Show sl salamae laie lale laja aE city no t 8 editor de t frowe jaws president young andnis party returned on satur adur atur day afternoon from a trip of eleven days day among the wards in utah juab and ancl san Ban pete counties ve vve traveled about miles visited 10 0 settlements and held heid held beld 27 meetings the meeting houses every where were too small to hold all those thosa who desired ta to hear bear the counsels of our lea iea leaders derp the teachings were of a most practical kind thie thio brethren in a plain and fa famili at man maa ner met the people on almost every practical ground or duty Thebus the business lile ilie man common lumberman the ma married Tried unmarried fathers mothers and all classes received instruction most vital and important to this people uhe the presidents instructions to mothers were very excellent and if carried out must prove beneficial to them and their offspring the people everywhere were much pleased and gave evidence of their thein joy by adopting in their receptions ev every ry feature that would please and their guests among them the many practical tactical duties the sh shoulder I 1 sot the elders by the president was that of laying up grain now that wheat is plentiful and cheap it would seem as though enough has been said during this visit to carry the faithful listener safely through this world and place him on rising ground in eternity how WO are favored in the practical and ana applicable lessons so repeatedly add arid persistently kept before us by our leaders given I 1 ven with so much fervor annd solicitude in juab Counties mounted escorts of armed men accompanied us from place to place and on this thi trip strip as heretofore hereto fote on approaching the settle ments ola oia old oid and youn young with banners flags sags bands of music ac ab c vere were were pa paraded to greet the company eom tom pany many of the banners bannera and mottoes were new and very appropriate the great numbers of healthy and precocious children chil chii were particularly noticeable and repeatedly referred to by presidents young smith and others these brethren jokingly I 1 asking several of the s settlements from what other town aney had borrowed children bro kan Uan kanute tite brown at ephraim Ephr aim alm made every eveny effort to please the visitors the pitch pine torches paraded in the he street the chinese lant erns transparencies and the music instrumental aar vocal comic and sentimental timen ti tal tai were all ft pleasing leasing and effective now that the indians ara are peaceable i improvements in building ac c are aro going forward bro brigham several I 1 times remarked that chat hat the ranks of the red man were being rapidly decimated deel deci mated while our numbers are as rapidly increasing he saw the theland vand of god in thil this and brightened up gur hopes that not long hence we may have perfect control of from this source in the school house at manti the saints Saint shad ahad had on exhibition mamy many excel lent specimens of home products the cloth and ladles ladies wear were very ena eni en cou raging fruits and vegetables in that high altitude were jine fine the dividends divi dendA of a num boror theeo operative stores indicate a i profit of from 23 1113 tosi per cent per annum the female reile belle belief societies ke bre are doing much good the tha sisters are area giad glad to be enabled through throng these thebe to assist he the elders ide Is in promoting ther purposes 0 of heaven I 1 will close by referring to s some me of bf my cogitations while attending meeting in the log meeting house at Fairview some som 6 two years ago I 1 visited sanpete count county y on business at that time and on deachin reaching fairview on sunday morning I 1 foun found i that many of the citizens were in the barna sa q log meeting me eting house bouse engaged in lay inglut and preparing for interment the bodies of a man and his bis wife son grown add wid three thred younger daughters who had been killed by indians in thistle valley the day before on the afternoon of the day I 1 refer to I 1 ahlo preached in the fhe town wn and witti with the bishop urged the people not td to expose themselves to the assaults of the indians next day a brother wh who with his brother brother brothen in law biad fiad 0 from st george aud and aul wg who was aa a member mem berof I 1 of the memorable mormon Bs battalion thallon went out in quest of animals was ambushed and killed bled k by two indians the family of this brother had been repeatedly cautioned caution edby by their thein bishop and many others but all to no purpose hence the necessity of repeated persistent and almost perpetual i counsels on all subjects relating to our temporal and spi spit V igual duties and the great necessity for a living and inspired head respectfully ac A llimos maimu J |