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Show I! CONFERENCE CROWD EXPECTED TO BREAK ALL RECORDS SINCE DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE ELEVEN YEARS AGO I;, Seventy-Fourth Annual Conference Con-ference of Latttr-Day j Saints Opens. I Railroads Taxsd to Handle tha i' Crowds Coming in From All Sides. " 7 Jlelief Society Held Its Meeting, and Imported 150,000 Bushels of Grain in Storo. ( ' Xho seventy-fourth annual conference I of the Church of Jesus Christ of. Lattcr- day Saints opens at 10 o'clock tomorrow at the Tabernacle. For the past week i the railroads have been taxed to their utmost to handle the crowds, and a 1 prominent railroad official Is responsible responsi-ble for the assertion that the confer-once confer-once will be the most largely attended ' since the dedication of the Temple, eleven years ago. Different missions and conferences of the church will hold their annual reunions during this week. The programme for today Is as .follows: 10 a. m., opening- of the seventy-fourth annual conference in the Tabernacle; ." 32;30 p. m., meeting' of Dutch-speaking h Saints In the Fourteenth ward assem-j, assem-j, fily-rooms; 4 p. m., Scandinavian meet-.' meet-.' ing in the Assembly-hall, meeting1 of German Saints nl "Rnrrntt. hall: 7 n. m.. j 1 general conference of the Deseret Sun-!j Sun-!j day-school union In the Tabernacle. ',- Belief Society Meeting. The Relief society held a morning and j afternoon conference session at tho I Assembly-hall yesterday. President Bathsheba Smith presided and opened ! the session by delivering a short speech of welcome. The presidents of twenty-!. twenty-!. Jlv stakes followed and gave their reft re-ft ports, all of -which were very much of I the same nature and tended to point il out the growth of their various organisations organi-sations during the past year. All the presidents reported that great Interest was being taken in grain storing and It l "vvas estimated that the various organizations organi-zations together have stored away over I 350,000 bushels. The various speakers I dwelt on the interest taken in the 1 mothers' classes and on their good ef-. ef-. Tects. Encouraging reports were also i made on the nurses' classes and of their jf efficient labor In the outside districts j where no doctors can be secured. ; , A very Interesting session was held k In the afternoon. The addresses made ' hy the counsellors and other officers r tended to point out the importance of the work and likewise its Brand possibilities possi-bilities and bright future. I W, E. Pack, who arrived in ZIon yes- I terday to attend conference, reports I that he was compelled to leave his team on the other side of the Park City summit, sum-mit, on account of the depth of the snow. Mr. Pack also reports that the Rio Grande "Western passenger coach jumped the track near Hardy's ranch, In Parley's canyon, and that those on board received a severe shaklng-up," hut that no one was hurt. After two hours of delay the coach was replaced on the track and the remainder of the run was then made without delay. Elder Ben E. Rich will be pleased I lo meet all the elders who have labored ;j In the Southern States mission at tho i Assembly-hall, Monday afternoon, April 4th. Immediately after the afternoon after-noon conference session. This meeting takes precedence over all other meetings meet-ings and a large attendance Is urged In view of the Important business which Is to be transacted. All three roads running Into Salt , Lake have heavy tralllc with conference ' passengers. The Short Line ran two trains In double sections and had one train of sixteen cars crowded from the north. The R. G. W. expected to do twice the amount of business today, ay uot one-half of the total number of people had arrived last night. The San Pedro have been running extra trains from the south so as to accommodate all the passengers. Passenger agents pay that the travel Is unusually heavy this time, and something like 12,000 visitors vis-itors ore expected to be in tho city altogether. al-together. Among the visitors to conference are President Allen of Taylor stake. Alberta, Al-berta, Canada: President McQuarrle of the Eastern States mission, with headquarters head-quarters at New York; Asahel II. Woodruff of the Northern States mission, mis-sion, with headquarters at Chicago, and James G. Linflln of the Southwestern States mission, with headuartera at Kansas City. They all bring: home encouraging en-couraging reports from their various fields of labor. l Hugh J. Caxmon. Wiliam McLachlan. m6haxA w. Tonng. MorrlB. T A VERY Important move in the hls-tory hls-tory of the Mormon church Is the recent division of Salt Lake stake into four smaller stakes. The old stake Is divided north and south by Main street and east and west by Third South street. The northeast quarter Is known as Ensign stake, the southeast as Liberty Lib-erty stake, the northwest as Salt Lake stake and the southwest as Pioneer stake. With the organization of these four new stakes comes the retirement from the presidency of the Salt Lake stake of ZIon, consisting of Angus M. Cannon, Can-non, Joseph E. Taylor and Charles W. Penrose. For twenty-eight years President Pres-ident Cannon has occupied this high position with honor and fidelity and has r ' ' " " " rmTT t t t ? t t f t t t-fr- discharged all his duties sb as to win native of Scotland and emigrated to the confidence and respect of the presiding pre-siding authorities of the church. The old presidency gives way to four energetic men, who will take up the work whore he left It. Richard W. Young, the new president of Ensign stake has a brilliant record in both public pub-lic and private life. After graduating from Wert Point he served for some years in the army, from which he secured se-cured a release for the purnose of studying law at Columbia, from which institution ho was graduated In 1884. He served as a member of the City Council and Board of Education and at the outbreak of the Spanish-American war went to Manila as commander of the Utah Light Artillery. He was ap- H'HIIIIIHH . pointed president of the Supreme court of the Philippines by President Mc-Klnley. Mc-Klnley. but later resigned and returned to Utah. He Is now practicing law In this city. Nephi L. Morris, the new president of Salt Lake stake, has been prominent In church work all his life. While on his mission he acted as president of the London conference and on his return home he was ordained second counselor to Bishop Joseph R. Morgan of the Fifteenth ward. He served In the fourth session of the Utah Legislature, but otherwise has not generally participated par-ticipated In politics. He la now presl-dont presl-dont of the Ellas Morris & Sons Co. William McLachlan, president of the Pioneer stake, was the first counselor to Bishop William Thorn of the Sev- f fH44-M-fl) MHHMIMMMf enlh ward. President McLachlan Is a Utah In 1SC2 with his wife and mother. He later filled a mission to New Zealand Zea-land and since his return has acted as superintendent of the Seventh ward Sunday-school and treasurer of the Sunday-school union. Hugh J. Cannon, the new president of Liberty stake, Is now In Germany, where ho Is acting as president of the Mormon mission. He Is expected home , within the next month, but has recent-! recent-! ly been requested by Apostle Grant to remain until October. He has shown great skill in looking after the Interests Inter-ests of tho church during the recent trouble with the German Government. Before his departure Mr. Cannon was manager of the George Q. Cannon Book Store company. |