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Show SALT LAKE CITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD. L'y means of a cuje effected by Jue'gf W. . Powers between the dt-le-satinns from El P;ifio and Salt Lake ;i eombine ha- been made practically sua. run teeing the pfrniancnt location 01 the American congress lor the Mormon Mor-mon eapital. .1. H. Krady, chairman of the Ke-jiuli!iean Ke-jiuli!iean state committee of Idaho, -was in Hie city Tuesday. He is also the president and general manager of the American Falls Light and Power com-;. com-;. ny of Idaho. f When the harxt st of 1 :04 is completed complet-ed in l"t;i!i and Idaho the volume of binall grain 'will be found greatly in t ecss of previous years, so growers isay; and at no time in'the past twenty years have farmers been confronted with as heavy crops generally, nor a sccison in winch grain has ripened over such a large area in so short a time. . Great changes for the better are in progress in Mexico City, according ac-cording to Li. F. Grant, who has just returned to Salt Lake from a trip to the old republic. American schools and methods have everywhere been introduced. intro-duced. The architecture of the country i undergoing changes and the Amer- !" jean style of residences is everywhere being observed. Mr. Grant believes that a change- from the silver to the gold standard at this time would prove disastrous. James "VVhitehouse. sculptor on the new Catholic cathedral is dead. He was an experienced carver and did the work on the Emery Holmes apartment houses, the D. F. Walker block, ;.nd other prominent buildings. His suec?s-For suec?s-For on the cathedral -will be Walter Baird. The steeples of the cathedral will be of stone, surmounted with illuminated il-luminated crosses. The building is al- j mom ready for rooficg. -t James F. O'Brien, a former Ophir miner, died Monday afternoon in a hack which was carrying him frim the Bio Grande depot to the Sisters' hospital, hos-pital, from heart failure, due-to loss of vitality from inflammation of the bowels. f Utah cantaloupes and melons are arriving ar-riving freely ami daily. The California variety is entirely out of the market. Koeky Fords, which have been supplied to the hotels and restaurants of late, will stop coming into town this week, as this year's product is about over. Frost did no small amount of damage dam-age in 1he low lying farm lands near Salt Lake Sunday night. Monday reports re-ports came into the city from all directions, direc-tions, particularly from the north and oast, of destruction of more tender garden gar-den plants. Tomato vines suffered particularly par-ticularly and melons were also badly bitten in some localities Just how great the aggregate damage is, even in the approximate, is not known, but it j is safe to say that it will amount in all j to several thousand dollars, most of which was suffered by smail fanners. i hard frtot was not partieularly harmed. For the most part it waa ground plants and vines. Vivian P. Strange, civil and mining engineer, with offices in t ie McCorniek Mock, returned from Goldfield the other day. Mr. Strange has located some valuable ground. He says one may lind a little of everything and nil kinds of society at Goldfield, provided one is not particular about i'.m society. The Crib at Bethlehem, on exhibition insid- the window of the confectionery rfablsshmeiit. No. 15 E. First South, will be disposed of at raffle some time in the near future. Mr. O' Do p. n ell. the patient artist who whittled with a pen-f pen-f knife the statuettes representing the scenes in the life of Christ, has decided t give some person an opportunity to win the product of bis labor of love. Whoever wins it w ill possess a prize as unicjU- as it is rare. In fact, nothing lik-' it elsewhere. |