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Show GET READY FOR CONVENTION. Delegates of the Knights of Columbus Meet and Perfect Organization. At noon on Tuesday a state council of the Knights of Columbus was held at the lodge room on the third floor of the Jennings block, at which one delegate dele-gate was present from the councils of Salt Lake, Ogden, Pocatello, Reno and Butte. Matters appertaining to the welfare of the order through the western west-ern country were considered, and in the evening the local council entertained enter-tained the visitors at a ""smoker." There are 128,000 members of the or- j der in the United States, and by the j organization of the Reno council, which I was perfected April i!o with a membership member-ship of sixty-live, every state in the Union is now represented in the order. or-der. Preparations are well under way for the national convention, which is to be held in Los Angeles begriming June I and terminating June 11. Salt Luke i will play no small part in this conven- j tion. inasmuch as many of the dele- gates from the eastern part of the country coun-try will tyke advantage of the trip to lay over here and view the city of the "Saints." A committee, composed of the following named members of Salt Lake council No. 631". has been appointed ap-pointed for the purpose of making the necessary arrangements for the entertainment enter-tainment of the visitors during the lime they will be in Salt Lake: C. F. Porter VV .T Halliran TTi-uiiL- V .- Gurrin. George J. Gibson and W. P. O'Meara. The first of the eastern delegates to come through this city in order to take advantage of the service offered by the San Pedro line will be the council from Buffalo, N. Y. They will arrive here May So, and will remain here for twenty-four hours, during which time they will be hospitably entertained by the local knights. The next visitors will bo a trainload from New York City. Boston .and Chicago. In the party will be Grand Knight Edward I Hearn, Corporation Counsel John J. Delaney and three members of the New York state supreme court. They will tome down to Salt Lake'from Ogden in their special train of Pullman cars the night of June 2, but will not remain here more than a. few minutes just time enough for the cars to be switched over on the rails of the San Pedro line. However, How-ever, on their way back from the coast they will lay over here for a day. that is, Sunday, June IS. and on that occasion oc-casion will attend high mass at St. Mary's cathedral. The remainder of the day will be given over to sightseeing, sight-seeing, and that night their special train will leave here over the Rio Grande Western for Denver, where another an-other stop will be made. According to information promulgated promulgat-ed from the headquarters of the order during the winter,, it is believed that after the convention terminates in Lis Angeles the principal part of the members mem-bers will go to 'San Francisco, where arrangements have already been perfected per-fected for their entertainment for at jeast two days. .Many win also take advantage of the time limit of their tickets to go to Portland, to visit the Iewis and Clark exposition. Excursions will also be made to many of the historical his-torical points in California before beginning be-ginning the homeward journey. From present indications it is not unlikely un-likely that the delegates from Montana, Wyoming, Idaho and Utah will go to the convention in a special train over the San Pedro road. It is expected that the number of delegates ip attendance at the convention in Los Angeles will be 4,000, the greatest in the history of the organization. At the meeting on Tuesday the following fol-lowing representation of delegates from Utah, Idaho and Nevada, were present: Dr. M. A. Hughes and John J. Harvey of Salt lake: Senator P. L. Flanagan and M. J. Kiely of Reno; J. C. Frudell and T. D. Gilmore of Pocatello; David Hickey and Abbott Maginnis of Ogden; j P. J. Shelby and F. C. Hummel of Boise. The meeting was called to order by Territorial Deputy George J. Gibson. Charles A. Maguire of Ogden was chosen temporary recorder. The morning morn-ing session was devoted to adopting the by-laws, and a vote of thanks was extended ex-tended to Mr. Gibson for the efficient work he has performed in the past to bring the order up to its present state of efficiency. At noon the delegates and alternates adjourned to the Commercial club, w here they were entertained at luncheon by J. B. Cosgriff. At 2 o'clock the council reassembled and elected the following officers for the ensuing year: State deputy. George J. Gibson: state secretary, Abbot Maginnis of Ogden; state treasurer, J. B. Cosgriff of Salt Lake; state warden, Richard T. Hogan of Pocatello; state advocate, Judge V. L. Maginnis of Ogden. Jesse B. Haw-ley Haw-ley of Boise was elected alternate to the national convention to be held in Los Angeles next month. Mr. Gibson will go there as the regular delegate by virtue of his office of state deputy. It was voted to hold the next state convention con-vention in Ogden the first Tuesday in May, 1906. The work throughout the afternoon was hamonious. At 8:30 o'clock in the evening a reception re-ception was tendered the Tlaitors at the rooms of the Salt Lake council. Short addresses were made. There was vocal i and instrumental music by the guests and their entertainers, and a luncheon was served. |