Show myia A VOICE prom wrom THE MUDDY OVERTON lincoln county nev nov feb 10 1883 editor news having changed my base of ope rations rational I 1 will report to the eyer eten vigilant and faithful DE fiERET NEWS thib this valley vailey la is nearly miles in a southwesterly direction from st george utah when mccu pled by the latter day saints about 12 or 14 years ago it contained three towns st thmas situated at or near the junction of the muddy with the rio virgin river biver this thib town has its streets lined with wide spreading cottonwood trees some home of them five feet in circumference two or three families millea fa live there thence up the muddy eight miles to over ton a high and sightly location wit with h a clear view to the south all the way to the colorado luver rivers 90 miles distant thence still higher up the muddy fi nive five we miles to the site of old st joseph now owned and occupied by one man mr logan Ii ogan thence up 15 miles to the upper i muddy and to old west point now held by the government as aa an indian rebe rese reservation ovation tion one man Is ia paid for staying there if the government knew the facts they would I 1 think dispense with this rif rit fifth th wheel ina lna in a wagon and open the place to actual settlers this muddy is a rapid stream about ten feet wido wide and six aciz feet deep i and the only stream I 1 am told that runs out of the state of nevada its waters first rise in what was once called the valley of a thousand springs more than loo 00 miles milea 1 north from here and immediately west of the rim of the great basin these waters sink and rise rifle beveral several times and finally form this turbulent stream on the upper muddy the water ig fg 19 3 warm and has a milky appearance at overton it Is ia cold and clear nearly all ali the timber along this stream was planted by the mormons cormons Mor mons ss I 1 often hear the question asked why did the mormons cormons Mor mons come here and lay jay out or a then pull up stakes and throw ali ail this away I 1 ask the question myself there Is good land and it is easily watered the creek overflows in places and causes tule swamps but these are easily drained and when once dried they will burn say bay 12 inches deep of the apil and every acre thus reclaimed is equal to the missouri bottoms when this and the valleys lying north were yere settled they were supposed to belong to utah when the line was drawn this chain of valleys fell on the nevada side bide and though the people had bad paid their talesin taxes in utah they were required to pay them over again to nevada for four years bai bat back baik k which they deIl dell declined ned to do and the Muddy ites left while the more gritty catts s neither ran nor paid the unjust requirements the whole thing was finally thrown out of the court and sheriff cane calne a If mormon eater ea teh tei bill of for dogging the mor conall mona was sim bim simmered merea down to sig 16 i and paid ve am say bay saying ing the present officials and people now see and admit that they never did a worse job than drive daiv 8 th the 6 industrious mormons cormons ns away who said at the time they were willing t a pay all ali just demands the company is now badly in debt and how could they expect it to be otherwise when they allow the honest working people ta be maltreated mal treated jn in panacea Pa this sheriff oame osme locked up boarding houses and stores and made men look down his pistol barrells barrella but when the men came together he found quarters in pioche urs mrs thomas tells me tha thaw a large number of attachments were nailed to her door dellwo well weil wo will not dwell upon thebe these unpleasant things the Mor Mormon mons ss of late have been treated kindly and dealt fairly with but the ruins the ruins tho the houses without roofs doom doors or windows staring at you while ps passing asing the whole thing seems a misfortune all au around the indians were a dread to passers years ago but their whole nature seems changed five year sago a desolating sickness destroyed half of them and what remains are quiet and industrious every ranch has its indians who works for 50 cents per day and board we have sabbath meetings and sunday school we have invited the indians to attend and appointed them a seat most of the land about overton belongs to the mormon people and a branch of the church has been eted T W cla cli crosby osBy church chue CHUR clr CIr new zealand jan 1883 stor editor ducret deseret wees weeg I 1 stated in my last letter that I 1 was thinking of visiting a place called Inver invercargill cargill nearly miles from christ church I 1 was in want of funds and I 1 asked the lord in prayer to provide me with the necessary means and two days before the time for my departure the nee essary essany means were provided by a brother jensen coming about so 80 miles to christ church I 1 met him ie the city quite unexpectedly and the firs first t words he spoke to me were I 1 have come to pay you 43 3 just fust the money required to lay pay my railway fare and to take 1800 tracts I 1 can truly say the lord answered my rayer prayer in this matter for brother insen S jensen was the last man that I 1 expected to furnish the money i december the I 1 took train for dunedin about miles fro from in christchurch Christ Christo church hurch at tamaru a distance of miles I 1 met with elder barber and elder lei lii hinckly inc ly who are two young elders m traveling t g in the TI tamaru tia a u district I 1 bad but ten minutes to B tay stay with them they were very pleased to see me they are two good young men they were just out of tracts and I 1 let them have they were traveling from town to tow nand are faithfully warning the inhabitants of their district I 1 bid them a hearty heart Y good bye and then left for dunedin a distance of miles from christ church I 1 there met with elder ralphs and elder bicks ricks who have trave traye traveled led thoun thousands ands of miles on foot and who are faithfully warning the inhabitants of the mining district not a very pleasant place to travel trave 1 in I 1 stayed with them for the night left them tracts next morning took train for invercargill Inver cargill a distance of about miles from dunedin I 1 went to the house of elder ellder williams president of the Inver invercargill cargill branch he has been a faithful elder he has hag supported two elders in invercargill Inver cargill for the last nine months on sunday morning the of december in m company with elder williams I 1 walked six miles to a place called Ma makarewa makarowa maka Maha karewa kanewa rewa I 1 there met with elder morris and elder bastow who are faithfully discharging their duties at half past put two we held meeting in the house hoube of elder gelderblom we had bome some few strangers there we held another smother meeting in the evening and again had some few strang strangers erf ers j prea ent on chrismas Chrid mas day we held gother another meeting in the afternoon we had the house filled and a good spirit of enquiry preval prevailed ld after the meeting held another meeting in the evening I 1 blessed the daughter dau ahter of a mrs george at the close of the meeting the parents and four others gave in their names to be baptized on december the 26 rath th we walked three nailed to the river and there chere baptized ba p med wed them one man n nam mined sm hobday about sixty two years of age bad had been under the doctors hands lands for some time stating that if he ie got his hig feet wet wt it might cause h lis hib death but he had bad faith and con p idenie in god that he would heal A him he be said after he was baptized I 1 that hat he could dance a hornpipe he be elt so much better we went to Us Is house and confirmed them when we got about half way home j twe we TWO met another man named wil wll I 1 iliam lliam fryer who had bad attended two of our meetings he demanded bap busm M we returned to the river I 1 md d baptized him also and confirmed him in the evening we held mother other othen meeting and blessed three more kore ore of brot brother brothen her georges children on sunday december the I 1 a branch of the church insisting of two twelve lve ive adults and ight children being assisted by lder ider morris and Bastow the name the branch is makarewa makarowa Ma Makare karewa ws south lind and new zealand in the afternoon af ter we held another meeting two young men named merrie walked ten miles to attend and at the ome close of our oun meeting they were thoroughly convinced of the truth and demanded baptism and also a son of brother Hob days daya we attended to it immediately and in the evening we confirmed them and I 1 also blessed a daughter of brother fryers we hada aada boobly attendance of strang ers era at all our meetings I 1 also sold 19 9 worth woith of church works to them and the saints treated me and my brethren with the greatest of kindness I 1 believe there will be several more added to the church in that place I 1 believe another branch of the church will be organized in clifton where the two brother merrier reside on january 2nd and I 1 took my departure for a place called henley where a brother and sister hughea had lately been baptized who receive ed bevery me very kindly we held heid two meetings in their house houke and one in a place about seven miles from their house after the meeting walked back to their house next day we went to dunedin dnn Dan edill edlio held a saji haji sa ament meeting and ordained brother hughes to the office of priest on the eighth I 1 returned again to christchurch Christ church after being absent 18 days during my absence eleven were baptized and five children blessed on january I 1 received a letter from president bromley in which he stated the lord had blessed his labors amongst the laoris maoris the natives of this country no doubt he will give you the full particulars tic ulars of his visit to the waikato one of the maoris laoris related to him the following 1 I dreamt I 1 was sitting in a rooms room when one man two women and a girl visited me all were dressed in pure white not a dark garment or spot about them the man was quite ag edwith longa long iong white hite hair and beard he was dressed in a white robe which reached from his hib shoulders to his fee one of the women pointing to the man many addressed addre ased me saying baying say bay ing that Is id the apostle peter he is working with men upon the earth this was repeated three times after which all four vanished the mahrle continued when I 1 saw you mendean meni mean ing elders bromley mcdonald an and d cox coming toward me something told me that was the interpret interpretation atio to my dream and that you were the men whom my dream said the apostle peter was working with upon the earth brother bromley says after questioning closely I 1 found the were convinced of the truth they demanded baptism we went to the river luver and there on christmas night 1030 10 30 pm with the bright rays of the moon for alight and the spirit of god to comfort oswe baptized and confirmed at the waters edge two men and one woman on the following monday new years day five men and one ono woman more were baptized making nine in all these are people of influence and very intelligent they are eager for the gospel and accept it whole soul ed I 1 never felt more of the spirit of god in my life than while presenting the glorious truths of the gospel to these children of nature and I 1 can also say I 1 felt more of the spirit of the lord than ever before in my life iffe when confirming those that were baptized at makara makare wa though we were ere 1300 miles apart the same spirit was powerfully felt at both ends of the island the saints are very good to me wherever I 1 go I 1 want for nothing I 1 am staying with brother and his bis ter tor porter who have charge chargi j of the mission room your b rother brother in the gospel of christ WILLIAM wllliam burnett waynesville WAYNES VILLE warren county ohio february 1883 editor deseret neav newy holding meeting within forty miles of cincinnati elder priti and myself on the sixteenth went to the city and found thousands 0 houses under water causing many thousands of its citizens to t 0 home less depending upon the c charity of others on arriving at the waters edge we took boat from pearl street to ire ibe cincinnati side of the covington bridge and in doing so BO passed by hundreds of four five and six story buildings the first stories of which were filled and very many even the second story partially so one story buildings being covered up entirely with the exception except ion lon of a small portion of the roof on arriving at the bridge and walking to the centre we looked for some time upon the grand view presented before us in the raging flood that has rendered thousands homeless and des deg destitute who two weeks ago wen wem in comparatively easy circumstances crossing over to covington kentucky we found very many of the large buildings for numbers of blocks on the river side under water to the first and second stories causing thou thousands ands of dollars damage but mostly falling on men who are able to stand it and therefore not much buffering suffering or distress among the poorer classes other than there generally is in the overcrowded Chris chrls christian thin cities it crossin crossing 9 he the licking river biver to newport we had bad to take boat again from the newport side of the bridge some eight blocks to madison street passing hundreds of some tumbled over and held by ropes from floating down the river others covered except about one foot of the roof three and tour four story buildings with ladders to the windows families living in the second and third stories prefer doing ao to leaving their property to the mercy of the roughs boughs that are watching for an opportunity port unity tv to rob and plunder it was a most pitiable sight to see hundreds of buildings wren wrenched cheli cheil from their foundations and ogal coal sheds stables one story frame cramb houses and outhouses out houses hurdled huddled up together with drift and rubbish that has accumulated during the raging of the floods in newport alone there are some men women and children that are left hom homeless eleEs and destitute having to be provided for by charitably disposed persone persona per sone but notwithstanding all that is be ing done the but bum buffering suffering ering of those poor people must be fearful and in looking at their haggard faces you can ean read distress and misery in every feature Cro crossing esing the newport bridge to cincinnati again we traveled some bome two or three miles along the waters edge and it is really impossible to describe the fearful destruction st of property and the number ot of houses under water arriving near mclean avenue on gest gast street where once stood the southern depot we saw amarge body of water completely cc vering covering the ruins of the fallen depot only a small portion of the shed left standing on passing along the streets we could see hundreds of poor creatures trudging along looking more dead than alive carrying a tin bucket and an old basket going for their allowance of bread and soup coup indeed it is heartrending to see them for they look pale thinly clad and hungry and as an though they have not had a good meal for a month the distress and destitution is and will be for some time to ful to think about for thousands of men have been thrown out of employment besides those who have suffered by the flood and the great majority of the working classes in the city cannot afford to lose one dayss day s work for it Is ia all they can do to provide the necessaries of life with constant work we are holding meetings in this section of ohio and have fair attendance at our meetings considering the excitement caused by the flood we are staying for a short time with brother jonathan |