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Show SMALL7SUN1VERSITY. Ceremonies Connected With Laying the Corner Stcne of the Ogden House of Learning. WOBLD'S TAIB SITE 100 YEAES AGO The Great Marshy Swamp of Years Ago Now Holds a BuBy City of Thousands Thou-sands of People. , t The ceremonies at the laying of the comer stone of the Utah University of the Methodist Episcopal church drew a large crowd of people to Otfden tho other day. The landed and money endowments en-dowments of the university are already large, and the series of buildings, cost- THE UTAH UNIVERSITY. ing upward of $300,000, will be pushed to completion rapidly. The corner stone was sot in place by Bishop Vincent, and Bam Small, the Georgia revivalist, who is to be president of the university, made his official address. There were deposited in the trenmiro box of the corner stone many interesting articles, including autographs, letters and photographs of President Harrison, members of his cabinet, Vice-President Morton, Oliver Wendell Holmes, IU. Hon. William Ewart Gladstone, editors of the leading American journals, Gens. W. T. Sherman aud Oliver O. Howard, presidents of American colleges and universities, bishops of the Mothodist churches, north and south, and senators of the United States. Gladstone cabled President Small as follows: I heartily desire success to your noble purpose of helping to rescue follow creatures and fellow countrymen from a deplorable delusion. To Honor Little Turtle. The wonderful progress of civilization in America has few better examples than the city of Chicago, which is now the second city of the Union in point of population, pop-ulation, and is the chosen into for the World's fair. One hundred years ago ' that is, in 1780 the swamp whereon the city now stands had no white inhabitants, in-habitants, and the area of real property, prop-erty, now worth countless millions of dollars and belonging to thousands of persons, per-sons, was all controlled by one man, Little Lit-tle Turtle, chief of the Minmis. It is pro- posed, in connection connec-tion with the Columbian Co-lumbian exhibition, exhibi-tion, to commemorate commem-orate the deeds and greatness of this famous warrior, war-rior, who was sover defeated but onco, and then only because his tribesmen insisted in-sisted on giving battle to O en. 1 ' ' Wayne agai n s t . L1TTUJ turtle. their chief's advice. It was after the disaster then sustained that Little Turtle Tur-tle ceded to the United States the land on which Chicago now stands. For the rest of hiB life he died in 1812 the Miami Mi-ami loader romained the firm friend uud ally of his conquerors. |