| Show SOME HISTORY Nebraska Case CaS Brings Brina to tb Mind a Pa Fa Famous SIoux City Tribune Judge has baa entered a decree deryee at Columbus Neb Nob awarding the DO 10 too e estate taLe C Barnum to his JUs widow formerly C Delomel Gal Veston Toy Tex TIt The court tho GlUe recognized hed as ae valid a lid the wedding that took place at Los tp pIts geres Cat Cal Dee 10 lis Barnum met the southern lady In ha the morning and they were married In the afternoon The other hen heirs of flatness Bara fought the will givIng her Wa They the WILl was tb the old roan n ti Iy but they t the e old maR man unduly ut the they were overruled Bata Barnum died last summer Barnum a aa a was worth Re He had been In the E tare He stood high In But Ills bin ml mind d tailed failed ln bini Ere He sOnt years In the Nebraska asylum and when allowed his liberty M he roamed the whole nete cou country try spendIng Ids hi mosey molleY right ani left and Ung with the Los LOll Angeles inar marriage In southern n Iowa the picturesque que Soldier river sweeps proudly about s B high wooded wended hill bUl are nestled a venerable a diminutive store sten and a depot One train stops there each da daTke day The brakeman calls lIs Wee In thIS memory of a was set up the first printing pre press In west ln era Iowa hr hero was printed the w west t of Des Moines here WIN was established that t wild fanatical dream the Presbytery of Zion Guy C Barnum was one of the two men who JI mewed thIs town it was here that t men were went to bit be groomed fM fe tra on onto to heaven it was to be the earthly preparation for the life Ule beyond i 44 When Joseph Smith fat father Of the Mormons was shot ta In Carthage Ill jell jail that June nIght In un 1344 the Mormon termon faith ralth was wan more or less tI Numerous candIdates foe fer Ute the mantle of eC Smith sprang up Living I Ii St StLouis Louts Louis was a maR man named Charles Chark s B ThoRp Thompson n Little more than sit ad adventurer he be was to the Mor Mormon mon men church as e a glorious opportunity fc fe a rare escapade H a became a at t uber In the faith H He gathered about him In St 8 Louts a r ln tf t k He enlIsted as assistant the 0 of GU Gy 7 Co C na then a aeu eu R Tb d a pets t of rare qualities s sOn On lie had but bout him a small email army rin of tine night he had hed a vision Neat lie he announced t his hla Sok that ott od bd appeared to rim him the night be bere before fore re M My children n n cc said I IS the divIne will that we shall joUrney to the far west and there set SiK up an earthly Ul to prepare for the better life beyond beOndA A few to months later some hundred prairie that had lumbered etow slowly aU all from St L uia oar some persons halted at a i the Soldier rivet riM where grass I and aBd trees grew verdant t In AD fertile ohl It I Wagons were unloaded men fell feU to work hewin logs jogs and a few weeks Y later appeared a branch bra community r f the Mormon rorI church that lived Jived and aad tiled di without a place on This was Sn n 1 it 44 luw another aher vision To his following he amao the d had ap appeared to te hi hiTh hint Th Phe dl ne has bas appointed me his be saId I am the stew OAt of ef G God uI You are U IN ty ste stewards As Your steward I must under Ute the cU divine e eIf will If ess all you possess Go then buy bur mode anti ana deed them to your st stew ant anI The community ROW mow grown to full tuu alan obeyed They to Whole townships They established stores mores and blacksmith and livery barns bArM and het hotels ls Every dollar or of prone was religiouslY turned over opt to the steward of oC God through h Barnum as 8 steward One man had gone ne Oft on ona I a several daYS Journey to fO bring heck back backa It a load of lumber He w mt by a am m messenger or of the steward ard You must stop where you are Y yOu u must journey to yOU must en ent enter t ter t We the halls balk of the legislature at Rick mend moud you U muSt t tot the ot of th the td upon n the bo be canto It has said aid things and aM done thIngs that rt reflect t upon tJ the of er God and his divine This was the command The lumber kimber lumberman man obe obeyed ed The mee en tt took the s seat t on the wagon and drove back to Preparation The after weeks or of toiling read Ute the Jel lature d the curse and Journeyed back again to his Iowa home 4 10 But by the U time the Jehovah PT Presby tory tery of Zion had d its it third anni faithful at last laM h heiLan fan tl 4 Th steward was th t lt for the fh When the 4 c people demanded a kc Ito W would Uld Save an another VIsion and aad play upon their superstition to retake make Wy way WIth It the money mOM His Hili absence asee frost fretA tM the became e move mort arId and more Ire fro In reality be went back to St at StLouis Louis Loul and aad Indulged In hi tile the most 10 deHU e leavIng t the e community in charge of at Barnum lee re I tu turned ned h he would resort to the te vJ le l exercise to replete his But Buthi Buthis his hi followers found at last the nature of isis his pilgrimages Visions became more and more n constantly left Zere e eOne One night tn w when the steward and B Barnum mum Lk an Indignation It Ie Was s uI 17 1 decided to hans hang boUt both H BarnuM entire community lb r eL rout eLout out for tor Ottawa to carry out their per MIC pace Thompson and Barnum had bad just I left t Ona Onawa wa Thy me near drivIng Into he mob but it a of f a mile away from the angry pe peOple they were met Blet by a girl whO h bail t in ThOmp Thompsons sons lOpS 7 slip lip of a thing run fot II JO r she shout shouted ed Thy They are aloe ii to hang you rho two menne d no seco second d warn warnIng big Ing Horses to a ran The mob caught s1 t of the and andge ge gave hot bot chase When in tile hIter of a high bill the O bernes we were loosed ed from tk tha wagon and each man mount log lag a a horse bole mei to Ona we still rs 4 by the l mob meb NI I dont believe one ODe knew they kid d mys Judge Addi soil Oliver of at Onawa sun stIll living I 1 now know they were wee k kept t In my attic for neon nearly three Week t The men area from Preparation the whole town far fer them but coUld not DOt find them One dark night Thompson stunk slunk from tIN the Oliver home A horse borse and wagon were read ready He took bl his wife a peck I e of cash anti ann jewelry ann anu made quick flight to Fort o Dodge ga hom rom there he bt made his way to St Louis He tried to start another a other colony and failed Finally lie he died In Philadelphia penni lees Barnum went to Nebra Nebraska k where he later became a rich non anti promInent VJ flie u under der st stewards wa or of God at l n tOOK Q prop Orty IntO iak tM thO COurtS court There an ft was made hut but many rodY of the suits Went rent to the Iowa supreme court for tor final Toda Today IS zw no one lx tb the decrepit U utIle village lag stilt sUU bearing the me brand or Of orUe Ue the wild who 80 kno s aught aughta Af a th the Jehovah of t Ien n eave by tradition Not Net iii a steward t rd liven JIves today III he lt olOna county The KAi to the ends e ot of the t w bw that at ba baa passed 1187 awa I only the of Ute the town n n nt to beav witness t to 0 the and boldeSt t t nce of 1110 I |
