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Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-08-23 | Page 26 | Know Utah

Type issue
Date 1929-08-23
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title Know Utah
Type article
Date 1929-08-23
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 26
OCR Text KNOW KNOW UT UTAH AH L By ALBERT ALBER F. F PHILIPS Political POlitiCAl storm clouds began to form fomIn in Utah in 1567 vh n tho first Mormon anti meeting was wa held V On February 9 1870 1810 tho Ll Liberal eral party of ot Utah w was s Twenty years ear later th tho party succeeded in nominating nIter after a n. bitter blUer political al contest Its ita candidate candi candi- dato date for fOl mayor maor in the p person irson oC of a a well known Inon bURl bURl- ness nes man uan George M. M Scott V He was waa the first gentile gentilo candidate for tho first gentile mayor elected V Th The convention which nominated Mr Scott WAS wa amass a a mass 1 It was V held held in iii the the- Walker Wl opera house which stood tootI on on o West Second South street on th the site of ot tt th present Atlas Atins blocki Tile The Peoples People's s p party held ld its convention In the Salt r Lake theatre and nd nominated d a ticket headed by Spencer r Clawson for tor mayor Tho ho campaign whIch followed was s short ort and animated The city cHy d no paved streets eS s and wherever er op ono went they waded in mud up to the their r knees were ri many iny parades e V e eOn On February 7 1 the tho Peoples People's pat party held It its Its' final ml meeting prior to the the- election in front of or tho city han hall which occupied the corner cornel of of State and antI East First l South streets et ta The meeting was aa th the largest political l lon on ono one ev ever r held in Utah up to that time lime S S The Thc P party not ot to be outdone began beg arranging arranging ar ar- I ranging ringIng for fora a greater meeting which resulted In the greatest parado ever s seen en in the territory up to o that date The Salt Lake street car system had bad j just t been een el electrified lInd the tho Liberals Liberal obtained p permission to use the wires for tor a. a a torchlight parade The vir were strung tiang nC on laths the bearers of ot the laths lath marched tour four abreast up P Main street in mud up to their knees S At tho tim same eJection election the Liberal Libera party party c carried t the victory for fOl the Liberal aI party Sile- Sile walks were were constructed ted streets w were re paved What is islow low Regent street then known as Commercial street was was the first street to tol be lie paved jui with asphalt New Nev school buildings cro constructed and the system was was' V reorganized V VS S 0 V VAt At the tho Fame ame location the Liberal party carried the city of ot Ogden b by a i majority of ot the lat late lato Fred J. J Klesel heading the ticket as ns mayor V V V In 1876 the portion of or Arsenal i rs hill Ino i. now occupied by the state capitol of ot Utah was the scene of ot a a. terrific ter explosion which shook Salt Lake to its foundations ton and caused tho the people to believe believe- that Utah was b being ing shaken b by an earthquake The explosion oc occurred oc- oc curr curved late lateon on the afternoon of or f April 5 6 three y hea I de detonations were vero ero felt elt S Several ver l minutes p passed sed before tho the causo cause was divined and meanwhile so made I the terror tenfold m men men n. n women and children running hither and thither excited alarmed hysterical Walls Valls were were bl blown n down roofs torn nl off oct doors and shutters flung fung- from their fastenings and window glass sh shattered that shat t- t ter d and strewn broadcast Presently tho s solution lution came A A. huge huge- cloud doud of ot im oKo h hovering over over Arsenal hill bill t told ld tho the story At a. a a point near the tho present capItol capitol capi cap tol tel three three- small stone Houses owned by mercantile firms and used for forthe the ge of ot powder ponder had bad blown wn up Several persons rons were killed and others wounded Tho The Tho cause ot of the th catastrophe was never fully ex x It was wa's supposed however r. r that some boys known to have been shooting h in that hat neighborhood ha had used tho the iron ron door of or one of or the tha for Cor a L target antI and were U the tha e first victims of oC the explosion that oll foll followed wed S f fIn In December 1850 thirty families left Salt Lake Cit City including m men n with COO head o of stock and nd lot wagons led by George Goorge A A. Smith and in tho the followIng following follow follow- ing January arrived a and 4 settled Iron count county building a It fort tort at Parowan
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