Show MAT MATTERS windsor writing to the omaha Beef beg bee from tom salt balta lake city under date of the ath dinst says I 1 john ta taylor alor is an englis englishman hman abman by birth and is now sixty eight years old at a very early age he emigrated to canada in which country he embraced the tenets of mormonism under the preaching of apostle parley P pratt he soon emigrated to the mormon centre then located at kirtland Kirt land laud ohio and became conspicuous for his vig orona espousal of the cause of the prophet josephat juseph joseph at the time of the kirtland I 1 bank and contemporary troubles helas he was among the farat missionaries sent to europe and he preached largely in england in 1851 he went to france a and nd estable established hed a mormon church there however the fruits of this mission have been meagre a as 3 the number of people from the french nation who have joined the mormon church has been very small but before hi hn mission to france he passed through one of the most eventful periods of hib hia life being in ariso prison n with joseph and hyrum smith in carthage illinois at the timothey tim time ethey they were killed billed in prison in 1844 at that time john taylor was severely wounded bythe by the mob and lay for several months in a very precarious condition he has yet within his bod body some a of the bullets bulle ts which aez wez were bo fired rz at him at the time of that massacre J john 0 hn n taylor in earlier ilfe life was exe exceedingly eed handsome and today he is a very nine fine looking old gentleman his 1113 hair is as white as snow his big carriage very erect his features intelligent and expressive and he has almost as strong will power as the late president H he elb els Is a man ef of unflinching courage and he ia is entirely devoted to the religion of which he ii Is now the leading representative iian llan man his means are but scanty he having never assiduously applied himself to the problem of how boget to get rich bis his recognition niti onby by the leading author authorities aties of th the church seems to have given general satisfaction to the great bulk of the mormon people and they almost without exception scout the idea of anybody being able to create division in tb the 0 church some few have suggested that it is quite possible that youn young g joseph son of the first prophet raight might now lay claim to the presidency but bat this idea Is regarded by ninety nine out of every hundred I 1 of the utah saints as simply lidley ious lous IOUs j it was also supposed by a ve very ry i great many that the death of brig ham young would cause a state of great disquietude in financial circles in this territory as he was largely interested in the leading commercial and banking institutions of thi this salty pity this was especially so in the case of zions cooperative institution your correspondent interviewed one of the directors of mis wis 10 today to day and inquired d what ny were ere ero th the results te to the institution tha expected would follow the death of brig ham young the gentleman to whom your correspondent directed his inquiries assured him that the death of brigham young had had bad no visible effect on the business of the institution that its financial was exdell excellent ent it owed nothing except cur current rent accorn accounts ta every note was met the iny day lay it became due wd ind the running accounts were kept paid several days ahead they were also buying busing for cash in the eastorn eastern na markets nor were they borrowing money in this market to enable them to buy for cash in the east nor to meet their time payments promptly in fact instead of borrowing they had lately paid a loan of borrowed a year or so ago and bad constantly on hand in the barik bank in this city from to this director appeared to think that the was wag in such a condition that it was better off now than it had ever been since itaf establishment the deseret national bank and other institutions in which mormon president was interested show no signs of collapse nor is it thought that his death will even produce a ripple in iii the sea of their commercial om transactions |