FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY t s JUNE 16 1847 all day long on wednesday june ath the elie pioneers continued the work i of willing ferrying the platte when evening b i came many wagons more TO ens still mill on the east tilde and tt it was waa not thought alc b I 1 e that the journey journe i could be resumed I 1 until lloil saturday in the afternoon plo acer and Word were ferrying a fer er the wiron of S H godi dard on one of the large rafts craigh fell ell overboard in tile the middle at 0 the tonal Ir cani but succeeded in animating arely to where shore but tho the raft and vak pioneers were thoroughly bcd into compan 11 leo leB anil n fully oin officered I 1 being bel ng combia an one of ca capt Mark markhams hams fifty D drove r 0 va team for eth toft taft acro across reached a the t ain until tile the valley use mis was on guard upon u n lol many occasions c i and hart had many i a ancen hoth wi with ih 1 indian 1 I 1 is we well 11 as ill the gordn c ot 1 tiu I fralo is the be lottor letter at times being so nume ro UP and NO ao near the dimp t p that it necessary to drive th them e m away amay in order to travel when eel echo 10 canyon can on had been reached the elie company nos nas divided be of ries ident cabac at 0 the I 1 I 1 III I 1 II I 1 I 1 k I 1 I 1 11 I 1 I 1 1 d 1 11 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 i k V I 1 ill it li N I 1 if I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 01 III I 1 I 1 11 IP 11 I 1 11 N 11 I 1 I 1 fal I 1 i I 1 F I 1 I 1 f I 1 I 1 46 1 I 1 11 t I 1 s in it 1 I I 1 I 1 t I 1 I 1 I 1 Z I 1 W I 1 I 1 I 1 3 I 1 I 1 0 I 01 1 1 1 A I 1 STEPHEN KELSEY efrom a loaned by himself a living pl aneer despite the efforts of wordsworth aled down tho the stream for a distance WC aud me ie of 0 tho the others others wino who chased itin it in e leather boat k some ot of tile the pioneers were detailed tn c 0 two canoes find and also alno to ut t nome heavy lini beas to lay from one to the other oilier to form a good gond raft on chich wagons could bo be in the future it being especially do dc signed for the ot of ill the companies that were to follow oler ot er hla his own ow n signature PI nea stephen kelsey writes to tile the tribune from his homo borne in it paris jda am 0 tol lot iowa 1 I 1 was born december 23 IKEI in montville geaugh geauga county 0 0 and in the year wa isa 1 left said state anti and settled fettled in illinois in amr I 1 moved from nauvoo HI to winter quarters in the spring of 0 although at that time not lot a member ortho of the church I 1 volun leered to join the band of pioneers in their proposed march to the rocky mountain under the leadership of Bligh bigham are young left winter quarters Quart frn about the ot of april and camped on the elk horn river the band bf b your voun K and nd many others of the ram camp p those theme who h a vere more well and able bodied ja accad andr the tc direction s a U blatt I 1 HAS one ft at ill ih advance I 1 I 1 n e company and reached salt lake blakc i alley agy on the day oc at july 1847 laricy my arrival I 1 labored in the canyon ya n maile made acobes adobes etc and worked with 0 george A smith in bull building 1 I in I 1 ill the e first me in salt S A it lake city 1 in the fall of 1 I ret retained arned to winter quarters Qua riera and upon that trip endured many hardships which were more sewn severe than tile tho pioneer plon irr trip returned again to sit salt I 1 t lake in the year was waa called to settle in bear lake bancy jda ida in the year sar im and settled in paris that year chere v here I 1 have realder until the time lime in crossing the plains many hard were more endured but the memory nt af that tha b tr trip lp ti in one of the pleasant ent ell re w was a fraternal fee feeling ling a unity 0 ot C purpose a 0 often ten after ft hard days tram 0 could loth the sound of music be heard above the cry of the coyote and the leaders of that bans by their self disposition and faithful labors haxe hae engrossed their names name 3 upon p the tablets ot of memory ill that a t time itself t cannot efface