| Show local and other Iffat I TUESDAYS DAILY JULY 11 11 the grand jury th the e grand j jury url arl are in hi session in their room was atch hotel badding ba to which thi the district court will remove on th DO it may be well veli for aliens desiring natura naturalization libation ilza liza tion to know that that kind nind of business ja 1 j attended to any morning when the third district court is in he ses slon eion I 1 captured B R J S filce who es 0 from the farmington dava i i county jail some time ago was recently rei I 1 captured at moroni sin SID S pete this morning he was brought jal JAD to this city and placed jn tho the theja for safe keeping beeping the company the following aith Ma eldera hElders the saints who left if ft new york for this city yes yesterday berday 2 0 flygare george L farrell 3 1 IT henry beyering Ey ering W H maughan a E Sn allgrove V L H hariday hah HaU allda Iday y W J lewis joseph H P parry arry thomas homas C marteil martell pe peterson terson A anderson andersen gustavson J anderson anderaon An derron deroon hanson B R N Jepp jeppson son SOD P F J J walser Wal wai ser sei henry 0 fowler T D evans william spicer thomas C griggs the colorado settlers we have perused a letter written at aliens allons camp on the little colorado june ard 3rd from bro joseph mcmurrin the grain of this settlement has all been watered and is incoming coming up nicely a cheering sight to the settlers previous oua to water watering Dg some of it had been lying in the ground sus sis aadra dry as when put io in for months some thought it would never c ome come up but it all looks well now the brethren are bow engaged in building a fort twelve rods equate it will be built of cottonwood tim bers set firmly in the ero gro ground arid the walls nine feal feat high and of double thickness of logs surrounded on the inside with houses bouses 12 feet by 26 feet this fort building la Is merely a precautionary measure in case of possible future contingencies the indians in the surrounding country being all peaceable on the site of the proposed fort a well weli has been dug good water having been found at a depth of fifty feet at each of the four corners of the fort a short distance outward from the walls a guard house will be erected on the same sume night the letter was written a company of bostonian bostonians t were camped at st the settlement they purposed settling on the little colorado but had arrived in time lime to be too late that was the second company from the same bayne city that had passed along on one 0 hundred in all none of them having families aliens allens camp settle settlers rii here had their water ditch recorded in accordance corda cor dance nce uce with the laws of arizona territory the first on ahe the river the tha water of the little colorado has neither decreased nor increased for a considerable time and there was sufficient for the settlement for this year the entire letter breathes a cheerful spirit that is very gratifying more especially wheal exhibited by the younger brethren of the mission returned missionary we were pleased to meet this morning and welcome home elder henry C boyle who arrived last evening from a mission to the bouthern southern states ells his mission has been a remarkably mar kably successful one he left here april 1875 and proceeded to tennessee where by ai assiduous aldu labor and the blessing of god he succeeded in raising and organic a branch of the church numbering seventeen members on january of the present year himself and elder john D H mcallister left tennessee essee for arkansas in theatter the tho atter latter state the opposition met with was of the most bitter description but before belore the labors of those elders by y the blessing of the lordly lord it gradually gave way and numbers of people becoming convinced of tile the truth of thear the great at latter day work were baptized into the church andeson and soon boon a branch was organized which now numbers eighty members besides the people baptized bap tied in tennessee and arkansas thirty three children were blessed the labors of elder boyle and companion in arkansas were of the most unceasing character from four to five live meetings being held heid each week and wherever they went crowds assembled necessitating albat the answering of inquiries fre tient ly till after midnight until elder eider eider elder boyie boyle becoming worn out had occasionally to betake lif himself myself to the woods to obtain a respite and rest elder boyle left the brauchy branchy br a c h which is located near des arc r prairie county lna ina in a very health healthy conditions condition he be never having seen a more lively and interested body ef of saints and those who have means are ready to help those who have lave not to emigrate elder noyle boyle will proceed to his home in payson paydon utah county tomorrow to morrow ag and anticipates returning to arkansas in november and be her will probably take tate a company from that state slate to arizona aai next season prairie county ark babou labou Is bounded u dedi on its southern edge by the L rock and memphis railroad by the fulton and cairo railroad on oil the north an and dWhIte white river runs through the eastern astern e part of it the branch of the church 1 is 14 4 about four miles milea west of des arc the county seat elder boyle speaks in the highest terms of the labors and faithfulness of elder john D II 11 mcallis ter who has been a great support to him he is aty at present resent in northern northera non pon pennsylvania visiting among his relatives brother boyle has been on four separate missions to the southern states having spent about twenty years in that kind of labor laber his health while on his late or rather present mission was not very good at the present time a couple odthe brethren that he baptized on a previous mission one in north caro nna lina una and the tho other in virginia elders john 0 harper aad frankln franklin prank haymore both young men are now themselves in the Southern states on mis lotis iotis from utah and beling be iring a fai tai faithful unwavering testimony to ane truth of the g greit r eat emt latter day work items from our a b correspondent Broth brother W D johnson johnron writes as follows under date of july isi on the ath uit we had bad a pleasant visit from brothers hardy and young who are velling travelling tra in the interest of the Y YM M M U 1 I A they held meeting in the evening which was well attended by old and young they express expressed bd themselves well pleased with the start we had made and aud gave words of encouragement and advice much of which I 1 think has haa been remembered e d by our young men our beloved I 1 president gave us a short visit on the ul uit uld tand and left on the morning of the sis ift made times quite lively for two days in our quiet little t town n as visits of this kind are of r rare re occurrence while here t the e president resi rest called upon all the arizona 1 missionaries of 1873 to move on over the river and join oin ofa oia the brethren already there all ali those who located in this country a are re preparing to go over in the fall glon slon an the uit we paid our last respects to an aged and respected eted sister named olive myers she was 75 yearb years of age and died a natural death as a ripe apple would fall fail off the tree bhe she was a mint saint in every ekery sense of or the word and nd was respected and belo beio beloved Ned ved by all brother wells and the brethren with him held meeting on the 2 uit which she dt attended tended evidently in her usual health and next morning at 10 bhe she died without a struggle with u smile on her face the weather has been buncom uncommonly warm during the ahe last month the thermometer showing and in the shade and as yet no tio rain this heason reason which makes it quite dry and unwholesome still we haye have plenty of water gardens and fields looking well it being centennial year our little town feeling patriotic will celebrate the of this month in i a becoming manner the committee of arrangements alien allen frost james L bunting and WD johnson jr tell lis there will be a 1 balut cOf of at sunrise un nise rise with hoisting of the stars and stripes and by the martial band there will be a procession of authorities thorit les ties of county and aud precinct cIt citizen izen Izan Q sunday and day school children and others at 9 exercises in the bowery at 10 under the tho direction of the marshal of the day thomss thumbs qs robertson which consist of reading of tile the declaration of independence nd speeches by the the orator of or tho the day jay hon bon jamus jame lewis and L john nuttall bong toasts martial musio music and singing by ward and juvenile choirs in tho afternoon there will bellD be gIng games etca etc and rud thi evening will v lii be spent in dancing kne lne all anticipate a good time i g j a tho washington stor of june says bays boston who la Is now in this city stated elated today that he never under any circumstances cum stances or to anybody at any place asserted that ex speaker Blain edid not correctly read the warren blae flae letters on the contra arary y lie ho admit 4 that lie read every lu fu thew them bustled bustles Bust les are slipping out of t rashe rashi fashion on I they do every night but they come into fashion again every mornin morning ff brown drown came home late the other n night ight and mrs lbs ibs reaching out of the bedroom window said eald so youve been tipping the P again have you glass sald bald alasa rown hlo hio hlo hie la fig a tunny funny word take off the atwi B and T les ies its you youl my dear mes tee answered red the tho wife and then takeoff take off the r and its you you wretch cb and she down the window with a bounce |
