Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-04-22 | Page 4 | Know Utah

1 Know Utah By ALBERT F. F PHILIPS I t d. Ordered That nothing but cash or county script will be accepted on tax account This was vas the announcement announcement announcement an an- made for the first time In the county oj oX Washington in September 1865 At it the same time President Young and a company started from Salt Sail Lake City on OIl a visit isit to St. St George intending to hold meetings en route The high council of the southern southern south south- em ern mission arranged a series of receptions to the president and party They arrived in St. St George on September 15 tile the trip taking six days clays Previous to leaving for Salt Lake President Young selected a altoon site alto on the west of the town of Washington for a n cotton and woolen mill mUl and arranged an for work to begin at once upon construction o G G For the first time Ume in fri St. St George the second district district dis dis- dis- dis court was wa-s convened on October 16 1865 Salmon P. P McCurdy presiding James G. G Bleak was appointed appointed appointed ap ap- ap- ap pointed clerk Angus M. M Cannon prosecuting attorney and Franklin B. B deputy United States marshaL marshaL marshal mar mar- Q 0 QA I A military order was issued to Lorenzo Roundy who had been appointed captain of company 0 O of the second regime regiment t. t Iron military district ordering him to proceed at once to Kanab Kane Kanc county and build a strong fort to protect the the- people there and others in that locality fro from In hostile Indians and to enforce if f necessary the thc concentration of the families of Pah- Pah Reah of or upper Kanab and Pah em at Kanab Construction of oC forts were also ordered at Berryville and another at lower Kanab o 0 C 4 Total tithing for the ward of or St. St George for the year 1865 was stated to be prices for the products of that section it was staled were cornmeal cornmeal cornmeal corn- corn meal 15 per hundred pounds flour 20 per ier hundred hundred and was quoted at one time Ume as high at 25 shorts 10 cents per pcr pound wheat 5 per bushel molasses moll 4 per gallon and cotton 1 per pound The quotation on cotton in New York during the year 1865 was given at per pound the highest and the lowest lowest low low- est eat 35 cents e e. e In the general assembly session in December and January 1866 1866 the boundaries of oC Kane and Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington counties were were- defined and the county scats seats lo located located located lo- lo in ill Kanab and St St. George On January 16 16 1866 Pipe ipe Sprin Springs was settled d with a a. company of or thirty thirty- five ive men This was later Increased to four forty-four with three officers Colonel Daniel D. D McArthur Angus M. M Cannon and John D. D L. L Pierce Later the command secured a confession from an Indian of or the murder of or McIntyre and Whitmore Their bodies were recovered rc- rc covered and five prisoners were captured Finding Finding- of the effects of or McIntyre and WhItmore so incensed the he men that they turned the prisoners loose and th then n shot th them m to death on the ground where the two wo white whito men wen were found The bodies were badly mutilated The arrival of the bodies at St. St George caused a general suspension of business The t two o bodies were buried burled in one grave In the St. St George cemetery Twenty one vehicles and arid upwards of or people attended the funeral