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Show I LOCAL HISTORY WHAT HAPPENED APRIL 3. 1SF.3 The Mormons who had settled in Cedar Valley, Utah, were organized Into a ward; Allen Weeks, bishop. 1S69 Uy action of the county clerk, St. Joseph, on the Muddy, was made the county scat of Rio Vlrgcn count j. 1S71 Mary Chatnplln, a Hun-ivor of the Haun's ilHl massacre, died In Salt Iake City, Governor Alvln Saunders of Nebraska visited Salt I.akc City. 1875 William II. Dame, Indicted on a charge of having participated in tho Mountain Meadows massacre In IS.-), and who had been Imprisoned since October, 1871, waH taken out of in..-Utah in..-Utah penitentiary and sent to Beaver. 1S78 The Utah Northern jullyay xsas sold at auction In Salt Lake City, the Union Pacific Railroad company being the purchaser. The nanio of the road wuh changed to the Utah ic 1SS1 "onthls and the following three 1 days the flfty-Hrst annual conference confer-ence of the church was held in Salt lake City. A number of missionaries were set apart to go abroad and others to settle In Arizona. . lSRG Tacob S. Boroman was appointed Vdse of the First judicial court of Utah for the second lime. lSRfi Thomas E. Taylor of tho Four-1SS Four-1SS ct th Ecclesiastical ward Sail Lake City, was arrested on three lndlcl-m lndlcl-m is. charging, him w'Jooo cohabitation, and placed under $3000 bonds. Joseph H, Dean of the N 110-tcenlh 110-tcenlh ward was arrested on a similar simi-lar charge (two Indictments) and put under bonds. , . , t-.i- ickk Tnim Durrani of American Fork 1S&Srnl Soren Jacobsen of Hountlfu). nVivis county, weirt nrrcsted on a ?l arSc of unlawful cohablta tlon. niarcs A. Anderson and Isabella Adatnson were discharged from the l800-rwVnjo"iin Wardrobe died in Salt Ialfo City In the First district court at Provo William C. Simpson of Glcnwood was sentenced to three S Months' imprisonment for unlawful i"ohab tation Tho bill providing for the admission of Utah Into the union a? a state was passed by Ihc United Stales houso of rcprcsontat vcs. with tt t an -Mormon lest oath cIhiiso. This clause rends as fo lows: "No nei-ROn Is permitted lo vole, servo as a Juror or hold any civil office who I- J" . a bigamist or polygamist, or Is living In what p known as patriarJhla f pluml or celestial mar-rlmw mar-rlmw .or in violation or any laws of Til! state, or of the United States, forbidding any such crime: . or who In any manner leaches, advises, coun- sels, aids or encourages any person to enter Into bigamy, polygamy or such patriarchal, plural or celestial marriage, or to live In violation of any such law or to commit any such crime; or who Is a member of or contributes con-tributes to the support, aid or encouragement en-couragement of any order, organization, organiza-tion, nssoclallon, corporation or society so-ciety which teaches, advises, counsels, coun-sels, encourages or aids any person to enter bigamy, polygamy or such patriarchal or plural marriage, or which teaches or advises llial the laws of this state prescribing rules of civil conduct arc not the supreme law of tlio state." Section four of the same article provides: "The legislature leg-islature may prescribe qualifications, limitations and conditions for the right of suffrage additional to those prescribed in this article, but shall never annul any of the provisions in this article contained." The noted election cases of Idaho. In which fifty-two fifty-two Mormons wore Indicted for Illegal Ille-gal voting were dismissed at. Malad. 1S?2 The sixty-second annual conference confer-ence of the church was commenced In Salt Lake City, continuing until the 6th. 1595 The constitutional convention adopted the preamble and declaration declara-tion of rights. 1596 A reunion of Australian missionaries mission-aries and other Mormons was held In Salt Lake City by Zion's Maori association. as-sociation. 180S The Fifteenth ward. Salt Lake City, was divided and all that part of it lying west or Sixth West street was organized as the Twenty-fourth ward; Edward T, Ashton. bishop. 1S09 Final payment of $275,000 on Bingham Bing-ham mining deal. Ian .Maclarcn lectures. lec-tures. Mall Carrier Skldmorc thrown from cart and skull fractured. 1000 Council votes to buy Cam ranch for $20,000. Four hundred employees of Germania smelter strike. 1901 Sudden death of Peter JO. Hansen. President Snow's eighty-seventh birthday celebrated. 'Ann. D, Young stricken with heart failure. 1902 Clyde Felt tells that Collins committed com-mitted suicide. .Judge Marloncaux denies motion of Mammoth company to file counter claim and It flies now suit. General Manager Herbert announces an-nounces that his road will begin election elec-tion of model station at Provo. 1903 Seventy-third semi-annual conference confer-ence of the Latter-day Saints begins. Chief of Police Sheets closes Turf exchange. First. heaWng of Mormon church refuses to accede to the demands de-mands of the Swedish Mormons for separate meetings. Bessie Knccht sllll sleeps. 1905 Utah fruitgrowers decide to hold a convention. H. Rider Haggard visits Salt Lake. Mme. Nordlca In the city. 190G Cecil .T. Plant gel? three years In penitentiary for polygamy. Iron moulders on strike. A. J. Coleman charged with manslaughter. Deputy Sheriff Bell In employ of " Uiko agoncv Mrs. M. A. Bishop, mother-in-law of Deputy State Auditor Tln-gcy. Tln-gcy. cuts throat with razor. F. R. Chrlstensen appointed clerk in office of board of public works. 1907 Committee appointed lo organize Sons of Veterans. Rev. Mr. Simp-kin Simp-kin declines juvenile court judgeship. Spoclal election held 011 land question. ques-tion. Arthur W. Long becomes manager man-ager of Western Union telegraph office. of-fice. 190S City board of public works awards contract for paving East First South street to P. J. Moraii, |