Show IN MIDDLE UtNUNIE I Visit ID 111 of It 31 te r E llr ilhalbO llrrr I CANE Creek June old 1897 To The Eilllon rrhap a few lilies front this locality will Lc of interest to your readers and especially to those interested in this part of the Lords vineyard This place is I still fresh J in the memory of Lancrday Saints and ail reflect wild i sorrow on the mac of Elders Globs and Berry on Cane Creek Lewis county Tenuessee Little did I think when reading of this cole hooded murder that it would ever be my lot to see the place nnd converse with Ihe people ol thU locality IS Hid r Bench and I were on a tour viilting the Elders of our conferenc we found It necesFiry to go through this stction or walk twenty or tlnriy miles around Ai missionaries set all the liking they want we dec tied to take the or of 11 11 Coming up Cane Creek we were busily engaged In convening upon present coDlircnce duties but as we cane near the place of this sad occurance oar thoughts flew from the present 10 the review thotifhis f so te view nz of events so lie fourteen years ago m hm two 01 God servants sealed their testimony uith their blood Ve ate dinner near the Condor farm here the shooting took placi passed the houses or Widow llinson I and sun saw the grave of Mr llinson the leader ol the mob and the man killed by one ol the Condor boys We iloppd at a number of houses and talked with the pet 11 They seemed gieatly iupnsul I teeing Ihe Mormon Elders m that neigh borhood again People were not inclined in-clined to talk of the past but by questioning ques-tioning them we learned their slue of the story We were Impressed wi ith the unetisiicst manifest while loIlrirg l upon this sublet proving a tuilty conscience and achnu heart All seemej 10 regret tlie actions < ol the mob and oae nun said it was a big mislako The mistake mis-take Is sellevident in following the lives > nd misfist tistit sot those pnrticuiannj m that butchery of gooJ men This people peo-ple gave ma an object lesson demonstrating demon-strating the fro hMnss ol Pauls writings writ-ings wheie in he siys Be not deceived God is I cot mocKed for uhatsoevera man soue h that hall he also reap Th Fe people soured the wind they are reaping the whirlwind Surely the curdts pronounced upon ancient ds obedience and sat Is aljo being visited upon molern wickedness Wo are if correctly Informed the first rIJts lo vi isll the neighborhood that were kiumn to tilt people since the killing Elder Ben came through here disguised as a lumber man E tier Rob < Its came after the bodies m his well known make up we could not keep from smiling when people were describing describ-ing that undertaker Most people were Mod though SOloW hat Serious lo know the purpose ot our vis t Some ere at one time interested Itl the Go pel and I think the time U I not far ills rant mhen a good work will be dorm in I this country The sol ovid > not he made > his appearane had there not been I lambs near by Elders Gibbs and Deny were held in hUh esteem by the ref peel able I people of this anJ all neighborhoods ri hoods where they labored many wou d ndr shed tears when telling ol the last time the Elders visited their homes before gong go-ng 10 their place for death Those who mourn th I I IOM of these I servants tught to have comfort In Christs sayings whosoever will cave hit life shall lose It and whosoever will lobe Ins life lor my sake hall find it We have thirty sit Elders In Middle Tennessee Conference and all are orkillg for tbe spread of truth our lab rs me beating runs in a goodly number ol biptUm I some Sunday school an J branches of the church We shall be p easeJ to hear front Elders and people at horns hiving friends and relatives here NELS P NELSON President Middle Tennessee Con ference |