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Show ! TEMPLE AND TASlRMRGLE. j President A. P. Kesler. of Vhe Eastern East-ern States Mission, is taking a flying trip to Great Britiau. He will return re-turn early in the new year. More than one of the general authorities of tin: church are suffering suffer-ing from more or less serious attacks of all pervading grippe. F.lder Arnold II. Schulthess left Salt A Lake City on Saturday December 31, to succeed P.ishop Peter Loutensock, of Eureka, in the Presidency of tin jerman Mission. Large numbers of residents of St. George and vicinity arc preparing to move toother parts. The neighborhood neighbor-hood of Dcseret in Millard Stake and the White Kiver country, in Nevada, appear to be leading points of attraction attrac-tion for those who are leaving Utah's Dixie. A missionary who has just returned home to Salt Lake City from Oklahoma Oklaho-ma Territory, where he filled a two aod-a-half-years'. mission, states that another elder and himself, during that time walked 7,500 miles and were refused re-fused 700 applications for food in that tcrritoi-3'. Notwithstanding these conditions con-ditions he pronounced the people hospitable. hos-pitable. Death has again entered the household house-hold of President Lorenzo Snow; this time it is his aged wife, Sister Adeline Goddard Snow, who is taken from him. Sister Snow, who is S7 years old, fell last month on the slippery ground, caused by the fallen snow, in Brighaui City, and from the shock then received she did not recover, but passed away from mortality on Wednesday, December De-cember 27th. Her funeral took place at Brigham City, Saturday, December 31st. The progress of the church on the Society Islands has been somewhat Impeded during the past few mouths by the persistent rumors of impending Tar between France and England, which has engrossed the attention of the people; color being given to these reports by the French officials strengthening streng-thening the fortifications of Papeete, :he chief city. The contentions of the rival chiefs in Samoa, who are seeking to obtain the kingly authority, has ilso had its influence on the church on ihose islands. The church bonds have been printed and are now in the hands of the trustee-in-trust. They were first delivered de-livered to L. S. Hills of the Deseret National Na-tional bank, who is one of the trustees named in the agreement, and by him ,- conveyed to President Lorenzo Snow. Mr. Hills says that 130,000 had been issued up to January 2. That the full amount, 5500,000, has been applied for is said by those who ought to know, to be beyond question. It is understood that at a meeting of the directors of Zion's Savings bank, to be held in tha near future, the exact amount of the bonds to be taken by the institution will be decided upon. The agitation that is in progress in some parts of the country to unseat Hon. 13. H. Roberts in the House of Representatives for the reason that he is said to have three wives, has caused President Lorenzo Snow to publish a very strong disclaimer against the assertion that Elder Roberts was a church candidate and that the church was advocating and its officers preaching the practice of plural marriage. President Snow, in no equivocal terms, asserts that he will not permit, as the man holding the authority in all such matters, any plural marriages to take place in the church during his presidency and that the law i.hall be strictly and fully obeyed in relation to polygamy. |