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Show fnod uThe ho reed trubj is great, but the laborers are SALT LAKE COAL UTAH, XOVEMLEkMSS VOL. o. .According to the orders of te;ue C. Haight, to notice Elder Penroses stateabout a week or tea days after the started I ment, for this is not a full and verbatim 'ontimo d.) ami i was on the road about a massacre, copy of the letter, as Pedestrian knows (and MY PFJiFvrip as Ilroilst-- Penrose knew, notwithstanding week nr ten days. If the massacre occurred he ways so; and Yophi W. Clayton certifies on the 11th this brings us to the fistfe ,n jith 1)uj Mountain Meadow Masaoip. Woodruff's day. YYhen 1 in the ou, let us mm yh&f all this original on the 18th day of October 1 So, that it is a I went to the and to Presidents city tave m;T, r i.'iiti uf a,! uanrroSi'tiii swearing upon the pan of teootiruft. loan? jtitliliiic statedetailed a full Young Brigham of the foregoing letter. Iu Ciipying thill mu! Penrose amounts to. ment of the whole affair from first to Woodruff fixes the date Kept. fid, 1857 of impieofiion Elder Peuroe left out after the I timk more ou isyself than, 1 had list -toes first interview with ; adopted lather, sentence; You mast not meddle with them, doii". Tuly after the maMsOiCre, ton ay brother Young the following sei.teiKv: "The ImuasS, we H ask in if i had brought a later Up kept r.xtxcT, will no as they please, but von says about the last uf September. II ulst. with his report of the affair. from Id shoo AFo, try ttml preserve good feeling. m journal. said: No, Haight wished me to a i here are some few statements hat seem in the sentence, There are no other trains verbal report of it, as I was au eye witness omitted I Penrose Brother know that of, WoodLees silence in like discrepancies. to much of it. ruffs affidavit is muds very impressive. the expression vpiny south,'1 then went over me whole affair and Now, why, in a full, true and correct John 1) Lee remarked : There was not a him as full a statement at it was possigave copy which Brother Penrose knows to be ble for me to drop of innocent blood in the camp. give. I described everything full ami verbatim, doe- he uuiit the sigWhat Governor oung aAed indignantly: about it. t twd him what I had said about Jo jo.i call the blood of women and chil- nificant cxpresbimi; The Indians, we expect, the women and children. We think it would kiiliug wo sib nt. There seems here a will do as they please v dren:" then said; Isaac, freferriitg to Brigham dim remembrance and consequent sugges- have beta better for Brother Penrose not to has aenl me word that if they lad Haight; Fi iend how contest have searched so diligently, or else to have tion in that touch of: killed every man, woman and child in the thou in hit!n-without the wedding candidly admitted that the Indians were to outfit, there would not have been a drop of garment and he was spreehlcss. The boy have (lone the job, and the Priesthood in the innocent blood shed by the brethren ; for they Joes not seem to have noticed the expressive South were to Slave seen to it that it was were a set of munlerers.robbms and thieves well done. silence, if it occurred. While 1 was still talking with him, some But suppose, ail this to be true. If Brig- men came When Elder Fen rose published his very tufa his house to sec him, so lie interesting lecture, he published with it a ham Young was accessory before the fact. i. requested me to keep quiet until they left. I supplement contesting of the testimony of e., if he knew that the luff; fans were to as- did as he directed, Unit Haslam. recently received. sault and kill the emigrants, the sending of James As sfn'i ns th meu went out I continued Taken at vVelLsiiiie, Cache Co., i'tali, Dec. 4, Haslam famished a link by which be might my recital. I gave him the name? ef every Ivri." This supplement adds very much to bo connected with it. There was nothing man that had been present at the massacre. the interest of the lecture, to oite anxious to else for him to do then but scud such a I told him who killed various oaiw, i; fact get at the truth, in spite of Penrose's effort message as he did this the dispatch, trusting I gave him all the information e was to to cloud it. Let Haslam give Ins testimony, that it might be too late, as it proved to When I had finished abaft give. talking ilateaai, we know, left Cedar City to carry be. Penroses statement recognized that the matter, he said; Thin is the most Haights dispatch to Brigham Young on the the affair had been a blander. Lee wanted affair that ever befel the church. 7th of September, the afternoon of the to know what should be done a blunder with I am afraid of treachery amoiiftke brethren morning that Lee left Cedar City to superin- a statesman of the Brigham Young sort is that was there. If any one tells this thing tend the massacre. According to Ilaslamg a crime, and so the whole thing bad better so that it will become public, it will work testimony, he saw the emigrants pass Cedar be stopped, if it was not too late. But it us great injury. 1 wish you to understand City a few days before. This dispatch was was, and the emigrants who had done so now, that you are never to tell this again, ant that the Indians had got the emigrants cor- many bad things and might carry intelli- even to Haber C. Kimball. It must be kept ralled at the Mountain Meadows; and Lee gence to California were prevented from so secret among ourselves. IFAen you get home wanted to know what should be done. doing without patting forth my hand 1 want you to sit down and write a long letter Haslam reached Salt Lake City Thursday saith the Prophet. and give me an account of five affair chargCan any one believe that nineteen days afroaming, tbs IHtli, fee day before the ing ti to the Indians, You sign the letter as He started ter such a message as that carried to Young Farmer to the Indians. lean make use of massacre was consummated. home the some day, with Youngs written by Haslam; the man whose name was con- such a letter lo keep off all damaging aud reply and with the verbal message that the nected with the message, could come to troublesome inquiries, Lee consented and Indians should be kept from the emigrants Brigham Young and tell him that 150 men, after some further conversation they parted if it took all of Iron County to prevent them; women and children, have been slaughtered, for that day. and with the charge cot to spare horse flesh. and he. (Brigham Young) asks no questions, To be Continued. A for thirThe Mormons, in their endeavor to extri subjects Lee to no examinaiioB.au cate President Young from complicity with teen years believed the Indians Aid it? W. C. T. u. THE mmmES-T- I! this terrible affair, quote Ilateam8 testiBut did he believe that the Indians did it? of out him and Lee saw who to as got Hamblin, mony Youngs verbal message, but BY MISS 0. S. BC8NETT. have never before this lecture of Penroses that he and some other white men joined Near the dose of last month there met in made any attempt to produce the dispatch. the Indians in the perpetration of the deed, at the trial Minneapolis the representatives of an Brigham Young, in bis written testimony says :a the court room in 1876, soon after it furnished for the second trial of Lee, says of Lee that happened be saw organization, which for breadth of purpose and he received a that written communication President Young George A. Smith, and and extent of influence has not been surfrom Haight or Lee, he does not know which, told him everything I could, and adds that passed by any convention of the year. I to the annnal meeting of the Woman's concerning a company of emigrants called he told the President more than he told the refer Christian it. more of Temperence Listen. the Arkansas Company, and that he had Court, bemuse he recollected The at the dose of the first day Lee and between a unite dilligent search for it but could not At the interview Young. find it; that he answered it, and that the Young is visibly affected to tears, says air showed over four hundred delegates from mb dance of his answer was to let this com- imaginative s.m, recollecting the scene so more than forty States and Territories. Some of you in this Far West may ask years aftr he pany of emigrants pars through the country vividly, that twenty-fou- r is the W. C. T. U.; and why this conname what the rescue to good unmolested, and to allay the angry feelings swears so to the tears r vention the of the Indians as much as possible. the Statesman, of his father th Prophet, In the language of Miss Willard The in this lecture Hi other Penrose says that Philanthropist, from the wicked accusations tl.f Mmmons having been challenged of the malicious Gentiles. But we know, W, 0. T. C. is aa Oigasizaikni of women out and over again to produce a copy of the without the testimony of Lee, who Penrose banded together for the overthrow of those b natch or letter that Brigham Young seat says in Ids led .ire is said to have brained a two twin iniquities which now tii.siau- out and by James Holt Haslam, be had taken pains woman, who it i proved cut a mans throat, race All this we do and dare because this slavery b hunt the matter up. and had found the shot wounded emigrants whom be had deno'Mseu! dispatch in its order ef date, and coyed out iff their camp with a Hag of truce renders impossible the development of that t gr. ant inuiriuii-niit- y had ..htained a certified c,.py of Brigham YMung km??.- shortly after it eoiUIi t' v, most nearly to I EmrUls And which allies Hamblin happened nil that '!, !,t follows the copy: declared iu the introduction to their Maker. is Hamblin tKKSii.lATS OFtIfK, The W. C. T, i. is the limaaldo-eendim- t his autobiography, written by George Q. iRUat Halt Lake Cm, r ' lfw7. i, 10, Sept Cannon, "to be a faithful, bumble worker of the great crusade which began in to'-- , r. eight Peak Bhother: Your in the caime of God. 1873 and soon swept over the in Ohio, f h 7th ms!. i At hand. touuin Van liet, Now let us see what he says about thte in- entile country. ... i here, having come hi advance ,f ihe arnij toproretr twess tries for them. We terview or inter views that be bad with BrigBelieving that the impulsive speech and non'; expect ttmi anv part pf the army will he able effort which characterized the had have ami So spasmodic ham. Woodruff, young Young imru tin fill Ijo-ris only ehmit loirihr, They are now ut or near Latauiie. their say let the only man who died or Gruettil? should give place to ' tov of their freight (runs are mi this side of that, the deed have his say. work, representative women root at Chauadvance of viucli are now on Green ;ur, and massacre the finer. Tliej will nut he able to come much, if return the after tauqua ia 1ST i arid there, on a beautiful Haight, nv, further on arcount of their poor stock. They ms that it suruttH-- day, anted the prayers and emmeite told Lalt from Lake, of Haslam it .mi ,p't here this season withimt we beip th' in. our union was boro o., m see, she Lord has answered our prayers, was the orders of the Council that I should of the wisest and for can toad, go to Salt Lake City and lay the whole mat- it was born In prayer, and prayer has since s.,' siEaiis snorted the Wow hi regu.l to die emiirratwn tn pvssing throe irh I aiAeA him if man its vital breath. No wonder that thus in,- m lenient, wo mute not interfere with them ter before Brigham Young. m.tsi hoy are first notified to keep away. Yon he was of it to the nourished it las grown from infancy till a to write report goia g mu'-- ; not meddle with them. Thera are no other Gw right mar te (te was a he ' - that I oiiw, .t o;ly fVev-- ' Yiuirc of age, it ei iiii'ea Governor, w!iu are there vcS'S ,,f. If In this short hsla we siimtld be for he was in connaaiul of tho militia In the vigor of full womanhood. bin, let them (pi in peace. on lh ateri, on liHinl, we should also psscss that fcerliou of Hie country, end next to Item and rtiate time except Fifth, Territory, every in pasieiice, rrfwrring wrehrt find and m Utah two I been has told whole of the d'fiiict. command organized, He fully ii, sport-- ever remembering that (io1 rules. la h in wen filed our deliverance thus mice again, him it was a matter which really belonged unions have been doing good wcik for some fr uni will aiwajs do o It we live ot religion and to the military department, and Ebon id be time. Minted in oar fulfil and gymi works. nas been v irj with us Iff sj tLo Luid LiobS you k,iu ss repotted. Thus far the work of the lie saints former. different thirty-ninit on stepart- a to write carried rtport, saying: He refused Your Irteher, ec,, B. YopKfi. You eva report it bait r th m I coaid write meiteN u od the results Save proven that the A special woman for a eperiat Mr, Pen roup says that ha knows that is it Yea arc like a member of Brighams fa m? principle, correct cue, Of these various is the him and work, privately oriict ; t hut llse above i a full and verbatim LV, and C4U talk to thus far ;! firrt !; the of take all u want It , oh I of the Liter sent by lest Yeung Scientific been baa not Temperance and expose !I1 t!:u t Isaac any yourself that you ea, hands of .fames Hateiuu to s t 4. tv laxu-zn ir., Ui?5 i.tiC nun aut J UU UVUUU.. nuwu lutflltieti fcujpjtf win jvw tus mwlmn vi ieteificu, U;uic triu, which arrived, as of B if ton, law? have been passed Unite ii&ri nsassaere. necessary fffitely iglsi, l,.iid after the W4LKB ABOUT ZION NO. , It is A. well r - i In-- 1 5 1 m-ik- 1 3 1 -- L-'- f r th-r- roil-cal- l - heart-impurit- rain-poison - it-a- ia-f- hat I , Hrils-bor- . e .'.it-1, ' org-mizcs- u-- t , r ! (V-igi- U i hi.t-v- tn-.v- V- - lif-dv- ws , MR-tet- y wi-i- l e Fret-!-- m-- i- - i IV l AO, XL tins teaching cnroptiLory in eighteen States and aU the Territories It has been truly and: The ringing of the srlroo! bells ihall be the death-knel- l of th" liquor traffic. tee may also nietteioii a making specially the important department Hferafure. Sunday School and j;mmUe wfl, Legihiuitee, Evangelistic Press, and last, but not least, The te Lite Cross Movement which pledges its members to maintain the law of purity as equally binding upon tee cannot clm-- without man and woman, tecent the mentioning organization of the Worlds V. T. Ih, with Mrs. Lucas of England as President. Out own avaugeUst Mrs. Leavitt Is now otr way round tying the nations together with the Boon wherever the Bible is white ribbon, read or the name of Jesus is sung you will find the white ribbon" army working for Gud and Home and Native Land. The Secretarys report Miows that the membership has) largely increased and receipts more than double within a year. Our pnbltehing house so recently established Isas published over thirty million pages the last year. Every other line of work has been equally prosperous notwithstanding the twenty, that was predicted because years the noble women of oar nation dared lift their voices in favor of the only party that is pledged to national prohibition, tehat dots this organization mean for our country? Nothing less than the overthrow of a legalized liquor traffic. But it means more than this. It means that women will ere long take the place that God meant she should occupy- a place of perfect equality with raan in the home and State. It means that men and women are to go hand in hand in the great work of the redemption of the world. Does Utah need this organization? e lo-- r set-bac- flu-worl- k - Cut one answer can be given Yes. l GIFXtLAX. The Tooele circuit theoretically comprises the whole of Tooele county, which is 100 by 80 miles in extent, but since only the eastern end of it is settled the rest being a part of the Great American Desert the circuit proper is only the eastern end called the Tooele and Hush Valleys which lie joining each other at the Stockton Pass and extending north and south a distance of GO miles and is from 12 to 25 miles in width. This part is made habitable by the si reams of water which descend from the Oquirrh and the Onaqui mountains which are situated respectively on the east and west sides of the Valley. My most distant appointment from Tooele is Ophir, a rich mining camp 22 mill's in prcpetimg for luj Lite st aiuj. to visit Ophir I had all things regular arranged so that I could start early from home on Sateirday morning and passing through Stockton, take with rue Dr. C. Yv. Mallory, of that village who had agued to accompany me, and before the sin be risen very high have ascended the huge mountain, over whws aiaor.ii we intended to pass iu order to visit some miners in Dry Canyon who had subscribed toward tbo erection of a new church in Stockton. 1 awoke at 5 in the morning and arose. The rain was pouring duvvn, an occurrence uu usual for this drv climate in summer. Waiting until 9 it did not cease ruininsj, so 1 rubbered tnyselt and mounted my broncho for Stockton. Here the pouring rain persuaded my friends to attempt to dissuade vw from going further, but that was out of the for since I have been n ireuit rider I have not missed an appointment, no clay being too cold or stormy, no weatner being too Lot lo keep me at In the aiVrncr': at about two home. the rain ceased. Away we go. The mnuntedii, Enow storm peak, we mute is in fall vtew, wilh a ring of dark clouds encircling its summit. Pointing Doctor do ou see to them 1 said. Yef. :,aid he. -- Ydl Vh we must go through them and above qiies-tiuii- i ; ikA thee i in V J i ! 3 i. $ !v brings ti.-- a iurif base of our ;)d . and overt !!!' it. IhUientSv on ward (.!, In ir.se carry us. .lute the beau! v of the ic-t- M'.'itH sM i;i JDCI'i lie' liul V t '.u the beu'in to u ward and upNow we teop veiling land- 1S T' u:r baeks and northwest ot us lies tie' ijuiet little iilhige of Nfnckton vvliere iiidusta and wi.ilth is luou r'lit from the mount. fin side north of in where those and tunnumetvius aiiiii', snuike-stucknel mouths loll of rich mines of lead and silver a part of whose products are smelted ut tin' Pascoe Smelter that is puffing out its islack volumes of a. ..'dm at the north end of Hush Luke, whose liocom looks iika dimpled mirror of and heantv. brightness s , Having tested we press on. Here we rue t teams heavily loaded wills ore from Diy Canyon, low grade or,, woith from DIG Ut t1' sKiH.i"1 per ton. The graded road up which we are climbing is very uniform, !uf it takes us into deep ( ! gulches, then hears u- - out to the point of some beetling precipice w hcie should OUT jioiiii s lose foothold we would be dashed into an unrecognizable mass hundreds of ieet below. An eagle screams far beneath our feet, yet he is in bis aerie which is an maceesbihle cliff. Hitherto our journey has been what every LhristianV should though rugged and steep the way, toward the shadow that like death separates between the life above and the life below. ard ve Now, enrol iiSiiLiLiiiH. BUY, JAMES Tv imbi and have reached the chilly cloud; all is darkness; we are iu the grave. Had our friends with most powerful glasses been viewing us from the valley they could not see us now. Life through Death. Yea though I wak through rim valley aud (through) the shadow of death I will fear no eui for thou art with me.' On ward. Lo the veil oi dm Loess breaks, below us is the thunder, the storm and the rain; underneath our leci are the chilly clouds. I he sun i bri da uf ly shining and the cold.!,-,death ia Uk".i a .v a i e . uj-transie- . i think. O grave, where is thy On hursebaek through riic ....d above them, tor our journey is not complete. Y tt travel on, passing such mines as the Mono, that once sold for 10U,000; the Ivearsage from une pocket of which was taken $li,UU0; the Alabama. the Queen of tho Hills, the Fourth of JuS v and tiie Hidden Treasure. One uwrr, the L hicago, and ihe summit is passed and we begin to descend by the long trail that takes us by such mines as the Antelope, the Eighth of januaty, and the Buckhorn; here we eet ehurdii. ? 10 i'ir tfie v e UiU- hurrv' Iter it near serv time and although Ophir is lying at an ougle of 45 degrees below up, and in plain sight, yet the zigzagging load that hvaes , thither is vei y kale. Here we traverse an immense U who.-- two sides are a qunter of a mile long. Next we take up agiao Y, lie re an X there a X, now an L, and so on with J, M, Y, 'intil is uf the b.liir reached. ee,. camp .Satan e mie also, and is here ahead of us with a new saloon which must be dedicated wish an orgy of ire-beer and fi e whisky. Bur there ar-Lines have (mi sn (ipi.ir rivtio-.suftie nut bowed to brat and wiu.-- e lips ha. u jt kissed iiim I'oo) Lt Uifth, c ;G. N .. ie-- -l u-- u-- ! e e 1 1 nTHK-PAYIN- m Sf.HVAXT (.IRPS. Apusth' Grant, at tiro coutenmce at Coal vine, said the girl that rmrtca 15 00 per month (iocatf's l.5J for tithing ansi fifty wtt'-- for teaij'ls fuudY That H $iM out of $15.00 au-- be gives Vi'' Offi to these f cat!.w., an tksrs tire still 4 1 coflecUoii-a- . |