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Show I WEATHER REPORT I TearatnTe M nssfsai aanaa end kiosk. InstraiiMati en roof ef office of-fice 143 feet hither tana those la tooak. TODAY'S TBMPBATUE. Root of Boston BMc. Kloak. Maximum ytrdy tt 9S Minimum reeterday ........7 64 Minimum today (4 (1 c a. m. today sr 7 a. m. today (4 1 t a. m. today .... 4 a. m. today 71 71 1 a. m. today 7t 71 II a- m. today ?! tl Noon today 80 M I p. m. today U tt Brig ham Young Died Thirty-Four Years Ago Today Just thirty-four yean ago today Brig-ham Brig-ham Tonng, pioneer leader snd second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died in the Lion house. No other man in the more than eighty years of the history of, the Mormon Mor-mon church ever wielded sueb an influence in-fluence over the members of the church as he did. Brigham Young was born at Whittingham, Va June 1, 1801. His parents were members of the Methodist Episcopal ehtrreh, of which he became a member when boy. It was sot until ha was nearly SO years old that he heard of the teachings of Joseph Smith. With his brother, Joseph, he made a study of the new religion and on April 14. 1832, was baptised as a member of the Mormon church. 'Oa February 14 he was ordained aa anostle of the church aad a short time later went on a mission to Canada. Early in the '40s he went en a mission to England. Following Fol-lowing the murder of Joseph Smith and hie brother, Hyrum, at Carthage, 111., in 1844, Brigham Young was ehoaea as the president of the quorum of the apostles apos-tles and as ench directed the affaire of the church with that body until he was choeea aa the president of the waa he who directed the movement of the body of the church from Nauvoo te Far West and later to Utak. he being be-ing one of the first party which arrived in Salt Lake valley en July 24, 1847. During the rush for gold in California ia 184 and 18S0 Brigham Young bad a rather kard 'job holding his people together. Thousands of gold seekers passed through Great Salt Lake City, as it was then known, oa their way to the eoast. Tales of the wonderful strikes made ia a few weeka eame to Utah. For a time it looked as though half the able bodied men ia Utah would leave in search for wealth. Ia a sermon at the "Bowery," which stood oa the present tabernacle site, Brigham preached a sermon ser-mon agaiaat any ox the members of the church leaving Utah ia search of gold, during that eerman he is quoted as saying; say-ing; "Brethren, keep away from the holes ia the ground, stay at home, cultivate culti-vate the soil and support your wives and children and yon will never regret it" He followed this up by aa almost sbsolute command that the members of the church etay at aome and that they not follow after the lost ef gold. His advice was generally heeded. It ia said that the diaeoateated were sent on "missions" to open ap aew parts of the state. I 1 I |