Show IN INDIAN TERRITORY elder andrew kimball president of f the indian territory mission has Ift elved an interesting and friendly letter t fer from brother W H hend hb written from manard indian territory under date of january ath in the course of the letter the writer says not having heard from you for quite a while I 1 now send you a few lines from this part of israel I 1 am happy to say we are all well and hoping hopin yourself family and friends are enjoying your homes in perfect peace with god and all mankind all your old acquaintances are about as usual I 1 have seen several of them lately and they all speak of you in high terms some som of them say they would like you to come a again n my opinion is that several efah of yo your r acau acquaintances will be ba baptized we before next christmas we are doing better than when you left these parts there is grain in abundance and plenty of stock to live upon I 1 have recruited up in my place of business and have now a nice little lot though money is 18 scarce in this country I 1 have not seen or heard from Brothers Woolley and hill for more than two months buti but I 1 forward mail to them regularly brothers smith and ashton have been gone from here about four weeks th they e are south about brier Briel town brockers Brot brothers Kers jack and H aalam left for the north about locust grove some two weeks ago I 1 have now given you the whereabouts of all the elders in our nation they have done a good work and are in a fair way of accomplishing a great deal more before next fall I 1 will now relate some of the doings of our aur council we worked well together this last term except with chief mays who vetoed a great many bills but the most important we had before the council was the grazing razi 1 ng bill which was passed by ath both houses for the sum of per annum to the same company that occupied it for five years they have it again for the same period unless the springer bill passes through congress and cuts cute off a part of our western lands we will get in five years for the grazing privilege which is a neat amount As you may remember when you were out here there was a claim against the general government for about acx it 1 I see by the papers that that matter passed the lower house of congress on the of last month if it should pass both houses we shall get our pay and be well able to visit you during abe he summer the church of jesus christ of latter day saints is in my belief the e only true church on the foce of the he globe so far as I 1 understand the principles kincl ples of the gospel and I 1 believe leve I 1 I 1 understand better than any pretended r e tended preacher who talks only for for the sake of personal gain I 1 would like to give you a short sketch of the crimes which took place lace during the holidays sam manus us killed john spears in tah ile leluah bah the act was committed in SeW self Mense defense two negroes killed each other in tahlequah tallequah Tahle quah A white woman and a 12 year old girl were brutally murdered near fort gibson the deed is said to have been done by a half negro and mexican tour four men man killed each other between here and fort smith about decem b ber e r ast 1st one ne man was killed at or aner n near e ar wagner station at the junction of the M K T and the arkansas valley B R B R As to the weather we have had no winter so far the wheat crop looks well our people raise all the wheat needed for home use the merchants of muscogee have as fine a mill as can be obtained wheat is worth 1 corn 40 cents centa pork 6 cents |