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Show lANLEY'S VISIT Tl SALT LAI imeSemioisceocesof Explorer. ivard Rosevvater's Recoi-dions Recoi-dions Connect Traveler With This Ciiy. Inquiry for Jwn Clara Walters, ace a Stilt Lake Favorite. Now Dead, Eecalls Career Here. may not bo known to a groat nany Salt Lakers, but the Lite lenry M. Stanley . was Intlinafly ssoslated with the West at the "the Union Pacific was being built is the country. In a recent Issue, )mnha Bee devotes considerable , to "Sir Henry M. Stanley Jour-. Jour-. and Explorer" being1 the per-' per-' recollections of Edward Rose- s article is full of local interest at time owing to his recent death he remembrance of the reception the Stanleys in this city in 1S90 ie wife of John W. Young In the 2 tTempleton, when both the explorer imw : $onQ his wife made many Salt . Lake tirlends. wail ' Stanley was a young newspaper man lhhS of Omaha In 1S67 and in describing his " earjy life and work on the frontier Mr. 11 josevrater gives a chapter hitherto for-j for-j (gotten or made little of In Stanley's . Imemolrs. TH A Tnen tnc article goes on to relate the ; i.Jncldents of the visit to Omaha in 1S90 1 r Sjjbr Mr. Stanley. Mrs. Stanley, who firu Dorothy Tcnnant, and her mother, ' C IlIrF. TennanL youai During this visit the party attended forii fa church with- Mr. Rosewater and roariU when passing the block In which were j csri Jlocated the old Republican and Omaha's ; to'i tflrst theater, Stanley, pointing to the talka Sbulldlns, exclaimed: n15u, S "Here is my old stamping ground, vi, iThere ls tne Academy of Music. What yoaai $has become of Jean Clara Walters?" "She Is out in Salt Lake," said I. r 1 "And where Is Chaplin?" f "He Is playing somewhere in the fjEasl." JFON 9 "And where Is Annie Ward?" i.' IBs $ "Sne 's dead," I responded. Otsssl K "DtadI" exlcalmed Stanley, and he M ihung his head mournfully without say-- say-- ling a word. Annie Ward was one of Vf'toi actresses of the theatrical stock it&1 wnipany that was stationed in Omaha 5 rsjdaring Stanley's residence, and he was h:4 Jjrepulwl to have been "dead stuck" on her. Mrs, Stanley appeared oblivious to the conversation. The reference in 1S00 to Jean Clara plihJj. falters being in Salt Lake at that J fiVme was Incorrect, but she did come to tlMm L'&k Lake after her Omaha experience . j tzi was a great local favorite. She did 'riot remain here, however, and her - deilh In Oakland, Cal., about a year 'j ito is now recalled, j At this same tour of the United States !r'i tte Stanleys came to Salt L'ake. While 2 ifo London they had met John W. J g Young In fact, the father and some J X?r relatives of Mrs. Stanley were 1 Sln some business enterprises with the i ftformir Salt Laker. He wired his wife 'j 310 entertain them and ttielr stay was - ViQlte a memorable event.' fo,.,!t wa8 about lnis tlme also that ; ? Jack" Weaver of this city met and ' recognized Stanley In Ogden. Weaver "T!s, w,tn tno Great explorer in South V ,! , Africa, doing newspaper work and is ii lone of the best informed men in the r Jjweat on the earlier life of the man i7 work ln lhe Dark Continent will Jjf f toryVer makC" h'S "ame lamou3 In h,s" |