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Show mam : WHERE THEY STAND. We desire to be in harmony with the government and people of the United States as an integral part of the nation. We regard all attempts to exclude aliens from naturalization and citizens from the exercise of the elective franchise, solely because they are members of the Mormon church, as Impolitic, unrepublican and dangerous encroachments upon civil- ana religious liberty. Notwithstanding the wrongs we consider we have suffered through the improper execution of national laws, we regard those wrongs as the acts of men and not of the goyernment; and we intend, by the help of Omnipotence, to remain firm in our fealty and steadfast in the maintenance of constitutional principles and the integrity of this republic. We earnestly appeal to the American press and people not to condeAn the Latter-da- y Saints unheard. Must we always be judged by the misrepresentations of our enemies, and never be accorded a fair opportunity of reourselves? presenting In the name of justice, reason and humanity, we asx for a suspension of national and popular judgment until a full investigation can be had and all the facts connected with what is called the Mormon question can be known. And we. appeal to the Eternal Judge of all men and nations to aid us in the vindication of our righte. Important Manifesto of the Church Authorities. ' REGARDING THE SITUATION'.' The Ileltffloue, Legal and Political View and Ntatu of the People Clearly and Strongly Defined. Salt Lake City, December 12th, WnoM 1889.-T- it May Concern: In consequence of gross misrepre- sentations of the doctrines, aims and practices of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints, commonly called the Mormon Church, which have been promulgated for years, and have recently been revived for political purposes and to prevent all aliens, otherwise qualified, who are members of the Mormon Church from acquiring citizenship, we deem it proper on behalf of said Church to publicly deny these calumnies and enter our protest against them. We solemnly make the following declarations, viz.: That this church views the shedding of human blood with the utmost abhorrence. That we regard the killing of human being, except in conformity with the civil law, as a capital crime which should be punished by shedding the blood of the criminal after a public trial before a legally constituted court of the land. Notwithstanding all the stories told about the killing of apostates, no case of thiB kind has ever occurred, and o: course has never been established against the church we represent. Hundreds of seceders from the church have continuously resided and now live in this territory, many of whom have amassed considerable wealth, though bitterly opposed to the Mormon faith and people. Even those who made it their business to fabricate the vilest falsehoods, and to render them plausible by culling isolated passages from old sermons without the context, and have sufexplanatory fered no opportunity to escape them of vilifying and blackening the characters of the people, have remainei among those whom they have thus persistently calumniated until the present day, without receiving the slightest personal We demounce asinjury. entirely untrue the allegation which has been made, that our church favors or believes in the killing of persons who leave the church or apostatize from its doctrines. We would view a punishment of this character for such an act with the utmost horror, it is abhorrent to us and is in direct opposition to the fundamenta principles of our creed. The revelations of God to this church make death the penalty for capita crime, and require that offenders a- property shall be f;ainst life and up and tried by the laws of the land. We declare that no bishop's or other court in this church claims or exercises civil or judicial functions, or the right to supersede, anual or modify a judgment of any civil court. .Such courts, while established to regulate Christian conduct, are purely ecclesiastical, and their punitive powers go no further than the suspension or of members from church fellowship. That this church, while offering advice for the welfare of its members in all conditions of life, does not claim or exercise the right to interfere with citizens in the free exercise of social or political rights and privileges. The ballot in this territory is absolutely untrammeled and secret. No man's business or secular affairs are invadec by the church or any of its officers. Free agency and direct individual accountability to God are among the essentials of our church doctrine. All things in the church must be done by common consent, and no officer is appointed without the vote of the body. We declare that there is nothing in the ceremony of the endowment, or in any doctrine, tenet, obligation or injunction of this church, either private or public, wilich is hostile or intended to be hostile to the government of the United States. On the CDntrary, its members are under divine commandment to revere the constitution as a heaven inspired instrument and obey as supreme all laws made in pursuance of its provisions. Utterances of prominent men in the church at a time of great excitement have been selected and grouped, to convey the impression that present members are seditious. Those expressions were made more than thirty years ago, when through the falsehoods cf recreant officials, afterwards demonstrated to be baseless, troops were sent to this territory and were viewed by the people in their isolated condition, fifteen hundred miles from railroads, as an armed mob coming to renew the bloody persecutions of year before. At that time exitement prevailed and strong language was used; but no words of disloyalty against the goverment or its institutions were uttered; public speakers confined their remarks to demouncing traitorous officials who where prostituting the powers of theirs positions to accomplish nefarious ends. Criticism of the acts ot United States officials w as not considered then, neither is it now, as treason against the natiou nor as to the government. In this connection we may say that the members of our church have never offered 'er intended to offer, any insult to the flag of our contrary; but have always honored it as the ensign of laws and hos-tilli- ty liberty. We also declare that this church does not claim to be an independent, temporal kingdom of God, or to be an imperium in imperio aiming to overthrow the United States or any other civil government. It Iibb been or; ganized by divine revelation preparatory to the second advent of the Redeemer. It proclaims that the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Its members are commanded of God to be. subject unto the powers that be until Christ comes whose right it is to reign. Church government and civil-- ' government are distinct and separate in our theory and practice, and we regard it as part of our. destiny to aid In the maintenance and perpetuity of the institutions of our country. We claim no religious liberty that ?r unwilling to accord others. Y e ask for no civil or political rights which are not granted am guaranteed to citizens in general.. ous cause: WlLYOKP WOODRUFF, George Q. Cannon, Joseph F. Smith, Presidency of the Church of Jesus Saints. Christ of Latter-da- y Lorenzo Snow, Franklin D. Richards, Brigham M. Young, Francis Lyman, John Henry Smith, George Teasdale, J. IIerer M. W. Grant, Merrill, A. II. Lund, Martha Hannah, of Cullybackey, Ireland, died 1808, aged 126. But Great Britain and Ireland are not the only countries that breed, centenarians. In 1809 Elizabeth Haywood, a free negro, died in Jamaica,' aged 130. In 1742 a The Remarkable Age Some Portugese gentleman Joa Ilomenda CunaU Deca, diedr aged 129, :and in Have Attained. 1790 a Portugese ' lady Joanna Francises de Piedade ys-stile living at of 120.; Butinosl writers on the subject seem to agree that the British EVENTS OF A LIFETIME. Isles produce an unusual proportion LOIIGIVITY. . Habit of On who ha seen the 'Wonder of a Century Pa by him. On the 16th day of Noyember 1778, Chesley Ileal wras born at Westport Me., and died at Searsmont Me., Oct. 6th, 1888, nearly completing the almost unprecedented term of 110 years. Of his fathers family not much is known. His mother came from England at the age of 14 years, and he had three brothers and one sifter. lie was married twice, and had four sons and one daughter by his first wife, none by his second. His son Isaac died during the rebellion, another died at home, another was lost on a whaling woyage, and the remaining son is still living. The early part of Ileales career was a very activ one. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and served in the division stationed along the coast ot Maine at Lincolnville, North port and Bellfast. He was at Bellfast when the British forces under Mayor-GenerGasselin crossed the Penobscot Bay from Castine and captured the town. The English force consisted of 700 picked men, of almost equal height, who had served under Wellingtou (Sir Arthur Wellington.) The small American regiment was unable to cope with this force, and no opposition was offered to the landing of the troops. Owing to this fact, the British commander gave orders that the people should not be molested, and that all provisions should be paid for, which was accordingly done. In 1823 Ileal purchased a farm of several hundred acres, at Searsmont, near Belfast, lie also took groat interest in raising cattle. He was very frugal, yery industrious, almost parsimonious in his style of living, and it was thought that his accumulations would be considerable, but at his decease very little was discovered, and what has become of his wealth nobody "knows. Some suspect that he buried his money, and as he never confided to any one, his secret died with him. He took an active interest in politics and was a staunch Democrat, having voted at every election from 1800 to 1880. His first vote was cast for Thomas Jefferson. He was quite unlettered, being unable to read or write. He kept his accounts by peculiar marks on his Darn door, which he alone understood. Ills memory was highly cultivated, owing to the constant calls made upon it on account of his being unable to read and write, and this aided him in keeping his accounts..- - lie was five feet eight inches in height, well proportioned, and weighed normally about 175 lbs. He was a great talker and had a lond voice. During his life he was only once visited by a physician until his last illness. He was a remarkable good sleeper, always punctual In retiring to bed at sunset, and rising at dawn. He was a good eater, living principally on fresh meat and vegetables, but did not care for much salt. The bread on his table, was made from wheat, (Graham flour) rye, corn, barley, and buckwheat from his own farm. lie used tobacco freely, nearly his whole life. He preferred to chew as a rule, but also indulged in smoking. His nerves was firm to the last. He retained his faculties to the end, and died quietly as though he went to sleep. He was buried on his own farm. It is interesting for a moment to took at the remarkable changes that have taken place during the lifetime of a single human bring. Heal was born in the midst of the revolutionary war, and was nearly three years old when the surrender of Cornwallis marked the close of the struggle. He was in his nineteenth year when Washington retired from the presidency, and during his life all the presidents were nominated to their high office. He was nearly fifteen when Louis XVI was beheaded and the reign of terror began. He had entered on his twentieth year when Napoleon was made First Cousul, and was 26 years old when he was elected. Emperor. It was in his thirty seventh year that the great commander was defeated at Waterloo. He lived during the period of the three French revolutions. During his life France had been three times a kingdom, three times an empire, and three times a public. lie was a boy in his teens when Robert Burns was composing his lyrics, when Burke was thundering in the. House of Commons, and when Sir Joshua Reynolds was giving the w'orld his great works of art. lie was 28 when Fulton launched the first regular steamboat, and 66 when Morse first brought the telegraph into practical use by sending messages between Washington and Baltimore. It is almost impossible to conceive that a single life can span such epochs in history. But even the life of Ileal is eclipsed by the following longlived English men. Thomas Parr, died in 1635 at the age of 152. Henry Jenkins of Yorkshire, died in 1670, aged 1G9, when summoned to visit the ring he ate too freely of peaches which he was not at all accustomed to, causing his death, or he may perhaps have been living still. Mr. Fairbrother died at Wigau May 1770, aged 133. Mr. James Shellie an Irishfarmer, died in June 1759, aged 136, and al Arraiiam II. Cannon, Members of the Council of the Apostles. JonN W. Young, Counselor. CORRESPONDENTS PROTEST. Editor Gazette In the Enquirer of November 8th, 1889, Mr. Hancock states that Mrs. Hatch was married to the father ofLaten Hatch who killed an emigrant at Kanesville. e. True he killed an emigrant in Could not Mr. Hancock think of anything against the family without going back fifty years? Lay-to- n Hatch has been dead forty years. The deed was proven to have been in and he was acquitted. Mr. Hancock further states that in 1856 Mrs. Hatch removed to Payson. She did not move to Payson until 1858, one month before her death. Her youngest child, a girl, was born in the First ward of Salt Lake City in the year 1853, five years before she came to Payson. Her son John Jones was 14 years of age at the time of the tragedy. It seems strange that the daughter of Mrs. Hatch should have all the features of Mr. Hatch unless she was his child. Why did npt Mr. Hatch discover she was not his child himself? She was the comfort of his old age, the favorite of all his children, as can be proven by hundreds of people. They were always together. It was a pleasing sight to see the fond father and his little girl hand in hand on the street. She was his companion she was her playmate. Oftimes with tears streaming down his aged cheeks he would say, my little girl is all I have left and she is a blessing sent to comfort my age. Mrs. Hatch's eldest son was Henry Jones was twenty-seve- n years old at the time of his death. He had been married to two women. He had a wife at the time of the birth ot his mothers youngest child and his mother had a How did Mr. Hancock husband. come to know that the child was not the daughter of Mr. Hatch. He had never seen any member of the family at the time of her birth. As to the stealing of cattle, horses, etc., can Mr. Hancock prove that? If any stealing was done there was a law to punish an offender. Anyone desiring proof of this statement can obtain the same by making it known through the columns of this 13. E. paper. self-defens- self-defen- se . Pat Conders boys and Willie I3ee went to Payson Saturday last in search of some horses and as they failed to return when expected their parents become alarmed and sent after them on Monday. The boys were found between Pavson and Spanish Fork stuck in the mud. They were rescued and shipped home by express. The Salt Lake Herald will publish a mighty edition New Years. From the hands of Agent Burbeck we have received, also a catalogue of the grand prizes to be given away to subscribers of the Herald. The prizes are numerous and valuable. Wanted: To buy $50,000.00 worth of real estate in and around Provo Now is the time to sell. Apply to Hall, Clarke & Co., Gazette building next south of Roberts House. Provo. Read the new advertisement of C. S. Rasmuasens who expects his mammoth new stock of harness, saddlery and everything in his line, in a few days. lie cannot be undersold. Havercamp & Clark have moved into their new and elegant quarters under the bank building, where they are prepared to furnish abstracts of titles to all property in Utah County. This Friday evening, Dec. 20tb, the Provo 13oat Club will give at the Opera House in Provo, their initial ball which probaises to be a most successful and recherche affair. S. S. Jones has the most magnificent stock of holliday goods ever displayed south of Salt Lake City. Call and exNo trouble to show amine them. - goods. Exquisite dress goods in the very atest styles and of the best quality, suitable for every purpose; cheap and in great variety at - S. S. Jones. There was a fatal case of diptheria in Provo this week the victim being a son of Robert Kirkwood. , Registration in Provo for the next city election has begun. Provo is to have a stocking factory at once. Dr. Slioebridge has leased one of his buildings for that purpose. Subscribe for Tiie Daily Gazette. the-ag- l of longlived people. The oldest person I knew personally was Mr. John Price of 111 Widemarsh Street, Hereford, England, who died at the age of 110. I was one of the Board of Directors, of the Life Assurance Company of Great Britain, of 16 Southampton Street, Strand London W. C., and being in Hereford at the time of his death; I paid amount due on his life policy in person, I cannot be quite sure of the year of his death, but think as near as I can remember, that it must have been in the latter part of 1863 or the beginning of 1864. He was a very eccentric man, and some short time previous to his death, he went to one Mr. Meyrick, a coffin builder, off a Street, Hereford, and mortgaged his Policy to get his coffin ready. lie gave the design of the coffin he wanted, and when completed, to use his own words, he tried it on, quite satisfied with the fit. The' coffin was exhibited in Mr. Meyricks window labelled, the coffin of Mr. John Price of 111 Widemarsh Street of this City now 109 years and 9 months, who is still living. It drew a great manv visitors to Mr. Meyrickss establishment, and become a splendid advertisement; as Mr. Meyrick spared no trouble of expense to make It such. It was there some throe or four months bef-rit was needed.. Lake MioitK, Dec 11th, 1889. Du. John Cook. SENSATIONAL. Salt Lake Uran:l Jrrjr Make Grave Cli.ires. Salt Lake, December 14tlL The grand jury of the Third District Court tiiis afternoon made Us report. The report shows that it lias been the practice of the United States Marshal to charge the peniteutiarF25 to 40 cents per gallon for milk irom cows kept there and cared for by prison labor and fed principally from food raised upon the reservation or laid for by the government,. The milk vnuriiers since fti.OOO. 1882 have amounted The marshal ulsu has bee: tsrliing Lo the raised on the penitentiary potato reservation by coivk-- t i:b-r- . Other fruitful sources of lvvtuu-:- for him were from hire deputies hauling the pcnileutiary, prisoners lo an'-.uetc. Tha mary l. also stippi-ripartly from public, six les anu table leavings twelve milch coY cue hundred hogs In ono year and two extra one team, for which the government provided a driver, earned the marshal in hauling. he sum of $2,000. The jurv says for $500 lh government could provide itself with horses, wagon and iuirms. to perform. all its service, and for $100 additional purchase t .vo goojj t ows, sufficient to furnish ail iii.the necessary-fopeuiu-iiiiuiy- , is sjtftus as though it would be economy to do,.this. The jury also complains that the marshal has shown unusual favors to prisoners convicted if i nlawful cohabitation. The suppih s now fiiiiisht-- the peniper cent, too tentiary a iv nveuty-livhigh. Thcjury .:!s investigated the admin-istrr.i- h ri i.f i he county affairs and makes a cusalmnul report Huron. The road makes a sensational report The road work lias received tlieron. in five years $114,000, and there are no bids on the work and no proper vouchers. The county has sunk in canals $122,000, and has no canals save a waste ditch and nothing to show' for the money. Collectors defalcations are severly commented upon. The countyhas lost $30,000 by two collectors and $11,000 through a clerk. The report says the county officials deal with themselves as a business firm for supplies and show favoritism to Mormon The county court has also prisoners. franchises for no valuable voted away The officers public consideration. have been trading with each other for supplies snd entering into partnership w'ith spotters, dividing with them fines imposed by the city, and also paid to a bogus hydraulic canal company $$9,G57 for interest in tbe Jordan river and a dam wrliich the company never owned, but which the county obligingly bonded oyer to the city, the connty receiving not a cent of the money. The report in closing charges that the bulk of this fund found its way into tbe pockets of city and county officials. A lobbies of the Salt Lake hotels, that for swift and sure investments in the near future Provo is the best place outside of Salt Lake City in the Territory. Tbe place has groat abuudance of raw materials for factories, and natural water power, along with the cool and healthful fresh water in Utah Lake. Provo is destined to have a population of twenty thousands and within four years, and a Union depot comparable to any in Utah, as all the roads heading westward will touch Provo on their way not only to the rich silver and gold deposits of southern Nevada but also to tap the enormous iron beds of Iron county, Utah, perhaps tlie richest iron district in the world.' All this crude iron will be brought to Provo for treatment. Already tbe largest woolen mill in the west is at Provo, and it is operated by water power. One thing is certain, namely: that Provo will derive more benefit form our advancement than any other City in Utah can. We need her pelts, wool, coal, fruits, vegetables and other products to supply the great and growing demand of Salt Lake City. But while Provo is marvelously blessed in scenery, climate and natural wealth, it must be remembered that heretofore the little city has been under an inactive Rip Van Winkle style of municipal government, which will soon however be happily overthrown as the young men down there are coming to the front in great shape. S. L. Advertiser. AT THE And We are Going to Stay there. This Itsis Oui' Busiest Year have not Since Because We have earned a Reputation for furnishing the very best and the Very Cheapest Furniture And All Kinds of At Yard Send all Orders to EAGLE Delivered $ 4.75 5.25 - We lead; others follow. Remember who made the cut in COAL, & Deal. Smoot coal of saved by getting your Money us, as we sell the R. G. Western, Pleasant Valley hard lump. Also the Celebrated Castle Gate Coal the most heat by Scientific Test of all other Coal in the market. giTSend in your orders. REED SMOOT, JNO W. DEAL PROVO, UTAH. . t OlotHixis d lRO VO Mi at Furnishing Goods S. S. JONES. PIIICES DEFY t tt t it pecijiber . . . 1st, 4889. w e Public: tRe of stock largest Goods inlolDday Ever shown Utah County, and from there I shall fill my basket and visit Spanish Fork, Salem, Benjamin, Lake Shore, Payson, Springville, Santa- quin and Goshen with in Cilice Canfli Hi Fuel Tip Golds, Baijta Elaus. the Artist, -- , fr Has Located in Provo WHERE HE IS PREPARED TO DO AS GOOD PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK OF ALL KINDS AS YOU CAN HAVE DONE AT : CITY. Down south from us on the beautiful shores of Utah Lake, the largest body of fresh water in the groat west, lies 1roYO, a beautiful city, encircled witli a colosseum of hills, and made richer every year by the development of Southern Utah, for. Provo is unsurpassed ,'in. variety and Abundance of resources, fn mineral and agricultural wealth, in ..fruits, yegeakles and cereals, and the countless flocks of sheep and herds of cattle that graze in the surrounding country. If there is a little city in the west soon to make a great stride forward, lrovo is the place. This paper has several times in the recent past given the little city special mention, and without compensation, for it is our purpose to show up the advantages of Utah, and no consideration will deter us from mentioning the merits or demerits of any place we may It has been rechoose to discuss. marked In our presence, here in the and Over-Coat- s Townshend, the Druggist, has Removed to the Hancock Brick store, in Payson, Where he has f r e UTAH. FULL LINE OF lr - - Fall conn - - PAYSON, - I W. ft SilllSll SONS. FURNITURE HOUSE . - Per Ton, Also At the YERY LOWEST PRICES in the Country. CUT!! CUT!!! com com HOUSE FURNISHINGS, Doors, Sash, Mouldings, Shingles, Lath and Lumber NOTICE. IN- Had a Dull Day, we Advent, . CUT! HEAD. Any Gallery in The Territory. This he guarantees to all patrons. His prices are consistent with first-cla- ss :- -. work. 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