Show t ft s NAN AIDED in New Jersey Tells Flow it was f 0 A It Sent to Utah as I PArlOr Part of the Plan to 10 HI War Munitions Shipped South se Dry and nn i Ju Ji iI Grud Graid Oregon OlOn Dec 1 During in atai ta recently menU to In the city of y I N N 1 J 1 It Il wu was my Joo goal 1 fort fortune uno peel t a very veteran henry L Th The soldier has baI hi Yea flar r but t III a still tents t lW roe 11 excellent memory H He wu wit with h I r f the war wal came In Johas a I a army armr to and served tit With t netlon through the CIvil War ar arhe day he bean several ie tokens Lakins lit et ht terrible bl experiences r COI STORt pooh time I called to see he rev reo f laW to tn mi some ot of hi his put pest history l cad m me by his hll accurate de or d aped and he h row laW so JO many ago that he be w war a very fr frk k keen lie He kept a careful Jour lUll sod 11 hl hi notes hotI are valuable to every person who I Ig truth regarding MIDI great tents of oC A American history 11 Ile always alway has n good on word for lor Ih the Mormons amt d It h them where over 01 opportunity He II N among them for tor years 11 from tiro 1118 Into the farl early 80 and saw their poverty find and struggles UK A the Utah Ulah war h he writ writes My 1 mind I is very clear upon that mat tr ter It wa was the most Itu fraud ever fr Imposed the American pw Ir III I believe It II wits 1 never by byth bythe the th of leas to n a war upon the Mormon peo pie JIt that Ihal was Wat only a blind for what bat after over my not of 01 that date I fled AId that IMI lat late In the fall of l rj was a ordered to but he be was not Dol to go 10 beyond linen riser r Ueral homey left Fort ort In the spring or of tW lass to hIt Johnston Johnton a he outranked the latter by several years WAR HAR TO HEIP TH THE Harts had started It dawned UIn the administration It would III nev never Ir er du do to let him rt gel Into Utah Oh Ob no DO DOI I that hat would Johnston Johnton the pliant ant hot of It the Southern and destroy their us HI would steely neke mke trouble when hI he entered J 1 II t 1 in hi the South In the early I 1 Ws and ad know that lh I I was 1 common talk It wa was often orten pre that the struggle would within ten In years hilI the North d not lIot even th think ot or war In my Arm Im opinion the whole plot of the Itah war w was for tor no other pur purl l ms than Ihn to clean llan all war mattal out or of tiro forts Corti and annals arnall and take tb the soldiers from their To fo send nd these directly Routh would h have been bpd d policy polley WAlt VA II MUNITIONS SOUTH MOUTH I know that guns and UtI ammu I w were sent tO down n the I h Missouri rl river VIII from the moving arm army These were wert put In n ewes CUll labelled dry roads The Th whole thing was hato tn in fraud Millions ot of dollars dollar were I 1 ma mar may ay r stolen gram rom th the government Look at the provision lon contracts to haul from t Iea to 10 t Utah at al iii G per r hundred weight torn lorn that cost 25 H cents per pound for tor might avo been bought In Rall Lake City for tor torr t per r be lag To Tons of flour was spoiled and thrown away Yet ft It wu was a splendid dill did thing rot tor the Mormons It p gave them work and mono mon which they Ihy dId not bOI I stave before betON flowed ow into Inlo Utah TIn MORMONS MORtONS W We found the Mormons very verr drover but an lenest and hart hard work working In people Their ways were Itt plain but they showed us II per every In their power por How I would like to h have vt you rend all my notes taken during durin my travels through llah to 10 the Ihl Virgin river They ron lain nothing but hUl pral praise for the plU Their to In me will be remember Pd Id RI na long all as I live HIIR OF 1 It Il requires strong tron fortitude to Ii live In In these days day I often viII It eel ft the In their anti and what whal I saw would l till a volume The Ihl poor In our clues do not nul know whet hilt those early rl st TM They told m ins that for tor many months they Ihy hat had no meal and they cora with II a aruck ruck to lo wt k the their r flour Their clothes were oft n mad of oC bilK bane or any kind ot of cloth tile they could get I were scarce and w bell they Ibey saw IlaW our Warm army they would offer us UI almost anything they had for tor theta Can Call anyone say y these theN were fert not lIot faithful to lC the cau cause thy they had adopted TILE THE ALMIGHTY maED Thank God we e rave ran them a new life lite The IU army I did not Jot gu go there for tor any good but It seemed that bid Oud willed It for tor Ih 1 or of th I I people t or of about twenty five e years overtook us 1111 amt t traveled several 1 days day with our lie III had Men been front from the Cedars Cedar to III alt Lake Iak LakeL eft L tr three miles with two brothels ot of pine PIM tar lar II lie t dis p tI 1 of this and was 1101 r returning with 11 bb slake k to 10 be married ht he hesaki saki 14 I 1 bec became m very friendly with him lid and learned his 1111 history from the time he left seven en or eight years before We camped In hi his yard ard for three days aad 1011 h he brought home hi new HW wife W We all loud had a Jolly lOO goad time and on leaving i 1 gave gal then some blankets Their Joy In obtaining them wn well repaid me tor the Ihl gift MOUNTAIN fIo Brigham Youn Young d did not nol have any anything thing tu to do 10 with the Mountain rr nor nur did he know knO any anything thin about LoUI It II for a long time after arlt r It oc occurred occurred Brigham Young was on one ot of the Im men In the And too smart to be mixed up In such sucha A murder No It II against all reason and common I sense No my friend with all 1111 the llie abuse ahu he got leUt h he never commit committed ted that Prim crime No ho on 1111 me III believe that th the hurh hod anything to 10 todo do with that died I who gays It did I la a tc foal I and IraS not know knol what he is III talking about I G 0 A R n Mr fr k at al resent la I lost Corn Com minder or of thE ti 0 A n It and nd has 1 a score ot of badges an ani j medals ot of honor for tor services rendered his hili country tie He took look a trip b by horseback through Mexico and central America o over r much u oc the same flame route now being taken by bythe the Ulf B 0 y Academy exploring party parI Tr this veterans testimony nary ma be treasured In the archives archive or of fair Utah I remain E D WHITING I |