UTAH'S SCHOOL POPULATION.-State Superintendent A. C. Nelson, has received the annual census reports of all counties in the State. They show a total of 89,725 children, within the school age, as against 88,902, for 1902. Salt Lake, Ogden, Provo and Logan, have a population of 26,060, against 25,408 in 1902, Salt Lake having shown the greatest increase, 522, Ogden, 4, Provo, 5, and Logan, 21.

COAL MINERS' STRIKE.-On the 12th, one third (three hundred and sixty-five) of the employees of the Utah Fuel Company's Sunnyside coal mines, went out on strike, in sympathy with the Colorado coal mine strikers. The strikers are mostly single men and transients. The mines will continue in operation, if possible. As a result of the strike, and advanced costs in rates and mining, coal advanced fifty cents per ton, in Salt Lake and Ogden, and was later advanced 25 cents more in Salt Lake.

MISCELLANEOUS EVENTS.-When, on November 4, Apostle Heber J. Grant addressed the University of Utah student body, he placed one thousand dollars with President J. T. Kingsbury, for the establishment of a two thousand five hundred dollars scholarship fund. The presentation is in memory of his deceased wife, Lucy Stringham Grant, a graduate of the normal department.-A telegram, dated 5th, from Keokuk, Iowa, announces that the "Mormon" Church has purchased for four thousand dollars, the old Carthage, Illinois, jail, where the Prophet and Patriarch were killed by a 'mob.-President Joseph F. Smith dedicated the Sugar Ward Meeting House, on the 6th. The building cost fourteen thousand dollars. The Ward held a grand re-union.-The Snow Academy, Ephraim, was sixteen years old, on the 6th. The occasion was celebrated by a parade, program, games and dancing, many people attending.From Secretary Willis T. Beardsley's report, just issued, it appears that the receipts and disbursments of the Eleventh Irrigation Congress, in Ogden, was twenty-one thousand, two hundred and ninety dollars, and twenty-six cents. The first snow storm of the season, deposited about two inches of snow in the Salt Lake valley, on Sunday, 8th, followed on Monday, by a fall of six inches. Heavy rains occurred on the 12th and 13th, accompanied in the evening of the 12th by a severe wind storm, which did considerable damage in Salt Lake.

Domestic.-October, 1903.

DEATH OF MRS. BOOTH-TUCKER.-This great Salvation Army worker was killed in a railway wreck, on the Santa Fe, at Deans Lake, Missouri, October 29. She was, without doubt, the ablest of General Booth's

children, having from her childhood engaged in the work of the Army. She was forty-three years old, the mother of six children, and had, besides, one adopted child. She married Commander Booth-Tucker at the age of twenty-seven. He was then a high officer in the Salvation Army, in India, and, on his marriage, he added her name to his own, giving him his present one. On their marriage, they were put in charge of the Army, in India, but when the Ballington Booths seceded, to establish the Volunteers of America, they came to this country, where they have been in command for seven years. She was regarded as the soul and spirit of the Salvationists in this country. Her father calls her, "after her mother, the first among the many noble, consecrated women, I have been permitted to know, in my fifty years of public life." It is to be regretted that her funeral on November 1, was not made the occasion for a personal reconciliation, between the members of the Booth family.

MISCELLANEOUS.-On the 15th, James H. Tillman was acquitted, at Lexington, S. C., on the charge of murdering Editor N. G. Gonzales.— John Alexander Dowie, "Elijah the Restorer," with his three thousand five hundred followers, entered New York on the 16th, where large congregations were addressed, daily, until November 3, when the "host" returned to Chicago, in eight special trains. The return was made the occasion of a holiday in Zion City. On the closing day in New York, November 1, four thousand persons received the sacrament, and two hundred the "right hand of fellowship."-The world's racing record is broken, by Dan Patch, at Memphis, October 22, going the mile in 1.56%; and on the 24th, Lou Dillon lowered the world's trotting record, covering a mile in 1.58%; the world's wagon trotting record, on the 28th, going the mile in two minutes.

November, 1903.

CONGRESS AND SENATOR SMOOT'S CASE.-The Fifty-eighth Congress convened in extraordinary session, at noon, November 9, by the President's proclamation, (October 20,) for the purpose of enacting legislation necessary to make effective the Cuban reciprocity treaty. In his message, President Roosevelt said that legislation on this subject is "demanded, not only by our interest, but by our honor," and that "failure to enact such legislation would come perilously near a repudiation of the pledged faith of the nation." The Senators were all presented with flowers. The House has the largest membership in its history, owing to the new allotment law, and there were one hundred and eighteen "maidens," of whom Utah's, Hon. Joseph Howell, is one.

Even on the first day petitions were presented against Senator Smoot on the grounds that he is an Apostle of the "Mormon" Church, or that he is a polygamist, or a believer in polygamy. Later Senator Hoar reminded the petitioners that their proceeding is improper and out of order, since "the determination of Smoot's rights will be a purely judicial proceeding, to be determined by the laws of the Constitution." Senator Dubois, Idaho, and others, took issue with him in favor of petitioners. Ex-Secretary John G. Carlisle has been retained to argue before the committee in behalf of those who demand Senator Smoot's expulsion. The honor of introducing the bill to redeem our pledge to Cuba was granted to Representative Payne, who introduced the measure to the House on the 12th.

MISCELLANEOUS.-A

total of 912,315 emigrants came to the United States in the fiscal year 1903. During the first two weeks of November, many thousands returned, for various reasons, to their native lands, the steerage of every liner being filled.

Foreign.-October, 1903.

MISCELLANEOUS EVENTS.-On the 14th, Lord Landsdowne for Great Britain and M. Cambon for France signed an arbitration treaty between those two countries, to continue for five years; and on the same day the king and queen of Italy were warmly welcomed in Paris.-On the 17th, the Alaskan boundary tribunal in London rendered a decision sustaining all the contentions of the United States, except that for the Portland Canal which goes to Canada.-On the 18th, Merry del Val succeeded Cardinal Rampolla as Papal Secretary of State; and the Marconi wireless was put in operation between Peking and the coast.-The remarkable speed of one hundred and thirty miles an hour is reached on the electric experimental line, near Berlin, on the 24th.

NEW BRITISH AMBASSADOR.-On the 24th, Sir Henry Mortimer, Durand, formerly Ambassador to Madrid, was appointed Ambassador to the United States to succeed the late Sir Michael Herbert. He is fiftythree years old, and served through the African war as political secretary to Sir (now Earl) Roberts. He was afterwards foreign secretary in India, and from 1894 to 1900, was British Minister to Persia, being then appointed to Madrid.

November, 1903.

FIRE IN THE VATICAN.-On the evening of the 1st of November a fire broke out in the Vatican, which caused great excitement in Rome. It

threatened to destroy some of the chief treasures of the world. The Pope, who was found praying when the news was brought to him, asssisted personally in extinguishing the flames. Later the firemen arrived and quenched the fire which had one curious result. The Italian authorities, on being notified of the fire, hurried to St. Peters and were invited to enter. Among them were the mayor, the prefect, the police officials, and the minister of justice, who took charge of the men who were fighting the flames. This is the first time that any Roman officer has entered the Vatican in official capacity, since the fall of the temporal power and the so-called imprisonment of the Pope. The entire Museum of Inscriptions and parts of the Library were flooded with water, but none of the more famous treasures were injured.

DEATH OF THEODORE MOMMSEN.-The death, November 1, 1903, of this great critic and historian removes one of the great Germans of our times. This type of men is becoming rarer each year. Like Von Moltke he was by birth a Dane, but was a German scholar of high repute. His History of Rome, his leading work, was written with the "idea that only that was to be accepted as true for which there was documentary or monumental evidence." He represented "the iconoclastic epoch of criticism which inclined to disbelieve everything which can not be demonstrated by legal evidence."

THE NEW REPUBLIC.-At 6 p. m. on November 3, Panama proclaimed its independence of Colombia, at an enthusiastic meeting in the City of Panama. The United States recognized the de facto government on the 6th. A protest against the attitude of our government towards the revolutionists has been received at Washington from Bogota, capital of Colombia, where the people are said to be furious over the revolution and declare (November 4) that "the isthmus will realize the error of its course, and will return to the mother country before Colombian blood shall flow in torrents."