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and on the floor of the Guntec necessary. His speech coul usual bitter denunciations.

named. We believe that it would re-that the public free schools of this citytention to fight it in the ea quire much more than this amount to should be made reasonably capable of place the schools in the condition de- meeting the demands made upon them manded by your necessities and rendered to be present at the polls on the 12th day fitting by our prosperity, but we content of June to vote 'Bonds Yes.'" ourselves with asking for the amount H. T. DUKE, which, in the light of the following statements, we believe to be reasonable.

"The increased density of population in the centre of the city in all directions render necessary the purchase of many building sites, some of which will be costly. Many of the present sites are inadequate and must be added to or sold, and larger one purchased.

"Most of the present buildings are in

adequate, and nearly all were built without those accessories to health and comfort usually found in such structures now, and proven to be invaluable by experience. A large number of buildings will be necessary to provide for the present overflow, to accommodate primary pupils in their own neighborhood, to provide instruction in the high school grades and generally to enable the board to inaugurate and successfully conduct a system of efficient and graded "Apparatus and furniture will be needed; while the improvement of grounds and other improvements of a permanent character will require an additional out

schools.

lay.

"It is our intention to use the bonds at such times and in such amounts as may be necessary to provide for

GEORGE W. SNOW,

T. C. ARMSTRONG, JR.,
WM. J. NEWMAN,
JOHN N. PIKE,
R. W. YOUNG,
GEORGE D. PYPER,
L. U. COLBATH,
H. C. LETT.

have been ordered printed for distribuTen thousand copies of the address tion among voters.

THE WESTERN CONGRESS.

DENVER, May 21.-At the morning session as the Trans-Mississippi Congress representatives of the different sections urged the selection of their cities of the next place of meeting. Omaha seemed to have many friends. The matter was not settled.

A large number of resolutions were introduced, favoring the Nicaragua and Hennepin canals, urging the early admission of Arizona and New Mexico, favoring a restriction of immigration, recommending amendments to the naturalization laws, favoring the free coinage of silver, defenses for deep water harbors and navigable rivers, the Torrey bankruptcy bill, etc.

Ex-Congressman Belford made a speech for free silver, river and harbor improvements, etc. The time was not far distant when the clamor of the West would demand that the nation give its attention to the development of the West's resources.

the needs of the schools. In view, however, of the fact that the courts have decided the law which authorized the board to use the taxes assessed hy the former districts of this city in 1889, to be invalid, the board has determined to reimburse those who have paid the taxes thus levied, if authority exist under the law, or to seek legislative sanction to do so, in order that the inequalities of that levy may be adjusted and the burden evenly distributed. The additional The committee asked further time expense that will be placed on the people of this city by reason of the issue of these for the selection of the next place of bonds will be trifling viewed in the light meeting. It was not accepted and the of the advantages to be derived from ade- vote resulted: Omaha, 144; New Orquate and efficient schools. That expense leans, 105. The announcement of the will consist of an annual tax of about one-selection of Omaha was received with tenth of 1 per cent. at present valuation, or cheers. $1 on each $1000 of taxable property. Of Hon. G. G. Sims spoke on free cointhe amount thus raised $30,000 will annu- age. The East, he said, was misled by ally be paid in interest and $30,000 will be a pamphlet circulated by the Eastern set aside each year as a sinking fund; thus in twenty years the entire debt will be bankers. Free coinage would break paid, the burden will be light and will be up three quarters of the English comdistributed among those who will reap merce on the seas. the advantages. By building we shall save from $7500 to $10,000 per annum in

rents.

"In explanation of our now asking for $600,000, whereas we recently asked for but $300,000, it may be added that upon mature consideration the board now favors the proposition formerly advocated by one-half of the members, of asking for the larger amount, believing that the smaller amount will no more than relieve the immediate present necessities of the schools; that we expect to reimburse those who paid the tax of 1889; that out of a total borrowing power in the municipality of $1,800,000, the amount we ask for is not disproportionate as between the schools, whose only resource for permanent inprovements is from the sale of bonds, and other municipal improvements which are largely made by individual property holders by local taxes; and finally, we believe that we should be recreant to our trusts and unfaithful to the highest interests of the community should we not do our share towards se

curing to the public schools, safe from any contingency whatever, a fund sufficient to meet their present and actual

necessities.

"We therefore confidently submit our request to the voters of this city, and earnestly urge every voter who desires

Ex-Governor Anthony of Kansas spoke against free coinage, and Chairman Ferry for it.

At the evening session, the committee on resolutions made two reports on the silver resolution. The majority favors the free coinage of silver, but limited to the American product, while the minority favors the free and unlimited coinage. Adjourned until tomorrow. GOODWIN BITTERLY OPPOSES UTAH.

DENVER, May 21.-All day the committee on resolutions have been at work. Messrs. A. E. Hyde and C. C. Goodwin represent Utah on this committee. Yesterday a sub-committee on territories was appointed consisting of Messrs. Goodwin, of Utah; Catron, of New Mexico, and Jacobs, of Arizona. Today the committee reported in favor of the claims of Arizona and New Mexico for statehood, but Utah was not mentioned.

Hyde of Utah moved an amendment, When the report was presented Mr. including Utah in the list of prospec

tive States.

Mr. Hyde replied to Mr. Goo stating that he knew the latter fighter, and said he was the ot left in the territory opposing sa

KIND WORDS FOR UTAR

Judge Kerr, of Pueblo, fav amendment. He was a resty but believed the people of Care the country as they were mov capable of managing their owL and would conform to all the The way the Mormon people is robbed and outraged by the tem government was a shame and grace to the country, and he v to see it stopped.

United States Senator Wan

Wyoming, spoke feelingly in ter the people of Utah, and especia Mormons, who had suffered so under a territorial government amendment was defeated by members not voting.

It is thought that the Utab m accept this gracefully, and not a to push their claims before the c: tion, though there is a strong among the delegates in their fa by the foremost men present.

DENVER, May 22.-The repor committee on resolutions of the Mississippi Congress, which w last night, recommends that ( pass the Burroughs bill, appro $10,000,000 for the building and tenance of levees on the M river; demands the Governmen vision of railroads; recommen granting of liberal charter we dies for steamship lines u American flag; favors the a of New Mexico and Arizona in Union; asks Congress to pass the rey Bankruptcy law; to cede differentStates all the arid lande mineral lands; to enact such legs “ as will foster our mining interest ommends more stringent nat tion laws; the immediate comp of the jetties at Galveston.

Upon the silver question it as Congress be petitioned to repe laws which in their effect work's honor upon, or in the least cha the sovereignty of the silver dols an absolute measure of values, 13 restore to silver the place give perfect money by the framers government.

The congress also asks the Pres and Congress to attempt to bring a an international recognition and justment of silver as money, or the limited agreement be sought with nations of the Latin union. wher the mints of those nations may be opened for the coinage of silver also favors the negotiations with Spanish-American nations for se mon currency for this continents of Canada.

In the minority report the clause simply demands the free and limited coinage of silver.

The forenoon session today was tirely taken up in the discussion of gress took a majority report, and at noon the recess without ba taken final action.

The fine band of the Louisia Judge Goodwin then took the floor tery combination was manifest. and in a vigorous speech opposed the the defeat of a resolution calling amendinent. He announced his in-constitutional amendment in w

28 shall not be legalized in any The vote stood 95 to 88. remainder of the day was spent sideration of the resolutions. All passed as reported from the com-, but a warm debate was proby the question of the governceding the arid lands to the States erritories.

-solution deploring the law of the -ninth Congress prohibiting n capital from investing in real and mines was adopted.

= MAJORITY REPORT ON ARID LANDS

the cession of arid lands to the in which they are situated, and ng individual purchases to 320 at not less than $1.25 per acre, hat only citizens of the United be eligible as purchasers, the derived from such sale to be deto the development of irrigation ne reclamation of arid lands. The rity report was devoted to a strong ment for a system of government tion that would bring the lands

r cultivation.

cer much debate, participated in
nator Warren of Wyoming,Judge
-rd of Colorado, Delegates Gunn of
o, Morse of Colorado and Hardy of
various amendments were of-
and voted down and the majority
t adopted by a large vote.
was voted to hold two meetings
year, one in February and one in
ember. A basis of representation

fixed.

AN IMPOTENT CONCLUSION.

He was seated opposite to me at din-
ner, and when my eyes first fell upon
him I felt certain I had seen him
somewhere before, though I had no
recollection of ever having spoken to
him, or of his name.

A slim young man of middle
heighth, well dressed and of fair com-
plexion-in fact, with an air of gene-
uncommon
ral washed-outness not
among young civilians who have de-
voted their childhood to hard study
and spent their years of adolescence in
the tropics. During the ten years I
had lived myself in India I had en-
countered dozens of young men almost
the fascimile of this one in appearance

almost, but not quite. That deep
mark coming down beneath his brows,
which were contracted in a pained
frown, and the pale, unquiet eyes
which looked at you from beneath
them, were sufficient to redeem him
from the charge of being cast in too
commonplace a mould; while a sort of
in his slowest
suppressed activity
movements proved that he was not a
victim to that climatic lassitude which
is so hard to shake off even on the hills.
Without judging from his pallor I
could have told that this was not the
result of healthful energy, but of ner-
vous excitability. He was suffering,
but whether from physical or mental
causes I could not say.

Curiosity impelled me to question my
neighbor, a small vivacious lady who
had been introduced to me earlier in
the evening as Mrs. Fane, and who
seemed more than usually informed
concerning the ins and outs
Simla society.

of

the evening session the silver re-
s were heard. The majority fav-
the free and unlimited coinage of
r and the minority report was
drawn. There was a lengthy de-
"That is young Greyle,” she return
on the question tonight, partici-ed promptly to my inquiry. "A very
din by Symms, Ferry, Goodwin rising light in the political department.
It's a name which is always bound to

alt Lake and others.

ENVER, May 22.-Mr. Hyde, of h, is not one of those men who let ance of carrying his point slip by. he Trans-Mississippi congress towhen the Trimble resolution came

he resumed his endeavors to have congress recommend statehood for b.

get on in India, and he has plenty of
influential connections. He seems to
haunt the houses of members of coun
cil, and when I was asked here to
night I felt certain of meeting him."

Not a very lively guest. He has
scarcely opened his lips since he sat
down."

own roof, it would be considered a sign
of waning popularity, and I could not
bear up under such a supposition. No
Tonight at
I shall go on to the end.
any rate, you will admit that I have
earned my dinner."

She smiled at me over her shoulder
as she went out, and I was sufficiently
attracted by her gaiety and good looks
to seek her out when we went into the
As I sank into a seat
drawing room.
beside her she wispered dolefully.
"I have a dreadful presentiment
Look
they are going to play games.
at the group near the doorway, they
are certainly plotting something for
our amusement."

I replied that it was very likely. The last time that I had dined here I rembered they had had a dumb cranbo, and mine had been the mournful privilege to see three esteemed lights of the Indian legislature and a yet more exalted personages wallowing on the ground as fishes, while a lovely lady angled for them from the sofa with a string and crooked pin.

"Why can't they treat us as reasonable beings, and leave us in peace?" fretfully.

"They are afraid we might take adof their kindness to fall vantage asleep."

The discussion in question was becoming more and more animated; disjointed sentences reached us where we sat.

"I don't believe in it a bit."

"They talked of trying to discover the Whitechapel murderer that way." "And are you really a believer in spiritualism, Mrs. Jerome?"

Then one of the most thrilling voices I had ever heard- so low and sweet, yet with such a reverberating ring that it penetrated to the farthest corner of the room-answered seriously:

"It is not quite the same thing. I am sure there is in everybody a psychic might be cultivated, force which though, perhaps not for our good. I some strange things done have seen that way-I have done one or two things myself which could not be explained by natural causes-but-I am always frightened." breaking off with "And at these dismal functious a little tremulous indrawn breath. every Englishman is bound to do his "She has only just come up to divining my unspoken duty?" laughing; then, with a softer Simla," note in her voice, she added: "But thoughts. "She is staying at Glenarm. The latter was carried and the reso-re, poor fellow, had a great shock Glenarm has always been the seat of No I don't some time ago, and has not yet recov-spiritualistic learning. know her at all. I don't even know who she is."

ditor Goodwin then moved that the lution be made general in its proon, and read that all the territories dmitted as soon as qualified.

on on Indian matters was replaced a substitute to abolish reservations tribal relations; disarm the Ins; give them land in severalty; ke them amenable to the laws of the te in which they might be, and open remainder of the reservation lands

ettlement.

"he day was spent in discussing the olutions and the only changes of

ered from it."

Just then somebody else, addressed
her, and though I was too interested
not to make several efforts to discover
more about Mr. Greyle, I hesitated to
assert my primary right to my part-
ner's attention, as the conversation had
become general, and seemed to owe all
its sparkle and its fun to her.

ment were these mentioned above.
The night session was spent in a dis-
sion of silver, the question beeing
to whether to favor the coinage of
silver or simply the American pro- "Comfort yourself with the reflec-
ct. Many of the delegates left for tion that you have been sacrificed for
me this evening believing the main the public good. If I had not talked
rk of the convention done. Those no one else would have done so, I am
o remained used up a great deal of
atory and rhetoric on the question.
about 2 o'clock the congress ratified
⇒ majority report in favor of the
inage of American silver only. The
ajority was very narrow, being by
Tee votes. The convention then
journed and will meet next year in
maha.-Herald.

"I feel I have been defrauded of you
shamefully," I insinuated in the mo-
mentary hush which preceeds the de-
parture of the ladies.

sure.

It is getting near the end of the season, and we are all more or less exhausted. I am quite worn out."

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"A day or two of thorough rest—” She stopped me with a little horrified gesture.

"If it were known or even suspected that I had spent an evening under my

In the meantime Mrs. Jerome had been persuaded to exercise her gift for our amusement, and had left the room while it was discussed what she should be asked to do.

"Do you think she could be 'willed' to take a cigarette out of this case and light it?" asked one, "or blow out the candles on the piano?" asked another; and more suggestions were made, all of which were impatiently set aside by a short materialistic-looking man who had before expressed his utter want of faith in such manifestations.

"Of course she could do that, or anything else of the same sort. A little ordinary intelligence, combined with an unconscious accentuation or relaxation of pressure from the person who is supposed to influence her will, is sure to produce the desired result. 'Will' her to do something perfectly impossi'ble, and she will still blow out the can

dles or light cigarettes. That is my argument."

"How do you propose to prove it?” asked our host.

"Very easy indeed. Let us 'will' he to find a thief amongst us." There was a general flutter of dis

sent.

"I don't feel easy in my conscience," laughed Mrs. Fane. "Childish peccadilloes in reference to illegal sweets and unauthorized pots of jam rise up against me and convict me."

"And some of us have stolen hearts," I murmurred, with a quick side glance.

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Price Current:

steep place while walking round Jakko.fascination this place had possessed f Either the earth, loosened by the heavy him was explained; and Nemesls, a rain, had given way beneath her feet, the shape of Mrs. Jerome, had the or she had incautiously leant over to night walked in among us to avenge see something on the hillside. It was hapless victim.-London World. not discovered how the accident befel, but this young man, who was known to have been desperately in love with her, was the first to pass and discover what had happened. The shock had almost turned his brain, and for a long time he had lived in retirement, avoiding all notice, and able to bear no reference to the affair. It was at that time that I had seen him, and this bad accounted for his gravity and "Then let it be a murderer. I sup- suppressed excitability, for it takes pose none of us can object to that on time to heal a wound like this, nor do personal grounds," rejoined the dis- the nerves easily recover from such a believer so testily that, without fur- strain. I was thinking this when, as ther demur, the proposition was agreed as I watched, I saw him start and to by some of us with unconcealed ill-press one hand convulsively to his humor, by all unwillingly, for it is heart, while his face, now shown to always more interesting to have our me in profile, became ashen grey in senses titillated by the idea that we are hue. At the same time I heard the in the presence of some mysterious soft frou-frou of a trailing skirt, and, power than to witness a dead failure. turning involuntary, saw that Mrs. Everyone was airing different opin- Jerome was moving with swift unfalions or relating past experiences, and tering steps, towards him, her lips there was quite a Babel of sound, when parted in suspence, her slender neck a voice peremptorily requested silence, bent forward so that her husband had and at the same moment Mrs. Jerome to stretch out his arms not to loose

stepped forward and stood in the centre
of the room.
She would not allow her
eyes to be bandagei. She simply
closed them, apparently giving herself
up to the firm clasp of the man who
was to assist her, and who, I after
wards learned, was her husband. So
slim and frail she looked that it seem-
ed, without the support of his strong
hands around her throat she must have
fallen, for her face was as white as
death, and she was trembling so
Violently that even the most careless
was impressed, seeing that she at least
believed in her own power. She was
in a long white gown of pictur-
esque, but not the most fashionable
make, unrelieved by any color; and
her hair of a reddish flaxeu, was
almost straight, but so wiry in tex-
ture that it stood like an aureole
around her brow, when, with a har-
rassed gesture, she passed her fingers
through it as though perplexed and at
a loss how to act. Was she waiting for
the inspiration that could not possibly
come? For the first time it struck me
that we were treating her unfairly and
with scant courtesy, she being so evi-
dently in earnest and so anxious to
succeed. Yet her husband had not
objected to her being put to the test.
He appeared to have full confidence
in the outcome, and her eventual
triumph over those who had doubted
the sincerity of her profession.

By merest chance, at that moment my glance lighted on Mr. Greyle, the man who had so interested me at dinHis face was turned away from me, but his attitude struck me as strange in the extreme, although fam

ner.

iliar.

touch of it as, with an expression of
disappointment on his face, he fol-
lowed.

Farmers throughout the section of country report the grain crops in ex lent condition, and the prospect for is such that we anticipate a large exp instead of import trade this summe The railroads report a large increase tonnage, both in and out of the Terrier while the demand for grain is such th shippers cannot fill their orders. lines are so brisk that no idle help mains on the street.

OFFERINGS.

Wheat-Wheat is still in good deman for import and home trade. Prices are stiffened during the past week and the Offerings are made from $1.25 to $1 millers report the article hard to du

track at Salt Lake.

Corn-A slight decline has occurred this article in the Eastern markets very little importing is being done present. Some few cars have arrivedd ing the past week. Offerings are a for whole corn, track Utah points lots, at $1.80, and cracked corn at $1 with mixed feed at $1.95 to $2.00.

She put out one hand gropingly, and in another moment would have come in contact with Mr. Greyle's body, as, apparently fascinated, he made a for- Oats-This article still continues s ward movement, but as suddenly Eastern shippers are making offe shrank back horror struck and gasping plentiful in this market at $2.25 per for breath like a hunted animal at bay. car lots, while afew Utah offerings * Some women screamed, and in the being made from $2.25 to $2.35. confusion that ensued the caustic re- Hay-The demand for hay has eased up mark of the man who had been the in the Eastern markets on account of the cause of this apparent fiasco was allow-slight advance in prices and also o count of inferior articles being shippe ed to pass unnoticed; though a feeling from the Territory, and in many cas was becoming general that such an large amount was refused. experiment should never have been demand at present except for home trad permitted; and no one noticed the offerings for which were made last wed dazed thwarted look of Mrs. Jerome as at $8 per ton for alfalfa. Mixed hay from she turned to her husband and listened $9 to $14 per ton, timothy $12 to $13, ar to his hurried ex; lanation. lots, track city.

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Eggs-The supply still continue ed on the young political, as, pale still, quently the prices still remain firm. ( and not yet equal to the demand, but with restored composure, he ex- account of the warm weather all egg cused himself for having caused such quire to be candled and guaranteed. O a commotion, attributing his nervousings are made from $5 to $5.25 per case ness to weak health and over fatigue Utah eggs and from $4.50 to $4.75 for eas during the day.

ern.

"Poor fellow, he does look wretch- Butter-The best grades, all grass fel. edly ill," said Mrs. Fane, who had still arrive from California, and the market been awed into silence for the last few is fairly well stocked. Eastern shippers minutes. "They say he has never are beginning to send goods into the ma been the same since that poor girl was ket to compete with California, while loc killed, three years ago. He was deshippers begin to have extra super hand, which is bound to make a declin voted to her, and she was secretly eu-in prices, as every indication points to the gaged to somebody else; indeed, treat market being overstocked. California bes ed him rather badly, so the story goes. is selling at 25c per pound, eastern at 21 It is foolish for him to come up here 25 per pound, and Utah from 20 to season after season as he does; it only Dary 16 to 20 and off color at 10 tɔ 15 për keeps the old wound open, and really I pound. don't understand him caring to come. It is a sort of morbid impulse, I sup

I was silent.

I was sure I had seen him pose." standing so before; as now, seeming to shrink from observation, his fingers tightly clenched as they hung closely to his sides, his head thrown back as if in forced defiance of some danger.

Potatoes-The demand for exportation of this article has entirely stopped, with no market at present except for home trade. Extra handling and assorting has now to be attended to, as buyers will no In my own mind I was wondering accept of them in any other way. Cal whether no one else was chafing at fornia potatoes are coming in car lots and this abrupt and altogether impotent can be laid down from 90c. to $1.00. conclusion; whether no one else was Fruit-A heavy decline has occurred e Suddenly I remembered how and haunted by the suspicion that this man fruits, strawberries declining as low where we had met. It was three years had been prime mover in that unfor- $1.75 per case and cherries at $1.60 to $1. ago, up here, in the rainy season, when gotten tragedy, though, perhaps, not day to $2.90 and $2.25, which was b per case, although the market rallied t Simla gaieties had come to a standstill with deliberately murderous intent. tained. Offerings on strawberries for for a few short days on account of the Had we by chance stumbled on a Monday are made at $2.00, cherries at $1.5 tragic death of a young and very means by which crime might be infalper case. Oranges from $2.50 to $4.50 per beautiful girl. She had fallen over a libly detected? If so, the secret of the case.

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AS TO SPRING.

ove the Spring, it is so free om ardor and activity. predisposes man to shirk

1 but inexorable work

hen grasses start and buds fortell

TRUTH AND LIBERTY

JUNE, 1850.

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1891.

e blossoms by the way they swell
Then feathered things distract the air,
etting their dwellings in repair;

hen eggs and bugs and flowers and weeds
e all a-hatching, Nature needs
Ithe spare force there is afloat

> make her enterprises mote.

or men it can't but foolish be
> strive with her for energy.
ive in to her: give over wishing
o overcome her. Go a-fishing:
nd a fit stream and duly try
angle-worms will justify
aeir title. For the time ignore
emote results. Corsider more
ne vagrant impulse of the present,
nd what it offers that is pleasant.
rief is the season of transition-
he jog-trot summer has its mission.
1 its fierce sun you dark not bask,
o shun its heat becomes a task
hat lasts till Fall comes back again
nd Nature's work is finished. Then,
'hen growth at length in harvest ceases,
he energy that she releases

omes back to man and holds his mind

own to the work of humankind. pring is alone the time of choice, espect her, then, and heed her voice.

-Edward S. Martin, in May Scribner.

VOL. XLII.

such an extent that we, upon our ar-jority are Latter-day Saints. They
rival, found him unconscious; but are all farmers and stock-raisers, and
after praying for him and administer- live in a scattered condition on their
ing to him the ordinance for the sick, respective quarter sections, mostly in
he immediately began to speak, and the north side of the valley. The cen-
when we returned from Grouse creek ter of the east end of the ward, where
a few days later he was able to get up a brick schoolhouse is located, is about
and travel five miles to attend a meet- thirteen miles north west of Kelton, the
ing.
nearest railway point and about
On the morning of Friday, May 8th, ninety-five miles by way of Snowville,
we held a pleasant little meeting in the north west of Brigham city. The soil
Bishop's house, and in the afternoon in Park valley is generally rich and
drove five miles west and held another productive, although in some places
meeting with the Saints residing in the where the mountain streams have car-
west end of Park valley, at a place ried the soil down from the mountains
called Rosette. After this we were it is rocky and gravelly. All kinds of
kindly and hospitably entertained by small grains are raised, and
Jacob Kunzler and Jonathan Camp-the hardier kinds of fruits
bell, with whom we stayed over night. will also grow, although the
According to the statistical report valley so far can not boast of extensive
the Park valley ward contains twenty- orchards. The natural vegetation is
seven families belonging to the Church,
or 143 souls, who are scattered for
a distance of nearly sixteen miles
from east to west. Erastus D. Mecham,
a member of the "Mormon" battalion,
presides over the ward, with C. J.
Rohwer and Christian Hirschi as
Counselors. A large percentage of the
Saints in this part of the country are
of Swiss and German descent.

sage brush, with here and there groves of small cedars, which undoubtedly have suggested the name the valley now bears. Were there sufficient water for irrigation purposes, thousands of families could be accommodated with farms and homes in this extensive valley.

From the upper farms of Park valley a most magnificent view is had of Park valley proper is about thirty the Great Sal: Lake, the northwest miles long from east to west and fifteen corner of which is about fifteen miles miles wide from north to south. It is southeast of the Park valley schoolbounded on the north by the Clear house. Due south lies the Hangup Creek mountains, the highest point of range and the Newfoundland mounwhich is Kelton's Peak, having an alti- tains, rising like islands from the tude of 10,045 feet above the level of the midst of the great desert; and in looksea; on the west by a spur of the Raft ing southwest the snow-capped sumRiver mountains; on the south by low mit of Pilot Peak (10,900 feet above mountains known as the Matlin sea level) is plainly seen far beyond range, and on the east by rolling the intervening mountain ranges. hills which separate it from Curlew On the north the Clear Creek valley. The principal streams in Park Mountains prevent a view of Southern valley are Marble creek, Fisher creek and Pine Canyon creek, all of which head in the mountains north of the valley and are used by the settlers for irrigation purposes, together with some smaller streams and numerous springs which are found principally in the west end of the valley. Dove creek, which rises in the mountains on the northwest, takes a southeasterly course through the valley, receiving all the Bishop Goodliffe's other streams as tributaries in times of amily. The following day we traveled high water, and finally sinks on the orty miles by way of Kelton to Park alley, where we held a meeting in the chool house in the evening, and had a ood time. A few hours before our arrial Bishop Mecham had been seized most distressing sickness, rom the effects of which he suffered to

ON THE DESERT'S BORDERS. ditor Deseret News: On Wednesday morning, May 6th, Elders C. D. Fjeldsted, Adolph Madon and myself, accompanied by Miss Ettie Madson and Mrs. Annie Critchlow, left Brigham City, with a ght carriage, for the puspose of visitng the settlements of the Saints lying a the western part of the Box Elder take of Zion, in the interest of the lefense fund and Church history. A ourney of fifty-five miles brought us Snowville, where we were kindly ntertained by

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Idaho, and also make communication with the Saints on the tributaries of Raft river difficult, although the distance between Park valley and the branch of the Church on George creek (by trail through Pine creek canyon) is only about eight miles.

On the morning of Saturday, the 9th, we left our friends in Park valley and continued the journey by team about fifty miles to Grouse creek, crossing a spur of the Raft river mountains on our way. Here we received a fullhearted reception in the house of Benjamin F. Cooke, one of the first settlers of this region of country, and the following day (Sunday, May 11th,) attended meetings and Sunday schools Park valley contains a population of with the Saints in their new log meetabout forty families, of whom the ma-ing-house or social hall, which the good

borders of the Great American Desert
near Ombe, a small railway station on
the C. P. Ry. Dove cr ek is used
for irrigating meadows. A number of
artesian wells have also been sunk.

people of the Grouse cleek ward built in the beginning of the present year.

KANOSH INCONSOLABLE.

listened to. The thanks of t munity are also due to Brothe An instance that ponderous bodies Black, for it takes something move too slowly has recently occurred than wind to make good m right here. About one and a half miles John has been the chief west of Kanosh is a massive lava agent in making possible th mountain, locally known as Black sure of a brass band in Kan Rock, at the foot of which are several are blessed with plenty of wae large blocks of the same rock, that to spring, and the farmers han ordinary mortals appear to have rolled filled with gladness and than down from the larger body. Upon one at the outlook of an excellent hir of these detached blocks, weighing We have the grandest prospect many tons, are, or were, human foot- kinds of fruit that we have a prints, having the appearance of being many years; and one's mouth made when that calcined rock was in a waters at the thought of the la plastic state. The three or four prints feast in an abundant peach c were evidently not made by the same hear of quite a prospect of a m foot; and the impress is perfect, the per crop also, but hope they wil: plastic matter being even pressed be- great damage. The Kanosh Clips tween the toes, which in one instance will make a descent upon Desi were tipped, as if some delicate nymph week, with the intention of conque has sought to avoid sinking in the the "Blues" and wresting from: mire whilst being led on by the mas-the champion base ball bat culine hand of her lord. One might bringing it to its early bom well imagine that it was upon this very rock the first pair had stepped into this mundane sphere, when earth was young. To attribute these foot prints to human mechanical skill would be to make more than a Michael Angelo of some unknown.

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KANOSH, Millard County, May 18th, 1891.

Grouse creek valley lies in the extreme northwest part of Utah and consists chiefly of a rolling and broken country, with only narrow strips of fertile, arable land along the creeks. Consequently the people here, like in Park valley, live very scattered, as their farms extend up and down the two forks of Grouse creek for a distance of nearly nineteen miles. The Grouse creek ward consists of twenty-one families, or 128 souls, belonging to the Church. There are also a number of outsiders in the ward, but they are, as a rule, very friendly and get along well with their "Mormon" neighbors. Charles Kimber, Sen., an elderly man, presides over the ward, with Philip and Wm. Paskett as counselors. Grouse creek center-the place where the meeting house stands on the east branch of Grouse creek, immediately below the now extinct town called Cookesville-is thirty-five miles north west of Terrace, on the C. P. Ry., and about forty miles southeast of Oakley, Cassia county, Idaho, by way of Goose creek canyon. It is also 145 miles by wagon road, via Park Valley and Snow ville, north west of Brigham Well, one of our enterprising citizens City. By rail part of the way (from with a scientific turn of mind conceivCorrinne to Terrace) the distance is ed the idea of letting the nation know 135 miles. Wood is plentiful in this and come into possession of these footpart of the country as well as in Park prints ou the rock. He opened up valley, where groves of cedar cover negotiations with the Smithsonian Inlarge tracts of the uncultivated lands.stitute of Washington, but that ponderNear the Grouse creek center is a ous boiy took considerable time in ask-explaining a little in regard to fine stone quarry, where building ing for drawings, models, appointing a rock ot a fine, light color territorial professor to make a visit is obtained, and among the curiosities here, and discussing with our fellow of the valley may be classed the beauti- citizens the question of profit and loss ful specimens of petrified cedars which In a neighboring town a little man are found on the ridges between the with a large head full of practical ideas two parks of Grouse creek and in closed his shop one Saturday morning other places. Scarcity of water is the put his hammer and chisel in his principal reason why this part of the pocket, drove sixteen miles, and with country is so sparsely settled. The a will he smote the rock until sun: range is good, and the surrounding down, when he carried off the foot hills are full of stock-horses, cattle prints in triumph, leaving us but a dis-over the ages of sixteen yess and sheep. The people live mostly in mal hole in the rock where once an inlog houses, but a number of them are spiration stood. We are left in wonder preparing to erect more substantial at how one little man could accomplish dwellings of rock.

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IMPORTANT INSTRUCTION Editor Deseret News:

rated among this people which 14 There has been a movement in which as yet I have not seen sider of grave importance, si in the press. So I take the l

to notice in one instance at least I have seen as the result of s

movement.

organized by a sister who jus Church in her native county these classes being organized a mark, some six or eight yan! ried on for the benefit of wives ers and grandmothers, as well a the great benefit and blessing

I refer to classes which has

instructions are not confined to

rics, although, for lack of a moter
stetric class" is given to the la
prehensive term, the name of an**
the sisters. But, unlike the
held in the city by our
physicians,
special eff
made to make midwives of the
tending the class. The great p
to interest mothers and prospe
mothers in the fact that in order
come wise and healthy mothes ¦

no

so much in so short a time. By some After sharing the hospitality of it is looked upon as a species of vandalBrother Samuel Kimball we com-ism, for this rock has been a sort of menced from lovers' shrine, return journey and the sternest Grouse valley on the morning of the of mothers have never been 12th and traveled fifty miles to Rosette, known to refuse Augustus the west settlement in Park honor of taking Leonora to view the valley, where we held a meeting footprints on the rocks. Many a in the evening in the house troth has been plighted near this rock; sound and healthy children, of Jonathan Campbell. The next day but now the poetry of love has gone thing more is needed than for the we drove forty-five miles to Snowville, from the spot for ever! Had their where another pleasant meeting was devastation been wrought by the held, and today we have traveled fifty- Smithsonian Institute, we might have five miles to this city, arriving here at looked on with some degree of forbearance. But for one little man to have wrought this havoc is almost unbearable. A void is created and will

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remain until the restless cherub shall
lead on to other shrines where the old
story can be told anew, and the icon-
oclast be forgiven by happy hearts in
forgetfulness.

be simply tools in the bands of deras
who too often seek to mystify
female mind in order to obtain ats
them to drift in the same barr
control of the physical person, #7
norant channel
our grandmo
plodded down to their graves is
ing to navigate.

We have had a very pleasant time with the Saints in their settlements "on the borders," who are seldom visited by brethren from other Stakes, and we found them as a rule a God-fearing, cradle to the grave, is taken up The physical life of woman, from i kind-hearted and hospitable people, who, while trying to redeem the desert proper order, and the clearest and B and to make comfortable homes, are Moral: "He who would possess the life and health are given by the tea intelligent directions as to the law endeavoring also to live their religion footprints himself must strike the of these classes. One most import and perform their duties as Saints. blows." feature of this work on Sister Se Our meetings were generally well attended, and the Spirit of God pre- Kanosh today possesses a splendid thirty years' experience in her A happier theme is the fact that son's part is the unusual fact tosi dominated. The ladies who accom- brass band. I am pleasantly reminded country taught ber the solem panied us rendered efficient aid by of this whilst writing by a serenade little understood fact that the it their singing and recitations, which from the boys, led were highly appreciated by the people by Profes-ual that strays from nature's pat sor William Pugh, whose thor-must by nature's own simple and f with whom we visited. oughness as a teacher is exemplified fect law find the slow and painful in the spirited music I have just back thereunto. She is a devou

ANDREW JENSON. BRIGHAM CITY, May 14, 1891.

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