Show northwestern NORTH noeth WESTERN STATES MISSION PLIGHT FLIGHT OF A MOB A MAN xan WITH AN AXE THREATS OF TAR AND FEATHERS rapid CHANGE OV OF SENTIMENT FIVE ADDITIONS TO THE CHURCH COVINGTON fountain county indiana nov 4 1883 editor deseret newa dewa four of the missionaries called to the northwestern mission left bait sait lake city oct 16 on the D R G railroad at council blaas bluffs elders jensen and strickland turned off oil to blinne minnesota sota and elder ashby and myself came here arriving at OK ellys s on the oct 33 we found here and at John johnsonville sonville elders maras maats may way min r durfee and B ant n t 1 lar all well axce the last who Is suffering with chills and fever brother robert graham and family are expecting to emigrate this deason season and the elders have been assisting him some to guther gether hia his crops on sunday oct 28 we held meeting at but it was stormy and there were not many out the late rains have raised the wabash river and much corn land has been it hab hns lowered lowbred a arain again gain now an and d a large part of the corn will probably be saved elders laelah and coons returned here baving having been laboring in south dasi easi Illin illinoia oia uia since the last conference held heid ja in september and re port doing a rood good work but no b baptisms as yet elders coons and As ash by have h ave go gone no no north rth from here L la alah and minor into illinois farnsworth and An anderson auberson derson berson in and about morgan co banaio and davis in hancock co durfee butler butier birks and myself in this county elders farnsworth and anderson And erbon ereon visited franklin co where two of our oun elders eiders received two coats coata gratis gratia ie ic tar and feathers A mob assembled to treat them also as the spirit ot the devil might dictate and were met in uhe the yard by mr dearmond the gentleman at whose house th the elders were st stopping oppi ng he demand ed of the mob tb their r writs for the boys of course they had none and he be refused to give them up the altercation waa was somewhat loud load bud ald a harej man thinking there were lawbreakers law breakers of som bom sort about seized an old axe when hen he was seen by some of the mob who got alarm ed and reported one of the mor nii unna a after them thern with a double shot hot gun the mob numbered over one hundred and each member of it tried in a lively manner to keep some one close cloae between him and the mormon the other er side of the picture was tw two 0 men laughing laugh gnp and the emor IMor mormon mon mou eiders elders quietly enjoying their bed last week elder marks and myself J berg there ww wac a sister thomas living there who be longed to the church hav havink having ing to re bently joined Weal we also niso sofo to nu others who were anxious to learn some bome thing mo e of ou faith we visited around and heid held one meeting at the house of brother johnson by this time the n nevva wa was spread that there were t two wo mormons cormons Mor mons in town and eany next morning we received word that it if we did not leave the place plage by 4 that afternoon we were to be t tarred and feathered wn we had bad been t thinking of going on to Craw forda ville villa but when we heard beard that we thought that we were making marting a bet ter impression than we had bad supposed and as brother marks had been through the dressing and reported it to be like a singed cat not so bad as it looked wo concluded not to go in the evening quite a number assembled at the house some in good faith to seak information and others for different purposes we talked to all freely those who as we were afterwards informed came for violence divided among themselves a mulo muio majority rity agreeing that our explanations of the scriptures were correct and all left with ap apparently patently better feelings for coming one gentleman afterwards told us that he rie lear learned ried tied more from us than he had by attending seo sec sectarian tarlan meetings all hid life we stayed here not molested and as the result of our labors there were added five members to the church from that place today to day who came here and were baptized makin making g at bix six x since last conference in this county the elders are enjoying their labors very much and the blessen blessings s of the lord are arc with them we hope all is well in zion and that we may have the faith and prayers of the saints for if we did not have that with the blessings bles bies singa of the lord we would be ready to return home for all the good we could do J E B BOOTH BOOTIE |