Show KAMAS PRAIRIE summit co june ath 1660 editor deseret ems news I 1 arrived a this place lace this evening and am much gratl gratified Red in finding the pebble of kamas so favorably situated the fort occupied at the present time covers two and a half acres of ground is constructed edor edof of heavy hewn and strongly constructed ted timbers to the height of sixteen feet with large folding gates on the east and ad west ides bides and small doors eighteen feet apart dor jor for the accommodation of the thie families residing inside A schoolhouse feet and a cooperative store occupy the he centie centre of tb the e fort while strongly constructed stock ades adea aldstock and wid stock yards are ate built bulit within rifle range ringe of the fort which is provided to accommodate nifty fifty famil families leg lei elder eider willet marder harder of coalville Co alville was wal called to preside here last november I 1 the people are moving outon to their thele farms and land town wai iota lota surrounding rounding ur the fort they intend keeping beeping the fort in repair as a place of retreat in caso case of trouble troubie lei good day and aud sunday schools are well attended TWO saw mills and two shin shinie shingle le machines are in operation and it is the intention to build a grist mill the present season notwithstanding the grasshoppers ergis craps crops for two years past the people are gare tare not discouraged but have sown a about out two hund hundred red acres of small grain this season this is 13 one of the finest ranges for stock during summer I 1 have seen in the mountains timber ia Is abundant together with all building cateral requisite to erect some of the best hod had houses ses and barns to be found anywhere A good road of 27 miles exists from echo city to this place pince while salt lake luke city is not more than 40 miles distant although the altitude of the place must be some 2000 feet greater kama kamats is situated on the head waters of the we berand while I 1 write I 1 can see the waters of the provo distant only three miles to the south the course of these streams though bursting side aide by side from the summit of the wasatch range is in different directions and they thay madly rush hissing foaming and surging through the narrow defiles of the mounta mountains insi as if striving to see which can encomia s the greatest amount of land before i mingling their waters with those of salt lake kamas kiima has no post office nor mail maii service notwithstanding the mail runs six miles of this place to heber city occasioning g mali malf thet them the mail mall people eople to send IS 15 miles nilles for their nine years ago agg lebs leas than thau 12 faroU faraj ies iea es settled in this valley vailey anu and they were inclined to quarrel ove overt fabe be scarcity of land and they all finaly leac on that account but now there are fifty fa fh nilles miliea occupying the valley with abundance of land and aid watery while thousands of acres are lying waste only awaiting settlers L i i r 1 jl iii T ili iii L dij benio oE E ma niO nto amu clu U T i if june jeh jey aws meat mear sv spend bald ing a few da days ys IR in y your dr Y mye mie been pleased and instructed by the tiie reading of your valuable paper among ahiah the brevities brevi ties of a late number I 1 noticed e the following I 1 tha la late lato mr john gray eil ell 0 11 7 chestor chester r an lin untiring print prin collector in and book booe bunter hunter devoted many years to ith the tha illustration ozithe of the bible by gladdins alas Alad dins folio edition above a original di drawings and photograph atla atia and ana nearly ten thousand engravings with three hundred specimen leates leaves ot sold jold and rare editions of the bible the tho result was sixty three handsomely bound foli folio 0 vol voli i umes with double the number af illus illustrations itra contained in tho the famous namous bowyer bible biblo of forty five volumes volun fes this big ail all bible is now on sale perhaps it will not prove i ing to your readers to learn of another bible I 1 ibave have seen and handled this onland one and know whereof I 1 speak the gentleman who owns and who constructed ted it is professor S J sedgwick bergwick of Newtown L 1 I new york prof S has spent the best portion of his life in educational matters this bible bibie Is his labor of love the original book was a folio published in edinburgh and edited by a dr haueis this thle folio copy I 1 prof 8 had taken to pieces and carefully interleaved with white paper and then rebound in 22 elegant volumes as nearly of the same thi thickness ekness as the divisions would permit and on these white pages as close to the text as possible he be has haa inlaid the engravings the spare time of 15 1 5 years has been de voted to this work and upwards of engravings are the result of this students thorough search if you devote five minutes to the examination of each engraving and ten tea hours a day steady employment employEd ent you will readily see that upwards of five months will be necessary to see sed them all every master of any celebrity in eyers ever nationality of the world is here represented and the customs of f ago ages the progress of art the various interpretations of diffie different rent texts are here spread before the reader in the elle most afar attractive a etive foiw forrd I 1 it t would require a lengthy essy essay todo to do justice to this his wonderful work 1 being boink A a 1 stranger to you 1 I subscribe myself a lover of the OURI CURIOUS OliS asb AND AD W 0 ji CITY junne 18 ISM edn EdU leret Deret wei woi veir vez lihas tetto in int farra you briefly f tile the vday very melancholy amir flair which hns has just happened in dil Brigha C tri lri city oh ori the ath bf gub jub 19 james manley morris kahti and wm smith alias english bill were ek examined by justice ephraim wight of BOX 1301 elder eider precinct on a charge of robe bery committed in Corin corinne fhe fie city on the ath dinst on an the person of edward kinney after violently assaulting him hini by striking him two heavy blows upon his head they took from his pockets in legal tender notes in default of bai bal the justice committed them for farther further trial in the probate court at the e regular june term 1869 on the and 2nd ad day of said term the grand jurors presented a true bill of indictment against said defendants for fot the crime of robbery whereupon they were arraigned in court and plead not guilty the witnesses on the part of br the people falling failing to attend the trini trial was postponed until friday the lath acdan an attachment wag issued to compel the atten attendance danice of the absent witnesses who the prisoners had evidently believed would not attend upon the tho issuing of the attachment tho prisoner prisoners be became carne earne mum much more concerned the offices cei eer in charge seeing such a manifest ohan chan changela keln geln their demean 1 or from extraordinary glee to absolute deney dency beitl belli gin gln secure against wild sueh such li desperadoes been lately broken and tind one ode wm myers q charged with larceny having escaped in daylight thi sunday benore before Ue fore nore the sheriff was convinced that an additional guard was necessary to lure mare their safety which wasl was fie tie heaed ly to the number of at about one iu in the night they sim glin rushed froni front cell ceil broke through a doo idiom ii a the ibe axt room and furiously stalled in different resolved solved at all hazards to muke make good resolved rt t their air escape wien willan they ohey vere shab doad dead before reaching the gate fildbe fu bhe the t court house holise yard they hau haa at one obe time before in at tempting 1 tor to get geo away V been bent stopped stooped after they haag rik nik rit out of the jail adjoining room 1 and and safely placed jn n their cell celi agath gaad at thie this time all nil re was disregarded ap andl til ill nd lid other left tb secure theire thu confinement re rd and safety except thab that orthe one herein described we regret to have hilve to state that jonathan T packer one ofte pf af the ifie guard gaard wag was wag was wounded severely in ath fth mhd the thi thigh gh by a 6 shot mot from feam the revolver ver vor df bf obe ohe one odthe oth other 9 gi guards bards this morningan inquest wa by the hon orabie ephraim braini wight justlee justice of the peace tir the id verdict klet viet didt dr was that janies nik Ilk liley illey adorm kahn and william smith alm aim english bill whose bodied were there found lying dead mad came to their death by being shot by b the prison go gaard guard r d gli bit the june e 1869 when in iri th the a act t bf making their escape from the cound county y jail in brigham city wherein they were eod COD confined fined and awaiting their trial triai on an a P indictment for the erime crime of robbery respectfully J C |