Show I RICHARDS ICHARDS President Pioneer and Editor in BY ji 1 W HII 1 I H I i III IIII I 11 hAT do I lC t W Y W 1111 hI Levi at his home on C Li a aO laye ao a Well S ell to teI yoU ou tho truth truthE O ot of lilA arid his hf I E r much Ither but bf h ii ILl as a ot hll hIi public work vork tor or I 1 wits WIlS yet et n a boy when he out In public You rou t Iu hI Ya not hot much ot of Mr 1111 and his h lint I recall well one nt ot of hili time the thu slay th the hll hou lit It was wa brought ot De rt Nw N wi Iame eme out He Be toll told to dinner him Ihl th cJ ey Y hm with It ft the work ot of U At th uLU tallE about us u tout fie nien he gave ave mu mo that copy cOl i It fr Cr yar oi IA a and I 1 Il In inthy ot the ot thy at I 1 aM a JUt II It anti It right ht after atter that I hall had a hance th th IIII the tho rt wa a from money tn in rarI nl my too wan va the th money 1 anti called me in or 01 one day carrying tho er to ow flip ft a place theo th lo II be hi till ii The lIml folk tolk nt It III I In tome hati the tuk ot of rolling thu Iho III os to tolie Willard was WIP more ot of a father athel father for tor Iu took mo ma mahen own my ml lie on and brought ml me hn hen I 1 Willi ers the In I 1848 8 4 S tho ho long lOll Journo to being ont lont on a my fly own when Ihn the main bod ot oC tho lb LintS from Winter han moving th the wagon wo we ler rs I camp ot of tho inter era ern it heep wagon IntI t 1 I t it Iw hail ahlo don dool ml I brok m fly ilc I by Ilon the Iho to tn the tho Ie me ie that thai Unco kept 1001 tr mo me m my and often nn olon lessons lie wait n a iiI Ie WI him IR ns n maii bo oy but IAn Ii h never IUt Tile that I rf r heat or oC member omber Once wo we had hod t a pone tul full anti and I to 10 rIle pacI ot of rilo iq lIe mo me motOI bout on them In tle the vator Il it but the tho to quit doIng tOI Dl It told me I out wn to meted wor ort t he 11 wai In the tho hout ut sen 1 old was ret wesl Ichards block and I tile tho fun tun or f the tho Temple eral ral ot of my uncle nl a one ot of the tho lint boyish In the Iho City ange I lial hac lie He WI IRa that ran old channel ot of reek creek s al an h the I lot lot but the bOIl hotly WAS waa later re 10 moved to 10 tho city II lii that lo t there thero Wt wu mie thIng strongly fiat hi his very ver Ilat and ande nd In tho days WM was very vory Ir I stood he e It while On day as b cre the tho at hi his worn taco face ho houn un Inor In tO Ivo me II a ti tilte IW o the LIt I l Inn honey l that th t had been pen procure procured 1 for or him hini Mr Ir shared wih with C mm Kim the ot of being a coun elar elarto bal exodus to Y Young In the westward With John Taylor he was waR In the tho jail at when tho ho Prophet ww R killed 1 1 ell with ParD 1 Pratt remonstrated these two 10 wih 1 eel ed 1 ith during time the interim Ih ot of Brigham Young YounK to until tho tb selection unU tIc Church ChUlch At ho he be began nn his lad city and M as Jullie ci a 1 to tho Prophet Joseph When the movement began ho waR wan chosen choson ot of the first band ot of pioneers 18 1 a with the tho nn end came to the tho vae valley returning wih to make the trip again the n next x he was the sec summer At Salt Leke wal fec ot A tit tnt 1 rvIn In that cap tr fr time state ot of Deseret Iter nb hb w ot of the tho council counci ot of the territorIal le legislature anti first postmaster post master being time first editor ot of time the ewI he was os the tho Church hh ht brian iris His then WI was a bUsy lift uto In time the pioneer lays Like Mi th the men who are men UkI narb ni inept In this series erleR o of and state hI he wih ith the future sti still bright before him His age was only 60 but year had been Ils with Jed JOI Jeddiah diah 1 had hl ben 1 sti still younger for tor tore 4 41 at his hll death dath he e was only Parly I p WI VI vaa only 10 e and I F Whitney i aa only n Al All the men were WI with their taik ot of a generation of t h befort thA th tn task l wu as uc no begun ld seeing the UI now common wealth berul o MI It fret before laII laying lown th burdens wel wih with whIch they hal hail grappled while nm men th the documents ot of thC the I is one on h by entitled Two Minutes In Jail Jai It I test tells of the mar ot of Ju fph anil Smith II in a thrilling and manner hen 11 Smith west n as the tho plans ot of his In InI n I made mad hIM doom oom appear certain YI VIl VIllard ell lard lurd went with him crossing the In a skir skiff to brinK bring him to the tho Hockle when the tho prophet returned And to the mol mob who ol operated I L AU pl to 10 In Ins or mew I IR heRs Ile him voluntarily him 1111 I to 10 jail eun refusing to leave him when ho he Into al an Inner ce wih with the th mob n nI nil t jail Jai I ills Of oC what In the Iho on the JIl jail II In part ns as bali thrown up UI A of musket bal were the stairway atall the 11 door ot of the prison to owel b by many rapid footsteps I ball wn was ent nl through the door which hit Byrum bal on time side ahle ot of th the nOl nose when whon I hi ha felt at length with without without hI el As he struck time out moving hi feet Al hoot he exclaimed I 1 em a deti moan man snapping the tho revolver Into the doorwAY Mr Taylor stood at a his aId Bide and knocked down wn the bayonets and ami t al were uth the doorway while I stood h by him another stick RUck After telling ot f the chanting ot of Mr Ir Taylor the Ie lie rolled under 11 tb bOil bed Itol b by hIl Ide aide where helas he las motionless time from rol the door COl Comm to tIre nIl upon him blab being hindered on only ly by 1 0 cm lown their mu ill wih with witha 1 a stick tok they continued to reh rech their Into the rom room h narrative ernie 01 wih with an account ot of dragging PO Taylor Into another room t Iff Joseph lph hl has been shot from without n life His th ml to the tho Church the only Lint frit 11 Ih Mn narrative ot of the grat great tragedy ot of It Ii ry h |