Show NEW APOSTLE IS Anthony Woodward Ivins of Juarez Stake Chosen as Suc Successor Successor Successor cessor to Apostle Teasdale IMMENSE THRONGS ATTEND THREE GREAT MEETINGS DUR DURING DURING DURING ING AFTERNOON 4 4 f t 4 t t it t t so f CHALLENGES SMITH AND ANDt t 4 MAKES A HASTY EXIT 1 4 The reading by President Joseph 4 F Smith of ot his own name for In f was the occasion for a 4 4 brie sensation In the conference yes yest 4 t 4 A man said to be James 4 Charles Bowen Dowen arose and chal thaI 4 the president of the church churchon i on the ground that he had broken 4 the civil law 4 f 4 4 At first President Smith paid no 4 attention to the Interruption but 4 4 4 when the man persisted he said 4 Here you ou sit down there thre 4 4 Still persisting the president dl di directed 4 4 reeled that some one attend to 4 1 f him He was attended to by being 4 4 4 summarily ejected from the hall 4 4 Mr Bowen has attained some no 4 4 4 in in the past through his re relations relations 4 lations with the Mormon church He 4 4 was formerly employed as a janitor 4 4 4 In one of the public schools and cast 4 his lot with a Gentile candidate who 4 4 was running against a Mormon Hormon for 4 4 member of ot the board His break 4 4 4 with the church Is said to have hae dated 4 4 4 from rom that time 4 M 4 MM 4 4 H M H 44 Hi MM 4 4 H t 4 Anthony Woodward Ivins president of ot the Juarez stake In Mexico was yesterday esterday selected by the conference of the church of Saints to fill flit the vacancy caused by b the death of Apostle Apos Apostle tle tie George Teasdale Apostle Ivins is a R native of New Jersey is 53 55 years of ot age ago ageana ana anU lives with his family In Colonia Juarez Chihuahua Mexico The election l was unanimous President Joseph F Smith and the pres present present ent eat authorities of the church were sus reis sustained tamed The conference decided to suspend the tha hl organ recitals until tile the April conference and during the course of the day listened to a number of addresses chief long which was one by Brigham H Roberts In which Mr Roberts reviewed the history of the state of Missouri so far as It 1 to the part taken by the Saints In m their early efforts to found Cound settlements Mr Roberts severely scored those who were responsible for the sufferings Inflict Inflicted ed Id on the Mormons and declared in con conclusion lusion that the state as a state had sown the wind and reaped the whirlwind that its chastisement had been complete Apostle Smoots Warning An address by Apostle Reed Smoot was largely devoted to a warning against be becoming b coming the prey of fakers lakers patent medi medicine medicine medicine cine agents eye glass vendors endors and tho the like Senator Smoot urged his brothers and sisters to keep out of debt and spoke earnestly against investing money mone In speculation Apostle David 0 O McKay spoke of ot the value of Internal strength saying that all the Internal organs must be healthy if the outer body b dy would stand The president of the central states ml mi sion spoke briefly on the progress of tho the church in his section and reported the headquarters at Independence Mo to be ba In a flourishing condition Joseph S Wells VeIls delivered an address on the growth of the church and expressed the gratification felt by b himself and all of his people that this Is so Overflow meetings were held In Barratt hall halt and in the assembly hall hail The ices in the former place were in charge of ot Seymour Se mour B Young and Apostle Rudger Clawson presided in the assembly hall hail Both halls were filled tilled At both the forenoon and afternoon services in the tabernacle the great audi was crowded to the doors and be beyond yond ond Every available inch of or seating and standing capacity was taken tage of Great Throngs Present When the immense throng left the tha grounds after the tIle afternoon session the tha estimate was made that more than persons had passed through the gates dur ing the day which is a figure apparently not a particle too high in Ia view of the tha fact that the tabernacle was twice filled tilled and the assembly hall once and that there were hundreds of persons on the grounds at all hours of the day Forbidding weather greeted the saints and the of Salt Lake when they t ey awoke yesterday morning and looked out of their windows The rain came In a downpour and continued until nearly 11 In spite of this fact however the forenoon session did not suffer In point of attendance The aft afternoon afternoon afternoon was as beautiful as though it had been made mad to This forenoon In the assembly hall at 10 there will bj b a meeting of all the high church authorities The priest hood meeting will be private The numer I out reunions that have Shave been In progress during the last three days will come to a I close dose today to ay Off for Home Horrie I A large number of conference visitors left the city last evening on the earlier I trains and there will wilt be more departures today toda As is usual however many of the tha visitors who have relatives in this city will remain for several days Many Man too will wilt remain to ta transact business It Is the testimony of the church officials officials officials that the th conference has been the tha greatest In the history of the Saints In point of attendance The re reports reports reports ports presented have been uniformly of ot otI I an encouraging nature and as stated so often on the rostrum during the confer conference conference conference ence there is every reason for lation MISSOURI IS 15 CHASTISED The principal address at yesterdays conference sessions was delivered In tho the afternoon when Brigham H Roberts one ona Continued on Page 2 I i NEW APOSTLE IS SELECTED Continued from Page of the th foremost orators among the fhe church I officials made a powerful arraignment of the state of Missouri as it was during the time when the Saints sought to tomake toI tomake make their settlements there His ad address address address I dress was largely of a historical nature as history bears on those times Mr Roberts spoke in terms of the most in intense intense Intense I tense bitterness of ot the persecutions mur murders drs ders and destruction of at property which he said were inflicted on his people in I those terrible times In graphic words Mr Roberts described the scenes which were enacted in many of at the places where the Mormons attempted to found their homes and live in peace The picture he lie painted was one of unwarrantable cruelty and Injustice indeed Mr Roberts traced the history of ot the Mormons in Missouri from tram their entrance until their departure and in each step of his progress he showed or attempted to to show how the people of ot Missouri suf suffered suffered more than an hundred fold told the woes that they so grievously and ruthlessly in on the Saints lIe He gave a vivid re recital recItal recital cital af t the civil war and the causes lend lead lending leading ing Ingup UP to it In Missouri declaring de with emphasis that if the advice and the doc doe doctrine doctrine trine of at the prophet Joseph Smith had been accepted there would never have been any an civil war Mr Roberts said that Ralph Waldo Yaldo Emerson E erson the great philosopher r had been showered show red with praise because of his ad advocacy advocacy advocacy of te t e plan to abolish slavery by buying the slave property by b means of the funds acquired by the disposal of public lands Yet declared Mr Ir Roberts more than twenty years ears prior to the time when Emerson broached and preached this doc doe doctrine doctrine trine trifle Joseph Smith had placed it beto the people and advocated it Respecting false reports that the Mor Mormons Mormon mons mon were a dangerous people and to be shunned Mr Roberts quoted from the th New York Times Time In which appeared an Interview with Bishop Lawrence Scanlan of the Catholic diocese of Salt Lake In which Bishop Scanlan was quoted as say sa saIng ing lag that he had lived among the Mormons for thirty years and had always been at peace with them Do you ever carry carn a pistol asked the Journalist No replied the bishop I have found this sufficient protection K crucifix was indicated The object of Mr Ir Roberts address was to show that the Saints sought only to live at peace with all their neigh neighbors neighbors bors hors The address at Apostle Reed Smoot was filled with common sense and good ad advice advice vice lee The habit of buying bu ln all sorts of ot medicines from all sorts of at fakers de Ill declared elated Mr Smoot had grown to assume the proportions of a menace The senator tamed famed some same of the remedies de declaring elating claring clarIn that certain soothing syrups sooth soothed ed to death slowly but surely and that certain certain tain tam kinds of booze medicines were rank poisons There were a n number of ey eye e eyeglass glass Klass fakers against whom a word of warning was sounded The free enter entertainments entertainments entertainments at which the operators scat scattered scattered scattered broadcast handfuls of money were denounced der Apostle Smoot made mad an elo eM eloquent el quent plea for tor the sanctity of the home and urged all children to aid aM their par parents parents parents so that their lives might tte tIb mate maie more easy |