Show Captain Hooper Galena 3Wm H Hooper who died at Salt Lake and was buried yesterday was well known here in frontier times He was prominent in steamboat and mercantile circles He also was clerk in the Planters House at St Louis In 1850 he wont to Salt Lake as A merchant I I and three years later went to California I Cali-fornia with a large adventure of cattle horses flour etc which latter lat-ter he disposed of to a large com ary of emigrants on the road While in California he sold the stock his share of the profits being 810090 He returned to Salt Lake City in the month of December of that year His journey to California Cal-ifornia and back was attended with great danger the country being infested with hostile Indians and without house where Virginia City Nevada now stands to the settlements of Utah a distance of 700 miles In 1S50 he embarked in mercantile pursuits and in 1855 was elected a member of state convention con-vention to frame a constitution for the State of Deseret In 1S5T he was appointed by Brigham Young secretary pro tam of the Territory and was relieved in JCe Ivir Unncn u w uV UJ ecre tary John Hartnett of St Louis who went out with Johnsons army in 1859 and he was in 1850 elected delegate from Utah to the Thirty sixtn Congress of the United States and held the position by subsequent elections for a total period of nine years n is life and services from that time are well known |