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Show UTAH HAWAIIAN COLONY, j in Inlereslloj Visit to the Settlement y la Sinll Valley. i ' lll.t.rr of Ihe lUatli.-The Boons!- rrlj.-'lnl or lu. Sutlte. Fr.acnt Coadllloo. l Cvrrtiptmltn(t Vtttnt .Vw. Josum, Tooele Co., Uttb, May IS, 1893. In traeli throughout the ettlemenU uf the Balnta I IiaTo t 1 length reached tha Initiating little V cilony koown as Jos.pe, iltuetsd In Bkull Till.y, In Tootle county, Uuli, on the toriler of the great American 1 deaert. The place li thirty mllei froni ClrantiTlll., end la reached by paining around the north end of the Onxjuli rang of mountains which separate Tooele and Hush valleys from Skull valley. The latter, which la leparaltd from the desert proper bJ " Cedar range on the west, extendi north and j aoutb. for a distance of about forty mllei; IU average width la nearly twelve mllea; on the north It openi out 4 Into the desctt luiinedlittly west of the i Great Bait Like. Moil of the area of thlaTalley comlitaof aalt msrshea or alkali flatt whtoh extend up from the ' lake on the north through nearly the entire Tallty, but diminishes In 1 breadth, ae It epproaohei the loulb. It )i waa named Bkull valley at an eaily ' day from the fid that a number of ' human ikulla were found on He barren eurface; at (lnt these ikulli wore tup- I oaed to belong to tome of the unfor , J lunate emigrant! who In 15(3 at- ' I tempted to oroaa the deaert In the III- !tt fated Hatting! company; but later C auppoiltlona are to the etlect that they were Indian remalnalelt to bleach on i the deiert. JoMpalailluittdonlhe eaataldeof the valley, where the landa alope fioin i Ibe bue of the mountain! on the eul f to the center of the Talley wettwarJ. In early Utah daye the late Wb,II. Hooper bad a ranch here, which aubatquenlly paitedlnto the bands of John Quluoy Knowlton, and thut It became known at the Knowlton Ilauob; the Knowlton family and a few otbere who bad looatid at different i point! In the Talley. where tbero i were aprlnga ur amall ilrtanii of water, wtreat length organlitd Into a bianob of the Clmrob and exlited aa iuoh ai a partoflhoUrantevllle ward for love. ral yean; finally the ranoli wai pur-obawdbyJebnT. pur-obawdbyJebnT. Illch, who In Ib39 aold It to Ibe Joiepa company which now owm It. It waa at the springs on which Joeepa now li located that the lamented lament-ed Hastings oompany of 1810 separated, the Uonner party which afterwards pertihed In the Sierra Nevada mountain!, taking a snutln.ni tbuto around the deiert, while the enilgrante under Mr. llaitlnga took a northwesterly ooune aorota Bkull Talley, naulnir oTir the Cedar range ,.i. of mountains through what lt known if to tble day aa Hailing'! l'an. Near V the dlTldeln thUpau,on the eaitern i tlope la Ibe Itedlam aprlng, a mere . seepage of wattr gaihlng out from the grouud, which wae the lut water the poor emlgranta found for a dlitance of elghty-ilx mllet. From the top of the Cedar range, l'llotl'eak In northeastern northeast-ern Nevada la Tlilble, and the dlitance ) acrou the deceptive deiert. doei not teem to be Tery grtal, although It It ntarty 100 mllea. It It supposed the Ilaitlngi oompany In looking aoroM I In tbelr eagerucit tn reach the Paolflo ' ooait by the aboctett road poulble thought they oould easily crou In a day, and alerted out with the expectation of reaching the lofty mountain peak beyond without mucn ', dllllculty; and It le alio supposed tuat they were encouraged to make the attempt at-tempt by the llluiloui of ponds of water, wuloli lj the wanderer on Ibe dtiert appear frequently, and soois. tlinee appear to be within a few hundred hun-dred yard! of where on atandi, when In reality tbtre may be no water of any description within a radlut of fitly mllet. Beildea thli deceptive mlriage, the duiri possesses another llluitTo peculiarity. Here and there on the dead level and barren surface growa miniature buibee of greasewood and , olherially vegetation, wbloh by Ibe lingular propsrtLs of certain atmoa-pbeilo atmoa-pbeilo conditions are magnified to the eyri of the traveler to auch au extent that they, In the dlitance, appear like large tieea or fine groves, or, according to the tbape of the bum like lome other large object. But In approaching tbem they aeeui to diminish and at length tun weary wanderer discover! that there n neither water nor ibady graves; the whole It limply deluiloui of lliu deiert. The member! of the Huntings company which itarted out from bkull Valley In ISttl nearly polished before reaching theotheratdeof the great dei.rr, ami yeira afterwards their bouei were found bleaching In Ibe auo; aim many of tbelr wagoni, chains, yokes, camping camp-ing tiiulpage, not a ipeak ol the remain re-main of animals, were discovered atrewu along the track made by the company; tills trai-k li still visible uud can be traced without dlriloultv clear "' aoroti the deiert. The fulness of the Gospel waa first Introduced to tbo natives of the Sandwich Sand-wich lalands In 1630 by Ueorge IJ. Cannouand olbtn; but emigration ol Hawaiian! from tnu Islands being prohibited by law, a gathering place known aa Lata waa Indue course of tlme(lbllo) established on tbu Island ofOahu, to wliloti many of tho natives who had embraced tbo fullness of the Uospel gathered, and where there la still a prosperous community of Latter-day Balnts. About the year lb03. u native by the name of Napela, tbu Tery first Hawaiian baptized by HIJer Ctiiuou on tbu Haudtvloh Island, by special permtsslou visited Utah, und on his return lo the Islands gavo a Tery favorable report of what lio hid seen at tbo heiidiiuarleraof IhvfJIiurob, In 1873, two Hawaiian boya were brought to Utah, alto by special per-mlsifon per-mlsifon one named Kills by Ueurge Ntbeker, and the other (KaUaua) by Wllllsin Klug; the latter remained with Elder Klug for uuny.years and Is now a resident uf the Joiepa colony: the other Is In Haiti, ake City. The next Uandwlch Islander who recelvej per-tnltslou per-tnltslou to go to Ulali was Kaulalnamo-ku, Kaulalnamo-ku, an Intelligent mtlvo and a lloeut , speaker who In 188H-8U llllsd a very tuo- i reisfulmttslouto tbo natives ol N'uw , 1 Zealand. He Is the only Hawaiian 5 it bo has been sentou a forelKU mission H HZ? ,h" beadquartirs of the CUiin li. I rhlsmauflratiameto Utah In W8. jgtgaw "boreturued from a mlaslou to the Ulinds. Kaulalnamottu was clvon employment on the Temple lllook, whtre he eadoavored to learn the carpenter'! IraJe, and n house was built for him In tho Nineteenth ward. When Elder Harvey H.CIulTtulurnid from one of hi! missions to Ibe Island! In 1882 he brought three families (eight siuli) of Hawaiian! with him to Halt Like City. Thetu also settled In the Nineteenth ward. In the meantime the law against the emigration emigra-tion of natives from the Islands was re-lealedor re-lealedor modified and alnco thou a number of Hawaiian Balnls.deslrous of of catbcrlng to the headquarter! of tbo Church, emigrated to Utah, accompanying accom-panying dlllerent Lldera who relumed from tbelr missions. Most, If not all of these natives, settled In the Nineteenth Nine-teenth ward, In the Immedlite neighborhood neigh-borhood where Kaulalnamoku flrrt located. At the Immigration of Hawaiian! Increased tho iitiss-tlou iitiss-tlou of finding suitable employ-ment employ-ment for their behalf waa sprung, and deliberations In them wero entered Into by the First Presidency Presi-dency of the Churoli, who appointed Kldort W. W. Clufl, Harvey IT. Clufl and F. A. Mitchell a tpeolal committee commit-tee to eiamlne different locations lu Utah with a view of finding a suitable track of laud on which lo tstlle the Hawaiian Balnts. Tbo choice of the commltte fell upon the so-called so-called Knowlton Hindi, In Bkull Valley, about aoventy miles southwest south-west of Bait Like City. A company waa cODicijuoolly formed and duly Incorporated according to the laws if the Territory, which purohased the ranch; and steps were Immediately liken lo remove the Hawallana to it. Teams and the neceisary help were furnished by tho Balnts of Tooele county to move thepeolo and their eflecli; and the 25th day of August, USD, witnessed tho arrival of forty-six Hawaiian! end ono white man who wat with them, beildot three missionaries mission-aries (Harvey H. fluff, F. A. Mitchell and Kllbu Uarrtll) who had been oalltd lo assist and direct the labori of the Hawaiian! at the ranch, whloli liai bien nimed Joiepa, tho Hawaiian for Joiepb. A towmlte wot Imaitdlatcly surveyed, lioutea commenced and other lrnroTt-mtnti lrnroTt-mtnti male, and before tho cloio of the yeir 1889 the Inhabitants of the now colony were quite comfortably rtalbered In toelr new homo, Kldcr Harvey H. ClufT remaining In charge of the colony until Ibe lall of 1SIM, when cawanuoceeded by Elder Wm. King, Who presided until bit death which recurred on the Kill day of February, 1803. The nxt day Elder Harry It. dull waa called to assumo hit former responilbllltlea aa president of the colouy, and true lo his Chirac-terlitlcaasa Chirac-terlitlcaasa minute man he Immediately Immedi-ately proceeded lo Joiepa lu lakv charge anew. His labors from that time on teemt lobave been crowneJ with luccen; many Improvements have been made lu the aetllsmem; muoh new land baa been brought under cultivation, and tho pros-pectaof pros-pectaof maklUK tha colony a succm are perhaps better now than ever before. Moil of the Hawaiian Balntaactm tote tatlifled Willi tbelr location, allhouib to dlllerent In nearly near-ly alt ret pacta to far at natural facllillee are concerned to their former home uu the "Islands of the e.a." Elder Clull la assisted In blalabora by Elders Banil, E. Woolley and a llrother Hansen who have been called as missionaries to labor In tbo oobny; two olhtr while men are employed at preunt, while employment Is furnished all the native! na-tive! wbu can and are willing to work. Tha re are a number of good tlogert among tbu natives In the colony, and alio some who can produce Instrumental In-strumental music. A number of these, on Invitation from President Clufl visited Ibe mission bouse whero I slopped list eTenlng, and for the first lime In my life I bad the pleasure of listening to Hawaiian muitc There are at present about eighty natives lu the settlement, thti msjorlty of whom live lu the ten houses already erected on the townsltc; tho rest In the old ranoli buildings. Tbere Is also an Indian village In Bkull valley, about teu mllea aouth of tho Hawaiian, where the Inhabitant! art tllllog the loll successfully, building bouses and learning bow to live as white people; these Indisnt are nearly oil members of tbo Church. Anihii:w Junbon, |