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Show knew thej might be disposed to treat NORTHWEST o NOTES! encourage education and the members. thereof take advantage of It. Exasperated bv the march of Sher-- 1 John R. Winder, first counselor of man ami the fate of Atlanta, which A suicide wave swept over the state the first presidency with well-nighung trembling in the balance, the of Colorado October 4. five persons four score and ten years hanging over Georgians were not in a mood for killing themselves and one other mak his head, spoke briefly.. Mr. Winder Cruel war ln an unsuccessful philosophy or mercy. BREAKER offered up a devout attempt. proyer. He said, brings out the most inn use passions in thankfulness, that his life had Herbert R. Morton, an Australian been of men. spared thus long, and he attributed' millionaire, slipped on the steps of under these circumstances, there the it to the goodness of the Lord that Vancouver, B. C, opera house ana fore, he kept his ears on the alert to fracttned ihlS is BO. Mr Winder flnnonn-t,- l a if his skull and will probablv to be hit Seed determination to stand catch what was said, when the man die. of Largest Saints in Gathering the wearing a Confederate captain's uilstaunchly by the presides! of the Because an engineer and a brake-maCHAPTER I. same fountain that had served bim in form advanced and looked closely imo church and to serve the Lord more of the Church at the History were touud taking a drink in a boyhood. his face. votedly than ever Held by the Enemy. saloon at Tonopah and discharged, th Seventy-eight- h This pleasant duty finished, he adConference. "You a are Yankee?" he asked, It was night in Georgia. trainmen on the Tonopah & Goldfield vanced to the building. Whatever curtly. Second Day's Session. The misty moonbeams, filtered railroad went on a strike tying up the recollections were rioting through his "1 am." replied John, boldly, desirThe in attendance at the Satcrowd through the latticed branches of the mind and they must have been legion ous of avoiding the charge of being system of conference of the Latsession urday pines, fell upon the figure of a man in President F. The laying of steei on the Borie-AthSmith Declares he did not allow them to appear up- called a spy. Joseph oauns was largely in excess blue who followed a That cut-of- f or There Hill is the path on the surface. Evidently this same a "Married or single?" was the next Greater Today Wyoming c;f the opening leading to a mansion situated on de- John was session, it being estidivision of the Union Pacific was comand More Gratifying. Spirit of capable of controlling his astonishing question. mated that at least 12.0UU people were batable ground near Atlanta. menced last week. The intention of "A bachelor." returned the Federal, feelings to a remarkable extent. Union and Love in the present Fierce and sanguinary battles had Of course the door was fast he proudly. the company is to place the line in Church Than Ever the principal address of the dav been fought all the way from Chatta- expected that. A window would "Then I reckon you'll do. Men, bring commission about the first of the year. was made by Apostle Orson grant Whftnev. nooga, and the doom of the Gate City the desired ingress. A reunion of the hand-car- t him along, and if he tries to escape, veterans who, in the commanding of was sealed. language a Presently Atlanta and There was Salt Uke I'ny There can be but which he is a master, made answer to charge of buckshot must finish him. was held in Salt Lake City last week. repugnant its envirous must fall into the hands about this modesomething an alleged attack made by To Lyndhurst." when several hundred of the veterans little question that the seventy-eightof entrance, but durBishop of the victorious Sherman. on Sept As he marched along in their midst, who crossed the plains to ( tali iu the conference of the Church Those the stormy war times men who 22, In which the! of Jesus Spalding were troublous times for the Confed- - ing were soldiers Episcopalian divine took to task varimet with so many the prisoner found himself wondering hand-car- t brigades listened to a pro Christ of Latter-daSaints was the ous eracy, and many a heart grew cold strange adventures that these denominations, creeds or cults. feelings what astonishing adventure was about gram consisting of speeches and must- - largest gathering of the kind in the with a vague fear while facing the ap- had to be stifled to a Apostle entered into a spiror less to overwhelm him. cal numbers. greater history of the church, members of the ited defensiWhitney ot the purity of the Morproaching disaster. extent faith General Superintendent Stewart of being presem Urom all quarters mon home, and losed with the exClose behind this advancing CHAPTER II. So John the Laramie, Halm's Peak & Pacific of the globe. figure from one pression of the hope that Bishop a second might have been seen a tall, to another, passed each in turn.Window The first day's services of tlm SucRailway company announces that the Spalding did not realize what he was lean fellow who wore the chevrons of cess did nottrying A Grim Alternative. come immediately, but extension of the line from Centennial ference, on Friday. October 4, consist-t- saying whin he uttered the words ata sergeant, though it would be Not a word was said as they tributed to him. A man's Walden and to the coal fields of ed of the l impos- he was not discouraged review by Pre sible to tell whether his dusty Apostle H.vnim M. Smith took the character crops out even in such small tramped along'the road. John's curi- North Park will be completed within Klent Joseph F. Smith and addresses garments stamped him a mem- things of life, and John possessed osity had been aroused, 'however, and the next year. President John K. Winder and prod to what he characterized hypoby ber of the blue or gray. crites and fakers, he wondered whether his confession particularly All the hotels in Laramie, pertinacity to a certainty. Wyo., Apostles A. H. Lund, Francis M. Ly. al those who, he aiming to as would a have bachelor said, pretend to. Kmerging from the pines the house being a he discovered window that Finally which have been charging 25 cents man, John Henry Smith and Heber J. preach the gospel, ye! deny the per- lay before the leader, bathed in the offered no resistance to his onslaught any bearing one way or another upon lor meals have entered into an agree- Grant In the evening there was an sonality of God. flood of lunar light. and thus after the long lapse of vears his I'ossil)le kt as a spy. to increase the price to 115 cents, illustrated lecture cud an organ reOther speakers were Apostles He came to a stand and gazed upon he once more entered the house that The growl of heavv guns could be ment whose address was dethe scene as though certain emotions had been his boyhood's home. heard in the distance, telling that due, it is claimed, to the increased cital by J. J. Meridian in the taber- votedClSWSOn, to nacle and a meeting of the quorum of large ly of provisions and expenses cost of statistics; George A was since dead had been aroused to a long hourly growing Like a man walking in his sleep, Sherman's grip Smith, who also spoke on the subject the in seventies the meals. serving hall. new life. While he thus stood, the he more tenacious, and the time close at Assembly of passed from one room to another. II. I!. Perham, national president of During the evening also there were A. marriage and children, and Georgu lanky sergeant joined him. The moonlight found an entrance hand when the Gate City must surRichards, who spoke of the prog-lesthe Order of Railway Telegraphers, meetings and reunions n various parts "There it is, Shanks. 1 was a boy through the many windows, render to superior force. of the church. though of the in arrived city. Denver last week to take when last 1 looked on the old home, they were festooned with cobwebs These sounds were unpleasant music Apostle Joseph A. Richards, at the In his address at the opening of the afternoon session, said that there Is personal charge of the grievance of and it would hardly do to tell how after the manner of deserted man- in the ears of those whose sympathies conference many years ago that was. Great sions. It served to reveal various rested with the distressed Southland, the telegraphers against the Denver & took occasionPresident Joseph F. Smith every reason to be thankful to God. to say that there is to- for the Lord's promises have been fulchanges have taken place here in objects in the rooms, and John's mind and it promised to be an unfortunate Rio Grande railroad, acting as adviser day a greater and more gratifying filled. We have seen the church grow fhat time. No doubt some of my old went back through the vista of time for any Federal whom the for- to the committee. of union and love in the church in seventy-seveyears and a half years Al D. Meyers, the millionaire mining spirit neighbors would think it rough that as each familiar scene aroused mem- tune of war might throw into their than ever before. He said the inteiest from a membership of six to one of man of Goldfield and Los Angeles, is In the doctrine of the Latter-daFletcher Ridgeway's son should be ories of the past. grasp. Saints the magnificent proportions which we with the army of invasion, but thev to name was familiar credited with having lost close the Is more widespread than ever and that now behold. This has Lyndhurst At length he stood in the room that been accomknow little of my life, and could never seemed to be his eoal Here was the to John, and he remembered that in at roulette at Goldfield the past the work of extending the teachings plished in the face of the sternest opof few Jesus the of his Christ the guess the powerful motives that bring ceases 120,000 in days. Meyers dropped days youth Grangers not, but In position, attacks and vituperation on chimney the generous me nere. i.et s advance, sergeant. 1 hearth with its lived there. Perhaps officers were one play at the Northern, and various creases every daythe part of the press and pulpit, but andirons. 'So far as believe the house is deserted. know, and I think we! in this work we know that the Eternal InIn front of a roaring fire how many quartered there, for the squire had smaller sums at other houses are in a position to judge rightly. Father Is at the helm am surprised to see it stand- - times in the long ago had he sat with always been a most ardent patriot, deed. P. H. Cook, charged with stealing a mere is a spirit ot union and love in Apostle Richards declared that ing. witn so many bands ot plunder- - his boy comnanions eracklne- nnta and no doubt from bis vast resources rifle and revolver from Albert Cook, all the church and pervading the peowas foreseen in a dream by lng Jayhawkers and guerrillas running and chattering like a lot of magpies had contributed much to help on the not related, but who befriended him. of God. Such a condition is a Nebuchadnezzar, and likewise its comple the cause of through the Confederacy. country." or listening to weird pleaded guilty in the district court at source of and strength. The ing was the fulfillment of a vision of "Just as ye say, sir," replied the stories of early lifegrandfather's Under such circumstances, there Laramie, Wyo., and was sentenced to duty of thepleasure in the South. Latter-daSaints relative John, who had seen another angel in fore, it was possible that a drum-heaeighteen months in the penitentiary. to the work of the Lord should be par- the distance. amount to might be held, and else. Cook was arrested in New Mexico. "The latter-daSaints to be John "It is true that men and women nec- encouraged and thankful. ought speedy execution take place. Because he failed to heed signs forThey will to have liked the of in essarily various tem- become a mighty people. They have hardly dying bidding the thought engage hunting of ducks, Chris poral occupations, to provide themthe organization and the authorities upon the scene of boyhood's pleasures a Servian Stanisich, boy, selves with the necessaries of life. of the primitive church. Why ought but the stern lessons of campaign was shot Sofus and killed by The Lord designed that His children not then the church of the Latter-daInstantly life make light of even such a ghastly Nelson at the Mac White ranch, four should enjoy this life and its blessings. Saints be the greatest?" possibility. miles south of Butte. Hunters who It has been said that the idler shall So he trudged along in the midst of not eat the ot bread witnessed declared thb the industrious the shooting NEW APOSTLE SELECTED. his silent captors. Now and then his killing to be unprovoked and very cow- and there should be no idlers among' thoughts turned in the direction of or tne people Ood. Anthony Woodward Ivins Chosen as the sergeant, but on each occasion the ardly. iue iauer-aasaints should put Successor to Apostle Teasdale. A American on a rested large eagle remembrance of that shot caused him their highest thoughts to the cause of 'ive electric wire passing through the Zion, to the cause of truth, to the to shrug his shoulders and mentally Salt Lake City. At both the foredecide that poor Shanks had already Davis ranch at Bakersfield, Cal., and cause of righteousness. The Lord in- noon and afternoon sessions of the gone upon the road that awaited him was slowly roasted. When it fell to stituted this work for the salvation of Sunday conference of the Church Latter-daof Jesus Christ They passed through a gate and the stubble field below, a mass of men in this life as well as for the of souls redemption in the world to Saints, every inch of seating entered upon well-kep- t ournlng feathers, It' started a blaze come. grounds. Lynd capacity hurst was considered the finest estate which burned over 4,000 acres ot "I do not believe in the doctrine, was taken advantage of, over 30,000 near Atlanta. Its peculiar position ?rain and stubble before It was taught by some that It matters not persons having passed through the had thus far saved the historic old what a ma:i does in this life, so long gates during the day. mansion, with its delightful grounds Hon. Eli Crumrine of l,aramie. Wye., as he confesses Christ before death. Anthony Woodward Ivins, president from the bombarding guns of the "I wish to impress upon the Saints of the Juarez stake in Mexico, was sestate senator from Albany county, enemy, but once the city fell into the lias written a letter to Senator Phil the necessity for observing the gospel lected by the conference to fill the hands of the conquering Federals inder C. Knox of Pennsylvania, con precepts. You know for yourselves vacancy caused by the death of AposLyndhurst would feel the blighting gratulating him upon having been the truthfulness of the gospel, and tle George Teasdale. Apostle Ivins influence, and, possibly, be left in mentioned as a possible Republican now it is for you to live it live up to is a native of New Jersey, is 55 years the covenants you have made with of ruins. candidate for president next year ana age, and lives with his family in God, so that no man can point to you the trees, assuring him his support in case he as Lights gleamed through Colonia Juarez. Chihuahua, Mexico. aas a wicked transgressor, and showing that the mansion was far is nominated. The election was unanimous. man. corrupt "You are a Yankee 7" he asked from being deserted. Straight up to President Joseph F. Smith and the curtly. The Topeka Copper company, hav "Let your light so shine that men I the door they led the prisoner, and one of the most promising claims will see your light, and glorify your present authorities of the church were ing other, his manner affectionate rather John was an intensely sustained. practical presently John found himself locked In the Centennial mining district, in Father in heaven. than obsequious. man, and quickly swept aside this halo in a room. Voices in earnest converThe conference decided to suspend from the haunts sin. of away "Keep ores from ol the assays "Remember my caution guard your of romance that threnieyiori the organ recitals until the April consation could be heard near by. Final- Wyoming, Have are There vuvvuvu tr, IU VTCI those who charity. which have shown a value of $250 in tongue. To you for the present I am whelm him. Saints. ference, and during the course of the ly the door opened and some one speak only evil of Latter-dagold to the ton, is sacking 100 sacks of These " "Now to see whether the only a fellow- - soldier, plain John are mostly in our midst. day listened to a number of adresses, entered. persons papers to ore a be sent to smelter at Denvet Thev shut their eves to all ernrul nnrt chief among which was one by Brig-hahave lain there during these It was a man of abotit fifty whom or H. Roberts, in which Mr. Roberts The sergeant saluted in a formal been discovered. Come, my years, "dear fel- - John faced, a man with a most de- for treatment to determine the future send out false reports. I leave such reviewed the history of the state of persons In the hands of a just God." way. low, brace up and put the matter .to termined countenance. In spite of the of the property President Anthon H. Lund devoted a Missouri so far as it related to the Two hundred and fifty members of "Sergeant, you're a Tennesseean, I a test." passage of years he recognized the part of his address during the part taken by the Saints in their early the large National believe?" Wholesale Just as he was bending down to re-- other as his father's neighbor and Druggist asso Mr. Robciation were in attendance when Pres forenoon session of the conference to efforts to found settlements. who "From near Knoxville, sir. My peo- move one of the stones that formed friend, Squire Granger. were work of missionaries in the for- erts severely scored those the in of B. conthe ident mountains. lived Some John the called the ple Carey hearth, he heard the hnnt nf or, (To be Continued.) field. President Lund declared responsible for the sufferings inflicted eign In wear the ?ray others the owl from the outside. This was the entlon to order Denver last week. himself my kin extremely pleased with the re- on the Mormons and declared, in conbine." Among the most important questions ports that come from the various mis- clusion, that the state, as a state, had signal arranged with the sergeant ADMITTED HIS DOUBLE LIFE. discussed were the effect of the na- sions. The speaker desired to add his sown the wind and reaped the whirl"How came you to go with the it meant sudden danger. North? I've known you a year, and John wheeled and stepped to a City Policeman Greatly Astonished tional pure food law as applied to testimony to that of President Smith wind: that Its chastisement had been never asked that before." that everything points to greater unity complete. window, but the dust was too thick drugs and proprietary medicines His Superior Officer. An address by Apostle Reed Smoot "The jayhawkers murdered my fath- on the class to allow him a chance to Jacques Laramie chapter, Daugh and deeper love and believed that the was Officer Martin, who had been on the manifestation of this in largely devoted to a warning is due spirit ters of er before my eyes. They wore the see. the American Revolution, no small force for six months or more, was difto those who labor against becoming the prey of fakers, degree The of a gun sounded on the ferent in some report butternut that settled the matter from many of which last year offered a prize abroad. medicine respects patent agents, eye glass ven- with me. I've paid back the debt. I night air. on $10 for the best essay his fellow the like. went never Senator Smoot and He dors is "There encourpolicemen. and hope . every ! TKI The Overland Trail," has offered an uicaiu uuaiueHH oeyonu a I reckon," and the mountaineer ground in a saloon, never swore, never idled for the Latter-daSaints." urged his brothers and sisters to keep agement for In war times the dis- and never shirked. He was also his teeth at the recollection. other prize of the same amount for said President F. M. Lyman in the out of debt and spoke earnestly s of is significant and a suspicion that the best essay by a student of the course of an hour's discourse at the against investing money in speculaThey were now near the house, one charge Whatever his mission to this home till was not of those rambling Southern structures diversity of Wyoming on "The Re afternoon session of the conference. tions. right and that he had his boyhood, it must for the pres. ml of There is eveiy reason why the people Apostle David O. McKay spoke of to well the country, a picso to conceal was aroused. bition of Fort Laramie to Pioneer omethlng adapted be postponed. He again traversed the The chief should be cheerful,'' declared Apostle the value of internal strength, si In called him into his private Wyoming." turesque building that would have deT.vmnn tr u,.o that lilt the .rrl ''Th.. orcmis must, lie rooms, aiming for the open window. office one morning. s the result of investigations by D, lighted the eye of an artist. ,.., , ' .,;,' healthv if the outer bodv would stand. thfim taln Tnv Shouts were heard from the outside, H Officer Martin," he said, "so far as Habcock, a special ayent of thu experience and have an army of vet- John seemed deeply interested. The president of the retrtml states proclaiming the presence of the enemy I know, you are one of the best men 'nlted States in the service of the lrd." mission erans treasury department Memory awoke within him, and a in force. John's spoke briefly on the progress bravery had been on the payroll, but there, are rumors sent to Vancouver when the anti-JaIn his section and of church were words the of those stranre thrill passed over his frame. Glowing praise tested ere now on many a t nt lndepend- not altogether what you anese riots occurred, a force of fed by Apostle Heber J. Grant in ported the headquarters "Yes, many happy days I spent here field, and it was with impatience at that you are to seem a to In be of that tl the and late be, ere era! MO., once, is a officials at he will nourishing condiApostle Installed the memory George chapter at the old home before that wretched being interrupted rather than alarm in your life that none of us knowa international years ago the tion. line to keer Teasdale. Twenty-fou- r boundary See. there that he scrambled ;ifT;iir made me an exile. through the small anything about." Joseph S. Wells delivered an ad back the scores of Japanese who art two had assumed the office together, is the same well how often have pantry window. Mr. Grant, and there had never dress on tin grdwth of the church and said "I don't It, the Into deny sir," responded the daily crossing the border slaked my thirst from its mossy buckNo sooner had he dropped a poo Hi been a moment when he did not ad- expressed the gratification felt by hlm- policeman, somewhat surprised, but t'nited States et And yonder ancient oak served ground than violent hands were mire the man as he lived, and now self and all of his people that this Id not abashed. Merton Johnstone, an electrician, 27 me as a hidiimplaee from the little on him. A muscular man, John set that he was dead he revered his nu m is so. "TOO confess It, then?" years old, was electrocute! several ory. Apostle Grunt also urged a comOverflow meetings were held In Bar-- j black imps who Were my boy compan- nmiut. persuading Ins assailants th.it "Yes, air." ml lea southeast of Butte, and fell from with the Injiincti. laid down rstt hall and in the assembly hall. ions. The impulse to again test the they could not thus act with pliance Impimity "Would you mind me what The services in (he former place were the pole to the. ground almost beside in the Word of Wisdom. cool water far b low the Though three to one. they mlghl it Is in confidence?" telling tie unconscious form of bis helper Higher edcuatlon was the theme of In charge of Seymour B. Young and How do have met their match in this curb a irresistible. deeparati "Not at all, sir," said Officer Martin. Henry Gagnon. who bad been stunned an address by Apostle John Henry Apostel Rudger Clawson presided In you feel a! rtst it. sergeant?" soldier, but for the coming of rein"I sing In a suburban rhurcli choir on by a similar shock Gagnon vvas re Smith. The trend of the speaker's; the assembly hall. Both halls were "Dry, sir, pesky dry. Shall I raise forcements. Under the combined asNew York World. stiscltatod. argument was that the church should filled. Sunday." a bucket?" sault John was mm made a prisoner, N. Victor, who built the Southern J. "If you will. Then we will try to and panting for breath awaited the Not Enough. 'ornla railway in the Vi. and wh Sugar Factory Started. Bryan Attacks Roosevelt Idea. enter the house. My night mission next move of his enemies. Old Man "When I asked my wife's was Its first Idaho. The Idaho dead Falls. is In .1. Idaho superintendent, To his surprise only two of them St. Ixmls. William concerns the Interior, and the old Bryan was parents for her hand I had enough to at San Bernardino, Cal Victor began St. Ixiuls on started on its full Falls a sugar fill factory to lecture hearth of the great sitting room in seemed to wear any uniform. The support Sunday her. Now. may I ask what in r for from present ami three 1:.:, run fading and he In an Interview" September Please heaven they may- others were civilians or blacks, and and particular. you ha vp?" had charge of the military railway un engagement, campromising of indications a mot idea be there." Roosevelt's President attacked evidently belonged to some plantn di Young Suitor "Not enough to supGeneral Mcpherson during the are Is beets The anticipated. The windlass sent forth many a lion. He looked In vain for signs of of centralized federal control corpora paign port your wife, but enough, I think, civil war. disIn Ills speech here coming In from all pnrls of the as outlined tions dreary creak, as If displeased at being the sergeant, and would have believed for your daughter and me to live on." According to the Portland Orego on and arc above (he average in comptlled to again enter the field of the other must have made his escape Wednesday. Mr. Bryan also said trict, the The tonPortland matter and Eastern nian, Railway sugar of bucket labor: but the sparkling only for the haunting memory of the the memorial to congress asking for nage, which will bepurity. A Difference. In the neighborwill that a build southcompany, road , better thsn Mi" rectsr of "Ingle shot. of powers of the lower hood of B9,0OQ tons, will be the homi"Who ' young Mrs. Oldbo' easterly from Portland through cen- the limiting the gorls. was soon fined upon the What wi.iilc' they to with bl- - t In courts federal Two suspending laws, est ever handled by. this mill. for?" mourning Oregon to a connection with one irlmore curb, and aftpr in iblttict of many 'ohn eav no eifn of Slam, u fat "1 don't know at the meeting of attorneys new centrifugals and a large hot rhr. or adopted in eastern was olsrk trunk lines, quietlis ihiur.dei 'he p"aJai rat- instances he 'ot sentiyears 'ohr Queach' water tank have lust been Installed, unbend " ly Incorporated June :t with a capital general last week, reflected the ment of the people which will arsist in the ruu. tock of 15,000,000 him CilBHE WAS h KM - well-wor- I y c c. j well-wor- semi-annua- n I . s y S30,-00- j wide-throate- 1 1 Mor-monls- 1 y d court-marti- evei-ythin- y y y y Em-tnett.- fire-arm- 1 p hnrd-fough- well-wa"r- - w !' |