| Show LOCAL LOGAL AND OTHER M MATTERS MOM FRIDAYS DAILY dally TIA y NOV KOV IS 18 sentence deferred jack nek emerson of the murder of john IF turner was to be today to day owing to the court being occupied with other business the passin passing of sentence was deferred for one week weil dismissed several liquor casesi cases caseb prosecuted by the county were dismissed by justice today to day the defense having raised the tile point i that proceedings should have ipe ize been n begun in the precincts where the parties i reside which had not been done dismissal was the only recourse e new proceedings will have to be instituted T the he oldest member aimira almira covey of the ward salt aake ake city sends the fol foi following I 1 0 w ing under date of today to day having noticed in the NEWS an inquiry as to who la Is the oldest member of the church now bow living I 1 Ws wish I 1 h to state tt that I 1 was baptized in cayuga lake newyork new york Sta tein the latten iatter part pirt of august 1830 by david whitmer and by J joseph 0 seph smith the tho prophet shortly after 1 I 1 from the southern states ThIs morning we received a from elders george T bean beau oc ot richfield rich field sevier county and an AST thony paxton raxton of kanosh rd county they reached home last from m missions to the Sou themi nl states having accompanied the party of saints that arrived at og den yesterday day in charge of elder r george B R hill 1111 elder bean left his home for tho south pu june iso he was appointed by president morgan to labor in Ge georgis georgia orals labere i where be he remained nad unree inree and four months and gofa 9 ot along very weil well he lio was wag then removed to alabama ashile in chilton coosa and aulaura coun theslie progressed loa lon in coosa where a very promising field wab waa opened up in january last however he removed to st clair county where lie he and the elders associated with him had a hot time ume being mobbed three times timea in in one week end their lives i threatened the brethren with from that part of the country and elder bean returned to georgia where tho the work was rn aking making fair progress proal ress and spirit of and persecution tion subsiding me elder eider E er paxton left utah Ut ahIn in oc tober ISSO 1880 and labored in smith and bland counties virginia there is no active persecution in that part cart many believe in the gos pel but are exceed exceedingly in gly gis slow to em brace it fifteen hau had been baptized 1 in the virginia conference this year A weather report the following was received by deseret telegraph at today to day paris idaho Idah oVery ver col coi coid cold d looks ime snowing frisco snowing now three th ree nee inches deer very xeny ve ry coid cold 0 cedar city cit V cold 61 d one inch of snow beaver clear and cold bold snow enow gow pow six inches deep provo one inch of snow enow clear cleat but clouding up larson payson three inches inch as now very cold and wid cloudy nepul nephi two I 1 inches snow hard frost last n feht ight cloudland cloud cloudy Yand and cold eola this thias bingham owing ng 18 afoot deep dr drifting I 1 ft ing high wind not very gold coid cold alta the worst storm of the th e sea son nive five feet of snow now a snowing showIng and blowing blo bio wing juab cold and dowdy franklin two inches of snow cloudy and threatening salina balina three inches snow clear but cold glenwood GI enwood two inches of enow snow sun shining today to day fairview one inch of snow sno w ia Is cloudy fountain green clear and kold sold cold cold coid snowed some iome yesterday ephraim Two inches snow clean clear and cold logan log an very veny cloudy has teem keem snowing i brigham city very cold calm snowing ogden little cloudy ahrea threatened bened torm storm st george georgo olear clear and an ah pleasant vic vig S ant silver reef clear cold and aad windy Or orderville derville cloudy and cold manti mantl snowed some yesterday it is cloudy and cold monroe snow fell tell yesterday about four inches clear clean today to day mount blount pleasant very vry cloudy and cold not much ina snow 8 mave kave lARVEL jious ESCAPE ro DESCENDS boo BOY A NO A special to the NEWS from alta received ece eee ived thia tills morning says yesterday afternoon as john hanford hian elan ford was passing the emma hill on his way from bag g cottonwood to alta city he started a in stoker gulch and was carried earned feet fee his being near the top of the the tho slide siide started undoubtedly saved his hij ilfe life he escaped with a few cuts and bruises he stopped within 20 feet of a cliff fifty alft feet in height 7 04 FOUND DEAD 11 F DIES SUDDENLY WHILE lr HUNTING I 1 A special to the NEWS received this thia afternoon froni frond from qt st george says cc benjamin Be njamin DJamin F pendleton read leton an old citizen of this place pince went out hunting r rabbits i yest yeat yesterday erday after afternoon noon nooh this b mornine his family gave notice motice that he had not returned A party immediately started in search of him and found his hh body about a mile from froda town both barrels of his gun were loaded and no marks of any bind kind of violence found on the body he had evidently died of apoplexy 1 I latal ACCIDENT MRS SIRS SARAH PETTIT FIT INSTANTLY yesterday about noon ml mrs ri baro saro barah sarah pettit aged 73 years who has been mentally deranged for about tivo years left her home and wandered some distance below the city it appears that in the evening she bat eat down upon the east side eide of the utah central track the freight train due at the depot at and a nd which was w ablate late came along the unfortunate woman was struck by the cowcatcher and thrown into the ditch by the side of the line subsequent investigation showed conclusively clu that she must have been instantaneously killed the bae bac baek back k of the head being broken in it is more than likely that it was struck by one of the projecting timbers k connected with the cowcatcher although it was dark the engineer ineer H W russell and aiso idso the fireman the engine strike an object and thought it was wye an animal the conviction grew upon them however that it was a human being W and on arriving at itt the depot an engine was sent back baek to the spot about three miles south when the body of or airs petitt was wag discovered in the position already named name the railroad official officials 5 notified cotoner coroner taylor who held ad arf inquest on the body which during the investigation vesti gation gatlon was wag was identified by blanchard petti tty a granddaughter of the decease deceased ds the unfortunate woman had coMing according ac to the testimony of the party who identified the remains jived lived at t the house of mr sanford abrahams in the ward her demented condition was the result of having been sun struck the investigation developed the fact that oo 00 blame biame for the accident could be attached to the engineer of the train dr or any other party during the inquest four different surgeons burgeons were sent for but it appears none of them were able to attend 4 0 missionary experience interesting DETAILS CONNECTED sith WITH THE MINISTRY IN TIIE THE northwestern STATES yesterday afternoon wo we received a call from fron elder elden william 11 palmer i of glenwood bovier county just returned from a mitsi mission onto to the fsr northwestern tb western states stales itic including lucUng al r ai iowa Illi illinois minnesota wisconsin michigan and ohio dver over which field of labor he presides he le left here hero ton lor that region regen in april 1880 having been away a little e over a fe year and arid a half during that time 67 persons persona 1 were added to the Church ulrch by baptism sni 19 0 of whom he administered that ordinance to himself although he visited all of the spates skates named his personal ministry was more es especially p confined to tomi michigan As our reade readers yo are awara he has kept the NEWS informed of his movements up to bev SeV september since that time however he has passed through a somewhat varied varned ron experience iene ieno at Spencer brook isanti county ty a company of rough men congregated at a school he was holding meeting while he wag was praying at the opening of the services these fel fei fellows lewit sought to his yolee voice by uttering horrible oaths imprecations imprecation 4 ani ana curses A justice of the peace interfered however k and succeeded in enforcing order after elder palmer left the building he was set upon by the crowd and pelted belted with rotten eggs until he be was covered from head 6 to foo wah filth after the stock of agga egga was exhausted the cowardly ruffians threw stones ardd arid clubs at elder palmer and a brother named clements who dyja wa with him at cambridge in the same county while meeting was being held in a school house a number of disturb ers brought a large dog to the door which tuey they kept hept open they held tho the brute and abused it causing it to keep up a constant bowling howling in order to disturb the proceedings after the meeting was dismissed and the congregation had lef telden palmer was followed by a crowd who pelted him with dirt and band sand they also made several attempts to throw a lariat over his head but did not succeed A lady u not 0 t a member of the church was struck in the back baek bachand and ini injured u red subsequently elder eider palmer preached several times at the same i place without molestation the probate J adge having interfered in behalf of good order and fair play week before elder palmer left for home lie he was forced into a four nirh nigh ts discussion with an adaven tat preacher on the fourth nio night iut lut the latter fatter left the house bouse before the proceedings should have terminated being completely closed up and left teft without a word to say to sustain his side of the subject just jurt before defore bis his brother palmer received a letter arm from elder M anderson president of the minnesota conference giving an au account of a singular circumstance it appears that a year ago this fall elder eider anderson associated with elder jacobson baptized a man and his wife in minnesota these pepie pe people pio pie plo had a boy about twelve years of age who was blind from his birth being ling barely able to discern light last spring this lad dreamed that elders eldera anderson and jacobson preached the only true aos kos gospel el and if he lity would be baptized by them ho should receive his sight t hobold hla hia parents and theydon they consented for him to be baptized next day elders anderson and jacobson Jacob sun who had not been in that part r for six months called that way and baptized the boy he began to receive his jils sight from froin that hour in accordance with the manifestation given him in the latter part of bf the burh surf summer imer met meb with an accident by having a large nail run into his hia foot fo ot from froni the effects of which he died in iche mhd fall shortly prior orto to his death being a boy of unusual understand ingi he preached to a number of young men and women with such peculiar i p power 0 w and spirit that they were not lo 10 only n 1 astonished but convinced of the truth of his testimony As a 8 result of this when elders eldora andersen anderson and jacobson called at that hat lo 10 last month seven of the young people who had heard the boy preach made application to them for baptism and they are now meni mem bers of the church elder palmer will continue to pro side over the northwestern states mission and poses returning to his hia field of labor in the spring 11 he bays says if a number of efficient swedish and nor wor norwegian begian elders can be sent to that part of the country a goo woodwork good dwork work can be accomplished if persons in utah ba having v ing relatives and friends in any of th the e 8 tates states composed in his field of labor will forwald their addresses to elder palmer at glenwood sevier bevier co he will pleas pleasure ure vre re in bendin sending bending g them to the elders eiders engaged in the ministry y w 1 rna nna 41 Ks atom FROM SATUR SATURDAYS daws DArs DAILY NOV 19 reached beached president taylor and party orde bivil e kane eane and county yesterday afternoon 11 all we rewell death of a respected lady we wd regret to learn that mrs richards of farmington eife of apostle F D richards nic hards died ak atelier her residence either last night or ear car early i this ois morning the deceased na was san s an invalid for a long iong time prior to her tier demise dd nilse we have havle learned since the above was in type tape that decenso deceased expired at one a m to day dav she was formerly the wife of the late president willard richards her own family name is foss poss church and school statistics Q secretary thomas has hns taken great pains to make the church and school statis statistical report from utah aa as cam complete piete as possible his correspondence on the has been very extensive he having written no less leas than 2000 letters lettera to different parties in relation to it where he hanot not been able to obtain the desired information by other means he be has visited different parts of the territory personally the result is siry sirs very satisfactory as the report from utah will probably be as coni complete piete as irom any of the states and Terji Teril tories lories it will soon be ready to forward to washington prodigious Yield two twe Wo have haea seen changes of enormous yields of potatoes to the acre we learn from brother harvey haryey 11 perkins lerkins Ier ler kins hins of a that surpasses e everything ot of the kind we have nave ever aheard heard of we doubt if it has ever irbe been e i n exceeded in the history of 0 potato cultivation qa on a farm owned by 11 H perkins and ether cult cultivated bated by M mabey mavey on one ona 0 acre gave P a product of 1076 1676 bushels early t arly ariy rose tubers in order that there might be no mistake in the bithe ritho matter the tho ground groundland and potatoes potato ea were measured by fourie an who can I 1 b at the ordinary yield at qt woods cross or bountiful this year on orl good solla soil was about bushels to uhe acre hurt about the head hedd the ogden herald that mr peter mcfarlane jun a young toung man about 22 years of age brakeman on the 0 P E R ra B met with a serious accident at pequop pequot nev kev about two pm on thursday mr McFAil mcfarlane ane aue alft left og denon on wednesday and when toie the train n eared pequop pequot lle ile got on the i top of a car koput down a brakke brate just previous to entering a snow enow shod abed he was as on the forward ibar car A blinding snowstorm prevailing at the time prevented him froni from seeing their proximity to the shed one of the timbers umbers of which came in contact with hla hia head knocking knockin knocking him bin down on tile the toll toil ot of the or car where he remained senseless for some come lime time the train traveled about six miles before benore lle ile lie was missed and discovered dove redby by the engineer he was to the caboose and on arria 1 ing at we wells Is his wounds were deess ed he was planted on tho the east bound express train and arrived homol homot this morning hi ire e has an ugly wound on the left side of his head and the tho left side of his hia face and left ear are terribly lacerated but with proper attention it is thought he will recover in a few weeks 11 11 from north horth carolina Ca rolma yesterday we were pleased to meet elder james H moyle of the ward just J returned from lio tto th the liou tiou southern theril states he left this CRY ton tor fon to which he was appointed poin ooin tedy on the isu of july che cne fHe Ee iwas was aisig assigned ned by president john rohn morgan to labor in north carolina it was as hard work 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