| Show OF di A YET HAN Mormon Honore Octo lotter flOut HawaII To time Editor The enclosed letter leller tram from Elder John JohnM M Horner homer contains historical data which no doubt wilt will Interest many T a ot of lh the Ne News When the forty odd ached San Francisco In Inthe inthe the ot of IbM Ulla en rOil route to to China Slam Australia HawaIIan 1 Islands etc ele as al mIssIonaries Elder Horner homer and his brother b gass e us UI some hundred dollars to cover our transportation to the several fields ot of labor li assigned us b by the and A t I in glad to learn after a lapse laps ot of years art since we tact met In Eider Horner Is still hart hearty and hale lly mentally menially an and So mo ma he continue to the end of his hili days on earth Is m my fervent A MILTON II I Jan 5 isi 1901 isiA A MIlton Musser Esq SuIt Salt Lake CIl CIty Dear welcome letter bearing date or of December 1559 at hand and Contents noted with much Interest as n bringing to mind occur occurrences anti and pleasant us association of pear near years ago aro What you refer iCer to JIB as the liberal donation I never neer rl re gritted I have regretted that I duo dla not hot do more I hind had the means it at sueo tithing Slit to 10 I I P Pratt to 10 him bin on his ChilI mission and the donation you ou refer to save some smaller about all that wa contributed b by my 11 Brother Drother m myself from the property Wt we then owned OUr lotS hoes wag 81 brought on by mone money panic coupled with I large ue en You San CAn Rt get some Mm Idea of oC It front from the sketch ot of personal onal history In the he book J I mall to you ou th this letter leUer Hundreds of ilia Ia beat busIness men suffered lr lar 10 losses and sad af And Aad to 10 p pr ut nt all future rutur money monc panics Anle Is Ie the dJ hj ut of the book you 1011 refer reter to I mall mail U I two In Ifach I urn mn leased 1 to nd them I halll sent out over oven one uDe onehundred hundred to various bIll duals hub tic lIe lIbraries editors etc pic I recht th thu DIrel Deseret quite meg and I api am pleased tu to ot of tile the success the Mormons b have u maae settling up the th van valleys ot of the moun lalu Ip 10 the United I states tat Mexico an ant sand anada to them an ano may the Great Father continue his I have not at a the headquarters ot of the Saints since Inee the martyrdom of oC the J I was tn in Nauvoo two IWO dUrer eat ent year before The Th first time lime I stopped ono one Immer Wu Was Introduced to lo the on the street treet by Brother snow he shook my InY hand talked some a as h he left he saId Mid Broth er ei Hornet Horner you are a line ne looking man came and see m Inc The Jut hut time lime I wait 18 there onlY a short horl tIme lime a as the conven convention Ion tion which I 1 attended nomInated hun for tor President appointed me at as one of oC Its to tn N New w natIve lecture and endeavor to elect tile the I of the UnIted States and the people to buy up UI all al the slaves elan anti let get rid ot of slav cry ry by the year 1310 that Was wa the I counsel to 10 the nation What blood ami would have been saved ld had that counsel he heeded I started with the ret rest of my company IQ IA from New York It III the lie ship hp Brockl Brooklyn n for Cor where the Church was expected to stop and did 1 etOI but It stopped In eastern nia arid and I In western and tb the fates ha have since kept me away The Great Father has haa I merciful tf t me I will willI willbe I be 30 10 years yan nit nut next June Yet I do domy my read In and writing without glasses Ia My ly hair retains Its natural b but l my whiskers Ar gray M heAlth I is good so 80 I am able to anti ant do dl to tf m daily dIll duties dull which J I do mostly moUy on horseback Most trul truly our Brother Drother in III the Gospel J JNO O M |
