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Show . Lee cuit'iiiuuu wuii 1 Eugene oison oresidine ILOIUI Ilk and I vi Second I This comment comes all the tnat summer pw.uaij I 1 j .. H I' " Corlnne Main Street At A Time Of" Indian Threat " RUMOR SAID INDIANS, MORMONS vv ', f t I ' WOULD DESTROY CORINNE CITY v r Telegraph Operator Goes Awry And Calls In Gentile Army; Indians Driven Afield - By Stan Andersen Every time you take the high gear highway north out of Brigham City, through Bear River City, you flip another page of hLtory soundlessly down onto a tory that beats ail the movies youll ever see. It lies under seventy-fou- r summers. , You get within about a or where it happened when Jim pu pass the Eridger monument thats stood by he road a few miles north half-mil- e weed-grow- n I awfully sore shucking corn one time when he was 11. The other four remember It because their parents took them and fled from a big bunch of soldiers. They live in Washakie, the Indian village that sleeps against the hill south of 'Portage. Theyre all members of the L. D. S. church which is the almost forgotten reason why it all happened. About 600 church members including them were the reason when the story flared through the national press in the fall of 1875. Six hundred IMormons and a big town named Corktne thats what made the story. It started In Corlnne, there where the pleasantest of farm houses sun themselves now. That fall the "old Corlnne the Gentile city .serving up of Rear River for 17 years. No marker, however, testifies to where this story tool place west of the monument. In the fat. quiet fields where another sugar beet crop will soon be harvested. To be sure It happened at all, you have to go talk a while with one of five people who were there and still re- hard liquor and member. talk was just starting downOne of these Is Moroni Mor-(- e ward In Its rocket-lik- e passage old across Utah leaves. Born with risen, the 'lean, bright-eyeman whose farm the arrogant a golden spike in its mouth six highway crosses Just north of years earlier, it was still a lusty the Bridger plaque. He city of maybe 15,000 people bers it because his hands got but it had upon It the impreca- anti-Mormo- n d o stands Hardly recognizable as the main street of Corinne as it called today is this picture tak( went and in a gentile army from awry at about the time a telegraph operator were who Indians to harmlessly harvesting the Lake Salt in fight City Douglas J nearby. At one time Corinne was a city of 3,000 population and the railhead Tot mines to north from and west. ores the the of return and of supplies freighting its a progressive and friendly contry town of some 500 people. d tion of no less a man than Brigham Young, who had told a Bear River City congregation that the polished wood in Corinnes fine be saloons some day would rubbed by cows in Bear River barns. It was a reasonable prediction. The prophet knew that the Utah Northern railroad, then starting City out of Ogden toward Montana, would take over the mule-traibusiness that was Corinnes lifeblood. Corinne that year was a boomtown doomed, or a good town in the making, depending on how you look at it. there was Perhaps because real danger to their economic security in 1875, the citizens of Corinne were jittery about their At physical any rate, they were quick to get excited the night of August 10, when two men galloped Into town shouting that a great band of Indians was making ready to attack the city from the northwest. Nobody went out to see, It appears, but this was said: An Indian squaw had warned white friends to leave and es n well-bein- i Portraits . -- We strive for portraits that will win your complete approval, and become more priceless as the years . goby. r. No Californians, It turned Cori sold the Omaha Herald could port: The Corinne telegrapher rendered as gracefully as could yesterday on the Con much is certain .that if the Gentiles of Utah are in danger and help is wanted, a call for volunteers in California will So conspiracy. That interesting dividual and the gangs of wl he is the mouthpiece would well to go and hang themse be responded to by 24,000 armed We deny the whole indictir men inside of twenty four hours; against the Mormons, and and, if these volunteers should have no doubt that the Mi go to Utah and find hostilities are as innocent of hostile ird in operation, we should be sorry to have to answer for the con (Continued on Following h PLYMOUTH Photo Art Siervice A or a DESOTO TRUCKS-- Our specialty is car If you have automobile trouble repair. while in Brigham City, bring it to us. We'll repair it quickly and our prices are reasonable. carry a complete line of MoPar factory engineered parts for Plymouth and DeSoto cars. NielsenMotor Co. 335 North Main S.Ai Au; 14, Record-Unio- IN We South Main Street (Upstairs) by needed to come rescue The men who did U. S. found Indians with wee; camped north of Corinne right, and they found to lied with Mormons. But weapons were reapers. The dians were just starting to vest the first crops they ever planted, crops cults by Mormon methods. By anti-Mormo- GMC V 68 Vi ... Driving Is At Its Best - Bring your films to us for first-clas- s developing and printing, at popular prices. Leave them, if youre just passing through, and well mail the finished work to your home address. 3 sequences of their Indignat If Corinne Is attacked Indians, let Brigham Young to it that Salt Lake does smoke for the outrage." . THAT WIN APPROVAL 1 cape the massacre! A Mormon girl employed by a Gentile family had received a warning to flee the city before tomorrow! The Indians and the Mormons were In alliance to destroy Corinne! That night the city appealed to the governor of the territory for protection. Troops were on their way from 'Fort Douglas at dawn. Nothing, says B. H. Roberts in his history of the church, did so n much to of as the outside Utah feeling frantic reports which Corinnes telegrapher sent out before the soldiers got there. Roberts cites as evidence this excerpt from the front page of the Sacramento Brigham City, Utah inued ;y th oti gh the ds a the ed in! tscht we do Titer able s that dation |