Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1896 — UTAH IS NOW A STATE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

UTAH IS NOW A STATE.

Elaborate Ceremonies Celebrating Ad* miggion to the Union. After years of trials and tribulations of various kinds, Utah emerges from her swaddling clothes and becomes a new member of the great galaxy of the States in the Union, to be represented by a fortyfifth star upon the national flag. The formal celebration of the event and the nauguration of the State officers took place Monday in Salt Lake City. On receipt of the news that the President’s proclamation had been issued, guns wen* fired and the citizens gave themselves over to a season of jollification. Monday was a general holiday and thousands of people from all over the new State joined with the citizens of Salt Lake in celebrating the close of Utah’s forty years of probation. The inaugural exercises proper began at 8 o’clock, when the cannon at Fort Douglass. the guns of the First Regiment,

Utah National Guard, every whistle in the State and all the other instruments of noise available heralded the beginning of the day’s festivities. The parade formed at 11 o'clock, led by the Sixteenth Regiment. United States Infantry, 500 strong, and its bands. Following came the carriages containing the State officials and invited guests, with the Utah National Guard, the Grand Army veterans and all the civic societies of the city as an escort. ‘ The exercises at the tabernacle were very simple. They opened with music by the band from Fort Douglass, then a prayer by Wilford Woodruff, president of the Mormon church; “The Star-Span-

gled planner’’ by the tabernacle choir, the reading of the President’s proclamation, administration of. the oath of office, Gov. Wells’ inaugural address, “America” by the audience and the benediction. The Legislature was Called in special session at 2 p. in. to fix a time for the regular session, the constitution failing to provide the time for convening regularly.