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Show : SALT LAKE i ' 4 CITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD. i The congestion in Salt Lake caused by the large number of visitors to the ', Mormon conference, along' with other convention gatherings, taxed the hotel ! and rooming capacity of the city to the i : utmost. Proprietor Wey of the Wind- i Bor now wishes there was another story to his hotel. He expects to i change the Wey to a rooming hotel, s eliminating the dining room. Peter Mortensen, awaiting trial upon I- , the charge of murdering J. R. Hay, ( has set himself assiduously to work to " learn to play the guitar, receiving in- ' etructions from Bert De Shazo. Perched 'i on a tobacco can, before a small table !ujion which is spread an instruction book, Mortensen spends the greater part of his time bending over his ' guitar, slowly picking out the notes s una learning 10 manipulate nis nngers. Since turning his attention to musical f ' pursuits, Mortensen has rearranged the I tune of "She Was Happy Till She Met ; ' You," so that it would fit some words entitled "Take Her Back. Dad." With ruler and pencil the prisoner has made I numerous copies of his composition, and the musically inclined prisoners j are busily engaged learning to sing it, 5 under the instructions of the composer. : The Telegram prints the following f 1 ; facts about the sheep industry of Utah: I This year's clip will aggregate 15,000,000 I pounds, an increase of 15 per cent over last season's product. There are nearly 3,000,000 sheep in the state, and the ! number is rapidly increasing. The qual- ity of Utah -wool shows a great im provement during the past five years. Price, Milford, Mount Pleasant. Colton and Brigham City are the principal .. ' shearing places. The shearing season, j which lasts from April 1 to May 15. - Eives employment to a small army of shearers, many of whom earn from ?6 to J10 per day. The value of the wool 1 rroduced in Utah this year will be nearly $2,000,000. A ; In Salt Lake there is practically no i i variation in the price of coal from one 'I e-nd of the year to the other. Coal from j ' i Wyoming. Colorado and Utah is the ! . same throughout, $5 a ton for lump, I J4-75 for nut, and 53.50 for slack. 1 Anthracite coal shows the only de- parture from this rule, being shipped I from Colorado. This takes a drop of 50 cents a ton during the months of July and August, due to the oversup-? oversup-? P'y during the warm months. "There is no foundation for the pub-! pub-! lished reports that the Carpenters' I union contemplates a strike," said Secretary C. A. Strickland. "We expect, ex-pect, and have every reason to believe, t that our demands will be granted with- ! ut any trouble with the builders. The j president of the Master Builders' or- ; ganization has now posted in his shop ' a notice that outside wages will be 45 ' cents an hour after May 1." 'i . I j Hoyt Sherman has returned from II Denver more impressed than ever -with ! . the remarkable growth of the town. He t r -was told that during the last year 1,500 i f3"" houses had been built in Denver, "d still there was a house famine, i ' People are coming into the city so . fast that houses are rented before they are completed, and before the carpenters carpen-ters can sweep out their shavings and rubbish, tenants are moving in. There ' '"'ill be some 2,000 or more houses built s In Denver the current year. iB. F. Browne, who recently returned from the City of Mexico, found a very unsanitary condition of affairs there. This is due to the laying of a fewer system which will take in the entire city, and which has been a crying need ever since the city was built. For cen-turies cen-turies the cesspool system has been in vogue until the entire soil on which the city is built has become saturated witt filth, and now that it Is being dug uy for sewering, the effluvium and miasma given off is something terrible. How. ever, Mr. Browne says that the sewers win all be laid inside of two years, and then the great city will hare a chance to become clean. At present the death rate is very heavy and is likely to continue con-tinue so for some time, from fevers niostlv. ' , J. J. Shaugnessy, better known a "Jack" Shaughnessy, one of the best known and most popular commercial I travelers in the west, is dead. News "as received of his - demise In San j , Krancisoo of pneumonia last Saturday. For twenty-one years "Jack" Shaughnessy had been in the emptor empt-or E. Lillienthal and the Crown Distil-i Distil-i v lories, and wherever he went he made , friends. He had scores of friends in ; Salt Lake and other places In Utah. -us an example 01 nis cnaracter, tne incident is told that he saw some time So in a Montana town a laboring man killed, leaving a widow and five children chil-dren penniless. While a number of people were talking sympathetically, Shaughnessy took off his hat, threw J100 into it and announced: r "1 sympathize J100 worth. How much ' do you sympathize?" He raised $500 for the widow and children in less than an hour, i Mr. Shaughnessy was born in New 1 ' York forty-five years ago. He studied i law and later was secretary of the Bullion Mining company at Virginia City, New His parents are dead and the funeral was arranged by his sister, i Mrs. W. B. Hobson of San Jose. Cal. Mr. Shaughnessy was a member of the Seattle lodge of Elks. Governor Wells issued his annual I proclamation fixing April 15. Arbor day, I as a legal holiday. The proclamation I follows: 1 "The people of Utah are hereby re- I minded that Tuesday, the 15th of April. I 1902. is Arbor day, designated and set I aside by law as a public holiday to anord them an opportunity to adorn their homes and their surroundings with trees, shrubs and vines. It is. therefore, hoped and recommended that the day will be devoted to the purposes i specified, and it is especially enjoined upon officers and teachers of schools that instruction be given and exercises prescribed that will illustrate to the children the importance of forest culture cul-ture as the greatest of all beautifiers of the complexion of nature." : The seventy-second annual conference confer-ence of the Mormon church, which convened in the tabernacle, proved to i be the largest gathering of the kind in recent years. Ideal weather prevailed! ' and the streets of the city were crowd ed with visitors. 1 In his annual address President Jo- pph F. Smith reviewed the work of I the church the past year and congrat- ulated its members for having done i ; more to increase the membership and I prosperity of the church than in any I Previous year of its history. ' J' .T ' : - - CATHEDRAL NOiES. ! Miss McFadden and Mis O'Brien are the young ladies appointed to attend to the altars this week. , Rev. Father Buifamente celebrated mass at Gold Mountain last Sunday. He v. Father Morrisscy celebrated mass at Bingham last Sunday. j Mass will be celebrated in Stockton next Sunday. The Feast of the Annunciation was celebrated last Monday. Owing to the feast coming in Holy Week this year, the holy day was transferred. The last quarter's pew rent is now due and may be paid to the sacristan. Choir practice for the members of the 9 o'clock mass choir will be held on Saturday afternoon at 3 and at 4 o'clock. The young ladies of the choir rehearse on Sunday morning at 9:30. I Last Friday being the communion day for the Sacred Heart league a large congregation attended mass and many received holy communion. 8 The members of the Sodality of the Children of Mary will receive holy communion com-munion in a body at the 9 o'clock mass next Sunday. The. regular monthly meeting will be held at 2 o'clock at St. Mary's academy. The Altar society met on Monday last. Miss Ella Cottle will sing an "Ave Maria" by Luzzi at St. Mary's next Sunday. A part of the beautiful Easter music was repeated by the choir last Sunday. Sun-day. The choir at St. Mary's is sadly in need of more voices. Ladies and gentlemen gen-tlemen of the congregation, who will volunteer their services, will be warmly warm-ly welcomed. The Knights of Columbus held their usual bi-monthly meeting last Wednesday Wed-nesday evening. $ The organ used at St. Mary's' for the Easter services was a Mason and Hamlin Ham-lin instrument,' which was a special order made for Miss Gleason, the organist or-ganist of the Cathedral. The vox hu-mana hu-mana and the harp stops are particularly particu-larly good for a reed organ. 1 The regular annual report of the St. Ann's Orphanage Sewing society for the year ending March, 1902, is as follows: fol-lows: Garments made. 323: garments mended. 300: cash received. $23.90; cash paid out, $28.72'. There are fifty members mem-bers and fourty-four meetings were attended. at-tended. The society is doing a noble , work in th most quiet and unostentatious unostenta-tious manner possible. In fact it might be better if the ladies made a little display of their charitable work for the reason, that all the ladies of St. Marys ana St. Patricks parishes would tender their assistance. As it is now there are many ladies, who do not even know of the existence of the society. so-ciety. The ladies meet every Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the residence of Rt. Rev. Bishop Scanlan, and sew for the entire afternoon. There is not nor ever has been in the diocese an organization that does such good work as this one. and it is hoped that all the ladles of the parishes will unite to help the present members. It is a work in which both parishes and in short every Catholic has a common interest. in-terest. Miss O'Meara has charge of the society and she will give a cordial welcome to all new members. Under her gentle and excellent direction the work is not only done for duty but is a pleasure.- |