Show A VETERANS TESTIMONY Among the First to Reach Kituao Oat of the List to Lau 11 Teeing Joen II 111 n1 fin peel nee feet In 1r1 Yea 010 In lareslag aketeu JIUNTimiTUM lmeryCo Utah Heplembsr 11 IaG4 Jibe Dessert Aiur looking over the account of r the reunion of the Ilatlallon boys thello near and the Indian war veteran II brings to mind many face and scenes ef limes long pail I am not a Jlattal Ion boy nor one of the M3 I 1loneers for when the body of the Halnta belt Nauvoo they left me on a sick bed and lu poverty but I was soon busy fitting myself up and trying to help the poor who were hell behind Myself and n T Le Haron had charge the Nau TOO Temple exhibiting to strangers until It was burned I remained at 1 Nauvoo until the spring of 1890 when 1 started with my family lo follow the Halnla lo the mountains On arriving at KauesTllle found that the cholera had broken out aiuoiusl our people and 1 wa Obunseltd to slop liner and practice invdloliie among Ihe sick which 1 did until the sprinic of IBM when 1 irepared lu flnlsu my Journey lo the mountains On account the high waters It was thought best lo try logo around Ihe bead waters of the Klk Horn and Loop Fork and II look us lU weeks lo make the journey of one week ou the old rood There are many now living who remember the trials and aullerlngs of that Journey for want ot feed wood and water We arrived lu Ball Lake City the tat of October having been nearly four months on this road There are many liiolJeutsot that Journey that would look well In print The first twenty I SO years of my life In Utah ware spent iiio lly on the Frontier or among the Indians I became Identified wllh bbl Church lu heel moved la Klrl laud In 1811 left than lu the ICIrtlaud camp In IMS was among the first at Mauvoo and last lo leave there so have pasnl through all the Klrllatid and Nauvoo troubles the Indian and other wars lu Utah and now at 1 almost otylo years of age am still here lo mlutlo my voice with yours III the great work Hut my hands have done tiller work and 1 am fast nearlng that Leper laud 10 net tbol dear Irlands who have gone before uie and I arn still as I always have been llrni In the faith of the true and overlaying Uospel broghl lo us through Ihe 1ro Inlet Joseph rjuillb 111 Is I a Eeueral lime of health here The armor are busy harvesting Ihelr crops which are good although a little damaged by the late rains Four ihooli start up Monday and builutsi Is going right aloug regardleis of hard IIUil tillWllh Wllh kind regards Your Hrolber In the Uospel ha W JUIIMUN HEN |