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Show trinal in nature. He dealt with thi I TEMPLE AND TABERNAGLE. WVWVWWVVVVVVSVWVV SAINTS IN SESSION. Usury Blake Ruiiraaeoted at thu Mxtjr-ulnt- li Annual Couferene. Mamrly The sixty-nint- h anuual conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of day Saints convened at Salt Lake City on Thursday, April 0, at 10 a. m.. President George Q. Cannon calling the conference to order. Elder Seymour B. Young offered the opening prayer. President Lorenzo Snow then addressed the conference, and the remarks of the venerable president were listened to with great interest, lie appeared vigorous and strong for one so old and tiis address was earnest in the utmost. It gave him great joy, he said, to see so many of the Saints assembled. Nature is smiling on every side this morning,' and every one here should feel a thrill of joy at our condition as a church. We want to have a good conference. We will have a good con ference if your faith and prayers are in the work." President Snow blessed the Saints In the name of the Lord and spoke very cheering words to all. Apostle Radger Clawson followed President Snow, speaking against : fhe power of wealth. Apostle O. A. Woodruff spoke next, devoting most of his discourse to a sketch of the ad vance fit the church. Xearly every stake was represented at the opening session, and the tabernacle was filled to overflowing. At the afternoon session Apostle 'Lund was the first speaker, followed by Apostle Merrill and President George Q. Cannon. Apostle Lund spoke of the good missionaries could accomplish at home, as well as on foreign missions, while Apostle Merrill spoke of the rapid increase in the membership of the church, and gave some good advice to the young people in regard to avoiding extravagance and saving their earnings. President Cannon said that Mormonism had been a leveler of class distinctions and came as a salvation to the poor the toilers in Europe and .America, so long deprived of hope, had heard the gospel. Mormonism had made every man that was worthy, a priest of God. The church had been a benefit to the world at large it had given new ideas of heaven and hell; the light of thtf Gospel had disposed of the fearfulness attached to the place of eternal punishment. lie spoke of the Mormon idea of eternity and said that s man would preside over his family, large or small, in the hereafter, and the relationships of this world would be a part of heaven, purified and ex Jilted. would be continued and the planets would be peopled. The idea, he said, was materialistic, but nevertheless this would be the chief source of enjoyment in the world Pro-creatio- n . to come. fkidat's session. There was an unusually large attendance at both sessions Friday, especially in the afternoon when there was not room enough to accomodate all who wished to attend. At the morning service Elder David II. Cannon of St. George gave the opening prayer, after which President Lorenzo Snow opened the services with a few words, congratulating the church on the opening af the conference. Apostle John W. Taylor spoke of the missionary work in the mountain states. He advised parents not to send too much money to their sons who were on missions, as in his experience the best missionaries were those who depended on their own labors for their support, and noton the money sent from home.' . He took issue with Evangelist D. L. Moody, who asserts that ordinances such as baptism and laying on hands are unnecessary. Jesus taught the necesssty of these ordinances, he said, and the same things are promised at the present time as when Jesus was on the earth. Apostle Ueber J. Grant was the next speaker and during the course of his address he spoke of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints, saying they had nothing upon which to 'base their claim that their church was the true one; Apostle George Teas-dal- e spoke of the patriotism of mem- bers of the church to the nation, and also criticised the utterances of Evan .gelist Moody in regard to the ordi-nances of baptism and laying on hands. Apostle John Henry Smith preached an eminently practical sermon at the afternoon session. He spoke of the . position which the Mormon church has attained in the world, holding that this had not been gained solely from the spiritual instruction which the gospel Our practical application of taught ur faith, he said, has wrought us a fair share of respect and esteem. Apostle Francis M. Lyman followed a discourse which was purely doc aua-picio- ns - - -- : . MARKET. REPORT necessity of faith, the evidences of diB1LVKH. vinity in the revelations of Joseph T OrB ....uq Smith and the efficiency of repentance KanW Franc laeo .... j AWllUU .... ..................... as a means of grace. ........a, President Joseph F. Smith made New York most emphatie denial that the church New York Exchange 4 10 brokers eumx hod in any way been responsible foi New York Exchange 18.00 ..I the nomination or election of B. II New Yurk brokers. fc4 SO Roberts as a member of congress fiois Salt Lake Milling Exchange. Utah, lie said that the charge had Following are the closing sales: uarzu stuck. been made by enemies of the church tc Hid blacken its character and to bring Anchor Ajax odium upon it.and he averred positively Albion Alliance that the church was not responsible HullJou-llec- k Eureka for the acts of either of the political C'eniciiniul Chloride 1clul... some with Congor humor, parties, saying, dry lly as he concluded: iIf we did control them, we would ballon bark. luo . Iialy-W- ct not allow this wrangling and bitter-ness- . bslsy Dexter. JKlc.We'd have peace in the ranks, Hour Area - Marion.. wed1 and put a stop to all this quarrel- GeyserGurnet - .. . Galena. ing. bckday's session. At the morning services Franklin D. Richards spoke of the evils of skepticism and agnosticism, pointing out the dangers which lay in such things. Then he turned to the question of marriage and urged all the young men to marry early in life, not ' to wait until they had saved up their money and had a competence. He impressed upon the people this necessity of the If everyone payment of tithing. were regular in the payment of their tithing, he said, the church would be supported easily, without the frequent appeals for contributions which were - Galena King Grand Geuiral... ... llerscheL Horn Silver.. Over Three Hundred of I'nrle Sam's Heroes Laid to Rest. Retro Sacrumcuto Sunshine Silver King. Star Consolidated. Utah U8TBD FU08PECTS. Sacramento Conuolldaluu Alice STOCKS. O .....................S beck Tunnul .... ...... buckeye .... bright Light b. Warrior Big Camas now necessary. boston A be La Mar boas Tweed Apostle Brigham Young followed in bill Nye bird Extension..., a similar vein to Apostle Richards blue Crowii ppinv to church of members the Cedar all Valle v urging .'. faithfully pay their tithing, and to pay Camp Floyd it honestly, and truthfully, and un- grudgingly He announced the importance of belief In the principle of revelation, reading from the Doc tori n a and Covenants in support of what be said. President Lorenzo Snow occupied a few moments just at the close of the session. He spoke of the influence of public opinion as a means of restraint from temntation, and the dangers of allowing oneself to yield to temptation, even in small matters. At the afternoon service the general authorities of the church were by President George Q. Cannon, and all were unanimously sustained. There'were no changes in the personnel of any of the quorums. Individual responsibility ' was the theme of President George Q. Cannon's address. He said that the Latter-da- y Saints were .not taught to rely upon priests and teachers and apostles, but each was held responsible for his own - pre-sent- acts. President Joseph F. Smith took up the subject of tithing, saying that the church was called upon very frequently to pay the expenses of the families of elders who were on missions and that the church paid almost all the traveling expenses of all the elders who went out into the missionary field. This amounted to a very large sum annually and all of it must come from the people in the form of tithing. He urged honesty in tithing, for he said that even though the bishop might not see through the dishonest return, the Lord would know, and he would mete out justice accordingly. After the hymn, Our God We Raise to Thee, by the choir and the congregation, President Lorenzo Snow pronounced the benediction and the conference adjourned for six months. Woman In Conference. conference of the The National Woman's Relief society met in the Assembly hall Saturday morning at 10 o'clock. The president of ths society, Mrs. Zina D. H. Young, called the meeting to order. Mrs. Jane 8. Richards of Ogden offered prayer, after which the congregation sang, We Thank Thee O God For a Prophet. " Mrs. Emmeline B. Wells, the general secretary of the society, read the minutes of the last meeting, which were nnanimously adopted. Mrs. Bathsheba W. Smith spoke briefly of the worth of the Relief society, saying that it is one of the strongest organization in the church. At the close of Mrs. Smith's remark Mrs. Wells read a sketch of the life of the late Mrs. Sarah Kimball, paying a beautiful tribute to her memory. Mrs. Mary Ann Hyde, Dr. Maigaret C. Roberts, Mrs. M. Isabelle Horn and Mrs. Jane 8. Richards also delivered short addresses. The afternoon session of the conference was occupied in listening to reports of the representatives of the various stakes, particularly those most distant from Zion. The stakes represented were Alberto, Kansas, St George, St Jeseph, Maricopa, Bannock, Fremont, Ijos Angeles branch, San Francisco, Woodruff, Poeatcllo semi-annu- . and Wayne. al .024 I .Ul .uu ...... .044 . Ul 01 uu u)4 Washington, April 8. With full honors of war, upon the creat of the southern slope of Arlington cemetery, the nation, represented by President McKinley, his cabinet and other high dignitaries of the government, the 0X commanding general of the army and .w other distinguished officers, all the .uu U4X regular and militia organizations of the district, and a vast concourse of ,1U .Ul 15,000 people, paid the last tender .(II UU1 tribute of honor and respect to the 1 UI4 Central Mammoth Crusader Comstock... Diamond Consolidated Eagle A Blue Hell Emerald Frisco Golden Gale Extension ... . . ...... .... .. ... bodies of 330 officers and men who gave their lives on distant battlefields for n their country during the war. The scene was a most imposing one. After the last religious and military rites to the dead heroes was over the work of actual interment began. As each of the caskets weighs almost 500 pounds and requires eight men to handle it, it will be two or three days before all the bodies are in their graves. Spanish-America- ...... Century Columbia IS .81). bandits Captured and Rebellion Quelled at the Very Outset. Manila, April 8. Colonel Smith, the governor of the island of Negros, reports that a number of bandita, headed by a man named lapaisaio, attempted a rebellion on March 27 and killed several officials of Jumiuaylau. lie also captured other officials and issued a proclamation calling upon the natives to rise and exterminate the Americana and Spaniards. Major Siuie and two companiea of the California regiment were dispatched by water to the scene of the disturbance and Colonel Duboce and two other companies of troops were scut overland. On April 8 this force marched twelve miles and captured Labzib, the headquarters of the bandits, and destroyed tlie town. The troops also captured thirty-fiv- e prisoners and scattered 1apassio's forces, thus effectually quelling the rebellion WAR'S VICTIMS. Northern Light.... Ontario. Antler ........ ON NEGROS. at the outset. Ingot Mammoth Malvern Mercur. Lower Mammoth., bluebird FIGHTING .. NEWS SUMMARY. Korea is in trouble with Russia over the recent seizure of a whaler. It is asserted that there are 50,000 Russian troops now in Manchuria. The condition nf the pope has bt come more serious and his pliysiciani fear he will not recover An attempt was made to assassinate IToshl Torn, formerly Japanese Minister to the United States, recently. It is stated that 8225,000 has bees subscribed toward the construction oi the alumni hall at Yule university. In Sen Francisco a short, sharpearth-quak- e shock was felt April 5. The lasted three or four seconds. It is said that (iillett, the absconding cattle plunger, lias gone to South America to engage in the cattle business. ' Military movements are noticeable in the northern provinces of Spain in connection with the Carllst's threatened uprising. The secretary of the interior has approved the plana of Director Walcott for tlie continuation of surveys in Alaska during the summer of 1899. Premier Dupuy, in the course of an Important speech to his constituents at Le Pny, said the situation both at home and abroad waa eminently satisfactory. Ninety-fou- r Chinese were killed and 123 wounded by Russian soldiers in the recent riot at Talien Wan. China. A Russian Interpreter was killed by the Chinese. Returns from the Irish county council elections show that 300 Nationalists, eighty-ttire- e Unionists, one labor candidate and ope Liberal have been returned. . News has been received at Yokohama that a French mission has licen wrecked in the province of Chun Chong, The priest in charge waa carried off. Orders have been issued directing FIRST SESSION OF CONFERENCE that none of the remains of yellow International The Attendant!) Very Large, Nearly Every fever victims shall be brought from Stake being Kepneeuled. Cuba to the United States until cold Joe bowers Extension... Salt Lake City, Utah, April 8. The weather returns. La Heine...;sixty-nint- h Little Pittsburg. annual conference of the Welling, N. Z. dispatches say theim. Monurch Latter-da- y Saints convened at tlie perial government has accepted the Muy bay tabernacle at 10 o'clock Thursday offer of the colonial McKinley secretary to disMartha Washington President Lorenzo Snow morning. to a boat but the troops Samoa, patch Manhattan presided, and the other general au- offered are not required. North Swansea Omaha thorities on the stand were George Q. .... .... Oriental .... Dr. George A. Rawson, who figured Orient Cannon and Joseph F. Smith; of the in a sensational divorce case in Seattle, Oaks M. AM quorum of the twelve apostles, Franka few years ago, committed babbits Foot D. Richards, Brigham Young, Wash., lin Swansea suicide the insane hospital, Indianat Silver City Consolidated.... Francis M. Lyman, John Henry Smith, Sunbeam Ind., by hanging. George Teasdale, lleber J.. Grant, John apolis, Superior South Swansea Four thousand one hundred cans of W. Taylor, Marriner W. Merrill, Showers .Consolidated. II. Lund, Matthias 1 Cowley, beef have been destroyed at the Regia Owen Woodruff and Rudger warehouse, Havana, during the last Abraham Silver Cloud. Sea Swan.... Clawson; patriarch John Smith; of the three months, without action on the first seven presidents of the seventies, part of the board of survey Seymour B. Young, G. D. Fjelsted, B. Judge Ortiz, in Havana, insists that II. Johnaincommunicado law is in full force, the Roberts, George Reynolds. West Mountain Placer. than G. Kimball, Rulon S. Wells and like all other Spanish laws which GenWandering Jew Yellow Jacket. Joseph W. McMurrin; of the presiding eral Brooke's proclamation of January bishopric, William B. Preston, Robert 1 affirmed were to he unchanged. Balt take City. T. Burton and'John R. Winder. The The plague is still raging in Formosa. Wheat VC anticas was as attendance fully large Corn According to the latest advices eleven (Yacked corn ipated, and represented nearly every deaths had occnrcd in Tainin and one Rye stake. in Tiakokua, bringing the total numBarley Oats ber of deaths since January 1, up to 233. Imli A lfalfa .... .... .... .... .... .... .... Want! Gomel pemlenre. Mixed hay ...... ...... .... .... .... Ten men in the mines in the southHavana, April 8. The Cuban miliTimothy Straw, per bale MaxGeneral Illinois coal district have decided ern dead, tary assembly being Live Turkey Uobblera Live Turkey Hena imo Gomez will take up his program of to strike as a result of their employers Chickens, hena Old roosters solidifying the Cnban people into a refusal to grant a raise of 25 cents a broilers, each party that shall, without ceasing, urge day. This will tie up at least 3,000 Old duck Tame Geese the United States to withdraw from men. I OOgS ft the island. His Egga. Utah, per case purpose is to make the u butter, creamery Capitalists from Chicago and other Ranch butter 184611 seem to have but one emotion, cities are people attempting to secure an opone desire the thought of independ- tion on all the laundries of IndianapoSan Francisco Grain. ence and the absolute separation from lis, with a view toward 1 05k' ..... May purchasing 1 104 December Some of the Amer- them and uniting them into one comStates. United the New 4 barley ican officials here think the United bine. States government may yet experience LIVE STOCK. Latest advices from the seat of hostrouble with General Gomez. in Boliva say the federalists or tilities Chicago. Suppressing llrlgsnilage. 5 60 85 85 Fancy cattle insurgents now hold Cochabampa. 4 15 45 50 Choice ulcers de 8. Potosi and Santa Cruz, but President There Cuba, Santiago April 4 05 444 85 Medium grades 444 00 Are now twenty-tw- o beef steers. bandits in I VO Alonzo has reduced their positions near the Stockers and feeders I HO Z 00 S480 bulla. . Santiago military prison. Major Gen- Oruro. Cows and heifers I 40 444 85 eral Wood is actively surpresaing disCalves. . . 3 75 4(0 75 Nearly all the wheat through cenWestern fed steers 4 ft 45 60 from this source. Yesterturbances Illinois, from Danville to Havana, 4 UU Texas steers t5 15 day four bandits from San Luis and tral 4 75 at 00 Inferior to choice sheep. considered the best portion of the state, Exports. ........................... S 75 40 05 two from Guantanamo were brought ia dead. There waa a large acreage 4 75 to 80 Yearlings Lambs 5 05 tO Ml in. There is not a little excitement sown laat fall. Farmers are discourover the operations of the outlaws and aged. Kansas City. 83 M 03 30 Native steers rumors are in circulation regarding and mineral reThe a U) Texss steers 85 t( troubles in the district of Holguin, but, sources agricultural Texas Cows. 8 50 t4 70 Manchuria are stated to be of Native cows and heifers t 56 A4 7S the present efforts or the military au3 25 tO 50 Stockers and feeders and the Russians are workimmense, Hulls sud stags 8 75 145 00 thorities will soon assure safety in all Lambs 4 05 tO 75 ing so aa to exploit them for tlieir sole Muttons s tit 75 parts of the province. advantage. Land is being compulsory Omaha. TROOPS FROM CUBA. acquired. Native beef steers 84 85 5 85 Wen tern steers 8 80 Q4 70 An effort ia being made to secure AUofthe Volunteer Will Krturs Before Texan ulcer. 8 40 4 to Cows and heifers for 8 50 15 Philadelphia commercial museum's May. Canneni 8 50 ft3 40 next fall exhibits of manuexpositions Stocker and feeders 8 W) $5 uu Washington, April 8. All the troops .. .... .......... 4 50 t(7 00 CalVCH, .. . raw products of Cuba, and factured which are to return to the United States IIuIIh and atsgs 8 75 ,3 75 Hawaii and the PhilipPorto Rico, 4 50 fr.5 ib Yearling muster-out are expected to return for Western muttons 4 00 ((4 70 pines. 1. Smekora 3 uu t4 85 About 13,0UO returned before May ...... ....... ... 4 40 (5 60 in Lamb ...... At the suggestion of March, and it is expected 25,000 " Denver, chief of the bureau of equipmore Bradford, will arrive during this month. beef steers 83 75 ft5 no scheme has been a ment, 8 i3 M 25 is ( of comprehensive taken Every precaution being by the Feeders freight paid to river.... 8 flu 4 75 the undei aud hoswar the adopted marine nary department by department Starker, freight paid to river,. . 4 00 4 Uu'l and stag 8 25 4iS 25 will be stations which service tlie to introducplaced coaling prevent pital Good flit mutton 4 (O 44 75 tion of infection from these troops. Lamb at strategic points in the West Indies 4 05 4 75 Golden Star. Gold Treasure Golden Eugle Gold Cnble Gold Kill.....' Humes lake Hercules Korea. - - Rlclimond-Anaroni- la An-th- on - s Rear-Admir- al HO as soon aa possible. . |