort de France, Martinique, and many people leave for other islands......... .22-Loubet is warmly received in St. Petersburg....... .The king of Spain ex

presses a desire to substitute horse-racing for bull-fighting..... 24-Senor Quesada is nominated Cuban minister to the U. S..... 25 Returning from Russia, Loubet lands in Copenhagen, Denmark, and is cordially welcomed by King Christian IX..........................................26—A provisional government with M. Boisrond Canal, president, is formed in Haiti.............. .27-The coronation procession has a rehearsal at London..................King Christian accepts the U. S. proposal to extend the time limit for one year for the ratification of the Danish West Indian treaty..................President Loubet returns to France....... 29-The seventh International Red Cross convention opens at St. Petersburg.................................................31-Governor Taft has an attack of tonsilitis, which prevents him from opening the Philippine negotiations at the Vatican.

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June 1-The Boer war is ended. A dispatch from Lord Kitchener to the British war office announces that the terms of surrender have been signed in Pretoria by all the Boer representatives.................2— The peace terms are made public in London.................3-Lord Kitchener is made viscount by King Edward who asks Parliament for a £50,000 money grant to the warrior...... .Michael Henry Herbert will succeed the late Lord Pauncefote as Ambassador to the U.S. from England. The Pope receives Governor Taft who states the objects of his mission, and the Pontiff approves of the American Government's plans.................7-Whitelaw Reid, special envoy of the U. S. to the coronation, arrives in England....................... .8-England holds thanksgiving services throughout the land, the king and queen attending St. Paul's in London.................12-Up to date 11,225 Boers have surrendered, many of whom are boys from eleven years and upwards.