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Show I LOCAL HISTORY I j WHAT HAPPENED JUNE 29. 1S47 Henry W. Blgler and others of the Mormon battalion, cleared the first niad moulding- brick in Callfor- 1S55 Judge Leonidas Shaver died in Salt Lake City. 1SC5 Lars Petersen, a young man, who had assisted some twenty Danish Alornions to emigrate, was drowned In a stream called the Weeping wa- ,0ter,R near Wyoming, Nob. 187 (South Weber, which had formerly belonged to the Weber stake of Zlon was organized as a ward, with David f. Cook as bishop, and attached to the Davis stake of Zlon. 187S The steamship Nevada sailed from Liverpool with 56D Mormons, in charge of John Cook. Tho company arrived at New York July 10 and at Salt Lake City July IS. 1S83 A terrific flood at Kanab, Kane county, removed masses of earth, trees, etc. which It carried down1 stream and partly destroyed the settlement. set-tlement. 1SS-1 Nicholas Groesbeck died in Salt Lake City. 1S85 Joseph W. McMurrln of Salt Lake City was arrested on a chargo of unlawful un-lawful cohabitation nnd gave bonds in Jt'iQO to await trial. In the Third distrlqt court William D. Newson. John Connelly, John Daynes, George Romney and Andrew Smith pleaded not guilty to the charges against them, while John Nicholson refused to plead. 1SSG The old folks or Snlt Lake county treated to a free excursion to American Ameri-can Fork. James Eardley of the Third ward. Salt Lake City, and Thomas F. II. Morton of Farmers ward, Salt Lake county, were arrest-cd arrest-cd for unlawful cohabitation, taken before Commissioner McKay and each placed under $1000 bonds. Nephl .T. Bates was discharged from the penitentiary. peni-tentiary. 1889 Patriarch William Box died at Brigham City. Box Elder countv. 1891 Kntlcl Eliza Hale Merrill, wife of Elder Joseph H. Merrill of Smlthfield, Utah, died at the mission house at 'Fagalll. Samoa. t Her baby boy died the same da v. 1892 The old folks of Snlt Lake City and county were treated to a free excursion ex-cursion to Payson, Utah county. 1S93 .John Broom, owner of the Broom hotel, nt Ogden, died. 1899 The Tellurlde Power compuny sues Captain De La Mar for 541.310. 1900 William Ellis pioneer of CorInne, dies.' Andrew C. Brlxen dies. 1901 Senator W, A. Clark arrives and says San Pedro road will be built. 1902 Calvary Baptists dedicate now chapel, , 1903 General Baldwin Inspects Fort Douglas. 1904 Death of Sharp Williams. Roal estate es-tate day at lake a great success. New telephone plant open to public. 1907 Preliminary trial of Austrian murderer mur-derer begins. 1908 N. C. Hooper injured by fall on Salt Palace saucer track. |