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Show 1 SALT LAKE CITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD. P. H. Lannaii. ft. H. Baker, vice m-.-irlpTiT. ud K. J. Re'illY. seneral su perintendent, of the. Postal Telegrapn company, sent Hie :!rst message over Hie new wire to Chicago to Clarence H. Maekay last Friday. The message was , one of congratulation.- j Ten ihousand per solas attended the pining of the Utah Suate fair at Agricultural Agri-cultural park Tuesday one of the larg- t crowds-i)i the hteuiry of the annua! . xposuions. Of all thr.' exhibits on the around the lnosr .-oiispieuou.-: was -Utah's best crop." Children were everywhere. You lianioled upon them it the gate, they btocka.ded your prog-ie?& prog-ie?& as you vtnly endeavored to make your way through the main exposition ibujldlng, on the Midway you stumbled over them again, and just when you hod planted yourself in a quiet corner 1 lo secure a moment's rest some leather- lunged youngster., with ..a piegaphonc or blaring: tin horn, would rouse ou from your reveries with a. deafening Wart. 'The foir' itself becrsars descrip- I fion. There vns ihe usuhI array of I; choice fruits and vegetables, agricul tural and dairy products, horses, cattle, swine and sheep. In addition there II Mere booths containing aJniost every J kind of factory products, from pianos I to knitting needles. Utaji's industries v. ere all represented and there were a ihausand and one -freak" 'exhibits. To ripswilv them all or half of them would tae a week. Visit the fair and see for yourself. What becomes of all the colored babies'.' ba-bies'.' In th monthly report of the Salt Lake City board of health tJirre wa6 only one colored birth reported for the moBilh of September. On having his attention tailed to this. Chief Clerk Krother added the information that that vas the only birth of a eoloir-d -h ild that had been reported since he had been in charge of the. office, and upon looking up the register it was found that it was the only one for the ear. As it can hardly be possible that there wan only one colored child born id all the colored people of Salt Lake ru one year, it becomes a matter of interest in-terest to find out what becomes of them mid where they are. registered. Archbishop Montgomery of San Francisco Fran-cisco was in the city Tuesday. He visited vis-ited Bishop Seanlan and was entertained enter-tained at the Alia club by W. P. O'Meara. Samuel Levy, a pioneer citizen of Salt Lake, and one of the most widely known men in the cigar trade in the intermountain country, died at his borne in this city Monday night of diabetes, dia-betes, after an illness of nearly two years. Mr. Levy came to Salt Lake in 3 S72 and engaged in the manufacture, of cigars. At one time as high as 120 men were employed by him in making cigars. From to 1S90 he acovanu- lated a fortune of between $200,000 and J.voo.000 from the business. This vas lost through unfortunate, mining investments. in-vestments. He retained control of his cisrar business, and though it was on a smaller scale, it enabled him to become be-come independent before his dettth. Mr. Levy was known as an active, energetic citizen, one who worked for the interest and advancement of the ity in which he lived. His death will be a distinct loss, not alone to his family, but to his friends, who are numbered by thousands. 9- Regarding the disposition of miners' hospital fees and the hospital to w hich sick or injured shall be sent when occasion demands. Senator Kearns said lat evening 'that as far as the Silver King was concerned it was optional with. the men. They themselves them-selves designate over their signature to which of the four institutions the fee shall be paid, a-nd if they require the services of a 'hospital they will be taken to the institution of their reference. re-ference. ' ' At a liK-eu'inR ludd at the home of Mrp. XV. A. Nelden Monday night it was decided by former members to discontinue dis-continue the Ph'ilharmonie Guarantee soeieiy on '"account of lack .of interest shown by ti e public. . Last ' winter the 'oJcty brought such artists as Lillian F.lauvelt and Harold Baur. and weut behind in its expenses. f Owing to "the fact that there has been no diKpnte regarding the payment of il. c poll tax jhis year, the collections for the month-of September wer? ten times as large as those for the same month last year. Street Supervisor Seddon reports the amount "for the .month jur finished at'$2.0i'S as aeanist ?!!2 for last'Soptenvber. The total collections col-lections up to date amount to J9.:."l. and thcie arc still many notices to be served. After that comes :he suing, and it is anticinated that the. total amount for lire year -will be -ner J14.M00. Last year between $1 0,000 and Jlt.ii'jO was collected. Mass i celebrated every second Sun-j 'day in rbe mouth at a. m. in Marker's h3'I. Murray.. ' ' Xaniel Hickey was awarded S5.500 damages from the Rio Grande Western tiailway ' yompany. The case, which ; '""es been pending for a long time, was- settled by the jury Tuesday in Judge ji LewiV court. Hickey was suing the I raUroad for 115,000 for personal injuries j received by him while unloading freight I from a bos car into a wagon hi the defendant's yards. A switch engine in ' ihe yards scared the horses attached to Hie wagon and au.d them to back it asaiiist .the box car. Hickey was rushed between the wagon and the .ar and received permanent injuries. "n.'erence time, with the crowds of M rangers that flock to Salt Lake, always al-ways brings a harvest to the county lerk":- office. In all parts of Utah, and the other stakes of the church, there are fond couples who make up their minds to be married at conference, so i hat they can come to Zion itself to take up the bonds. Many. of them come :'r th special privilege 0f being married mar-ried in the temple. J. P. Langford of Park City, who may be regarded as one of the most able and influential representatives of or-j or-j panized labor in Utah." w ith his family, f - came to the city Monday night and will I remain to participate in the stale min ers' convention.- Mr. Tngford s set-rctary set-rctary and treasurer of state union No. i 1 of the AVestern Federation of Miners and also president of the Tark Citv local union.. The confidence of his coworkers co-workers in his wisdom was shown last spring by his election as the first president pres-ident of the newly-formed State Federation Fed-eration of Labor. He i a student of the labor question in all its phases and has had marked success as a speaker. K. H. McDonough, formerly superintendent superin-tendent of the Johnny mine of State-line State-line when that property was. under the jj management of Will J: rooly, departed J 'or Tonopsh and Goldfjeld on Tuesday. where he expects to locate permanent- : " i is . 1 ii lv. Mr. McDonourn is a mining man I , of many years experience and has been particularly successful in the handling of large forces of men. In the real estate field the high prices at which all owners are holding inside business property is retarding transfers. trans-fers. This ranie policy is having a tendency ten-dency to spread the business area over a greater txtent. One capitalist whose judgment is considered first-class advocates ad-vocates the formation of a strong syndicate syn-dicate to build up a retail department on a street other than Main to relieve the congested conditions on Main street and relieve small merchants from the exoibitant rentals now charged within the limited area devoted to retail business. busi-ness. This movement is certain 'to come sooner or later, and the gentleman gentle-man ppeaking looked for its inauguration inaugura-tion in the near future unless the business busi-ness of the city should get a bad setback set-back from some cause not in sight at this time. |