The Legislature adjourned until the 9th.................6-The Fifth Legislative Assembly was warmly welcomed, banqueted and entertained by Senator-elect Reed Smoot, at Provo........ .The mayor and chief of police of Salt Lake announce the positive closing of all gambling houses .7—Congressman Joseph Howell, wife, and private clerk, Lewis T. Cannon, left for Washington........ .The Utah lake has filled up the foot of water pumped out of it last fall, and is rising rapidly towards the compromise point............. .8-The new Phillips Congregational church is dedicated with appropriate ceremonies...... .9-A protest is received in Washington by Senator Burrows, signed by nineteen Salt Lake citizens, who, in a pamphlet of 62 pages, object to the seating of Senator-elect Smoot, on the grounds: 1. That the Mormon priesthood, according to the doctrines of that church, is vested with supreme authority in all things, temporal and spiritual. 2 That the first presidency and twelve apostles are supreme in the exercise and transmission of this authority. 3. That this body of men have not abandoned the principles and practice of political dictation, so also it has not abandoned belief in polygamy and polygamous cohabitation. 4. That this attitude of the first presidency and apostolate ever since the suspensory manifesto of 1890 is evidenced by their teachings since then. 5. That this body of officials, of whom Senator-elect Smoot is one, also practice or connive at and encourage the practice of polygamy and polygamous cohabitation, and those whom they have permitted to hold legislative office have, without protest or objection from them, sought to pass a law nullifying enactments against polygamous cohabitation. 7. That the supreme authorities in the church, of whom Senator-elect Smoot is one, to wit, the first presidency and twelve apostles, not only connive at violations of, but protect and honor the violators of the laws against polygamy and polygamous cohabitation. The names of the signers are given below. W. M. Paden, P. L. Willlams, E. B. Critchlow, E. W. Wilson, C. C. Good- 10-Snow and frost are playing havoc with the flocks in Utah and surrounding states...........A distillery at Ogden and a canning factory at Draper are among the industrial enterprises spoken of......... 11-The Atlas Block, Salt Lake, was completely destroyed by fire, and the Central Block was partly destroyed. Loss to buildings and contents will perhaps exceed $300,000..................Salt Lake was visited by a snow blizzard, the most severe in years: seven inches of snow fell....................... ......12-The Legislature held memorial services in honor of Lincoln and McKinley, Senator Love and Representatives Done and White speaking before the joint meeting..................13-Arizona refuses to cede the "strip" to Utah, and the Legislative Representatives D. H. Morris and Johnson return unsuccessful....... ....The Legislature visits Logan, investigating the State Agricultural College, where they were banqueted. ...A. Kuhn, a pioneer business man of Ogden, dies............ Forty leading citizens, headed by Gov. Wells, sign a petition for Senatorelect Smoot, intending to offset the petition of the ministerial association. Thirty-eight are leading Gentiles. Among the signers are: R. N. Baskin, Chief Justice Supreme Court; W. M. McCarty, Justice Supreme Court; M. A. Breeden, Attorney General; S. T. Stewart, District Judge; C. W. Morse, District Judge, Dennis C. Eichnor, District Attorney; W. J. Meeks, County Recorder; John May, Deputy County Recorder; J. O. Nystrom, City Recorder; J. J. Thomas, City Councilman; James Devine, Chief Salt Lake Fire department; W. S. McCornick, banker; W. H. Bancroft, vice-president and general manager Oregon Short Line railway; J. R. Walker, secretary Walker Bros.' Dry Goods company; W. H. Dickson, lawyer; H. E. Booth, lawyer; M. L. Ritchie lawyer; Arthur Brown, lawyer and ex-United States Senator; George T. Odell, manager Consolidated Wagon and Machine company; James Chipman, banker, and ex-State Treasurer; D. H. Peery, broker; Ralph Guthrie, Broker; James K. Gillespie, real estate; R. B. Whittemore, real estate; George Y. Wallace, president Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company. 14-This is the coldest day of the year, the thermometer ranging from 4 degrees below zero in Salt Lake to as low as 32 in some parts of the State. DOMESTIC.-January 15-President Roosevelt signs the Coal Duty Rebate bill........ ...16-Customs officials are ordered to admit .17-Admiral Dewey re.The big 16-inch rifle is tested coal to the U. S. free of duty... turns to Washington........ successfully at the Sandy Hook proving grounds......... ...........19General Miles and wife arrive in St. Petersburg on their trip around the world....... ........Much regret is expressed at Washington at the action of the Germans in bombarding San Carlos, by the Panther......... 20-Minister Bowen arrives in Washington..... President signs the Militia Reorganization bill.. The Panama Canal treaty is signed in Washington. The Alaskan boundary treaty is signed.............. .21-The .22 .24 ..Senator Teller is re-elected by the Democrats in Colorado, after a disgraceful legislative fight.......... ..........27-John D. Rockefeller gives seven million dollars to be used for medical research..... ....Twenty persons or more are killed in a rear-end collision between trains at Westfield, N. J.. ..28-A fearful collision occurs between two trains, near Tucson, Arizona, in which about twenty people lose their lives...... 29-President Roosevelt sends to Congress the appeals of China and Mexico for a new universal coinage standard...... Venezuelan negotiations continue in a deadlock... McDonough accepts the appointment as a justice of the Supreme Court in the Philippines................31-Baron Speck von Sternburg, German Special Envoy, presents his credentials to the President. ..30-The ..John T. February 1-Troops are ordered to Waterbury, Conn., to quell strike riots.. ......The Thomas Jefferson Mem. Association appeals for funds to build a memorial to Jefferson in Washington................. 2-Minister Bowen asks that the preferential rates question between allies and Venezuela be submitted to the Hague.....................5-The discussion of the statehood bill brings out the question of polygamy and the influence of the "Mormon" Church in politics, and Senator Rawlins declares many "Mormons" are governed by church officials in politics ....6-Sec. Moody accepts Naval Constructor Hobson's resignation made because of his failing eye-sight...... .........7-The soft-coal miners accept an offer of an increase of 12 per cent in wages made by the operators..... ................................9—Hooper Young is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Mrs. Pulitzer in N. Y.............11— Senator Morgan, of Alabama, announces he will not oppose the seating of Smoot because he is a "Mormon," but would rather do it because he is a Republican..... .........12-Deep snow on the South Dakota ranges causes death to many cattle........ .....13-Envoys of the allies and Venezuela sign the arbitration protocol at Washington......... Senator Depew declares, in the statehood bill discussion, that the vote of the "Mormon" Church is absolutely controlled by the central hierarchy of that organization. FOREIGN-January 15-The Rand mine owners agree to pay a $150,000,000 war contribution................................................................17-An agreement for separation is reached between the Crown Prince and Princess of Saxony ......The German warship Punther shells Fort San Carlos, 18-M. De Blowitz, the famous correspon......20-Dr. Lorenz, Venezuela...... dent of the London Times, dies in Paris........ in Vienna, praises American doctors, nurses and hospitals...... 22-The German warships renew the bombardment of Fort San Carlos ..........23-Col. Arthur Lynch, M. P., is convicted of high treason, in that he fought with the Boers, and is sentenced to death, in London.. .......Com. Scheder, the German Commander in Venezuelan waters, declares that Fort San Carlos fired the first shot at the Panther.... .24-The pending reciprocity treaty between Cuba and the United States is causing much apprehension in Great Britain........ .........25-Count Boni de Castellane is re-elected to the French Chamber of Deputies......... .27-The sentence of death upon Col. Lynch is commuted to penal servitude for life............................ 28-The projected uprising in China has spread to many provinces...... 30-Secretary Chamberlain is enthusiastically greeted at Kimberley ....31-The railroad strike in Holland is greatly extended. February 1-President Castro replies to the allies' claim for preference, that Venezuela desires to treat all claimants alike........ 2—The strike in Holland ends......................................... .3-Civil war breaks out in Honduras.............. .Wm. P. Redmond, M. P., Irish leader, is released after serving half his three-year term of imprisonment........ 4-Bread riots and strikes occur in several cities of Spain....... The Berlin foreign office criticises Minister Bowen......... M. Giron severs all relations with the crown princess of Saxony... Turkey is preparing for trouble in the disturbed regions of Macedonia .8-It is reported that on January 13, a thousand lives were lost in a cyclone and tidal wave that swept the South sea islands........ .....The Czar invests the governor of Finland with ......12-Fourteen battalions of Turkish sol unlimited power. .6— .13-The Loss $800,000......... diers are ordered to the Macedonian frontier.... 14-Britain and Germany wire their fleets to raise the blockade on Venezuelan ports. The trouble now goes to the Hague. |