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Show brjcNeJ Woods Cross pioneer went to prison for polygamy JUtt u m-ik- f 'lyfiMrf hi in 0 t i'ih. Py RUTH t.ALA,N H'!' Many kui mi fur. CALL CLASSIFIED r CL ,.. ef the N I 625-430- 0 WELCOMES TAK.K.rn -- cen C .yickcn' M.D. early pujflcm m the SjIi Valley lived a the fcJerdl i po-Wh- en f; gov- t ernment ordered the arrest or those living polygamy. ome LOS pioneers tried ia hide. ti was in April of 86. that George WihhL the son of U pods raspberries. They had seen Juliaett and took her away, thinking they had got the one they were hunting for and did not know different until they had taken her to the city. They came back to look again. Wood wrote. They came near stepping on me, but did not see me. I was laying on the ground. They did not stop to look down at their feet, but were looking away ofT. They passed and went on into the hills. When they came back they saw me...I think if they had not see me this time they would have fallen over me. As soon as they saw me I jumped up and began joking them because they had walked around me so many times and did not see me. They were quite plagued. They continued hunting for some time and searching houses, stables, Jt ol negti ia ft PftWdumtj It mik telWjye fetus kn It tosl'j Mih (O'f !tj fenra C.t 0n0t I, h IW. t lktL JAJUO POLYGAMISTS; George Wood Kjht) ol Woods Cross sotvod two ycas in jnd au?r txnng convicted of polygamy. et a dog couIJn't get, but found nothing. 1 avked them to come and eat breakfast, but they would not." They took other members of Wood's family into Salt Lake City from their home in Woods Cros. Wood explained that they were placed under bonds to wait for their trial. I was placed under S3.000, Addie, S300 and Juliactt, $2,000." Wood wrote about his beautiful surrounding and how he and James Howard walked through the gardens, view ed the trees and rows of grapevines. "It had never looked so lovely to me before, it seemed to be the most beautiful place I had ever seen and 1 shall never forget the feeling that was in my heart on the evening of May 28, 1886," he wrote. In a dream. Wood saw himself going east into prison. He saw himself as he passed through the huge gates and he saw the bitter-- 1 ness of Hell. The next day, he was sentenced to five years and a S500 fine. I thanked Judge Powers for what he had done for me and walked out" That evening he said goodbye to his family. "My loving . mother Addie. Ridges came to me, we spoke a few words. I bid her goodbye and rode away to the old prison, leaving my mother in tears. I arrived at the old pen at 8 p.m., was given some bread, meat and syrup on an old tin plate for my supper. I was taken in a room and searched, then I passed through the huge gates that was shown to me in a dream. I was taken around to old cell number 2 where I met Brothers Thomas Bumingham, John Penman and many others. Here for the first time in my thieve, robbers and murderers who all seemed to be jolly." I le tells of begin moved into a cell where the worst convicts were kept. The men had terrible language and some would yell out in their sleep. 1 and Doltcn Berg bunked together in a nest of bedbugs, yes, there was thousands of them." Afier three days he was taken back to Salt Lake to answer for the charge of unlawful cohabitation. The judge asked Wood if. in the future, he would obey the laws of the United States against polygamy and he answered, "No sir. my intention is to obey the law of God w hich I believe to be right, if it means imprisonment for life." Wood wrote in detail what happened each day, including Sundays when they had visitors and sang songs. He was an accomplished violinist and played when allowed to. In September, Wood wrote of receiving a letter from his wife Addie. telling him a daughter was sick. In December, he wrote that a guard came where he and other prisoners had been working on a well. I told him he had kept me working all the time just for meanness, but he said he had not. Said he. You are able to work if anybody in the yard is, and you was exercising yourself on the bar yesterday after you quit work. I said that I ought to exercise myself on him which caused him to look at the ground and told him it was a dirty trick and that he had lots of cheek to keep me here working all the time while so many men in the yard doing nothing and able to work. I told him I wanted to study and that I would never serve the sentence past upon me...In a short time he called two men to come and change with us. The guard threatened to put See PIONEER10 rwvxias Dr. Hxlta'i ofU J b temporoiify kxocd ol ferns Cink't Krill loutioaoMdaintnlcomtrwiiMbtompMtdotlhiUrioaOiiucHtklihni moll bn ptrmonent oHiu at th ferns Omk lopo loton. life I was seated in a room with granary, pigpen and places where great-grands- on hind a large grapevine, and Woods dropped down in the Huovsti k rtii.M 4 MVt eurph most inunewef imling. f HP (PauWt). Ibd 94 04 no ton wv'd bit to ifoott Di Hub rwr pkpsion ympty toll jroor kiwis! to'pe'y 4 oi l Ot H to bt IiiM few Pnmtiy fait Phfwioa in iht bmnf &A jfoe dnift euiifswi m ifiii piotrj. r I pe do Ml ft row Inwomi fc'M 7345-3- , pWcw coB Iht toomi itptnmtri gl feiwwf Ctaic of hit original handwritten Journal are in the position of PIONEER PROOLES tome of hit descendant! while the original it in the LDS Church Archives. Steve Connor, a of Wood, would Ike to tee the journal published in hook form. Woods prison journal begin: 1 and family wat arrested April 3rd. 1886. Four deputies came armed at if they were going to face a regiment of soldiers... "I wat sleeping alone in the kitchen. 1 arose, walked out and saw them a mile away coming slowly along. One of the rebels was riJing on a horse and the other three in a buggy. "I walked back in the house, sat down by the window and read the Pearl of Great Price, until they reached my gate. 1 then walked into the bedroom and said to my wives the deputies are coming, and how they made the quilts and petticoats fly was amusing." His wife Addie told him to take his wife Juliactt Howard and hide. They ran behind the house into the orchard. Juliaett hide be- Dr Kxkrti partus j 1 18 iptrtiv w D( Hide Hu sense of humor comet out cop-l- (Lft Stc-k- Rt'ikoniH Cross founder Daniel Wood. was arretted at the age of 32. Ado laid llcmcntary School wat named for hie mother Adelaida Rideci. 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