| Show IXJKINTANA AMI WAS UlSIiTOS trill 01 Lltee Ossenn nea 4 Is ii 1111waee oboe lltLiVA Montana August crib i89 To HIP Editor Just as we were leaving Untie City we milled a correspondence lo your paper and set out on the Great Northern railway rail-way for Helena Montana This route Is very picturesque and l desirable to the traveler One of Ihe most beautllul vegetable gardens we have seen since leaving Uiah we found at the head ol the gulch at Helena or nearly so where U be conics narrow with lame ol Ihe old log huts on the hillside Near this garden which Is cultivated I la lu highest pitch richly manured and 1 watered so Hut Ills very attractive abounding In all sorts of Maltraclivc tftr frenti vegetables ll n brewery on Ihe hillside hill-side anil beer gardens very tastefully arranged 1 with made trees evergreens tables chairs walks flower In variety to entice I and ensnare many spiders and lnltJ lover ol Sunday revels I One of the proprietors said that w here these gardens are was once placer diggings nnd the Wotl homes and gardens followed fill I said Ihe proprietor If I had all the gold don to the bed rock below these gardens gar-dens of beer and l pleasure I would tell no more beer We found Iwo of Ihe Henson brother Jared G and Hyrum Hon of the late Ider 1 Lira lIenloll who were engaged en-gaged In the transportation business and aril build nz a Urge stone warehouse near the Northern Pacific depot Iwo miles dun from the LUIcli city U e took rooms and I hav e hired l the G A It hall for bunJiy and visited Governor Gov-ernor J I Kickardi alter a pleasant l chat with him he gave us letter of In troductlon lu the good people of Montana Mon-tana He said he should be pleased la servo us while In his slate and should l he be In Helena at the lime 01 our meetIngs meet-Ings he would attend them We called upon the caitors of the Herald and the Independent who promised us notices ol our meetings and we look the Great Northern cmycight miles out to Wolf Creek while awaiting our Sunday meeting meet-ing We passed through seven tunnels on our way front tulle lo Wolf Creek two of which are over one mite each Once moro before reaching Florence 1 our next move we snail pass through lr I and over the Rocky i mountains which will be four times for us In tills well named state Montana After our visit lu Wolf Crick where there Is more missionary I work to be done wo got notices no-tices published In the dl fno Herald I I the 1 Independent gave us about one halt column In the Sunday morning paper and on Monday morning nearly two columns synopsis ol discourses and the Ankles ol Faith 1 this paper goes 10 thousands ot leaders Our success suc-cess at the capital has been quite satisfactory satis-factory I mvAun STKVTNJOV M F COWLKY TOST FALLS August sfJtli 1896 Leaving the capital city of Montana Helena we fell as though we had made u successful vUll to this city of about 11000 people Our meetings In the G A R Hall and the publications In the press which we obtslned I we considered l of no small Importance as wo had the opportunity ol sending the articles ol our fallli bore many thousands ol the reading public From Helena we went to Florence where we were met by a Mr John tones who lives Iwo miles from the small new town of Florence Mr Jones married one l X bll ol Patriarch I Milo Andrew daughters and located here some few year ago nmTr r on i6o acres rrl land They have made a good home plenty of fruit on Ihe farm eol good quality train grows well the tacks of nay and grain with flesh vegetables looks like civilization after spending so much lime in mining camps The change Is I very agreeable la find summer and rural life once more Vu think thai there Is much calls Ilonary work 10 be done In Hitter Root valley We soon arranged for two meetIng meet-Ing Ina log house and school for Hunday the jrd of August The people are very busy haying and harvesting We visited l and made Wend and on Sunday attended a Sunday School had the opportunity to speak In the school and gave out our npolnlmcnu In the afternoon I we had a slim but good meeting jl ing and at night I II a crowded house with excellent results We rifted I twenty Ivl miles up the valley and found I a sitter Wayeclt who will entertain our Elders I and so will others The opening here I rn good I illll this valley rfsal much fine Umber and favorable soil wild gooseberries goose-berries hucklrbenles cherries service berries etc Sister Jones suns kept us well supplied with phensanU grouse and prairie I hens which abound and bisler Jones has flocks of lame chickens und turkcvi The Flathead l Indians have been bought out and moved sonic distance away ware told llhat they were mostly made Catholics by a Catholic Iricst named Italia from whom lids country takes Its name On Tuesday August 3sthIlrother and l Sister Jones took us in a carriage lo Florence Station and gave us some money They have treated us with that i to kindness which the Lord blessings follow fol-low We blessed three of their children during our slay there E 1 STKJlIISOf SPOKANE Spokane County Washhglon Atlgutt tst l iSgi To the Editor Alter cur picturesque ride l over Lake Coeur dAlene and l nine miles by railroad rail-road 10 fast Falls oolnal county Idaho l we were met by Mr Samuel Young who once lived al Preston Oneida county Idaho He I took uII two miles to his home and l made us very welcome Mr Young has a arm ol lOo acres joining Spokane river U looks prov iking to see a large dt below al passing la waste sixty Ice below his orchard of 300 trees which are pirtlally I perishing for want of water running lu a washout into the Pacific oesn TIIUII sandicf ants of land are similarly situ algid A lot of M or man boys out hero would l have this river oul over the country coun-try Mr Young a number ol Ihe Methodist church was surpilied to flavor their church doors doled to Hit latter day Saints Ilutwe obtained the Grand l Army Hall f for two meetings bundayal J p I m and 8 p I m jolh trial riils country underwent a boom a few tears ago when Past Tall went up at lever heat but now ll Is I down below < ero many empty house and l several sales up In smoke but they w ere heavily Insure Dili part ol the country is In avery a-very sad condition We hate liken a picture of fast falls where a nun working rlclure ing at the saw mill wenl down ncr again In be found Two miles brl iw thus falls at high 1 tide n wum n nun and Ids lou wire drowned We hate promised la itll a 1110 all over the mtr on Saturday and cat fish Irons this river with him lie II the husband of the wonan ho met the sid fate of a w alny grave A small boy was leaven shore with great remonstrance The woman laid II anything happened to then he coulJ she Ihe alarm and ll was Ihe only alarm given which brought relief The boat nearly reached the opposite shore when II lipped all out but the sun of tile woman who with llio others was struggling I In the swift I current I One boy caught hold and dinned a free The II lgodw llo rl dIn boy la the boat with one oar and water In the bait lullovted with desperate strokes after his mother and alter u long chase was nearly ready la grasp her when Ihe boat tank under him He barely gained a tree climbed up and remained re-mained f until li p m beloro he I was rescued res-cued i but the floor mother was lost i rJ The man and boy who lited on Mr 1uunIts farm where we now are Also met a watery crave hence three out ol the five were FIe These are aid tales I of Past Falls I Tho mm who was thus bereaved of his wife mill us the id tale with heavy heart He said he should leave lima country We shall try and console him on our Vint with him by en llzhtenlnj Marginal In regard lo the Mormon hope ol joining our wives fathers mothers brothers sisters and friends on Ihe other side the present parting being only lemponry with those who have made ihelr calling and election 1 elec-tion sure through the liws ot A restored Gospel prlesllmod and sealing I power which like Peters sealing on earth Is confirmed In heaven Peter received a revelation as lo who Christ was and Jesus said He would build His 1 Church upon this rock of revelation rev-elation As a Christian minister lately said to me a church without revelation Is I no church at all bull said he Mr bletenion It Is death In the pot lo preach It In I our day of unbelief 1Oi sealing power has Teen restored llo the Prophet Joseph Smith lo seal husband and l wile for this life and for the life to come Now If we can open the eyes ol this bereaved family do lead Ihem Into the door ol Limits Church we shall hate conferred upon him more value than all r this part ol northern Idaho Lei us hope that our meeting here on the banks of this river ol sid scents and event may not be in vain Our turns and Iwo very successful meetings were In Past I alls nine miles only from r where Judge llugan I died a 1mlror eal ah little more than I a year ago he was a Utah barrister who married a Young and soon left her n poor w blow One man said fo hat I fII Mormon heaven for a man lo enjoy his privileges where there are no more tears or parting part-ing to me It Is superior lo going beyond l the bounds ol I lime and space to filing for beaten I One Mr Koss came for one of our cards with our address and Articles I of faith and said where were yau r In I461 1 With tie Mormons of course Then I saw you with the Mormons exile to tin West for they passed my house III Iowa II Hut sir did you then see that we should build up cities and Temples l J nuking a silt land I I not Inhabited abound with pools roses happy homes Temples and cities I from Canada onlhe North la Mexico I I on the South One woman came up to Ihe stand say log I want to shake your bands lor I heard Ibis doctrine when a young girl I loved II then I love It still One I more said I paid my money to build Ihe Mclhodest Church but not lo shut III doors against such Mormonism as you reach One of Ihe trustees said II eave e-ave In our library a book that speaks hard against the Mormons and we have read Anna IMil Youngon Mormonism Yes sir andjlt was butt such lies that murdered our Savors well the t-he It Is not to gentlemen like you thai we close our church but Mormoniim hut I shall come and hear you at the Grand Army Hall lie did come and many oilier and l we felt that Utah was better represented by onr Irlendt than by our enemies for mill we feel to thank God as ambassadors or so good a came Tills Is a hard country but doubtless some good 1 sheep are hereabout here-about ImVAKU STKtENSON M 1 I Lou Lev |
