| Show Now KNOW UTAH I 1 L By ALBERT F. F Fe PHILIPS It was Just an Id scrap b book o bt but t It Jt told toM l i a number of t pretty stories In tho way of t. t biographies of ot Be several I members or of tho the constitutional aI convention Tho pictures pic plc tures or or r tho the ri newspaper pcr cuts cut w were r made from troi phalle pl wes which Were cre us used d t to Illustrate tile the columns of or the tho p pi pe es en 0 of that Jay day many of at tho ho l pictures being drawn b by the famous sculptor Mahonri l Young who was san then one of t tIC tle b best artists In tn the country S Front Fron Beaver r county as a n member oC the constitutional constitutional convention camo camo John Riggs Murdock l who vho was president nt of ot Beaver stake lot of ZIon from 1887 1881 to 1891 He lIe had hed tho r reputation put of t moving moro more Latter Latter- day dy Saints from th tho Missouri J lisso river to tho the mecca In Salt Lake Lako valley valle than any other member of ot the church Ills uro was vas largely spent on the frontier On his wa way frOm Nau Nauvoo oo to the tho west he ho enlisted in th the Mormon battalion and with the ha battalion Un marched all the way ay ron from Fort L l Kansas ansas to San Diego DIeg Cal Calf After his discharge from the battalion J e made his way In tn company of ot many others of ot the battalion to the tho Great Salt Lake valley and und reached th tho sit sUP sito of or Salt Lake eH tRy City wh ro ho lie arrived d October 12 1847 after arter a no t tedious jour Journey ey of ot 1200 miles S In 1856 ho took toole a R. most active part patt arl in the r rescue cU of or f the handcart companies who w were re perishing InI in inbe I tb lh be snowstorms and u when ho brought in hi somo some of or th the the- suffering ring immigrants the snow Y on Big Mountain J was nas fifteen feet deep To Xo o of or those who h cross crossed d th ho the plains before the tho Union Pacific railroad was built his ils name is very familiar Ho He was sent cast five lve times as as captain of or church trains after tho poor lOor S Captain Mui dock carried tho the malls mails from Salt Lake Lalie C City to Independence Mo nt at a of ot sixty mU miles s a aday aday day and in iI the tho summer of oC 1857 he traveled from Salt Lake jako City to Independence in fifteen days at the rato rate of eighty miles per day Th The trip was was with but three changes of or animals grass fed fed four our tw twe twenty milo mUo drives being made mad each da day An Au Anan Annn an nn o of or th the B. B Y X company ho lie made rondo two round trips to tho states in 1857 in unprecedented short time In 1858 ho he v went to Omaha as an an escort to o Colonel Thomas Thomas-L. L L. I Kane ane making the Ute round lOund trip of ot 2120 miles mies with tho the same same- animals in two forty traveling tray trav cling eling da days day He no also bi brought ought trains trains' of oC merchandise for tor or L Livingston and Bell In the earlier days das 1 i Altogether C Captain In Murdock 1 made eleven v trips Trips acro across s the tho plains Ho Ito is ith m making king a n. better bet- bet ter cr than any n other othet man in bringing ox and nule l trains Ins across oss tho the plains an and over mountains S 0 In tho the spring of 1864 1861 Captain Murdock l was was' 01 ordained or or- to the office of or a bishop by President Young Xoung and nd sent Bent to preside over B Beaver 3 aver nver He presided until 1877 1871 when he lie was chosen a and d set apart to preside over the Beaver stake of Zion as ns its ita president and andor for tor- or fourteen years cars ho held hed that position He lIe served eight ight t terms In tho thol lower wez house of th the territorial legis- legis atura laturo and one in tho the state senate S S Captain Murdock also served as probate judge of Beaver count county and is as s a colonel l In tn th the Iron cou county military y dIstrict Jn in n 1897 1891 when t the Murdock academy my in Beaver cr was uis opened for tor the rec reception of ot students It Hm wn named after him H E He was was was' one onti of or orthe he the the first commissioners s of ot the county The academy was was vas closed two t years years' ag ago Efforts are now being made to have the tho state sato 8 atc take taka takeover over 1 tho the b buildings s and d j grounds grounds' for a a. school for the feeble I I A L A |
