Show I PRESIDENT SNOW DEAD Venerable Head of the Mormon Church Passed Avay at 335 Yesterday I Afternoon Y 3 i f 7 I L End Unexpected and Came as a Shock to1 the Community > Cold Contra ted a Month Ago Developed Seriously and Illness Took Fatal Turn on Wednesday Was at Tabernacle on Sunday Family and High Church Officials at Bedside Entirely unexpected to the people of Utah and a profound shock to those who had not heard that the venerable head of the Mormon church was ill came the word yesterday afternoon I that President Lorenzo Snow was dead surrendered his life at his home the Beehive house at 335 The members e mem-bers of his family were at his bedside S where they had watched the ebbing of the vital tide from early morning The end was inevitable lie had been ill for 1 ten days and his condition took Its S i fatal turn on Wednesday But the word of the impending sorrow had not been sent out to the hosts of his people 7 Thousands of them in Utah will remember remem-ber him as he last appeared to them pale and enfeebled Sitting before the 1 multitude at Sunday afternoons Tabernacle Tab-ernacle meeting I They will mourn for him He was an able leader spiritual and practical and had devoted his 1lc to the church Ami beside those who number themselves S among his followers there will be regret re-gret and grief in hosts of hearts for his demise hisThe The cause of his death as given out by Dr Richards was hypotastic congestion con-gestion superinduced by aggravated bionchitis S S BEGINNING OFTH END I About four wdeks ago President Snow I attended a social function where he contracted a rather severe cold I was 1 not deemed at all serious at frs but 0 short hacking cough soon followed and this grew worse gradually Tha president took the best of care of himself him-self and there was nothing lacking that would add 10 his comfort or safety 5 He even remained at home during the first few days of conference In the hope I that this would benefit him but on sunday last he decided to go out long S enough at least to attend to the elevating ele-vating vOfApoAjTlaXil 300 Jp ° the second sec-ond counaelorsnipwhich he did On I Monday h6 was feeling the effects of the Sunday exertion but Tuesday i morning found him much better and I he vas around his office as usual I ILLNESS BISGAN WEDNESDAY I I was nyt TintU Wetllresday morning that anything like a terious derangement derange-ment was even suspected by those around him when he was attacked with vomiting spells which kept I uri almost S Incessantly for some time and he was unable to retain any food on his stomach stom-ach Even the slightest morsel of food was not retained This added to his already weakened condition When Dr Wllcox and Richards were summoned Wednesday evening they rrenounced his condition as being very rerlous Indeed I was not until that Time that the family fully realized the extreme t gravity of the situation Pre qucst visits Were made at Intervals during the night At 4 oclock yesterday S S yester-day morning there was n declJnd change for the worse and at 930 the S conditions were a little worse than S < eer stated and the end came at the hour I PRESIDENTS LAST ItfOMENTS Wao Unablo lo Speak for Seine Time Before Death j Although the end came with such I suddenness i did not prevent a large j number of Presidents Snow relatives j from being at his bedside i when the vital I vi-tal spark lied The President seemed conscious within an hour before he breathed his last although hewas unable I S un-able to speak I was plain to be seen S that he fully realized what was going I on about him but the condition of hla S throat made It impossible for him to STclc lo anyon He could only follow I fueh of his beloved ones with his eyes s they moved around the room attending S attend-ing to such matters as they thought I necessary and whenever he did make an attempt to speak which was not often I of-ten he Invariably failed His last act I was > to kindly fondle his youngest child little Lucille the daughter of Mrs Minnie iS S Min-nie Jensen Snow to whom he muttered something that was inaudible to his listeners lis-teners 1 The President always had a great admiration 5 ad-miration for the Temple choir the member mem-ber of which he workedwlth no long Jn the Temple before he became President l I Presi-dent and who have never failed to render i4 ren-der for him sweet music on his birthday 4 birth-day A few days ago Mrs Snow was 1 finding one of the Prealdentc favorite I hymns as she went about her household and other dudes The President stopped 4 her kindly bu suddenly and raid I 4 Minnie If anything should happen tort 4 to-rt 1 want the Temple choir to furnish S the music or at least Vomc of f Mrs S Snow passed ort thcl remark In a good I matured way Yesterday morning sev IrlWbe15 of the Temple choir td homlthe news had been communicated that the President was seriously 111 as I Cmblcd as mourners at the Beehive Some or tho members of the Temple choir aro here now Brother Snow said one of the watchers at his bedside Would you like to have them sing for you4 YOUu retched out his hand as though In f token of the good feeling but said In a rather subdued voice No not now S brother not just yet 1 This was at t the time when he was I 0 Dimply lingering I between lfe I and death Tho watchers at the batlslde hopipg for 4 the best but fearing the worst kept j uc1 the vigil that few have ever kept and be forgotten when a loved one Is about to S pass away As the minutes passed hope I became walcr and about 3 cock 1 I iUi Decamb evident that minutes Tore all l that wjre rfccessary to pass fere tier I tie-r President would be no more For htlf j 5e a < i hour the stillness of the death chain I I deJlf tbt nor WH unbroken and then just at I I I bi 3J his spirit took liz Hlght J I THOSI PnESENT AT THE BEDSIDE ti f Thosd vhowere present at the endS I end-S r ore the following Of the relaiKps RorctU Snow Love land O G Snow and daughter Rilla I 1 Elba Snow Dunford and daughters Mrs Morton Fren h and Estell Dun ford and fson Abigail Snow Rosenbaum I and daughter Mrs Hues Lorenzo I Snow Jr and wife and son Lorenso Jr4 Frank H Snow Alviras Snow A I Snow Eugene Snow Pierce B Morris Young wife and daughter Mrs Ale Young Pond Noah Pond Mrs Phoebe Woodruff Snow and sons Dr M W and L W Snow and daughter i Mrs Florence Snow Critohlow and John Crltchlow Mrs Minnie J Snow and daughters Mabellc and Lucille II Snow and sons Lorenzo Lamont and L Rol C Snow and wife Virginia Snow John A McAllster and son William Wil-liam L McAllster George H Gibbs and son George Mlrs Ada Dudley a granddaughter grand-daughter Morton French Mrs Clarissa Snow McAllster Lu duo A Snow and Mrs Sylvia Snow West arrived here at 730 730 Of the authorities there were Apostles Joseph F Smith Rudger Clawson C11wson Brigham Young John Henry Smith George Teasdale 1 F Cowley 0 A I Woodruff Reed Smoot B H Roberts Seymour B Young Joseph W McMur I rin Angus M Cannon David Cannon L John NutiuH Charles Wllcken and William Salmon I I FtNERAL NDXT SUHDAY W S l Take FlHco in Tabernacle With Interment at Brigham City I Late last evening the apostles In the city at the present time of whom by I tho way there are but eight in connection con-nection with other authorities of the church and members of the Snow family fam-ily met and organized a general committee com-mittee of arrangements for the funeral services This committee appointed subcommittees which will meet today and perfect some of the minor details that are necessary to the conduct of the funeral All that was decided upon last night was that the funeral services will be held In the Tabernacle on Sun day next beginningat 1030 a m The bQdy will liei in state at the Beehive house on Sunday morning from 7 oclock until 330 when friends who desire to I view the remains may do so At the conclusion of the services the i I casket will be taken to the Oregon I I Short Line depot where It will be put 0Wa special tralnnonprisrtfd offlvedr f I six cais which will be provided for the I i family the heads of the church the l I committees and those who have re I peel I ved invitations to accompany the remains r S re-mains to their last resting place in the restns i family plat In Bl5bam City The train I wlU i leave the city at 2 oclock and a a quick run will be made to the old home I of the deceased end the CIty which he founded and which was home to him for I so many years Advices received from Brigham City I last evening were to the effect that the death had caused great mourning thereS and that the citizens thele dtzcns were making pre S para ions to seet that the remains and I the luneral cortege are Sc properly hOI r l overt upon their arrival CHimCH BOND ISSUE Method Employed by president to ReEstablish Churchs Credit I I When President Snow asaumed the head of the Mormon church he found the church in n very bad condition llnancially and he deemed It was hIs I first duty to discover some means whereby the credit of the church could I be reestabllched I was some little time before he able tme was to devise the means necessary to carry out this Idea He had I thought It over well however and one day there came the announce mont that the church proposed to Issue I 500000 In b ndsotone hundred dollars dol-lars each bearing 6 i percent interest inter-est The collateral was simply to be the fnllh and credit of the church When the announcement was first i made and bids wrrc asked for theie were many wise financiers who shook their heeds dubiously and declared bonds would never be floated But they went off in such 0 hurry as to cause people to wonder where all the money was coming from to pay for them 1 was known at the time that the half million was not really enough meet the actual obligations of the church anti there were those present at the conference when the Issue of the church bonds was first decided upon who wart d lo make the issue a million mil-lion then and there But President Snow always cautious until he WS sure ho was right said nay they would try the half million first and If that Issue wao successful then It would be time to float more If need be and so the matter was dropped for a time Later however encouraged by the auccees of the bonds that had been floated upon that strange collateral the faith and credit of the church another half million was Issued and I these two found u ready sale at SIM each This money served It Is said to put the church on Its financial feet but without It there IK no telling I whtro the church would have landed KEPT INTEREST AT HOME It Is C matter of record too that certain Eastern firms had come In hero and offered to loan the church all the money It could possibly need at 3 per cent providing the church would give a mortgage on the real estate and improvements owned by I Here it was again that President Snow said no the money that It was proposed to raise was an absolute necessity no one realized that more than he did but it was his Idea that all this Interest should be kept at home < If possible and he was lolh l to bellove that the people of the church who had money weru afraid tp Invent with nothing i more than the collateral named If I r such It can be cRJIed L And co It came around that many ofuhoso not members mem-bers of the church and ntlll others berso lucldc Abe fold wjio were inclined to sneeratthe proposition to invest In church bondsboushti them as fast as they had money wjlli which to buy and are now regularly receiving 51x S per cent Instead of three and four per t S 7 l1Ij yc S J I 1 k5 I I I I r I I T f Pk c I j 2 L j J ii iI JI r1 p j1ii JI I 5 = I Tho Late Lorenzo Snow President of the Mormon Church I I I cent The interest on all these bonds has been regularly paid and in many caoes has it been ready in adancc INCREASED TITHING FUND The worry entailed by picsslng financial finan-cial obligations being removed the president then turned his attention In other directions The money had been raised The question then confronting him was how was the interest to be paid and the principal returned Then followed throughout every stake In the church a request or a demand that the people who professed membership member-ship In the church should be more strict in the payment of their tithes There wa but little interest manifested mani-fested in this at the time as It had been preached BO often before but 1 soon the people seemed to realize that as they were members of the church they were n part of the faith and credit of the church I was not long ere a report made at one of the regular conferences showed that the tithing had increased at a most wonderful rate and It is said that since that time the church authorities have had no cause complain ota laxity In this regard Today although no tacts nor figures will be given out it Is understood that the church Is in a most prosperous condition and could readily take up many of the bonds that Avlll not mature for aome Lime to come did the holders hold-ers feel disposed to part with them but this the latter refuse to do TOOK BEEHIVE HOUSE FOR HOME I The converting of the Beehive house the famous structure reared by Brigham Brig-ham Young and In which he lived for so many years into the ofllcial residence res-idence of the president the Mormon church was an Idea of President Snows he believing that the president should always be In elosa touch with i the clerks and the heads of the departments de-partments So the newly remodeled fixed for the reception Beehive was lxed up or recepton of President Snow and his family a large ofllce on the west side of the I building and connecting I with the church offices being retained as the public recsptionroom and a smaller one sUB further to the west for the presidents private office Where hemet he-met the apostles the bishops the presidents pres-idents and counselors of stakes etc on matters oc church business OTHER IMPROVEMENTS MADE Among the other improvement3 made under the reign of President Snow was the dividing of the block upon which the Beehive is built making two new streets College avenue and Temple Tem-ple street the abolishment of many H0f the old unsightly landmarks and a general renovation of nearly all the church property in sight The Latter day Saints college was always a pet of his and he took the greatest interest Inter-est in it In order I that thom who were also Interested should be encouraged en-couraged he caused lobe conveyed to the trustees of the college the 20x20 rods on the corner Qf North Temple and Main streets where the first of the cluster of college buildings has been in use for some time and on which two moro educational structures struc-tures the BrIgham Young memorial building and Barratt hall are rapidly approaching completion The Female Reliet society of the Mormon church had been struggling along for years In ward capacities Here and theme they have a hal to meet frequently none hledld not seem good to President Snow and so one day he called t meeting of the heads of the society and told them that if they would agree to put up a building for their own and exclusive use to be called the Woman building or come such appropriate name he would donate do-nate them all the ground they needed faelnjr on Temple avenue and Main street The oifer was gladly accepted and since that time the members of the relief societies in all of tho stakes of 1 Zlon have been busily engaged In raising money to apply to the build hut fund HAD ORGAN REMODELED The remodeling of the Tabernacle organ or-gan was also one of the enterprises which the late president took hold of and which he displayed great Interest In There wan no one he said who had more respect for things that connected con-nected the Mormon church with the past and the present but he deemed It wisdom to have the best there was going and so he decided to remodel the worldfamouo organ To think was to act with the president a rule and after iv had made up his mind that the organ was to be made second to none In America Itwas not long until it was so In connection with the remodeling of the organ came the idea of the organ recitals which have proven to besuch a drawIng draw-Ing card for thiscity FAVORED THE NEWS BLOCK The Rejuvenation of the Deseret News and the erection of the magnificent mag-nificent block now going up oji the corner of Main and South Temple streets af also made possible by hid hi-d otfonto the financial interests of the church He mid his individuality foil on everything with which he wa connected and his name appeared at the head of the Utah Llght and powex S A r company Z C M 1 Zions Savings I Bank and Trust company as editor even ot the Juvenile Instructor I was not in name only that he appeared ap-peared He was present at all of the I business meetings of each and every I corporation that the church had any interest in and even gave considerable consider-able attention last season to the practical prac-tical running of Saltalr and the Salt nir Beach Railroad company His last ofiiclal act of importance was probably the appointment of Apostle Rudger Clawson to fill the vacancy In the first presidency caused by the I death of the late president George I Cannon In short all who have had any business I bus-iness dealings with him have been astonished as-tonished at the wonderful vitality and energy displayed for one of his years and all those admit that he was the right man who came along at the right time to lead the Mormon people out of the financial wilderness in I which they had been wandering so I long His life has been n busy one since he assumed the reins of office I I AVIVESAND CHILI > IlEl r 1 President Snow Was Harried Nino I I Times Had FortySeven Children During his lifetime President Snow had nine wives three of whom Mary Houtz Snow Phebe Woodruff Snow and Minnie Jensen Snow survive him the last named being the last wife I The names of the wives who have preceded pre-ceded him to the grave are Charlotte I Squires Snow Mary Goddard Snow Sarah Prichard Snow Harriet Squires I Snow Eleanor Houts Snow and Caroline Caro-line Horlon Snow I Thirtyone children survive President I II Snow whose names and residences follow fol-low Mrs Roxey Box Brigham City Mrs Rosetta A Loveland O G Snow IS Roseta I Mrs Elbm Dunford Salt Lake Mrs Sylvia West Brigham City Loreno Snow Jr Miss Rintie Snow A E Snow Salt Lake Mrs Abigail II Rosenbaum L A Snow Brigham City Mrs Armeda Young Salt Lake Miss Ida Snow London Mrs Eugeno Pierce Brigham City A H Snow Mrs Lana Savage Salt Lake Mrs Tennle Duke Chicago C E Snow Cardston Canada Can-ada Mrs Clara McAllister Logan F H Snow Rexburg Idaho Mrs Virginia Vir-ginia Stephen Salt Lake M L Snow Ogden Mortimer Snow New York Mrd Birdie Harding Brigham L W Snow M W Snow Salt Lake O W Snow Brigham City Le Rol C Snow Mabellc Snow Lorenzo Snow and Lu cue Snow of Salt Lake President Snow loot sixteen children by death JOSEPH F SMITH IS NEXT Indications Are That He Will Succeed Suc-ceed to Church Presidency At the death of the president of the Mormon church the counsellors whom ho may have selected die with him at least Jn so far as their official capacity Is concerned so that there Is not now anjr first presidency of the church The control l and management of the church temporal and spiritual Is J now Bested in the quorum of the Twelve Apostles of which Joseph F Smith is the senior ih point of actual service Until this time Brlgham Young has ben the ranking member of the Twelve his ordination being one year later than that of Joseph F Smith ThorC has been no president of the quorum of the Twelve since the death of Franklin D Richards In the selection se-lection of a new president the precedent prece-dent has been followed that he should be the president of the Twelve Apostles Apos-tles who has bqen the ranking mcm bfli llln point of ordination But that precedent may be broken away from If the Lord so wills i said an official of-ficial last night There is no reason whylC God sees fit a lay member of the church should l not be chosen to succeed the late President Snow l It IB so wiiicd As to when a successor will be chosen that Is I a matter for the future He may be chosen and may act a such before next October conference but will probably not be submitted to the public before the latter date For Instance President Snow was chosen to succeed President Woodruff on September 13 1S9S eleven days after the d athor President Woodruff and was presented to the general conference of the Saints in Octobct It wag thought for a time that there I would be a contest between BrIgham Young and Joseph F Smith for the reason that Young was ordained an apostle by l his father many years be fore Smith war ordained Young however did not begin actual service I until Smith had served for almost a I year and now admits that Smith Is I his senior I Three Apostles Absent Three apostles are absent from the city Apostle Lyman who Is I In charge of the European mission Apos I tic Grant In Japan and Apostle Lund I who Is In White River Nev The two first named were cabled news of President Snows death Apostle Lund had left the Oregon Short Line at Modena to drive overland to White river but as he had only left there Wednesday a courier was sent after r him to notify him of the death L His Life in Brief I Following is a brief resume of the > llfe of President Snow from the Des eiSfXews t < Born at Mantua Portage county OAt April 3 1814 Apri 21 IS1t entered Oberlu college to secure I se-cure a classical education I In 1S3C h became a convert to MormonIsm Mormon-Ism I 5 and was bapltaed by Elder John S Boynton TnniS37ho began the active ministerial lSi hIs bUS life career continued throughout busy lCe In May 1SIO he took his first mission to Europe Iy and was appointed counselor to Parley mEbn P Fruit WIS president of tho British In 1SII he published < pamphlet The Only Way to bo Saved which has bean r translated Into German French and ital I lan I iamiIn 113 ho returned to America at the 18 < head of 233 converts on a specially chartered char-tered vessel In 114 ho conducted a vigorous campaign C paign In Ohio Tor Joseph Smith for President Presi-dent of the United Stutes In 1S45 turning to education he was placec ut tho head of tho Nnuvoo grammar gram-mar schooL mil left Nauvoo In the exodus of iSiS for I Salt Lake but on account of sickness did not reach hero until 1IS In October 1819 he was sent on a mission I I mis-sion to Italy where he remained for threo Continued on Page 3 A Pt1ESIUE1T SNOW DEAD COntinued from paso L years and translated the Book of Mormon in iS2 no was cycled a member of the Utah Houvo of Repi esentatlves In uc cordanco with time law of lixX ic was returned to every session until ISi5 thrco timed to the Housc and twen tythree to the Council TIn T-In JS53 with llfty families he founded and named Brigham City which was his Home for many years In iSyi ho went on a mission to the Sandwich Islands and labored diligently for ji time In that jiait of the Pacific in 1S72 ho accompanied Girorgo A Smith and other Utah people on a lour of tho countries of Europe and Palestine In 1S77 howas reieuard na president of Box Elder sUko after having presided over It since Hr organization In 3JG he was convicted of unlawful cohabitation and sentenced to three terms of six months each but later released on a writ of habeas cOrpus On April C 1S9 ho became the president of the quorum of the twelve apostlc which position he retained until September Septem-ber 13 1SCS j On this lust named date ho became the 1 president of the church and chose as his I counselors George Q Cannon and Joseph f F Smith GRAPHICAL Lorenzo SnOw the eldest son of Oliver and Roseau L Pcltlbono Snow was born at Mantua Portage county Ohio Ajrll I D 7SH His father was a native of Massachusetts I Mas-sachusetts hIs mother of Connoctlcut I One of the earliest ambitions of the I youth was to become a soldier and he held a commission from the Governor of Ohio llrst as an nnslftn and aflcrward as a Liuuicnant In the Stale militia At time age of 21 LoiLno Snow entered Obcrlln college which was ut the time a Presbyterian school In 1835 while on a visit to his Mister Eliza R Snow at Klrtland ho was convened to the faith of the Mormons and was baptized by Elder John F JBoynton ono of time twelve apostles In JS37 lie began preaching preach-ing the gospel among his relatives and friends In Ohio and In time following year removed with his parents to Missouri lo which pkico the Lutterdry Saints were migrating HP wan on a mission In Kentucky Ken-tucky when the Saints were driven out of Missouri and rejoined them at Nau voo In May 1S0 In the same month Elder Snow started on his first mission to Europe While In England he was madu president of the London conference and later of the European Eu-ropean mission In time former capacity becamch Is duty to present to Queen Victoria and the Prince consort two handsomely bound copIes of the Book of Mormon specially prepared for that purpose pur-pose In 1S43 Elder Snow returned to Nauvoo at the head of a large delcga llon of emlrrants Elder Snow lefl Nauvoo In the exodus of 1S1G and In the general emigration of 1S4S was a captain of JOD wagons in time I company led by President Brigham Young I to the Salt Lake valley On February 12 3S49 Elder Snow was called to an apostleship In the following October ho was appointed to establish a mission In Italy and adjacent coun tiles and was thus one of the first missionaries mis-sionaries sent out from the Rocky mountains moun-tains On November 25 1S30 ho with threes other elders established the Italian mission on the summit of a peak overlooking over-looking tho valley of Piedmont Apostle Snow next turned his attention to time East and sent missionaries to Calcutta and Bombay and to time Island of Malta He returned to Salt Lake In 1S52 The next achievement of Apostle Snow was the founding of Brigham City This was In October 1S53 He was made president of Box Elder stake which position po-sition ho hold until 1877 when ho was honorably released his eldest son Oliver G Snow succeeding him For a period of thirty years Apostle Snow was continuously con-tinuously a member of the Legislative Council and during about twelve years presided over the deliberations of that body The accession of Wllford WoodrulC to the presidency of the church April 0 1SS3 made Lorenzo Snow the senior In the quorum of the twelve apostles and on the same day he wao sustained as the president of that body This position ho helduntil September 13 1S0S eleven dayn after Lho death of President Woodruff when he succeeded him an president of tIme church At tho October meeting of the general conference he was sustained Presidents George Q Cannon and Joseph F Smith vho had been counselors to President Taylor and President Woodruff Wood-ruff were retained as counselors to President Pres-ident Snow |