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Show SENATOR REED SMOOT AND 1 GOVERNOR CHAS. R. MABEY ! ADDRESS BLACKHAWKERSI President T. N. Taylor Presides Pre-sides at Tabernacle Service Thursday Morning. Eloquent tributes to the stability and the high character of the founders found-ers of Utah and their descendants were given at the meeting of the Indian In-dian war encampment at the Utah stake tabernacle Thursday morning by Senator Reed Smoot and Governor Gov-ernor Charles E. Mabey. President T. N. Taylor presided at the services. The main floor of the large tabernacle was filled with pioneers while many of the younger men and women in attendance at the annual campfire were seated in the galleries. The officers of the Indian War Veterans' association were seated on the stand as were also Mayor O. K. Hansen and County Commis sioner A. O. Smoot. j Seymour B. Young of Salt Lake f City, one of the Black Hawk vet- j erans, expressed his appreciation at , being present at the campfire pro- ! gram. He declared that in the i Black Hawk war the pioneers did f not seek to kill the Indians but i rather sought earnestly to call them i Into conference in an effort to reach some agreement for the maintaining of more peaceful relations. Prayer was offered by Patriarch Henry Moyle of Alpine, chaplain of the Indian War Veterans. j D A baritone solo was rendered by ! William Knudsen. The Johnson j sisters, Celestia and Violet, sang a i duet and Mrs. Hannah Condie Pack- i ard rendered a soprano solo. Two numbers were sung by a mole quartet quar-tet under the direction of Prof Elmer El-mer nelson. A string trio was played play-ed by Elmer Nelson, E. P. Mayhcw and Kalph Booth. the following sources : District tax, $230,370.79; district school fund, $128,705.44; state high school fund, $4,545.10; state land interest fund, $11,10.03; tuitions from seven schools, $2,05S.16; loans, $125,000; miscellaneous receipts, $0,516.00 ; Payson high school furnished the largest amount of tuitions with $S40. The district paid out in salaries during the past school year, $215, 01S.79. Of this amount $112,074.11 was paid to the grade teachers, $73,733.33 to the high school teachers. teach-ers. $17,100.35 to the janitors, and $1,500 to the board members. The expenses of the officers, including in-cluding the superintendent, supervisors, super-visors, clork and board members reached $1.779. OS, while the general administration expense was $2,-089.15, $2,-089.15, and the operating expense, including fuel, light, supplies, etc., was $35,250.01. For repairs on buildings the district dis-trict has paid out $17,300.45 during the past school year, while the transporting of students to the schools cost the, district $15,G8S.57. The high school students were paid the greater amount of the transportation transpor-tation expense, of $10,450.27, while only $5,252.30 was required for the transportation "of the grade students. stu-dents. Interest paid out on bonds amounted to $9,520; on notes, $1,-S48.34. $1,-S48.34. The per capita cbst of educating the students of the district during 1923-24 was $50.30 when the interest inter-est on bonds and bonded indebtedness indebted-ness was not considered. With these items included the per capita cost was $58.00. The district made considerable strides in reducing the indebtedness of the district during the year, paying pay-ing off $125,000 on notes and $24,-000 $24,-000 on bonds. There were expended for buildings, sites, furniture, fixtures, fix-tures, etc., $47,659.80. The total disbursements made during the year amounted to $497,-958.19. $497,-958.19. "All moneys for the period of review re-view have been properly received and accounted for, according to the audit of the sources of revenue." The auditors recommend that present forms of claim bills be revised re-vised to meet more nearly the requirements re-quirements of the statutes. They also recommend the installation of several accounting record forms which wiU improve the method of accounting. Reclassification of certain cer-tain accounts is also suggested. In beginning his address Senator Smoot referred to the death of Dr. H. S. Pyne and spoke of the work he had done for the state and city in which he lived. He praised him for the willingness he had always manifested mani-fested in singing the praises of his people and his cause, either religiously relig-iously or politically, whenever the call had been made. Senator Smoot referred to the admonishion given by the late President Presi-dent Smith had urged the pioneers and daughters of the Utah pioneers when they first organized a society more than a quarter of a century ago in Provo. At that time President Presi-dent Cmith had urged the pioneers to tell and retell to their descendants descend-ants the story of the crossing of the plains and the hardships and tribulations tribu-lations endured so that the memory of that journey would never be forgotten for-gotten by this people. "I have been told that there are present today 525 veterans and pioneers pio-neers with their women," said Senator Sen-ator Smoot, "Year by year the number will grow less but until the last one is gone should honor be paid to him. "I know war is terrible and I : know the hardships you men went : through. One day in the senate when I was trying to pass a law w7bereby the government would hon-i hon-i or you by reimbursing you partly for your services, some one said that you did not fight very long and ; that there was no reason why you ; should have a pension. "I told them then that fighting - Indians with no rule of modern war-i war-i fare was far different and more i difficult than any other wars. Death was a thousand times pre-; pre-; ferable to the punishments inflicted i by the Indians to the captured. "The first thing I did when I went to the senate was to go to the war department for financial assist- ance to those participating in' the Walker war. I asked General Ains- i worth for the names of those taking part in the war but he said it "was against the rues to permit names to be given out I then asked for permission to place a man in the war department to collect names at my expense. I was given permission permis-sion to do this and I sent for James H. Anderson of Salt Lake to do the work. That is how I got the names of the veterans. "I was successful in getting pensions pen-sions for the veterans and their 1 widows. While we hare hnd troubles in getting pensions for some do not think that I am discouraged. |
