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Show : SALT LAKE S -- i '. !, CITY AND ENIGHBORHOOD. ' ; : ' - ; ' The eleventh volume of Polk's direc- - ' tory for Salt Lake for 1902 is out. The ! book contains more than 1,000 pages ! and 32,564 names, which is an increase I I of 3,348 names over the directory of I ; ; last year. The compilers of this volume f i have fixed the population of Salt Lake, I the suburbs at 89,551, and about 75,000 j . for the city proper. j I r' James Glendinning, until recently su- , perintendent of the forest reserves of I j Idaho, and once mayor of Salt Lake City, died at Spokane very suddenly -I , Sunday of heart disease. Mr. Glendin- ring: went to Spokane about three years ago to assume the duties of superin- j tendent of forest reserves for Idaho. He I " held the position until about six months I ago. He was not engaged in business I ; ; at the time of his death, but was in I ; comfortable circumstances. I : . . ! Captain Charles Howard, who was f :' well known in educational circles in I ' Salt Lake, died in St. Louis Sunday ! i after an illness from pneumonia. For i ' ' fix years previous to 1S94 Captain How- ! : ard was principal of the Ogden military . ' academy. He was the author of several I , text books, and was, at the time of 1 ' - t ms aeatn, m cnarge or the Columbia j : ' i pchool in St. Louis. J Miss Josie Wilson, sister of Mr. ; Thomas Kearns, died in Tark City i Monday. She was 17 years old, and i ; the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William i Wilson. She has been a lifelong inva- ,' lid. Services were held in Park City ; Thursday morning, and a special bear- ing the relatives and friends brought the body to this city for interment. t . W. S. McCornick declares he will ac- V vert the interior portfolio if A Roosevelt tenders It to him. He 1 j believes that Secretary Hitchcock's resignation is assured. He says that 'j i he believes that the position will fall to I ! a astern man, on account of what the -i i ' rnvcrnmpnt intondc tn A in tinr- j . the arid region of the west. 1 ' ' i ' Postmaster Thomas has received the S ppecifications and drawings for the new ! federal building from the office f the I supervising architect at Washington. There are six sets, one of which will be ' j kept at the postoffice for exhibition, the '5 other five being for distribution among contractors. Bids for construction, ex- ' I cepting electric lighting, steam heating j and conduits, will be opened May 2. The funeral of little Tom Connelly w'as held Monday afternoon from St. i Mary's cathedral. Tom was killed a ; fw days ago in a caving sand bank ' near the Jordan river. The services were attended by a large number of friends and many of the employes of S . the Rio Grande Western shops where - I Ihc father of the deceased works. Fa ther Keenan conducted the services I and the interment took nine at r-au-a : cemetery. 'I.J,. o very Rev. Dean H. Martyn Hart of i . John's cathedral at Denvpr has 'cen invited by Bishop Leonard to perach the sormon at the laying of the corner stone of the new Rowland hall building, early in June. The annual v convention of the Episcopal church for f i this missionary jurisdiction will be held I a the same time, so that it will be a t noted event in Utah Episcopalian cir- ' : ces. j'l . Sheriff Virgil Kelly of Millard county I f TOs the city recently. He has been 1 " given a contract for grading work on J tne Leamington, cut-off, which will I i kPeI him busy for some time. He savs I there is more snow in the mountains I in his part of the stnto than i !been for the last five years, and people ; are happy in consequence. Authorities of the Mormon church have under favorable consideration the ( erection of a magnificent hotel building J '. . . ; on the northeast corner of Main and South Temple streets, now occupied by the Deseret News and the tithing office Plans have matured to such an extent I that work on the new building mav be- s P'n before the close of the vear Th I structure planned will cost not less than jr.no.000. and perhaps as hicrh as ! 51.000.000. It wil Ibe a modern fire-proof I building, first-class in every particular. John Madigan, a prominent mining man from Tonopah. New, has been discharged from Holv and will -return home tomorrow. Mr' Madigan suffered a broken arm and i , shoulder while engaged in bravely res- f t ' ruing a woman and child from a heavy 1 Concord coach which had been ditched 1 ; Wlth imminent peri! to its occupants. ' i 4N- tp- Holden. an employe of the I ! street car company, suffered a broken arm W ednesday while protecting a fel- f workman from a falling street car . raiI which would have crushed his j companion had he not intercepted it ? : ' A Bon was being loaded with rails' i y Holden and several companions. I -when one of the rails was dislodged i and started to fall. Holden saw that if l continued in its course it would crush his companion. He threw his arm in I front of it to divert it, receiving a blow 5 which snapped the bone lik glass |