Show the scandinavian COMP company aTily this morning we were called upon by elder A N tollestrup a returning missionary who reached this city last evening with the company of cavlan immigrants in charge ot of elder N P lindelof of logan elders carl erickson of manti joseph of gunnison christian olsen of Weston Gustave Bach Bachma manof not this city john anderson and john peterson also came home with the company the last named has been laboring la in england but all the rest are from the scandinavian mission there were immigrants in the company they left copenhagen sept 27 97 and crossed the atlantic in the steamer wyoming which made the best time it had bad ever made on the norfolk and western railroad the entire company of persons were ware c crowded into two cars causi causing 13 g groat graat discomfort which was increased bay baa lack of water and the unclean condition of the cars after being thus jammed for two days and two nights the urging of the company for another car was responded respond etl to but bat the three cars they occupied were attached to a freight train trai naud and slower time was made from kansas city to pueblo the company were given excellent accommodations CID but at the latter place placa the D R agave them three narrow guage cars in which they were very crowded and uncomfortable though less so than from norfolk to bristol the D B R G cars were also very unclean one sister who had a child afflicted with diphtheria was left at new york though the child nas has recovered with this exception tb the e health of the entire company was good el elder er tollestrup resides at gunnison he left utah on sept 7 1886 and labored the whole period of his bis absence in the aarhus conference denmark the condition of that conference is favorable compared with the rest of denmark but sweden affords a better field for the elders now than does the former country elder G H backman called later and gave an account of his mission he left home oct 12 1886 and aad went to sweden he labored in the gotten bur burp conference during the whole period of his absence meeting with very good success that field at the present time is 18 q quite ite fruitful he re tarns arus in axce excellent I 1 le a t u health and spirits elder N X P Linci lindelof elof left this city october and went direct to sw sweden ede a he spent the whole of hi his 8 mission in Gottenberg Conference with good success in that conference over baptisms have taken place in two years eldar lindelof was made president of the conference after laboring in it about five months as a traveling elder elder joseph Joserh left this city sept and went to the conference Coa Coale ference rence sweden in which he labored all the time be was absent the profi pro resa of the work in that conference is rather slomas it is an old field but the elders meet with some success in portions of it |