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Show World Events For the Week I FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4. 'i At the meeting place of the G. A. R. veterans in Toledo, Ohio, Salt Lake City was chosen as the meeting place of the 1909 encampment. encamp-ment. This will bring approximately 100,000 visitors to Salt Lake City. The town of Rawhide, Nevada, wiped out by fire. Many people homeless and in need. The immigration authorities of the United States have discovered that a society exists in several of the European countries which has for its object the procuring of young girls to send to this country for immoral purposes. A Bryan Club was formed in Sugar House ward, Salt Lake. The Rockefeller family holds its fourth annual reunion in Albany, New York. Frank Pierce Sargent, commissioner general of the bureau of im-migration, im-migration, died in Washington. Among the Republican speakers selected by National Chairman Hitchcock are Vice-President Fairbanks, James S. Sherman, Leslie N. Shaw, Senators Foraker, Knox and Beveridge, and Secretaries Elihu Root, James R. Garfield, James Wilson and Oscar S. Straus. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5. D. H. Christensen, superintendent of Salt Lake public schools, declared de-clared that sectarianism has no place in the public schools. Forest fire raging in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Millions of dollars dol-lars worth of timber and property destroyed with thousands of people homeless. Three hundred men are at work on the new west side "red light district" in Salt Lake. The Salt Lake school board protests against it. The dead body of a new born infant found in the lot of J. G. McDonald Mc-Donald in Salt Lake City. There is an epidemic of whooping cough in Salt Lake City. Senator Reed Smoot has returned from his European trip. San Pete county holds its county Republican convention and names ticket. Prof. David E. Cloyd, former principal of the Ogden High School, has accepted a position in the East. Leroy Lambert, aged 18 months, run over by a train in Salt Lake, losing an arm and receiving serious injuries. Senator 'McCumber of North Dakota declared that a special session ses-sion of Congress is certain after Congress regularly adjourns next March. Among the questions to be considered will be that of tariff revision. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. Twelve thousand people, .heretofore well-to-do, are homeless and hungry as a result of the forest fires in Minnesota. The Democratic party textbook is ready' for distribution. President Roosevelt favors increasing the standing army from 60,-000 60,-000 to 100,000 men. Mr. Taft anxious to begin an active canvass. W. J. Bryan starts on his campaigning tour. Will go through the middle West, eastern states, and then back West again. . E. H. Harriman declares America in better condition than it was before the panic of last fall. Rev. Dr. Short of the First M. E. Church of Salt Lake, in an address ad-dress in Cincinnati, Ohio, said that Utah, and particularly Salt Lake, is 5 the Sodom and Gomorrah of America, and predicted that Salt Lake would be destroyed before five years are over, in a manner similar to J, the destruction of the two wicked cities in biblical times. rJ Ogden is making great preparations for the "four-county fair" to be held in that city in October. Sevier county Republicans meet and name county ticket Republicans of Nephi meet and select senatorial, judicial and state convention delegates. Box Elder Republicans hold county convention and name state delegates. i, Edward M. Shepard, a close friend of the late Grovcr Cleveland, announces that he will support Bryan. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. Labor unions have a celebration in many Utah towns and cities. In Salt Lake 3,000 men turn out in monster parade, while in the afternoon after-noon an open air meeting is held in Liberty Park, which was addressed by A. M. Simons of Chicago, and in the evening by Eugene V. Debs, ' Socialist candidate for piesident. I Salt Lake's summer resorts close. Headquarters for the Carpenters and Joiners, who held their biennial bi-ennial reunion in Salt Lake, beginning Sept. 21, opened in Salt Lake with William D. Huber, president, in charge. Daniel Guggenheim, president of the American Smelting and Refining Re-fining Company visits Salt Lake. Hundreds of people go to Logan on a "booster" excursion. They j; j have a royal welcome and arc given the freedom of the city. ' Republican county convention held in Vernal. . In the contest" between Abe Attcll and Owen Moran, held in San ! , Francisco, the fight is declared a draw. 3 Billy Papke knocked out Stanley Ketchcl in twelve rounds in Los I Angeles. 3 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8. f Bryan delivers an address and instructions to 1,200 Democratic workers in Chicago. i Forest and range fires still burning in Minnesota. There is grave 1 danger of several important towns being wiped out. J Governor Edwin Norris renominated for governor on the Demo- 1 cratic ticket in Montana. 1 Colorado Democrats in session. Lizzie Zuscumtos, a five-year-old girl, was burned to death in Salt j Lake, her dress catching fire from a burning strawpile. j Anna Littlefair, who fell under a street car in Salt Lake Monday night and had both feet cut off, died from the shock. Four men are burned to death and a score of persons fatally or ji! seriously injured by the burning of. the Belmont hotel in Denver, Colo. 7 The Democrats of Iron county will hold their county convention j Saturday afternoon, September 12th. Members of the committees selected at the recent meeting of wool growers will meet in Denver, October 4, and will then proceed east, looking for a location for storage headquarters. The coming state fair, the officials claim, will be the greatest event ' of the kind ever held in the West. There are many entries, while there will be more attractions than ever before. I WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. The indications arc that Governor Hughes of New York will be renominated on the first ballot. Thomas McIIcnry was burned to death while in bed, and four others badly injured at a fire in the Cricket club's buildings at Chestnut Hill, a suburb of Philadelphia. More permits issued to the Citizens' Investment Company, who are building the new redlight district on the west side in Salt Lake. A movement started in Salt Lake looking toward helping the iij blind. I Provo Republicans meet and elect delegates. The Ogden sugar factory will start operations September 12th. Brigham City is shipping large quantities of peaches. There were over two hundred births in Salt Lake during August and only seventy-five deaths. Brigham City fruit growers have placed an order with the railroads rail-roads for seventy-five additional cars to help in moving the fruit crops. Col. M. M. Kaighn of the G. A. R. .who returned from the G. A. R. national encampment, urges Salt Lakers to begin preparations for entertaining en-tertaining the encampment next year, when from 30,000 to 50,000 visi- tors will be in attendance. J THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10. Rio Grande railroad stockholders authorize the issuance of bonds to the extent of $150,000,000. Senator Foraker of Ohio calls on Mr. Taft at Cincinnati, Ohio. Republicans of Salt Lake county hold primaries to elect delegates to state convention. 8 Salt Lake Democrats will hold a monster Bryan rally in the m theatre October 3rd. B Salt Lake High School cadets receive a picture from Rear-Admiral "Bob" Evans. 1 John F. Shafroth of Denver named by the Colorado Democrats as a candidate for governor. 1 M We have on our exchange table a copy of the Peach Day edition 9 of the Box Elder News. It is a paper of 28 pages handsomely printed I in colors. Both as to contents and mechanical appearance it is a paper that would do credit to any community. We congratulate Editor a Lee and his staff on their achievement. ;1I Ethel Johnson reached New York after an European trip with a ' depleted purse, it is said, but with a head filled with many beautiful ,21 ideas about musical productions. . JI Miss Adelaide Manole, daughter of Marion Manole, has been en- MM gaged as leading woman of "All for a Girl," the play by Rupert HI Hughes in which Douglas Fairbanks will emerge as a star. Bl The first performance of "The Boys and Betty," in which Miss II Marie Cahill will star this season, will take place at Norwich, Conn., II on October 1st. George V. Hobart is the librettist and the score is 11 by Silvio Hein. Eugene Cowles has been re-engaged for the season. 1 |