of the evening. His oration was a bis- ideas. death." WINTER IN EUROPE. 567; Apaches at Mt. Vernon barracks (prisoners), 384; Indians in the State or Territorial prisons, 186. Total 114,473. LONDON, Jan. 9.-There are no signs of abatement of the severe winter weather throughout Great Britain and The bulletin further shows: Total on the continent. From all parts come males, taxed and untaxed, 80,715; total stories of suffering. In Great Britain males untaxed and on reservation, the severity of the season has not been 63,770; total females, untaxed and on exceeded since 1813. The river Thames reservation, 69, 484; ration Indians on below Richmond remains partially reservation, to whom rations are issued frozen and navigation is impeded by by the United States, 32,210; self-supice floes. Carriers and vans traverse porting Indians on reservation by the frozen surface from Sutton Court farming, herding, root digging, horse to Abingdon. raising, fishing and hunting, 6044; self-supporting Indians, 32,567; taxed and not including the civilized tribes, 128,611. The Mid Numerous deaths have resulted from In every country on the continent At this point the audience did not know how to take the orator's opinion that his party was impervious to new ideas, and it kept quiet wondering what was to come next. Again the hostility theory to new ideas was repeated, but this time the speaker explained himself. He said that his party already had all the ideas neces- Dynamite is to be used at Copensary to a free people and free govern-hagen harbor in hopes of getting out a ment, and that it only required the en- number of vessels now ice-bound. Dislargement of these ideas to embrace all patches from several German ports tell the demands of modern progress and of the inaccessibility of their harbors civilization. This pleased the Jack-because of the ice. sonians and there was loud applause. The remainder of the oration was a defense of free trade and an exhortation to propagate democratic party principles in Utah. He said: All Bavaria is covered with snow, and in the country between the Danube and the Alps the snow is eighteen inches deep. In certain localities along the Rhine snow drifts are piled seventeen feet high. IN NORTHERN ITALY "We enjoy our politics as a Methodist - minister does his religion. The placing of true Democratic principles before the snow fell heavily for some hours. The people of Utah is one of our aims, and inhabitants of this region are suffering we serve notice on all who would combat acutely, such weather being entirely us that the war is open. But our club unknown to them, and it is feared a does not propose to mix up with the un-number perished in the storm. The fortunate local complications; whatever our individual members may do on their railways are much delayed. own account." The speaker quoted from the platform of the Democratic Club, saying that religious toleration should be observed, but that religion must not be used as a cloak for crime. The chief incident of note in the oration was the bold declaration of war on the part of the Salt Lake democracy. This declaration was couched in unmistakable terms, and it made a small sensation. Several persons left the hall, but this might have been due to the fact that the hour was getting ate and the speaker was a trifle prosaic and heavy. At this point the Judge announced his intention of coming to close, and kept his word. He did hot act like his Methodist ministers who, after making a similar announcement, started on a new topic, and with renewed wind orated for an hour more. The Judge did not do this but prompty took his seat. Dr. H. J. Faust then called for three Sheers for the speakers of the night. They were given, but not as forcibly is one would expect in a Jacksonian meeting. There was a band in attendance but -appeared long before the close of he proceedings. CENSUS BUREAU BULLETIN. WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-The Census Bureau has issued a bulletin, giving the population and other information of various Indian tribes, exclusive of Alaska. The bulletin shows the total Indian population of the United States to be 244,705. This makes the total population of the country including Alaska, estimated at 37,000, almost 63,000,000. The number of whites on the several reservations in the Indian territory aggregates 107,987, as follows: Cherokee nation, 27,176; Chickasaw nation, 49,444; Choctaw nation, 27,991; Seminole nation, 96; Creek nation, 3780. The Crow Indian commission today submitted to the secretary of the interior a report, in which is included the agreement made with the Crows. The Cherokee commission called and made a statement of what had been accomplished. Several important agreements were signed by the tribes in the eastern part of the Indian territory, the only tribe which has refused being the Cherokees. BOARD OF EDUCATION. The Board of Education met in regular session January 8th at 7:30 o'clock. The following members were present: Armstong, Colbath, Nelson, Pyper, Pike and Young; President Scott in the chair. By unanimous consent it was agreed to suspend the regular order of business so as to allow County Superintendent Stewart to address the Board on the question of its financial condition. He said that he had been notified by the county treasurer that only about half of the Territorial apportionment of school moneys had been paid into the treasury up to date, but that it would be forthcoming in a few weeks. Mr. Stewart stated that until he had received the above information from the county treasurer he believed the entire sum was available, and under this impression he had notified the various district trustees of the county that their money was ready for them, and inasmuch as many of them were compelled to come from a considerable distance, he requested the Board to wait a few days for its apportionment. The matter was discussed at some length, the prevailing opinion being The Indian population is made up as that if the delay was not more than follows: On reservations or at schools two or three weeks that the request under control of the Indian police, not might be granted. Mr. Pike moved taxed, $30,254. The Indians incident- that the board waive its right to the ally under the Indian office, and self-county fund as requested. supporting, are as follows: Indian Ter- Mr. Nelson said the board should find ritory, 25,357; Cherokees, 3464; Chicka-out how much money it had on hand saws, 9996; Choctaws, 9291; Creeks, before taking such action. He moved 2539. There are also about 14,247 that the statement be received and the colored people (mixed Indian blood) county superintendent be requested to living with and members of the above apportion the city's money as fast as tribes. The total population of the five possible. civilized tribes is therefore 64,871; the Six Nations and Stregis of New York, 5304; Eastern Cherokees of North Carolina, 2885; Indians, 68 per cent of whom are not on the reservation, taxed and self-supporting citizens, counted in the general population, 32, It was finally agreed that the Superintendent should turn over $5000 to the City Board at once, and no demand would be made upon him until some time in the future. Zion's Savings Bank notified the Board that they held a note against the Fifth District which they had vainly tried to collect. The clerk was instructed to notify the bank to send in a certified copy of the note, in order that the Board could have something to act on. Architect Monheim reported that the roof on the Fourteenth District school building was all right, and recom mended payment therefor. The committee on buildings. W. H. Whitney submitted a proposition to rent a building for school purposes on First South and Eighth West for $35 per month. Referred to the same committee, with the school committee, with power to make a contract if they deem fit. R. Kletting filed a bill for plans on the Fifteenth Ward School buildings for $415.75. Committee on finance. since last regular meeting: Miss Hynd- he did not care to discuss the matter, Frank Stevenson, $50 per month, Miss Faust, $65 per month, Fourteenth district. Mrs. Bjornson, $65, vice Miss Bartlett, Twenty-first district. The Superintendent reported that he had transferred Mr. McCorkie from the Fourteenth school to the principalship of the Fifth district at $80, and Mr. Proposals for pipe and covering at Foster from the high school to the the Fourteenth Ward building were sixth grade, Fourteenth district. He then filed by Conway & Simmons, reports the following resignations: D. and referred to the committee on build-W. Stafford, Fifth district; Miss Eva ings. TREASURER'S REPORT. the Indians were in a starving condition, and that the pending troubles grew out of the fact that the government had not kept its agreement with the Sioux, but on the contrary, had already begun to cut down rations in violation of all treaty obligations. The Secretary denounced these statements as unqualifiedly false. The story of starvation among the Sioux was a pure fabrication. For ten long years the government, in the fulfilment of its treaty obligations, had been feeding the Sioux in idleness. Some of them, however, were thrifty farmers and good citizens, but a good proportion were a thriftless and indolent set, perfectly willing to spend their time in idleness The following bills were ordered and in finding fault with the govern Dooley, Twenty-first district; Miss The report of the Treasurer of the Miss Agues Sims, Twentieth district. · Board for the month of November was then received and referred to the committee on finance. The report was adopted. Further work on the Fourteenth dis-paid: A hot water boiler was ordered put in The clerk submitted a report, which he said would have been more com plete had the treasurer not been so dilatory in his duties. He hoped the board would shake his royal highness up a little. The committee on furniture acknowledged the receipt of a couple cf carloads of furniture. Mr. Newman recommended that the janitor of the Fourteenth district receive a higher salary. He was compelled to hire an assistant, and the speaker thought $90 was none too much for him. The recommendation was adopted. APPROPRIATIONS. Sixteenth Ward Ecclesiastical Associ- Neve & Child................... W. M Newman...... Thomas McIntyre. J. C. Murphy & Co........................ J. F. Millspaugh.... T. C. Armstrong.................................................... E. M. Husbands R. G. Showells........................................ James E. Willard................................................ Utah Stove and Hardware Co................. Sandberg Furniture Co.................................................. A. L. Williams .... Gas Company Total..... ment on every conceiveable pretext. The treaty of 1871, the secretary said, .$1,625 00 obliged the government to furnish 75.20 them with a certain amount of food, clothing, implements, horses, cattle, 2.50 etc., until they should become self sup6 54 porting. 25.02 25 0) 4.00 37.50 50.00 170.00 9.85 12 85 5,457.50 After ten years, during which time 4.50 the government spent millions of dol76.68 lars with a view to placing the Indians $0.00 on a self-supporting basis, members of 80.00 Congress very properly began to inquire 35.09 whether it was the purpose of the government to continue indefinitely and 67.65 forever the policy of feeding Ind ans 19.00 who persisted in living in idleness. 28.85 They thought it about time to test their 16.10 ability to support themselves, and so 273 40 the appropriation was reduced $100,000, 125.00 not a very large amount when com133.23 pared with the vast sum which the 962 00 usual appropriation called for. There43 60 upon the Indians immediately began to 24.00 complain, but made no effort toward feeding themselves. They occupied a vast territory, containing thousands of acres of productive land, they were supplied with everything necessary to improve it aniraisegood crops, but preferred to do nothing, and let the gov ernment continue to put food in their mouths. It was time, the Secretary thought, that these people should be compelled to do something, and he had lost patience with those who upheld the Indians in their idleness. He sincerely regretted that the recent action of the military had resulted in bloodshed, and he congratulated himself that his de. partment was in no way responsible for it. .$9,467.82 Mr. Young said that the Fourteenth The superintendent of schools pre-ward school building was not properly sented the following names of the heated, and thought that Mr. Moran's bill should be rescinded. Mr. Nelson moved that the warrant be held until the Committee on Buildings satisfy themselves that everything is satisfactory. The report of the treasurer was then read. Committee on Finance. HIGH SCHOOL. Superintendent Millspaugh recom- teachers who had passed examination: The report was filed. The same officer reported that he had employed the following teachers THE INDIAN MOVEMENT. until WASHINGTON, January 5.-Secretary Noble was questioned as to what action had been taken on the recommendation of General Miles that the Indian agents of the South Dakota agencies be relieved from further duty and that their places be filled with military officers. The Secretary says The Commissioner of Indian Affairs says, to the best of his knowledge and belief, the Sioux Indians of South Dakota are notstarving, and he has reason to think the statements regarding their destitution are grossly exaggerated. It is true, he says, that Congress has greatly reduced the appropriations for the Sioux and other tribes, and the agreements made with them have beer only partially fulfilled. Whose the fault was he could notsay. The recent out break was, hethought, partially due to the reason above stated, the failure o crops and the religious craze. He op bureau, under regulations and instructions received by them from the Interior Department." posed a transfer of the control of the Indians to the War department. The following table shows the amount by which the estimates of the Indian Bureau have been reduced by Congress from and including 1879: 1879 upon some of the other tribes, even as this morning, say that the Indians In CHICAGO, Jan. 8. Dispatches from Pocatello, Idaho, received here early the Sioux Indians. This delusion as to Very respectfully, WASHINGTON, Nov. 13, 1890. Secretary of War: . lar point in question is the death of the Pine Ridge and Cheyenne River Agencies, pressed that, if the Indians at Pocatello women and children. $105,000; 1880, $55,000; 1881. $15.000; 1882, $25.000; 1883, $275,000; 1884, $275.000; 1885. $275 000; 1886, $875,000; 1887, $200,000; 1888, $100,000; 1889, no reduction; 1890, $100,000; 1891, $50,000. WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. General Schofield said: "It had been suggested by a person whom I cannot mention that it would be well tolook into the matter of the fight at Wounded Knee Creek the other day, inasmuch as the reports stated that several Indian women and children were killed. Accordingly General Miles, at a suggestion from here, relieved Colonel Forsythe of his command pending an investigation of the circumstances of that Sir--I transmit herewith communicafight, which investigation is probably tions dated November 7th, 10th and 13th now being conducted by General Miles. from the Secretary of the Interior, acThe general management of the fight is companied by copies of letters from the also to be looked into, but the particu-Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and from the agents of the Indian Bureau at all relating to the disturbed condition of go on the war path, they will be Considerable criticism against Col. the Indians at these stations, and relating joined by the tribes on the Lemhi Forsythe's suspension is heard in the incidents in which the authority and reservation who number 500, emWar Department. It seems to be di- power of the agents and the Indian police bracing 125 able bodied bucks. rected against the policy of relieving an have been violently defied and set at WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. General officer during the progress of a cam- naught. The situation seems to me to be Schofier this morning received the folpain instead of waiting until after the serious. The authority and discipline lowing telegram from General Miles, trouble is settled. As to the charge that of the agents must be maintained, and dated Pine Ridge Agency, January Col. Forsythe allowed his men to kill adequate and early steps taken to pre- 8th:-Seventy Indians came in from women and children, it is stated that vent any outbreak that may put in peril the hostile camp today. The reports it would be impossible in the hurry ad the lives and homes of the settlers of ad-from them are that Red Cloud, Little jacent States. You will therefore assume direction and responsibility for such steps Wound, Two Strike, Big Road and as may be necessary to these ends. You oth is will come in tomorrow. will see that troops, whose services will be in requisition in case of an outbreak, are in readiness to take and remain in the field; that any movement is supported by body of troops sufficiently large to be impressive, and in case of resistance be quickly and thoroughly efficient. I have directed the Secretary of the Interior to advise his agents to use their influence to separate the well-disposed from the ill-disposed Indians, and while using their best endeavors to preserve discipline, to avoid an outbreak until the War Department has made the necessary preparation. BENJAMIN HARRISON. General Miles also received an offiWASHINGTON, Dec. 1, 1890, cial report that Lieutenant Edward Commander of Indian Affairs: Casey, Company H, Twenty-second Sir-You will convey to the several infantry, had been killed by hostiles. agents among the Sioux the following The unfortunate young officer had order, which is hereby made during gone too near the hostile camp, when the present Indian troubles: You are he was fired on andshot through instructed that, while you shall con- the head. His body has been recovtinue all business and carry into effectered. the educational and other purposes of Lieutenant Casey was born in Caliyour agency, you will as to all opera-fornia, but appointed to the Military tions intended to suppress any out- Academy at West Point from Louisibreak by force, co-operate with and obey the orders of the military officers he was appointed as Second Lieutenana in 1869. On graduating in 1873 commanding in the reservation in your ant iu the Twenty-second infantry, charge. JOHN W. NOBLE, and promoted to the first lieutenancy Secretary. in 1880. He served with his regiment and Missouri, up to 1883, when he was in the departments of Texas, Dakota made senior assistant instructor of infantry and artillery tactics at West Point, serving there a year. He was adjutant of his regiment from 1884 to 1887. He was regarded as one of the brightest young officers in the service. confusion of the unexpected fight and subsequent stampede and pursuit to detect the sex of the Sioux. One officer remarked: "It is preposterous to say it is necessary in an Indian skirmish to stop firing long enough to find just what sort of an Indian you are shoot ing at. The womenand men look very much alike in their blanket costume, and the former are quite as fierce fighters as the men. The Sioux squaw is as bad an enemy as the buck at times. Little boys, too, can shoot quite as well as their fathers, and what a spectacle it would be for a soldier, on seeing a 10 year-old out ng a baded gun at him with as true an aim as the best marksman in thearmy to stop his advance and cry out: 'My son, you must drop that gun, for you are a minor,and I am not allowed to hurt you."" Another officer said: "At this rate the Sioux rout les will grow to be just as bad as the events of the first three years of the war, when every officer with an independert command had not o ly an enemy in front of him, but a court-martial behind him." Still another officer said it was a grave error to order the relief of Col. Forsythe at this stage of the proceedings, and thus hold up a warning finger to every colonel in the little army around Pine Ridge to tell them that the death of each Sioux must be explained. WASHINGTON, January 7.-The following correspondence, made public today, explains fully the position of the administration on the Indian questi n: WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 1890. Secretary of War: -Sir:-I forward for your information a letter addressed to me by the Secretary of the Interior, under date of October 30th, accompanied by letters from the commissioner of Indian affairs, and of certain Indian agents, all relating to the apprehended trouble with a (Signed) (Signed) General Schofield sent the following telegram to Miles, under yesterday's date: NEW YORK, Jan. 7.-The Herald's Pine Ridge special says a courier has just come in from General Brookes' headquarters on Wounded Knee Creek with a dispatch for General Miles, to the effect that heavy firing is going on in the direction of the hostile camp. He believes some portion of the troops have engaged the rebellious Sioux. His forces are ready to move just as soon as it can be definitely learned where and what the fight is. Scouts have been sent out from here to get at the truth and all if excitement. "You are hereby authorized, under the existing orders of the President, to assign Captain Ewers, Fifth Infantry; Captain Lee, Ninth Infantry; Captain Earnest, Eighth Infantry, and Captain ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 12.-A Post Pierce, First Infantry, to take charge Dispatch special from the Pine Ridge of the Indians at the several Sioux and Cheyenne agencies, to exercise over them Agency reads: General Miles detersuch military supervision and control as mined this morning not to parley nor in your judgment is necessary, without confer again with the Indians, and interferi g unnecessarily with the ad- this morning he sent a messenger to ministration of the agents of the Indian the hostile camp at the mission, stat ing his terms. He said they must come to the agency in small squads and go into camp on grounds near the friendly Indians. He would not object if they chose their Own camping grounds, but the Brules and Ogallalas must not camp together, and they must submit to the laws governing the reservation and to the agent. It is learned from official sources that this is General Miles's final action. If the Indians do not accept these terms Miles will go after them and there will be a fight sure. Father Jute came to the agency last night and brought news of the arrival of the Indians at the mission. He informed General Miles that the Indians were in a friendly mood and inclined to come in peacefully. He said the chiefs would be in in the morning and possibly terms might be made. The General consented to receive them and Short Bull, Kicking Bear and Little Wound will confer with him today. Father Jute says the Indians do not want to be disarmed. This is the it is huge in its grandeur, strikingly THE "MORMONS" AND MEXICO. THE Liverpool Post is one of the most fair-dealing and liberal newspapers in the United Kingdom, and is therefore esteemed as one of the most consistent journals published. The following recently appeared in its columns: scout says that young men and old ones are excited and it is thought they Just between the plain and the are half afraid. I cannot tell, said he, agency, perched on a hill behind the what they will do, but I fear that there earthworks, is a rifle which was turned are several hundred young men on the camp for a while yesterday. who want to fight. They have their Everybody at Pine Ridge waited with war paint on and they are ready for anxious feelings. Every minute the roar fight. If one occurs, the friendly camp of that gun might be heard and every- is now an unsafe place, because the one was expectant. General Miles had hostiles are riding in there constantly notified Father Jute that he would not and it is difficult to get even couriers consent to a counsel. Capt. Dougherty to go through there late in the evencommanding an infantry company at ing. General Brooke is coming slowly the fortifications, had thrown out toward the agency. He is encumbered The Indians are at the mission six pickets a quarter of a mile beyond the with a number of wounded, which miles away, and Father Jute has made lines. The Indians were known to be makes his progress slow. arrangements with General Miles for just beyond the hill about 1800 yards & conference with the chiefs this morn-distant. Mayor Baker, the paying. It is expected that the Indians master, visited the fortifications will come in, either as friends or to pay off the company and hostiles, and the conference may de-all men were in camp a termine which. bundred yards away, except one who was left as guard near the guns. Suddenly two Indians were seen on the crest of the hill but a short distance beyond the other pickets. Then others appeared on the hills to the northwest and then a body of more than a hundred bucks rose to the crest of the hill behind which the hostiles were. The "Yesterday, Mr. Brigham Young, who number steadily increased. Capt. is now in charge of the European mission Dougherty was immediately notified. of the Latter-day Saints, was asked, He dispatched a courier to headquarters What truth is there, Mr. Young, in the to notify General Miles of the move statement made in a dispatch from Lima, ment, then hurrying to the fortifica-Ohio, U. S. A., and published in the Post, tions, he had a gun prepared for action. The range finder adjusted his sights and the cave in which the ammunition was stored was opened. A line of skirmishers were sent out beyond the fortifications on the crests of the hills. There was great activity at the headquarters. Orders were sent to the cavalry to saddle and to be in readiness to move southwest of the camp. Friendlies and horsemen have been. riding continually between the two camps. Captain Maus, General Miles' aide, says that these communications were between the relatives of the friendlies, who held a council late last night and decided that they wanted no hostiles in their camp. They have dug rifle pits and say if even a solitary warrior comes among them and causes any trouble, they will arrest him, and if he resists, they will kill him. Still this does not give a feeling of security. The ground upon which they camp is between the agency and the retreat. If a fight takes place, no one will know a friendly from a hostile, and a fight may mean simply a battle between all the Indians and whites. KEYNOTE OF THE CONFERENCE. General Miles says they will not be disarmed. It is possible there may be a peaceable settlement. There is no confidence in their peaceful pretensions. All day yesterday they were shooting catttle along the line of march. They burned three shacks, destroyed their own property of every kind, save their guns and ponies, and these facts destroy all confidence in their expression of not desiring to go to war. The Indians themselves partially admit that the chiefs cannot guarantee to control the warriors. They say they have among them about three hundred young bucks who want to fight, and a single shot will start them. Besides this the Indians who murdered Lieutenant Casey are known, and when they are taken they will be hanged for murder. They are among the belligerent young bucks, and they may precipitate a fight to prevent dying by the rope. The Indians are just as anxions to know what the whites are going to do as the whites are to know what the Indians will do. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 13.-A Post Dispatch staff correspondent at Pine Ridge Agency this morning telegraphs the paper as follows: The Indians are in camp within full view of the north fortifications to the right. Their column rests there and the line extends northeasterly, running up to the gulch behind the bluffs. Behind them is a natural amphitheatre, a rugged, broken slope, two hundred feet to the crest. It is just a mile from the agency and the White Clay Creek runs beside it. On the plain are tepees by the hundreds pitched irregularly and huddled together in groups here and gathered widely apart there. Moving about among the tepees, the field glass shows bucks and squaws with their children and dogs. Such a spectacle imprints itself on the mind with startling clearness, for 13.-General WASHINGTON, Jan. "General Brooke's command is now Α few of that the Mormons are seeking a new lo- The move, but the prognostication will never receive a fulfilment. Oh, no! The Mormons will never abandon Utah, nor engage in an exodus from the confines of the United States. Neither the government of Canada nor of Mexico need feel the least uneasiness in this respect. The Mormons redeemed Utah, and civilization cannot possibly realize what that redemption cost the people. We are forced to form new settlements in the surrounding Territories, States and nations. We multiply our possessions to meet the requirements of our rapidly-increasing population. The Mormons are a lawabiding people; they have found stringent laws in Mexico, prohibiting the practice of polygamy, which laws they have respected and obeyed in every particular." "I also wish to refer," continued Mr. manded his force with considerable against the Mormons as guarding "the Young, "to the legislation of Congress skill and excellent judgment. The morals of the people. The action of Congreatest difficulty is now to restore con- gressmen is evidently not in behalf of fidence. The Indians have great fear the cause of morality, for they have sufthat the arms will be taken away from fered a flood of prostitution from the them and that all will be treated like slums of eastern cities to flow upon comthose on the Wounded Knee. munities which were phenomenally free They have a large number of wounded from drinking saloons and immoral women and children, which creates a made no effort to check it. It is a well houses, and the national legislators have most depressing feeling among the known fact that the Latter-day Saints are families and a desperate disposition innocent of the crimes of drunkenness, among them. The military measures prostitution and the like; and nothing of and movements have been successful that class was permitted in their midst Frank Giraud, the chief Indian until the Gentiles, backed by the parent government, wrenched political control out of their hands, and introduced and practiced those vices. There is abundant evidence to prove this; hence it is useless to credit the American Congress with ever having a desire to protect the morals of our people." A PREDICTION REALIZED. A FEW days before his death President Lincoln wrote a letter to Mr. Taylor, of Illinois. The contents of the communication showed that the writer was filled with gloomy forebodings regarding the future of the Republic. This relic of the murdered patriot and statesman has recently been made public, and we quote a prophetic passage from it: The "Variety" Theatre Case. having died when an infant, many At the conclusion of the ordinary years before. The estates which the business of the police court this morn-Jews are compelled to abandon are being, Assistant City Attorney Eichnor ing obtained by land speculators for applied to Justice Laney to continue, a mere song. for one week, the charge against It is said that a letter from the arrest them. Special School Taxes. The following School Districts in Judge Laney granted the request, remarking: Well, if they do violate the "It has been a trying hour of the Re-law again the proper thing will be to public, but I see in the future a cricis arising which unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and then the money power of the country will prolong its reign by working upon the prejudice of the people, until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this time more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of the war. God grant that my fears may prove groundless." The situation of the country to lay, combined with the outlook of the future, shows that the shadowy anticipations of Mr. Lincoln were based on a correct conception. On this point the Atlanta Journal says with striking truth: We "Is not the condition of the country at this time very nearly such as Mr. Lincoln, a quarter of a century ago, feared that it would be? We have the 'corportions enthroned'-organized into monopolies and trusts, and protected by laws that shut out foreign competition. have not only corruption in high places, but high places bought by corruption, and the reign of those in office prolonged by the 'money power. Such an aggregation of immense wealth in a few hands was never before accomplished in so short a time in this or any other country. What caused Mr. Lincoln so much anxiety in its contemplation is now an actual condition of the country, and its reality does not, apparently, excite so much alarm as his dim perception of it in the coming future." CURRENT EVENTS. Maricopa Stake Conference. This Stake held its quarterly confer ence on December 21st and 22nd, Henry C. Rogers and Collins R. Hakes presiding. There was a general representation of local officers. The spirit ual condition of the various wards, quorums and associations, as shown by the reports of their presiding officers. is good. The principal subjects treated upon by the speakers were the law of tithing, the education and proper training of our children, the divine nature of the Book of Mormon as compared with the Bible, and the mission of the Prophet Joseph Smith. GEO. PASSEY, Clerk. Town. 21-West Jordan...... 23-Union.. Per cent. 24-South Cottonwood............ ........ 31-Mill Creek................................. 33-East Mill Creek..... ............ 37-Big Cottonwood................................. 40-Farmer's............. 47-Pleasant Green.... 50-Hunter.... 55-Mountain Dell... 57-Butler and part Granite.. resolution with reference to the treat- Arrivals and Appointments. 63-Pleasant Green (south end)...... 1 There are a few more districts yet to hear from. Reports are expected from all the districts within a few days. The Russian Jews. LONDON, Jan. 5.-The wholesale ex- Memel has collected statistics to show For the Swiss and German MissionSerge F. Ballif, of Logan; Frederick Reber, Santa Clara. On Thursday, December 18, Elder John C. Cutler, of Salt Lake City, arrived on the steamship Arizona, for the British Mission. Elder Richard Sedgwick is appointed to labor as a Traveling Elder in the Newcastle Conference. Elder Wm. H. Slaughter is appointed to labor as a Traveling Elder in the Scottish Conference. Elder D. W. B. Card is appointed to labor as a Traveling Elder in the Birmingham Conference. Elder Walter W. Crane is appointed to labor as a Traveling Elder in the Norwich Conference. Elder James Bywater is appointed to labor as a Traveling Elder in the Leeds Conference. Elder George G. Eyre is appointed to labor as a Traueling Elder in the Liverpool Conference. Elder E. Goble is appointed to labor as a Traveling Elder in the Liverpool Conference. Elder John C. Cutler is appointed to labor as a Traveling Elder in the Manchester Conference.-Millennial Star, Dec. 22nd. At 3:30 this afternoon a team with a load of hay attached was frightened by an electric car. The horse ran away. The load was overturned in front of the LONDON, Jan. 7.-Advices from St. Petersburg state that whole vilages of Jews are being depopulated on the pretease that they are within the forbid on his head and shoulder. den districts of the frontier, and in The entire load turned over on some instances where villages are not top of him. Bystanders extricated really within fifty versts. A Jewish him. The wind was squeezed out of father has been fined because his son him for a few moments and he was did not appear for conscription, the son | badly bruised, but otherwise unhurt. |