| Show news erom prom arizona graham co arizona jan 29 editor deseret kawg As I 1 stated in my last from S st t david that predl Preel president dent macdanald Mac ddnald and company were wehe going into bonora sonora they started on the dinst the party consisted of elders macdonald trejo and four others from st david were well fitted for u twenty days journey into northeastern north eastern sonora bonora Con cou conference fernee was held here at which the general authorities of the church were presented to the saints end and were sustained anant m bously aa as also president macdonald with henry C rogers as his first counselor and 8 W shrine sirrine lne ine aa as his second counselor as the presiding authority in this the bait salt river district after this president Ma macdonald odonald stated that as president R C verrill merrill who had earnestly labored amongst the people sinco ainoo the first settlement of this thia valley had bad done a good work and desired to be released hh his resignation was accepted that he be might more freely act in his patriarchal calling and aud of operate erate in connection with his family and friends in the spirit of union and andone borcer of the gospel it being deemed best for the tho progress and well being of the saints in this valley it was motioned and seconded that elder D P kimball be ap pointed to the presidency of this branch which was unanimously Eu stained sustained as were also the following helps calvin reed as president of the toe teachers quorum with samuel B curtis john S merrill E F hubbard af G trejo alex alexi i ander mcrae john anderson joseph ril curtis and W W wild aa as teachers the officers of the relief society are as follows sister bister sirena merrill as president with rhoda S merrill as her first counsellor and maria mcrae morae as her second counsellor mith with with sister bister BA E A merrill as becy secy secretary e and ii A merrill as treasurer seth A merrill as superintendent of the sabbath school with E T hubbard and M G treje ireje as his assistants si the yo M M 1 I ao A is in a thriving condition under the management of T B S merrill and J jo J busby bugby and R W bingham as his nagi aasi assistants stants the Y L 1 I A will compare with any t at I 1 ever visited these theae two associations met on sunday evening and their exercise exercises a consisting of select readings reelta eions song songe etc were all rendered in a creditable manner at the close of which mrs sarah D curtis president of chef Y ij lo 8 19 was wab called on for a speech which was given in the spirit of the gospel in the evening of the we met with the directors of the st david canal to transact some business when we were taken by surprise sister sarah D curtis and brother jahn campbell entered our quarters at the head of the ladies of st david all loaded with baskets full of the ch choice oleo things thing 1118 of the earth and before we realized what was up they broke forth in Inthe the bong song we have ceifie come this thia knitht to greet you e etc ete tc at the close we had a dance after which wo we were refreshed with the contents of the baskets to which we did ample justice I 1 on the dinst we started for smithville besides prest macdonald and company there were bro E hulbard and wife J 8 merrill and wife and aud calvin Calvia reed heed who took us over to this place a disi dis i tance of miles the whole country ia is a meadow of grass with some sonic few ranches established one of whom la Is mr hookers Hoo hens hers the great horse and stock man of ardana who ho took great pleasure in showing ua us his horbes horses in the late indian trotti tioff s ble he lost head of horses ho he lips on this ranch besides his horses head of cattle and imported 50 head of fine graded bulls buila this thia season twelve miles from this point we arrive at eureka springs owned by C 11 lietch and brother learned they havo 1300 head of cattle we arrived at smithville about pm found bishop joseph rogers and his branch all well this place is situated on the gila glia river 11 12 3 miles milts above camp thomas and contains about souls their hoists are principally i nei nel pally log they have nearly al finished lashed a building for a cool co ol operative store storo storsand and a very comfortable log bouse house 45 x 18 feet which ac at our meetings was filled to overflowing the resources of this place for their thein product products saro aro gcoy the globe mining district is 70 miles west wilcox a station on the 8 P R R is 50 miles southeast camp grant camp bowie and several new mining districts within a radius of or 75 or miles giving to this extensive agricultural al district strict a good market for all that can be produced from the earth corn coin which grow grown large larr and matures well Is worth 3 per hundred hunt hunk ired pouy pout pounds ids wheat about the same potatoes 4 per hundred pound and nd corresponding corres prices for tor or everything this la is termed the upper gila uila valley and ia is from one to nive five miles wide wido and 40 40 miles long before ft narrows on the east there are several canals taken out of the river in this valley rhe the rho baand rna roa and central being among the oldest there is also a very god good grist mill here wita two run of stones and shorts wr prinder grinder inder prinder the range for stock la Is ex rel tel lent bent there being plenty of six neek week eek black grama grania and Brer tion grapes twelve miles south of this lace ilace is the graham mountain at present with giffords plenty of water for stock vinga good range for 12 miles sek neb ack sek from the settlement wood woodia is irein ere in abundance mesquite cot onwood wall nut and scrub oak we take into consideration nit sit river elver san ban pedro and gila val bya eya yo we e wonder why those brethren a the e north who do not have homes f their own do not exert them elves to reach such places where thousands hou bou gands sands of acres of land are un coupled last evening the good people of his iia place with their bihon and Ister Mary ranson at the head gave a a surprise party at the school ouse where we were appreciatively entertained until midnight by anding recitations songs bongs etc kc saturday at 11 II am we gathered t the school house wh when en the follow ig eiders eldera addressed the saints D T kimball E hubbard and A F Ta cdonald exhorting the saints to lve ive ve up to their privileges etc I 1 tatted batted to say that brother DP D P cimball when he moves on to his purchase on the san pedro will be n the most moat southern frontier of our eople being about SO 30 miles from he e line of bonora sonora he expects to be loved noved by the at last a t of march when w ii friends desiring to correspond mith ith ath him will have to address to contention on cochise county AT your bro brother ther then in the gompel chas I 1 THE WILLING OF op wyllian WILLIAM huntington emery county utah january editor deige DeIse deseret ret ref mews news on last saturday the net ie is inhabitants of biske blake cita in us is county had rather a livell we rue for a couple of hours which bulted in the death of william lugent the circumstances as laar egr ear as I 1 could learn are axe about as an alews it aop appears pears that hat nugent fugent and ano er ier man by the name of wm win e had a quarrel over a lunch they ere taking ahrn nugent knocked umee down clown with a large bone he kd ad in his hig hand bands and while dullee duffee lag lab as down kicked meted him duffee then rew ew a knife which nugent took vay from him then handed it baek bach ying he be was rorry borry he had bad na in and that they being old friend friends a not quarrel in that way dortly after this cufr duffee ee started pay yay ay when nugent said you are ing to heel yourself dufree duffee dut i answered all right in about an hour after duffie was en coming down the road with a In chester hifle rifle on his shoulder d nugent on being informed of 14 1 ran tan between a couple of stores d called out to duffee stop afee stop you dont want any ing ng from me dubee kept hept right L towards him when nugent drew and fired The iball r duffee in the calf of the leg nut at again prepared to fire anre at the me tae time duffee leveled bis hii rifle 3 the he two shots were fired almost ether other thia this time nugent missed t dunces fees feea shot struck nugent in i right breast and passed through body killing him almost in antly duffee for a little ilie ille but was wai finally arrested by 09 farrer fatter and held while the he ifeng zens yens held a mass meeting and ap anted ted a coroner and a coroners V y to hold an inquest over nugent ilch lich they did and the evidente evid enre 3 received seemed to to justify justify in in the following verdict he be said wiliiam william nugent oak 0 alameda county california is lye to bis his death by a gunshot und ind from a rifle in the hands of duffee and that the said mur was war I 1 gnad lawrence bethune fore p 0 B F taylor jog jos hyde J T per ter W H coat coats J gammage burdicko lur dicks dicko alonzo smith R hat ij moore thos farrer jas jae ish be prisoner was then brought to ot ington it being the nearest e where there wasa wan was a justice of 01 leace peace by the way justices are and far between in this county arr nar thos farrer fatter and two assist p 4 and turned over to the justice re ea who placed him in the hands bands pe i e sheriff a soon boon as the preliminary ar ena hta cements eto rots were made for an ex dation nation the complaint was read he lie prisoner sonari who thereupon neb lui III the grand jury he the prisoner claiming he did the deed in self seif defense deo def ense enBe the prisoner was waa again turned over to the sherid sheriff for safekeeping until the grand jury meets in provo it appears also from what I 1 can learn that nugent and dumfee duffee were peaceable sort eort of men but the quarrel they had was the result of one ot of the many rainy vla via iskey lakey sprees there ia Is at green biver river there arb ara ar several saloons running there besides oti kotlers ers in the county without paying any license to the county whether they do the united states or nol not I 1 do not know yours very respectfully W H A veteran mormon lady A keese keesy bear bese lahe lake disaster A surprise r earty party r 1 y paris palus bear lafke lake co idaho db february ath 1882 editor deseret mems news ait galt alt ijane 16 city can claim the oldest est female member of the church in this dispensation in jn the person of sister covey as recently noted in the DESERET NEWS bear lykke lyuke valley also wishes to have in the pie of female celebrities in these latter days and now comes to the front by asserting that bloomington in this thia valley jq i the residence 0 the oldest baptized foreign sister bister in the church her name Is ann wamsley gley baptized by heber C mom TOm barl baIl july 30 1827 1837 in in the river ribble near preston lancashire eash cash ca lre england on the above date the following named were the first baptized in great britain viz george awatt thos War wamsley naley john waits james billsbury ann wamsley Wa maley ann brown mary ann dawson and two others whose names she does not kemem ber OCT slaten slater paye says from that day to this she has never doubted the truth troth of the work wort but rn cri the conry contrary contY 5 has received additional confirmation of its divine origin she ii iq 76 years old next august b as reared quite a larre large e family in widowhood aviated to settle new valleys io in hard times is in very good i health now and predicts that the hon ifon george Q cannon will receive his seat beat in the present house of the thermometer baa haa been several inches below zero and a little to one side of it for several in this region the iee ice crop hag has fully matured even poor people in bear rahe rake can have iee ice in their water without buying it for the of early tourists awill I 1 will state that a bear lake duster 1 la 13 3 built of the following lowin g in ingredients gred lentil nine darts parts buffalo robe and one part horse bla bia blanket surprise st 1 oprise parties seem peem to have simultaneously simul mul mui struck zion in various localities loca litie from the accounts recounts I 1 read in the NEWS 1 T aws nd other naper paper 1 I had an idea they wera were a nic nice thing tobaie to have ins ina in a family fourt fourteen persons whom I 1 pre presume mime had a grudge against me favored us with one the other evening and I 1 can truly say pay it was wag a gup aup gur surprise prise part parly the true inwardness of the affair was wag not discover discovered eJ until the next morning when myself and family were mr praised to find that we had bad nothing for breakfast A bear lake surprise party should not be inaugurated on an a person whose salary is jesa jes than 2500 2500 per annum very respectfully J C R nich RICH clr cir it la Is now rumored that filley of I 1 st louin louis swill will soon be provided with a good place the honse house judiciary jadi clary ciary committee took the first brat step today to day towards considering the bankrupt bankruptcy ev bill by referring it to a subcommittee sub aub committee consisting of humphreys mccold mccoid and Man manning hing bing three students of williston seminary east hampton mas mahs were suspended for hazing the two upper classes refuse to attend recitations till they are reinstated the faculty are firm the nomination to dy of john C new ew of indiana to he be Appi assistant stant secretary of the treasury wag was a general surprise it la Is said new could have bave had a foreign missal mission n luthe preferred a place in this this country general Fitz fitzjohn lohn porter has been here beveral days aud and had bad aa sa interview with the president his ease case was one of the topics discussed at the cabinet meeting this afternoon and there Is i cald caid tp to be roneld considerable erable probability palts its ita teton again brough brought t tp ohp at B wirt diri dirt |
