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Show MORMON PROPHECY TO BE FULFILLED Purchase o Site for Temple in Missouri, Mis-souri, as Predicted by Joseph Smith in 1830. KANSAS CITY. Mo.. April IS. The transfer today of twenty-five acres of land near Independence, Mo., to Rev. James G. Duff in, president of tho Southwestern States Utah Mormon Mor-mon mission, is looked upon as a movo to fulfill the prophecy mado by Joseph Smith In 1S30. "That the Mormons will return to Jackson county, Mo., and there erect a temple." "With tho coming again of tho Utah Mormons, If such should bo tho case, Independence will have within its borders threo distinct br.onchcs of Mormons the Reorganized church, tho Hcdricklte I ollurch and tho Ula'.i church. The. plans of the Utah church, known ns the Brlgamits, call for a magnificent temple tem-ple lo be erected on the situ purchased today. KIRTLAND. O.. April 15. At today's session of tho annual conference- of tho Reorganized Caurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, tho petition of tho eastern Colorado district resulted in tho adoption of an amendment to tho effect that it was tho sonso of tho quorum that children under S years of ago ara not eli-giblo eli-giblo for baptism into tho church. |