| Show LOCAL WOODMEN I WANT HEAD CAMP 4 Will Fight to Locate General Of 01 Offices Offices Here Hero I t i iSALT SALT SAtT LAKE AS COMPROMISE INTERESTING n RESTING STRUGGLE BE BETWEEN E TWEEN THE TEE SECTIONS i l the next two or three days fT WITHIN VI V three delegates from the local camps of ot Woodmen will go to Cripple Creek to the head camp ses session slon sion prepared to make a winning fight for lor the establishment here of ot the head camp offices If the fight Is won by the Salt Lakers it will mean the erection In this thil city of ot a Woodmen building and the establishment here hereof hereof I J of ot all the head bead offices of ot the western jurisdiction It will also aiso mean that the officers of the head bead camp will make their residences here bere and about seven or persons will be employed in the offices office the year ear round The lodges of ot the coast and the mountain states are pulling for tor the erection of ot the building In those places and Salt Lake hopes to slip sUp In as a compromise and secure the building The Salt Lake lodges are buoyant with hope that their fight for tor the plum will ivill be the benefit it will willbe willbe willbe be not only to the local lodges but to the city as well The head camp offices for tor the west western western ern em Jurisdiction have been in Denver since the establishment of the jurisdiction tion and have been in a rented build building buildIng building ing Some time ago the lease on the building ran out and the head camp officers it is claimed went ahead with without without out consul ting he e lodges and erected a temporary tempora building bul This action it has bas been asserted by some of the lodges was a scheme hente s on the part of the Denver Woodmen to hold the offices at that place AH As a consequence dissatisfaction dissatisfaction I faction was as raised among the camps and a fight was as precipitated A num number ber r of ot the lodges addressed protests to the head h ad camp and it was finally de decided decided to bring the matter to a settle settlement ment m nt at the meeting o ot of the head camp campin I in Cripple Creek on the second of Aug August August August I next Portland Wants Building Owing to the large Jarg size of the Juris Jurisdiction jurisdiction diction lon the camps on either edge edg of ot it of course wanted the head camp of offices ilces located on their side and started a tIght light to get them Portland leads the coast faction and Denver the mountain I faction Every inducement is being held out by b both places place and the lodges are doing all In their power to help their th rr favorite points in the th fight Lake lodges seeing the state of affairs and realizing that the mat seal matter matter ter would probably have to be settled by b a compromise on some central point decided that Salt Lake ought to be that tha I point They immediately determined I I to make a fight for the building them themselves themI 4 I I selves not a boisterous fight but a I quiet pull and a little strategic move moe movement ment They accordingly met some time ago ngo and sent delegates to the he conven convention l I tion in Park City to discuss plans o of at action It was decided there according to statements of members of the lodge to I keep quiet on their actions but to sent send delegates to the head camp session with instructions to watch every move of the fighting factions and at the right i moment step in with a compromise compromis offer attended by byj such inducements a as could be offered by the local lodges I Iwas It was their firm belief that owing to th the central location of or Salt Lake and th the superior advantages it offers over any other central place the compromise compromis could be easily made sf jet 01 this city Accordingly at a recent meeting o othe of L the three local camps the following del delegates delegates delegates were elected to attend the con convention convention convention and look after the Interests o ot of Salt Lake Parley P Christensen camp No Angus McKellar camp No 53 3 and T P W Whiteley camp No 13 Mr lIr McKellar has already gone to Denver and his companions will follow I A and join him at Cripple Creek later in inthe inthe inthe the week j The proposed building Is to be a handsome one of at stone and not less Jess than is to be spent upon It itI I probably more if U it can be raised If It the building can be secured for this city it Is the purpose of ot the local camps to get a site in the heart of or o the city und and rear a structure that will be an honor to Salt Lake The delegates who go 10 to make the fight tor for the camp c feel leel confident of or success In their theil un en |
