Show BISHOP CLAWSON CLAWSON- Bishop Hiram Clawson filled an Rn extraordinary place in this city and state since it was vas a rude territory ter tel and the first stakes of civilization were planted here Those who knew him best hest will tell of his accomplishments ac ae- ac- ac and achievements how he was first firstin firstin in er e everything thing attempted to I improve the material conditions of or the thc territory attempted to refine the tile people pe attempt attempted cd to make Utah a more lovable place and to open Utah to more laborers involved in himself in much bu business lIe He at attended end d to that business business business busi busi- ness ever every day clay da not nut the sun more faithful From the first it was wasa a complex business requiring cool judg- judg patience and in- in great gr at ability never failing l and str strand and and it was all of a kind too that called out ut a 11 special sag sagacity i ty And yet et noiselessly he pursued his h h course never Tailing always s 's to be relied upon alwa always s 's warmed by bya a interest t in ill his work And so for for three score years yeu's he was a n pillar on which perhaps as asman many man people leaned in Utah as upon any other man But if ir we- we weare weare are not mistaken though we did not 1 kno know w him lin intimately we wc have thought for lei for years i that at tiers there c was another trait about him which second that nature nature that aside amounted inmost to from from his his' duties which c everyone e c could u d see sec he took too l r other dut duties which Ics which h to toJ upon upon- rg himself 1 r reduced J 1 ti words Jt would Ohl l mean that all his his life he hei was i s k nl a i j unostentatiously I. I i to Jo do o just a as much good gooI goodas as it iti Was in his power l to o do rio and in tl t at work he was r i PC as patient as earnest as HS he lie was in r t lie l' l moi mord j showy V i work work work-wh ork which ch all men mep x could see sec We Ve e eV I iYo O n not t know 1010 that this thi 4 is true but we believe hel eve it is r f r that to today ny in Utah are arc thousands of OL men and I 1 women omen who will think of Bishop Clawson as one who ho ho was their adviser their friend whose deepest thought seemed to be to make more men Jllen happy I today than were happy y yesterday esterday to remove ob- ob L instructions tr from paths which brought him no ie- ie ward except the cons consciousness of f making some fel- fel tov l n happier e So S not c lily ll his brain brainwork work but his heal all his life was noble could a liar dial have been kept of his life runn running pg through it would have 1 been an account of the good performed every day clay da which surely at the close would have revealed a al l mighty ty balance in his favor He TIe lived liv d beyond be the allotted age a a e of men he worked to the last literally t the halne harness s. s had not been off his back hack for years ears and if the infirmities of age made mac the bur burdens harder to bear there was no l-no ino complaint The rhe same spirit moved him every v lJ morning orning to do all the good he lie could souls through c the thc day t and md this was not confined to t his immediate relatives and close friends but it went out to the world and nd where anyone needed a friend the they j could go to Bishop Cl Clawson and i if f nothing else 1 obtain a kindl kindly word and anda a word of advice e to make the their 1 bur burden en lighter J We do not know now but it S seems to us that as the j shadows is gathered around him there must have been een the comforting thought in his mind that r. r while his hie had been a comparatively noiseless life f. f Vit iL i had been filled with such work as he he was abler able to to do and that all the tl th lc work was bashed backed y by b an inv in- in intention r v Mention tc tion altogether noble And those dear dem to him 1 will will have this one comfort as they the gather rather to per- per perform vl form the last rites over O his wa wasted ted b body d y that i through e a long life lit c he accepted that life as a trust trustS S and fulfilled every dut duty as nearly as fiS God gave ga gave him him hinh to see sec his duty dut and with the thc means gleans at hand I swiped as many tears from sorrowing e eyes eves es as it was wn I k possible for him to and nd that from first to t 0 last he 1 never wearied but bu toiled on and on n until th the sum sum- came that his work ork was finished |