Show OBITUARY SALT laum LAKE CITY may editor de deseret seret news Is in justice to the memory of elder john neff sen deceased I 1 take this privilege of giving abrien sketch of his history ho he was born sept 1794 in lancaster county penn where he lived until he gathered with the saints in this country in the tho earlier part of his lifo life he was moral industrious and economical and thereby acquired a handsome fortune he embraced the gospel and was baptized feb 7 in may 1844 he went to nauvoo to visit the prophet joseph josoph smith ho he there became acquainted acquainted with many of the ae leading a d in members of the church and returned t ume well pleased havi having inn 11 unlimited nil nii mi ed confidence in the prophet and ana his divine mission in the summer of 1845 he started with his family for the gathering place of the saints beyond the tho rocky mountains he arrived at nauvoo just in time to be d riven driven across the mississippi by the mob and from thence proceeded onward to winter quarters there he was greatly afflicted himself and family all being sick 1 his son cyrus an amiable youth of twenty was buried there at winter quarters he was ordained to the hi high h priesthood in 1847 he started in company with many others for the rocky mountains after a laborious journey of some four months he arrived at salt lake valley father neff was truly devoted to his religion the kingdom of god to him stood paramount to everything else his faith was exhibited by his works ho he was liberal with his mean means when assistance was called for it was forthcoming when at nauvoo he helped the prophet and gave a considerable sum to start the ship brooklyn for california during the reign of in nauvoo nan san Nau yoo he alap also aiso rendered considerable pecuniary assistance si he erected the first grist gristmill mill bili in this territory aitor y under disadvantageous and very discouraging circumstances behas he ha s done much mitch to gather the poor from for foreign eigil lands as aswell well weil as to help them after reaching their destination in times of extreme scarcity when provisions commanded a high price he distributed his among his brethren at low 0 figures when he could have obtained twice and even thrice the amount from assing passing strangers the poor called not on rim eim him in vain nor were the destitute sent empty away in pennsylvania he was call cali called ed an honest man and a good cit citizen zen he was an affectionate father and a true and faithful husband in short ho he lived atla and died a saint jun JUL juliar juniar laz IAz MOSES A singular case is reported in one of our our exchanges forty years ago a blooming young girl of sweet s sixteen married an old man of sixty for his money expecting that lie he would soon die and aud leave her a wealthy YO young widow hope deferred makes jhb heart sick 71 and last week the lady died at the respectable age of ag 5 leaving a husband aged and four children to mourn her loss losa the husband la Is still haie hale and hearty and will soon be casting cheeps eyes among the damsels of his neighborhood for another one anxious to inherit a portion of his property verily the old adage c can an again be used with propriety truth is is strail stranger gon gen than fiction JI V re republican publican cariner Fa tiner ryner in arizona one of the tribes of apache indiana have concluded that they can get along without squaw sand band and have put many to death the arizonian says that eleven indian women recently came into camp lawell and begged protection for this reason the cause og 0 thus tys massacre of their women waa that a squaw on one occasion recently piloted a detachment of troops who surprised one of their villages the indians believe they can better live v without phout women than be the victims of tie tle t tiie tile e duplicity of the sex the whites in the same region are doing without women also as we see advertised in one of the papers a theatrical performance ili in which men Imen take all the female characters rac Y nevertheless it is spoken ofas of as a great attraction B R F chase while at work in a sawmill on russian bussian biyer river california met with a serious accident the saw passing through his skull from a point half an inch above the nose to the upper part of the back of the head the wound gaped open a full inch and the physician put in his pocket rule to the depth of an inch and a half and he estimated that the wound was nearly three inches deep the wounded man complained of no pain and the wound was thoroughly washed out removing ov over er three hun hundred d fragments odthe of the skull and more than a tablespoonful of the brain the scalp was shaved the bone tourniquet and the aper aperture ture turo closed with six stitches the patient in four weeks was antwork at work again the bumpy Of destructiveness a E railroad collision |