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Show ciifoii mm HEO KHES CITY Joseph W. McMurrin Here to Attend Conference of Mormon Church. Tho second mission president arriving" l at Salt L,ake to attend the gvnoral con-: con-: foresee cf the Iitter-rUiy Saints church j is Joseph "Y, MeMurrin, a member of the first seven presidents of seventy, as well as president of the California mission. He j a.rrivd yestt-rday, and, aftfr attend intr j cor fcronce, vi move his family to the , Los Ancfle.s mission headt; uarters. Mr. j MrMurrin If tely succeeded Joseph K. Kob-j Kob-j insou as mission preside nt. In common i iiuj on business conditions in general or. tho coast ,ho said conditions are prosperous. In s;i:.-n kiri? nf hid mission, mis-sion, be said it was In pood condition but gn-atiy in need of missionaries. Owin to the influenza epidemic as well as so ninny men being- in military service, missionary work for a time way interfered with, but, wiih the coming of eiph t or ten new missionaries in June, normal conditions, ho stated would be restored re-stored and new feilds will be opened. Ke recently returned from a tour of the branches in California and Arizona, attending at-tending conference at San Francisco with President Heber J. Grant. "The largest branch in our mission," hei said, ' is J.os Angeles, where there are about 17W members. Oakland and San Francisco are. also quite lare. I wish to comment on the splendid work performed by President Jlobinson. He leaves hosts of frier-ds who are greatly attached to him." |