| Show CLAY COUNTY ahe old home of the saints in missouri yesterday a gentleman named 11 S arnold a resident from boyhood of liberty the county seat of the county of cloy missouri called at this and gave some interesting information respecting that locality mr arnold resides only four blocks from the old jail in which joseph and his brother were imprisoned and which will forever possess a historical interest to the latter day saints the house in which mr arnold lives is built of logs neatly hewn and framed together and is with improvements made upon it since first erected one of the best hours in the town the work upon it was done by a member of the church named gibbs who is remembered joy mr arnold the old liberty jail was a two story structure and had a double wall the inner one of logo and the outer one of stone it is now a ruin the upper has fallen and the logs and stones 0 which it was constructed ted are lying in a heap of debris the spot is a lonely and deserted one the lower story of the building stands but it is not used for any pur the town contains a population of about and is a thriving place i but a curious obstacle to its permanent prosperity has been recently developed ve ever since the cormons mormons Mor mons were driven away from that regional regi which time their houses and lands wore summarily seized by their enemies it had been customary until the boom of two years ago struck that section to make transfers of real estate by simply giving an ordinary warrantee deed and surrendering possession the boom enhanced the price of land fabulously and purchasers at high prices began to demand abstracts of title a custom not before practiced A pretty state of affairs was thus disclosed it was found that the tit leto much of the land in and about libarty was still vested m the old mormon settlers who had obtained patents from the government against which f course local statutes of limitation do not run it thus appears that the way has been left open for the saints to return to missouri and re their inheritances there by perfectly natural and strictly legal means when the time shall comedor come for the fulfillment of the prophecies that have been made upon that subject mr arnold visited the city cemetery and found upon monuments there the names of many persons whom he had known in boyhood and who were formerly residents of clay county missouri he expressed great interesting inte ghisi visit to the city of the dead he was accompanied by hi wife and they left for san francisco yesterday news august |
