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Show V- -l p DESERET EVENING NEWS SATURDAY DECEMBER v.) bad OUR GALLERY OF, PIONEERS x tended credit to them. He this tendency and argued forcefully that the best way to reduce tbs eriis of hard times was lor everybody to pay ius obligations. editorial approval was expressed of a bill recently Introduced In Congress by Delegate Hooper of Utsh repealing certain obnoxious provVn-i- s in tbs Poets! laws. Fur some rnjon which the local community could not understand. a clause had been fhserted In these laws whereby exorbitant nates were Imposed upon books newspapers etc., transmitted through the mads Into the t err! between the western boundary lory of Kansas and the eastern boundary of California. It was held that persons interested In the Isthmus route between the East and California, seeking to bretk down the overland service, had fairly swamped the western mails with old and e books, magazine etc., to such an extent that Congress found It necessary to impose the high rates referred to. In order that only mall matter that was worth while would be oent. Whatever the reason, however, the Interior part of the country had suffered severely from the diacrmins-tio- n and Captain Hooper's bit! was designed to correct it. at the same time netting op proper safeguards so that the mail service might not be abused. The" Hews referred to the case of one gentleman hi this dity, who had sent east for a small collection of books which ha needed In a hurry, directing that they be forwarded to him by mall. The bill when he received it waspublisher's $7.t$ for the books, and 17.99 for postage! The Key again called upon munic dP-recat- use-lea- . 2 22 1017 83 5 ment of Great Britain to do ths asms within a period of five years, but nothit was ing cauns of this endeavor, fait, however, that hers in Utah ths cxperimsnt might profitably be made It Is and ths reform accomplished. understood that the Pitman characters now approved were to supersede "Deseret Alphabet" the which had been introduced a few years previously, but which had been kept In abeyance by reason of ths rude, inipal authorities in cities, and upon artistic matrices from which ths typs county Judges for towns not incor- ifor that alphabet was cast. A visitor In the city during ths week porated to take immediate advantage of the townsite law which had been 'had been Mr. James Btark. ths celerecently passed by Congress and which brated actor, who. The News said, n- was now operative. Tbs editor said Joyed a high reputation in the drathn neglect and indifference manifest- matic profession both In the heavier ed by many of the officials on this roles and In light comedy. He had Just subject stood in the way of the people arrived from the east, , and it was obtaining their rights and he demand- 'thought that during his sojourn here ed that such office s act immediately jha visit his brothes Daniel or resign irv favor of men who would (Stark might of Psyson, Utah, and perhaps attend to this and other duties be Induced to give the local g promptly. public an opportunity to Judge- of bis Mention was msde this week of the histrionic , , abilities. first appearance of a new daily paper I Another 'visitor was General E. T at Cheyenne Dakota ) Territory, Valley, who said the December I, called The Rocky Moun- 'Broson ofin Cache his county was like spring It was Republican in weather tain Star, at the time he left; people were plowpolitics and was the third daily now putting in crops and every-- , published at Cbeyenn The News also ing and thrift and prosperity. mads a comparison between its own thing betokened Bishop Peter Maughan of Doga: Srost to subscribers and that of The a similar report by letter, and Daily Herald published at Helena, (made of the great Montana. Ths latter, thopgh contain- he told furthermore had been done ing .only about the aame amount of amount of work which season the upon the Lo- past reading matter as 'Hie Deseret News, during Lake Bear gan road, Canyon whereby 127 sold for per year. IIS for a half valleys would be put into year and ft for a quarter or three and Cache each other communication with easy months. At one time there had been as man) Reformed 8 polling. as 130 men at work, and the road had At a meeting of the board of re- already been 'made lntb groves of gents of thd Deseret University held on timber from which Logan City could the night of December It, it was de- readily obtain Its winter firewood cided to adopt the phonetic charac- Bishop Maughan said the day before ters employed by Ben Pitman of Cin- he wrote (0 loads of wood had been cinnati for printing purposes, thereby hauled out, and the day when hs was gaining the advantage of the books writing he presumed that not less than already printed In those characters 170 loads would be brought out. He and now becoming so much used. An further said that according to reports effort had been made during the pre- made to him respecting the grade of vious winter in Congress to have all ths upper part of the canyon, it would stats documents printed in these be the most practical route to be found characters, end to request the govern in the whole northern country for the I play-goin- grade of the approaching Pacific rail- - Keoord Trip, England to Utah. Reuben A. McBride ef Millard county had Just returned from e Liverpool days making the trip in twenty-onthe quickest time, so far as know n ever made between the European port and this city. He bad left 8at Lake on the 23rd of October to fairill a mission la Europe but os his arrival in Liverpool he learned of the serious sickness of his father, who was also laboring ns a missionary In Great Britton. Upon the advice of President Franklin D. Richards, he started back, after only one week spent In England, with his father for their sea mountain home. A twelve-da- y voyage brought them to New York, four more days found them in ftv e more in this city. The younger Eider McBride had thus gone to England, spent a week there, and returned, all in the space of two months lass three days This was believed to be the record up to this time. He reported ' prospects of a srga emigration from Europe in ths coming season, also ths rensral good health of the Elders in England. one it whom was Elder Cba W. Penrose vho was encaged at fhis time la the Liverpool office. Fire In News Office. , In the early morning hours of December 21 smoke which issued from ;he engine room la the basement of The Deseret News office caused for a limenoma little excitement, it wae soon found that there was fire among the wood piled up tor feeding the engine, but Mesera George Romney. Allan hilton and some others, with additional help from The News office hands, ail of whom Joined in the organization of n bucket brigade, speedthe flames. Ths ily extinguished damage was not serious, though it might have been. Ths cause of the fire seemed to be spontaneous starting in a pile of sawdust When thie item which had got wet. wae mentioned to Bishop Georgs Cbey-enne.a- com-busl- Romney a few days age, ha Bit ha that laoldsat its distinctly recalled " of fifty years Jn the week Lectures during ths Seventies Hall were by Messrs, who c'sroureed on vegetarianism and tbs lews of natural life, and Mr. E. L. T. Harrison she treated M cctcni e as roving the truth d te vealed religion. ' Dramatic. Theatrical performances during tha week were on the nights ef Tuesday and Saturday, December 19 sad 2L The comedy of "Seir wae tha prinv i cipal feature, starring Mr. and Miss Couldock. Supporting players of the local stock company were Mies Alexander, Mm Bowring. Mm U. CL Claw-so- u, and Messrs. McKanzis, Graham, Lindsay, Thompson and Maiben. All of these performers acquitted themselves creditably according ts The News report and the audience wed nlghly delighted. The main piece was followed the first night by ths fared of the "Artful Doager." on tie second night by the new and laughable sketch, the "Double 'Bedded Room." At the general Tabernacle services the previous Sunday ( December 93 7 the speaker In ths forenoon was Bide George B. Wallace, and In ths aftsr-noo- n Presidanta Brigham Young and Joseph Young. President Young gave forcible end .timely Instructions aa tha mi Meet of the, fast day and the duty of tbs people and tha bishops la orm-- n eel ion therewith, to eee that the food which would otherwise have been eaten should be brought and distributed for the benefit of ths poor. Ha told tha bishops, particularly those af tha Thirteenth and Fourteenth wards who were at this time Bishops Edwin' D. Woolley and Abraham Hoagtand respectively) that it was their duty to cut off from ths Church those in their ward claiming membership who refused thus to help the poor. The discourse printed in full tn this week's issue was delivered by President Brigham Yeung tn Tooele August agJ h (Continued on page i eighty-four- .) .ft r - 4 t. .. i , HVrrBT s Ha was a native of West X. W. BIGLER. The New has pleasure in present- - j with tho foregoing, was February 8. Ing this week an excellent portrait of. and begins1 1with an allusion to tue a trout interesting article weather, Henry W, Bigler, the first chronicler! written for he Century Magaaino ef of the discovery of gold in Califor--J February, 183L by Mr. John S. Htt-tel- l. ma. one of the working party at Sul-- 1 a photographic reproduction of Mrs Mill in the Column valley that j tha page of the Bigler diary is given, mill In race which dug the the) together with pictures of Mr. Bigler,' Smith precious metal was first found, and Axamah (another Battalion whose diary contains the entry which member .of the party and also the forever set at rest the date when the author of a diary which is confirmawoo tory of Bigler's entries). Mnrsh.tll, discovery made Vir- Sutter and tther te, . S and with other members of that command was proceeding northward on ha way to ths valley of the Great Balt Lake when word wae received tram the valley advising all who could net bring provisions for the winter to remain in California until the following spring. A number of these men, described by a California historian as "sober, orderly, peaceful and Industrious." found employment at New Helvetia or "Suttera Fort, with Captain Sutter, who wae building a flour min near the Fort, also a sawmill la Coloraa valley, 48 miles distant. Ah at half a dozea of tha Battalion hoys were cent, in charge of James Marshall, Sutter); partner in the sawmill venture, to Coloma to build the sawmill, young Blglsr being one of them. At one stage in the proceedings, the mil having been practically completed and the water having been turadd into the race by way of test and to wash out the loose dirt, etc. Mr. Bigler took oocr-Joto rake this historic , entry in his diary (we follow ths original spelling): "Monday, January 34 (1343 This day some kind of mettle wae found In the tail race that looks llko goald, first discovered by James Martial, boas af the mill." Bis days later, he made the next entry Is hi Journal as follows: "Sunday, 39 Clear fiid has been all tho week, our metal bhs beer. triJe andlastprouves to b, goaid. It is to be thought rich, we have pickt up more than a hun" The Tr.orU I8 ext entry, only one lino of which ap-o- n the same page of the diary 1847, A y.X A t ( i ' - V. - ' j ? V J f4 ler Journal, "kept during bis serv.ee n the Morn on Battalion end h,r subsequent stay tn California, is one of the most valuable historical document of tlie state" so exception will be taken to its misspelling, some of which was due to haste or carol ounces, as is shown in the cam of "mettle" and "metal" in the two consecutive entriewrwiiMe aa to "Martial." the writers recent arduous military service furnishes a fair explanation. Ur very quaiatnea and ths absence of all ; at correctness -' o9 dieattempt literary tion. only adds to tarest aa I value From the foregoing it win be seen that Henry W. Bigler is entitled te conspicuous and honorable place in; the history of not only Utah, but C aim. and indeed the whole West, and even the nation Use It But Utah will chum trim especially as one of her own, because of his Church and - activity. !s membenfiip Battalion service, his pioneering and missionary labors it. and from this Territory, eta- - He was one of the original band of missionaries tnat went to the Sandwich Islands In li--t, and one of tho very few who decided to remain there and preach to the natives. a decision which resulted in a harvest of thousands of ton an souls He was a pioneer also of St. George In Southern Utah. Where he died in 1900. a faithful worker in the temple thrre during the later years cf ha life, an- - honest, unassuming, humble, use ful man, beloved by every ene wYe knew him. ; issue ef Ths Deseret News plenty of mud and aiuSh underfoot, ttUtion betrins dau of and several inches of snow en ths toot but no present opportunity for 25. i87 supplies Us hill In thie connection The1 , . . material for thin department News took occasion to thank Super-- 1 tha week. visor Sheets for tho Improvement in h front the issue ths condition ofVMain street which to a most Tifi! dvotw interesting Obituary sketch of the late VUato Mur-w- lt had been recently graded and graveled. The reporter said that a where of President Heber this work bed been dons it wab now who died in this - city. to walk across dry and clean 4 hurled possible where it formerly required boot lag Ocmb f-- Before oomlug to Utah waist high or a large scow with " hrohen up ae leas arty te ferry across tbs river of mud times by mobs and perseeu- - which J4 ,, from one side of ths street to ths othit she through all nor cheerfulness, faith, and preserved er." Ths city editor also recommended Integrity. that whereas It might be impossible "to the Salt Lake Valley tor a property owner of largo resident 4 "d resided la her wagon lots to keep their side sralke enm the home was built la which clean, it she seas surely not aaking too much from thereafter lived until her death. of businem on Thto paper alio contained aa obltn-r- y occupants property sketch of Prof. Georgs Washing- Vain street that they do this atneh for tho convenience of their proepoo ton Mousley who died December 9. one of the best known of the Ittve customers snd the public general-jt-y. Hs promised that they would loss eartyday educate ra. having permanent- either in good will, pub-li- e school in what waa galled nothing by it or gratitude patronage, Cltx Academy except for a abort The from different parts ef report time spent on a mission to England. j Indicated tbs that the storm too taught Territory and evening been pretty general, although tho efficient and active class, in Sunday had wae still weather school work. During hie return Jour-n- y extremely mild for from England, he had on one oc- the time of year, a condition entirely casion a providential and miraculous at a variance with the predictions ef Indians who had read tha stgna He wss traveling the ( wCp4rom an early, long and severs oy rail from Jersey City to indicating visit as relative in Delaware, of which state sdntsr. The Christines Spirit. native, whoa the train met itn a terrible accident. He was conThat Christmas was soar ad band versing with a man immediately in wae evident from tha largo somber front of him at the time and thto of people tn the city from nearby ?"having risen to his feet, bad settlements and the amount of head torn complete! off, while business being done lalarge "" the local store toe man sitting Immediately behind Ths of tho numerous reporter speaks ns smashed to piece, Prof. Mousley teams on- - Main- - street delivering -with escaped scarcely a scratch, and freight from abroad, other teams desmall bottls of oil which ho livering produce and supplies tram ths 57" to his valise was unbroken. and a general air of hurry, The weather had at last taken a country, bustle, and liveliness Indoors aad out. snd sevhad there same been At ths time The News editorially during ""Jdays a sucesaston ers! ef hall, rain and commented upon the almost uni versa "ow storms. Ths concluding report omplaint ef ths tightness of ths time ?? ar thle city was concerned wn snd regretted that this condition eras that the eun had eld by many people to Justify them again com- hd was fine overtired c neglecting to pay their debt thus it though "not were travel many during them to break their agree--. mg that uento with merchants aad others who we way," ' There ' sielgh-ridln- "t g. --". C- t - -- rJC .4 V f" in; 7 y . , r-rt-r1 'j. - i ' JTv? wmmrwm.. 1 t Yds Zions Co-operat- ive Mercantile Institution OrganizecM 868 Salt Lake City, Utah T. G. WEBBER, General Manager F. S. TINGEY, Assistant General Manager - Templr&y' injtraiirjr r v Officers and Directors - JOSEPH F. SMITH. GEORGE ROMNEY, - - , THOMAa G. WEBBER WILLIAM & ROMNEY, - C. A- - F. ORLOB Assistant JOHN H. BURROWS, Assistant President -- IMPORTERS and WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS OF nt Secretary Treasurer Secretary Treasurer toht ' ii , V- TIHB - C persons connected with the great event. Hittell says tost ginia. bom in IBIS; and after JoinMr, Bigler's is not only the first recing the "Mormon" Church and sharing in the expulsion from Nauvoo. be ord that was mads of the discovery was one of the heroic five hundred but the only one made on the actual 'who enlisted in the famous Mormon date of Us occurrence: and from it Battalion in 1843. and marched from Marshalls own account was corrected, the Missouri river to the Pacific coast be having variously glten tha dateas during tha war with Mexico. He was about the h, l)th, or 20th of Janmustered out in Loo Angeles in July, uary. Mr. Hittsli adds that ths Big- - r Directors Heber J. Great John R. Baras Anthoa H. Lund, Wm. H. McIntyre, 4 Reed Smoot, " Tho G. Webber, H-- M. Din wooder. , John F. Bennett. Goa Albert Smith. ' Edgar S. mil ' Byrons M. Smith. 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