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Show 1 i ssSe cate&ss ass&a f bksSSw fTTL v'"- VX j" - jtes - I K, Toe o yrr kj L. han't (ru! u is (reat, luf ih nt ! . ; '' ut' GIFTS. f ? w. ',;i. SALT LAKE (TTY. UTAH. SEPTEMBER, ) r JJ A ). IbSli. each other, fii about one hui'o'rei li.d.aus nn ti ft Mormons ar ie from the muthom " Ult tCi ii lup .w lh the lgvp I!1', V, oil ! l. but not to tiuU CUi-ap.i-sThey vvei- - gong t tb set u of Co' IB- ! was grr.n 1? th"i s'li'B High d' IKnen, Piet. H '.v Oi- -j learn.-- i of H e i .1 u eiii my hunger, pin. U' if he thi.-- t, give i drink;" but being at the ire id ws 1 io". erk ! "W but FMa? and pyramid; the brimming tile i i am M,n to the te ,.e, 1.1.10 the tbeie i of the narrow and from (,od knew bank it Tin t. wire fudy eii they had lavi-pai h fits land with gold. of Nik N no-- v M d in own f.ish'om then rders. to Horn um detenuined and of ui. it ton height phi about eight feet, imaginaHon, at his feet- Irmies i'f lave- ruR-- uut-wi-- e r i ,r...i i.m e:it them .iv. i vf cnntA Tnhna.tn i i it5 l.vp thnrti r xr'uK a Iavm! ;r.wh G.ital, un tb The cirand v mK re im d; tin v had for not comes 1t theie this oideis, oray iny obey mg Beyond auguinary. 8ij d an irregular tiige or row of hU- - fifty or cumstance- they thought it wo- - their duty ri reived the t,ti:,oni the! thur gave jIh piietN wore gods, valor com in not- - give i by IBs appiovu!. and that it was H;s will the to e.ifiii w?d, obey coun-d- " kings Mty foot in h lght. back of which uundh. into Haight. death at naught inrock-iihhnl,cthey hal i.Ttived fiofi foloml utert. which ley of Leo rep n ted to tin1 whites, . 11. detp. Dame, through Isaac C. it light, the main meadows, three or four hundred and ye shall Hal taken place at the meadow i, but, i. m Seek thaiaoh'? lace .should be earned out to the biter. yards below thespung. The emigrants weie tliemweie surpu-e- d in the ieaU. Tlicy all Bust ii I the truth, -- lien.? a.id du-t- y sleep. I of It was a little after daylight, Krid iv, the on math the lend groan just eampei to know that the attack was t be 1 1th f of -oo ' now th the wore Sej timber. Ih.akfa-- t was r.itiii, th? ma Beauty cried I'ltp They "Oh. Wm ruing gi,-in'uie and all about it. They spent the night and the brethien prepared for the woik in Greek. the Pacific tiope, (her thre to the -- i uih edne-in the morning, iv, they hand. The His prayer was granted. Mi the Earth beIndium are j laced in ambush, was golden California. Behind them lay the there, and went oil to tho meadows, and camped, and so came the that and of miles hundred threo emigrants might believe they long journey Plastic and vocal to Lis souse; each peak, sent a messenger to Haight giving him full were sent and lint they might be of more the the away, Minis, del ills of what hud bc.n done and a- -! mg j country through Each grove, each stream, quick with Prometown many inwhere been had ready at the light time to pesfonn Lien part subjected they thean riame. We knew th..L the him fm instructions. iu tho tragedy about to be eii tried, and plied dignities, where day ty day limy had toiled do the In lian-t- o Hie was for People 1 the wu. id with imaged grace and the innocent blood, if by chance there was on so wearily, abused, insulted. But now original plan light. woik, the whites to plan for them anl to worn life. Hie Hie was Li- -, and his the breathing The cattle any flowing iu tho veins of the women and hope springs weary, encourage them. Now we knew th it the huger i hiidren. 1. Mhnt be refreshed might and may strongthone could not do the woik and that we Of i immortal l.rtiMe. hi- - the play It had been agieed among the Mormons, the good Mormon (Hamim) told them at f'oi n Indians d fiet-p and a sad fix. were in i.ainonl-of golden thought retheir enemies were to he decoy'd Cim.i to that Is Creek is true a suitable place it of the crtal to the Let tongue. their teams the cruit their y .stioiighoSd under a promise of probeforc'ero.wng ti.) seek the sunshine race, ye find where the piir emigrants, fiioo To (day tection. One Buim.i m w On is to firry the teprible a aftertjs.il night and lute morning t broken column unstrung. until Ihni-da- v are, at friq'ientiy leeiu.Hig of and Lee was then to go and artruce, spent in tiie old iron works, on Lees way it mut made the t irgi-- t if Lull m-a h, Win give me Power! the Homan home to Harmony, he says his coiife. ion; iuLnuK range the terms of sm render. Tim plan was tel. it. their is cried. ihivugh knowing graphed out ire success. The cm. grants promised an md I a came of with Indians up large p aver was graatPd. Tile vm-- t world was Cellar City, on their way thither, altli nigh Bateman that RU two Cedar (hty under and they would accept the teniH. Moquetas Big dinned Pre-'- d Il iight hn i commanded the M irrions lhe M iiiimns wme fmined in two line- - as to the chariot of hi- - pri le. Chick, they were ia their war paint and folap before their arrival, not to Had? with them, had been The bio id of mynai provinces wa- - drained agreed upon. w!mn Lee left them ly equipped for battle. Thv halted when I who-- ? Bf? hoi been -- .urdwlwn came up and said they hal hod a log tan with a Mornum and walked ahead i.f the teams drivel by To feed t!it t fieicv, insatiable re 1 heart, on a tour by a Br. leu of mied McMuidy ami Height, who Haight, lligbee aui Klingm South and had luvulnetably bui talked every part that a son of his was him to haul oil the dnidieu andimeomp The Kentui'k, hearing interesting arrangements having emitinA ith -- ?n ied legions and with anus. got orders from them to fulkw up the emigrant-- , out of gratitude had beeu made Lee went home with Haight to Code. Let Leu tell the stotv, not eva-a High grants and kill them ail and take their prop- ainoug the man out and befnended 1neHt Within, tho harrowing worm had gnawed breakfast, and then started for Harmony to young sought Mm of monism as their elaim to mil the enemies, spoil oj erty its home. a carry out the instructions which he had lie (Lee) arranged with them to go on near him in some way. Soon afterward jurty doubt a word of its truth. rooSe-- s rum stands where once abode of good Mormon r na- up to the g.it of tins receiv ed from his superior. 1 found where the emigrants were and camp until that the emigrants were strongly The imperial raei of everlasting Rome. 4 In the afternoon about oclock James other Indians whom he would send on the grateful Mormon and calling Him out had fortified; their wagons wore chain i tou d ib. His Oh, Go Plead, give me Truth! the Hebrew Holt Ilasl am, was dispatched by Haight as warpath should join them and that the next struck him m er the head with gether in a eii do. in th? router was a i ill cried. the messenger who was to biing back Gov., day he would meet and Lad them. On i each skull was cracked and aillmugh till living pit, large enough to conlain the entire comHis prater was granted; he became the Youngs answer as to what he thought it was ing Harmony Lee communicated to Shirts his mind is benoudy impaired. Now when pany. This had served Li shield them from, slave fa-be wLjlj i if the the ordtut w.. Haight had scut, who stai ted hope was t dying out within the brea d of the constant fire of their enemy, which had idea, a pilgum far and wide Council of the before those was men, women and children, been it day thought off that night, or ed. next morning, to stir Gui red, haled, spurueu, and scoured with poured fioni both si ie.s of the vail-y- v best to kill. Aden with a companion left the corral fiom a none to save, young the Indians of tho south and lead them np rocky range that served as a breavt The Th iraoha knew him, and when Greece I LVesnt this look as if Lee in his confesswho were camped at and started to he lay hty, to implore ai tor woik for their the On the against emigrants and beheld, ion gjcsed at the truth; perhaps, was par- Mountain Meadows. the emigrants in their extremity. At vve-- t. there was n o,v rang- - of His wisdom wore tbs h?ary crown of Eid, rocky u.ge.l, All Monday and Monday night stealthily Richard's Spring, tlmy were nmt by Joel ragged mount. un ,. nftoiding d .splendid tidily inspired when he says: dii ser Beauty he hath forsworn and wealth and Know that pnr.ccli..ri of the Indians a w "Hsenger had been sent to Brig- the Indians, the battle axes of the Lord, While, IVm C.Stewait ard I! njamia Ai'.huf, 5 lac? for the pow or. dnil leaving t Hem in cmnpniativ ham Young. Haight had not mentioned it to were gathering to smite the enemies of Zion. three good Mormons, to whom they -- tated Mormons, and fin i in ev ery land, seek him safely, vvlnie they med upon the emigrants. mne think that James (Holt) Hasbin Several hundred were these. No fire consumes him, neither floods devour, me. their bntiness and as their Iiorsei were Vvh ui i tne rii lai, Hamilton, (of th Thoughtle.-- - of d tngers the emigrants w ere drinking at the immortal though the lamp witliiu his hand was sent to Brigham Young as a sharp play spring Stewart, "feeling enngiiint company who had met him on congratulating each other that in a fewdaj uiii-ualon the part of the authorith to protect themEmnvi Lazarus, in the Ctn tit t fall of ai for the glory of God, the outside,) had moved one wagon out of the way, so that the teams could dine Yi 'vernier. selves if trouble ever grew out of this matter:? more, witli their hor&es and cattle recruited and the uphuiM'hg of th Kingdom of God u liiHCoiial. i found the emigrant luxPedestrian now thinks, that he has the in- by the strengthening grases growing so on earth, abut md killed Aden. hn engaged iu burying two men of unto among spiration, coming from a careful examina- uriantly around them, timy would begin the Aden fell from hi- - horse, Joel it bite shot tiiem, woo bad die i bui a slim t tuiit b for? WALKS ABOUT ZION NO. i. ri eeived by iln m tion of dates, when from the fact, that, the last homeward stretch of the long journey; anl wounded his i oiupai.ion who got away from the affect if n mils ' BY A FEIVESTItnN. fcoiu Hip iudiaii ne one had to sunk by they sleep. councils decision in the and returned to the camp, Tiie mug' ants attack on Toe a! of the The Mountain Meadow Massacre, Just before daylight Tuesday morning the now realized th-- ir situation an prep messenger of Sunday the tith was not carried tied a wh ih id neen kill On Sunday Septembet 6, 1S57, at the clo-- e Pill of Septembet they were attacked by tlie as 1 enteici. until I. out, reasons 7th the for statement their aLer p. in., Mmiiy believing giving of the afternoon Mormon service in the meetwomen fire At and ciuifiie first seven Indians. were the killed well that they were Haight and Lee had made their arrangeby Morin in wild eon.sleni.Ho or fifteen ing house at Cedar Citv, a council was lit hi ments for a and sixteen wounded. Had thy as Indians and cmnmitle it to tin cute of Un.e of t heir hap i speedy poi potratioa of the at which Isaac C. Haight, who was the Pteei-depossessed Je-- s bravery and determination, three of their best w:i left camp in while iituors, thou t and crime, he infers that the delay in sending of that stake in Zion, was a little arrangement by which, whatever they had all been massacred upon the spot, th? darkness of Hie night for California, to all m t irs, lo..ive t was as a matter of course presided. The meeting ciShtit'K-- and terna. but, with a promptness unparalleled, they implore a manee ; or if that were too Jute some little time when word, cunning Brigham might send back, it wheeled their had been i n Eveit'nng we- - car'ied out by Lee, in his an into wagon oblong i coiral, too Cedar would teach late. to plead for j i w upon their City i e o grants, a- illy with hdd negoUaiiiins Laban Mon ell. who lived at Fort Johnson and with shovels and picks threw up the i Sow Mark; Lee is started on his bloody bv r , ?ii ai rwinte. TSo'y anged came miles and six p.nj'ug off, about in, noticing mi-sifrom of center the the earth Til corral against THE LAST MO IT iubhvn rtud women, ten hours, at the very least before n;jE slireii lered. 'll. that some mailer of an exciting nature was Ha-ki- n 1 some l lollies aim th? w..g ;a nhtik." Uuiaiimidated iliey iterjif. ,.H Were plated iu Ha-iaLaves Ceinr does City. under discii ion. inquired into it and was the wagon, To ni.uiu nnaruwd, with a tlnr-1- , the tYithin and coira!, the Indians hunger, bravely repulsed fjuglit o C not leive ular City until at least twenty-twMonio n beside eacli male emigrant, was informed that an emigrant train had pa-- ed d w re full of a hop?, but asi innoienr d hours after the council adjourns with killing some and breaking tiie knees of two home that few tys ago near Mountain ,.,,,ij, that any down that to Meadows; snf-falong that thy might at i -t thiougb inm-Jo ban .:i gi.i ye that they wile captithe agreement, to please brother Morrell, chiefs who afterwards died. Mor to tho in had made threats r regard they the km. i, oiMe Mormons. The new-- , of the battle was carried all over ing, reach the gold, n oid on e..iti, ai,.I ve-to mans as a people. Said that they would de that n Thing shall be done with these emi- the Tne Monum- - without grew impali-n- t, home-- , wln.ro am! Indian build runners. up happy by country pi,,e.. Early -and iligbee sent McKarleiid, his aduil.ot, The mibjec grants until that msaenger returns. And trey evoiy damned Mormon. an Indian came to Lees plenty shoal 1 reign, anl wnere free, sem-r-tiot bun up the affair for he w,s afraVl tlmt hours of the aljournmeat of Tuesday between the ! in th?:-e was the hid to! of people. hitting of j to gu:s?ratio:i thy. anl th - wl.o the 1 rohans v oold nturn and rettew th alhens? and inf rnied him of all that ha be. u and of council that the HaMam, beading DtJTi m.t o7ni for homing the people JoUow he could gt the eimgrtmts t a lot h done, and that it was their wi-d- i that he come after them, should tell to 1 see oj safity; and -- o the proc-eio- n the ehtigronis ! ri jort vented for cvnzidera- - Haight an Lee have concocted the bloody should lead went pi ..e-No- w of tY v,, the ehii.lien and the story Indian p.lgri trail try taking thin; out so the corral, lne wagon in tie adconcede I, that, as deed that nothing can prevent. Me thinks I, I; i, deferred that msketh vance, the women an ovt r the mountain, Lee and his companion dying with hope see Haight looking northward at the larger children folth emigrant.- - Ve. ravw f,em Arhonma I the camp in about twelve miles the heart sick, and thus enteiing ii.t i th? lowing after, Hiid the men reach? he has after receive following; the disappearing at Car-t- h that they ki Hoi Jo-eIn bou-te- d firnn Harmony. land where they should euffer no m i . No forenm-- t man about fifty yards behind the and his like fiend a with messag, ktighiag bef re tho Wd thing hindino-- t woman. The In inns hal not obeyed ige" thirteen fiendish glee, and then turning southward snug no joy All looking to th? ni irrow Brave no danger, they Lad precipitated not they hid suffered, and now to d , would be to kill them. imagining d the morrow n'it bring and looking in the direction that Lee had knoaing wat as they p mi? up to the Mormon tr they A- - no-- t of all the mmboi- - of this council to which the original forth. The according at 6 oclock that morning, after receiv- the conflict, meseng. rs taking hunb l.mb-bin- g ? ddiery of the Bon bngade of the Naovo order was not to take place until laiLd into l.a 1 cou n. mted iu H 'y Pi ice- - to avenge gone , to faivweii-m more mi earth, legion- - vv ith voice enfeebled by longsaf-feiinmisand saying; now f it did foohi too bad. ing hi) dreams of saLty, the emigrants tak- for their tha death of ani watcmi.g, thy deeper chief. tho i art afoot. Pedestrian agrees simtiy enemies, anticip mug soiiip their (h hierrrs. should have gotten into such thmr from th dr itondpouit , to let -- uch a favorable with I.ee in his departure, ing effnt upon toe p lit of tin mui, giants, Lee was veil h the driven-- , between th? two opinion of Haight. th Santa Clara Cation, where covero onp..itnnity for whoh-a- k' menge, by the by have made bv whudi Ira wagon-- , and with them was to kill the sick 11 I clout believe yo i have any arrangements, right, th i rifle- - of the Indians, arayed by Iiigbee, Hatch with a killing i'f men, women and children, pass liy con -- deuce." party o I i.Biin, shaii follow and wounded. when after tiie inas--acThe iimcession L mov ing onward, it is Le r.nd others under them, not one of the them on the morrow uniutprov ed: Ik laughed, and said. Conscience and take th di lit . near to- - p?ee w hi'ie the Indian ai ia there would be such a quanlityof cat1 (lout know what the word means. emigrants would have been Jiving in fiftan i.f ever divide Hi' Lule the ambu-S- i. Without, A few revolntioiis of tl wSo'i-iminutes after the head t?amS had been shot tle hor-e- s, guns, an 1 agricultural impleon their two difMith Leo and Ha-lawas be; ig en- a few 'eps of the weary feeksi.il then, M, adows, a -- Banger down. ment h vv igons. i tc. to divide up among the ferent errands, and tho er.dgrants at the h .4 arpoor emigrants, ih? jouniey wiil be at an Lee found Hie Indians in a frenzy id ex- acted. Iligbee snd Kliiurcii end! Lowly tiie wheel- - go'rouaA! hiowly SaiijK Meadows and encamped, let ms try to citement. said they had been toid rived in the ramp, v ith t ao or wug-iiThey the btep- - of th? p mr wesry fee have Ues'it Morrell, who was not quite Saint enough picture to our reakrs he place where the ami a nutubtr .f men well armvlsf they could kill the emigrants without taken. Hark Th? :gri il is gnen! The to agree to Use killing, says that he made wanderers cndel their earthly journey. -to themitelvee, Isaac C. Haight, who huiry up ti? difet iry 5 si.us, an 1 as them Fi e nuuute-- , and topdanger bfHy two or three objecting to the whole The location of the Mountain Meadows, was acting in a military capacity uud r witu file no. hies (l work - coiismiiHoifed.aiid the Arksue.m n-- 1 a 1 that he was likely to fail in m th? southwest comer of Utah in the Col. W. II. Barm: cf the Iron fartfid gr af ttiat tiling. ''p .Lin ifisis ani k d 'A I MHItary Brigade, ter a iutie win!? an, they might bo percounty of Washington abmt eight had sent Klmgen Smith and otaers over tuning away the wrath of the Saints, on pre-evje, hum is, mitted t j go on lot heir journeys end, ara this s.mliy afternoon, just a little while The pi tee is a pass, toward mil?- - south rf Pinto. pi a to and around there, t) had n t pa-- s up a any all. ei' ?; t fifteen Lute ebillre?- ad. a day or tu after tin poor emi- - so.ii!u no j.- erl.ar valley, about tire miles the Indians-- end force them to attack the l.wl fc Bead, onehiindred and twonfv m?, v.i ifh i, if , .ai.10 rrr Lee ocforc f rnri rvf a .stmng owe(,tg c!;i. !:?:: shot, stai ed, thn.ats cut, Lv iifry-foA. andarrangine U i vfctA, , iu width, out ru umag emigrantv ti J in length aui with SiGa his In thsluondy scheme. Ail escape, would go ou into CahfurLU ami Laiter-Jt'i- y Samis, ail of wkm csuld it h west end. that Le conl.tprt Jy warn out f y the long journey, had pased to a rather n arrow point at tha ral-e war ml there r tiding i.f their peel.apb have uttered the exclsmsti n of po increase the d tr? say only a as h compromi-ewitthe plac-'hAt about its centre lengthways, the divide cxcitcaidUl. let L? fell his tru story troubles an J euff.-n'.g- , protnved and the killing of one cf their number, UeMurdy, m he 3oj Ur ycung Aden. these human wolves that tlmy ensperui the b.'twecti ttio haa.it an the Pi.iflii Slope, the sthere t fits in it. in the raw, of t his sr:n: "Lord, my God. receive their (iu $: it is for thy kingdoms ssfc? I do r .spiriiG matter until Brigham Young could be L?'rd ascent being very grain!, ani at each eui is a cieruimt efty-h-uall wer? They thre, ILnasw, I tba gat oa tnv how and left th? from Morrell seems not to have known that large gpring. the waters of the EaTra oas meadow names whose on are acwnn r?corJ one I went and aoifthf had pa aivint he taf tern heard from as to the lx toour.v1 flowing Lata the Baka land tuotw of the we-- tpixicen imics, when I cut C -- ri bhirts with cord ia one piac?. They kntll ia prayer, foul to pursue with intse enemies uf Zb fr.au Aiiraii-i-;,',- d had hHiel "until at Cr.itl.age, Illinois, ihirtp.ii i,t for by p. vote of th hootthe ing, It was left to Haight to writ,-t-o Goveeu.ir (luiTiui u ,ni ig) iup.iinag w ini be the best cour-- e i0 pursue wuthtb?-- e emigrants vvt??n the council th o Hit with gieat unamity. it would be tho best thing to kill. On that Sunday afternoon, John I). Lee, who had been summoned fioni ids home in 11 mum to Cedar City, by Isaac C. Haight, tne highest man la the Mormon pi in th.,1 country, and Lieut. Colonel under the command of Colonel . 11. Paine of the Iron like a good Mormon, which Military he was then and for many years afterwards considered to be -- met Haight on the public square of the town, and they two, taking some blankets with them, went over to the old iron work-- , or distillery, and spent the night in planning the massacre. The arrangements made were, that Lee should go bourn to II trmony and send Carl Shirts, his to the Indians in thesonigto notify them that the Indians were at war with the Americans as the Indians called all 1 Mormons--a- n whites that bring the Southern Indians up and have them join with the Northern Indians. It was agreed that Haight was to send Nephi John, -on, who was an Indian interpreter like Shirts, to stir up all the other Indians he could find in order to have a force of Indians, large cough to give the emigrants a good push. . . i il into the Santa Clam and thence to n spring irgin. At the h. of Hamlin which the train n 'i in an! camped at the inning, one. is tiie southern a which is large spring, ei n one th. Bio 1 wn-ti- ea-te- rn ed i we-ter- : ; 1 , : 1 es 1 1 1 -- d spice-haLm- h to-da- y 1 w l. -- !J i- -a op.-ii.-- . lfi-uri- d sou-in-la- to-da- d, ie ii,-,- de-o- ri. w a to-d- V - ed to-da- I ly z-- in--i- di i eh 1 bo-ie- ge 1 nt pri-oeu- se-si- on -- mur-deier- s. i i 5. 1 -1 , ca di-pa- ir, ei 1 1 1 Ha-da- 1 1 ph mt J.-o- ph, 1 g. du-ere- 1 te s ra -- th-e- ? n. pro-eessi- I ug -- t? f- -i at ninis - ur o-- S 1 rua--ajr- |