Show of institution and suffering are received from oklahoma territory in various places the condition of the people is one 0 des perete want and calls for assistance have been urgently made tho demerel news has received a letter from a mormon missionary confirming tho telegraphic reports and showing that they had not been overdrawn the missionary elder W D bowling says today brother mcarther McArth nr and I 1 are at the home of a family of good saints near the of cedar in a rural district of oklahoma here crops are an entire failure and this and one more family of saints are really for food ID tact they have now lived on halt rations for past to my certain knowledge that ration has been bread and oom etimos pork of a verv inferior quality I 1 have eaten bread and crater bore last vrin when I 1 could have cried in pity for the seemingly children this waa aba first family in 0 T to embrace and maintain the goabel they have ever welcomed the elders led washed clothes for and them to their very bast to day the bates of starvation dimply stare them in the face THE silver convention at memphis co invenes today over half of the states will be represented tho delegations mainly coming however from tha southern states and the states and territories wast of the dippi and north of ohio few of the states east of the mississippi will be represented the silverlea silver mea propose keeping op the agitation right on till the holding the national conventions needs educating on this vital question aind it is proposed by the South and west that the work 0 o brav elyon |