| Show I 1 PROVO june 20 22 17 70 0 editor deseret news dear sir air leaving salt lake city yesterday and traveling south I 1 remarked the destruction truc tion of crops by the grasshoppers through Vi rough the cottonwood wards and between there and the point of the mountain etnere being I 1 ittle little but peas left growing buton but on nearing bearing lehi I 1 was delighted with tho the appearance of the fields in that settlement the contrast was refreshing the crops to be seen from the road through lehi american fork and pleasant grove look remarkably well I 1 understood h however that some of the upper fields adf ati at american fork had suffered severely crossing the provo bench which used to be such a long stretch of dry dusty road I 1 was pleased to see streams of water coursing over 14 it in many places and farms laid out on either side of the road thare was little to be seen of the crops the grasshoppers having evidently visited them from present prospects within a very few years the east side of utah valley from lehl lehi to santaquin San will bo be one continuous line of settlements and reids fields provo seems quite natural it ia is improving slowly but steadily the site of the new operative cooperative co factory now in course of erection presents a busy scene crowds of workmen are there busy as bees and the huge foundation is visible at some distance from the place the people here speak highly of the energy evinced by bishop smoot in superintending super intending the erection of the building and the settlements generally throughout the country are taking hold with a vim in assisting in the work this afternoon I 1 visited the utah county branch of the deseret university at lewis hall warren H N Dewsenberry principal and listened to some of the exercises in which an efficiency was displayed highly creditable to both teachers and scholars bro robert kobert L campbell superintendent of schools was present and expressed his satisfaction wit with everything connected with the institution the building is commodious and though originally designed for another purpose is well adapted for its present use workmen are engaged in finishing the lower rooms after that is done it will be the best building for school purposes lif in th tb e territory it seems those nobi nobl noble ered red men who went north a short time since to attend to their religious rites did not fall fail to go weil weli well vell supplied with stolen horses bro J W turner of this place had three mules and a horse stolen from provo valley about the of may and the indians are suspected of taking them they were valuable anin animals jais lais and he d determined et to follow the indians and recover them he did so and returned last sunday evening after arnd r traveling between and miles and being absent seventeen days most of the time alone two of the mules he found in the possession of a man at bear biven biver city A man named john haggarty had purchased them from the indians for two bottles of whisky the third he found lit in fish haven rich county with a man who had purchased it of the tho indians and the fourth he obtained from the indians themselves at considerable trouble as they secreted it from froni him for several days and he be only secured at by the assistance si stance of D B huntington whom he fortunately met with up vp there in the company of Pres prest young pyoung the indians who stole them were plute s and tabby is their chief bro turner thinks quite ite a number of others were stolen by tte them m at the tho same time as he saw several in their possession a number of were branded and bome some of which he recognized the post office arrangement of provo is justly considered an outrage upon the people instead of it being ina lna in a central part of the city it is almost on the outermost street and is in the lowest I 1 and in wet weather the part of the town the people hava have ha a petitioned the department for its nein rein removal oval but no steps have been taken as yet to that end G t CITY june 1870 editor deseret ne mems news dear brother itis ills not for want of better scribes thai thal that I 1 take upon myself the task to write lon lou a few for we have plenty of inen inhere here who could use the pen more ably abir than I 1 can if they only saw fit to do hos bos but as circumstances have already brought baroug t me in comma communication ni cation catlon with you yon or dothen matters I 1 venture to say a few wordia vordia about ephraim to begin with a very severe thunder storm passed over this thia valley last monday the dinst which proved disastrous in different places here in ephraim a ver ven very y promising young man johan C christensen rist ensen was struck by lightning and killed billed instantly while out in the field irrigating he was not found till next mornin gHis relations thought that be he had bad gone to manti mantl to attend the trial who m murdered the indian girl in north bend and no search was made for him till the time mentioned when he was found dead with his face down partly in the water Hisha his hat was torn badly but no marks of injury was visible about his body from esit is thought that he was carrying his hoe on his shoulder which attracted the lightning brother JC hristian Christens christensen cn was born the day of july 1848 in christiana norway he emigrated to this country in 1862 and was married the of october 1868 and was thus married less than two years when this sad accident left his wife a widow and his child fatherless nearly fifty wagons loaded with people attended his funeral brother andrew petersen of north bend while out for a load of sand was also overtaken in the storm one of his bis horses was killed on the spot and the other one stunned very badly petersen himself was knocked down insensible here in ephraim as well as other places in sanpete San pete the hoppers have pretty much relieved us from our usually busy harvest work but we are determined to have eom something ething to do any how the plan devised by our wise and enterprising bishop is this thia the people of ephraim are going to tear down their old meeting house and build a mor more substantial one in its place thus giving employment to the poor and beautifying the city by this and other public and private improvements recommended the bishop is the th foremost man himself in preaching by example as well as precept while attending our afternoon meeting five indians came in to pacify the people in regard to their presence in the mountains as they declare them selves friendly to the whites the occurrence mentioned per deseret telegraph about the firing of some men in north bend properly or fairview they declare was accidental as the men were hunting deer on the same ground WI with th them I 1 remain your brother in the gospel 0 doreus |
