Show MIS ti S cases of healing under date of january 8 brother john M paxton of banosh furnishes the following A few weeks ago my wife was horrified to learn that ebe she had a cancer in her throat and on the palate and when we thought of president grant the emperor of germany and others afflicted in like manner we were assured that the skill of the physician is insufficient in such cases god the head ph physician il I 1 1 an moved upon his wr iger servant brother 0 blackburn to come over to kanosh sister watts bein being 9 sick had written for him and in ansi answering bering her that he could not come he found in looking over his letter that he had promised to come he obeys the whisperings 0 of the e still small voice and when he arrives he does not rest in peace but anxiously awaits to perform the mission assigned him hence his remarks when he saw my wife sister my whole soul has been drawn out towards you even before I 1 had seen you now I 1 know why I 1 had to come to banosh kanosh and I 1 feel that you are about to receive a great blessing and when you do so give god the glory but remember me in yair prayers through his administration the united effort of my fa family milly and and the faith and prayers of many good people my wife is healed sister watts also received help and the wife of charles watts had a cancer healed homes in idaho A W beach writes as follows from eagle rock bock bingham county idaho under date of january I 1 am in receipt of letters of inquiry from james allen alien sandy salt lake county and others concerning the possibility of securing homes in idaho in answer I 1 may say that in this portion of the valley there is some vacant land waiting for those seeking a home the soil being heavy loam is capable of producing all kinds of grain there is un an endless quantity of water and all that Jenow needed are labor and the means to obtain it water can be had from the eagle rock bock and willow creek water company at the rate of 5 por per inch on nine years time tim e under era a 4 inch h pressure sev e lity enty five ve or 1 inches will supply all shewa the water required for acres of land and this can be supplied continuously from the time a person commences irrigating until he is through this may seem expensive but it is good property to the the greater portion of mankind bread is thell staff of life the irishman says saya whisky isline itself so it is with water water Is life itself to the land to those who would rather buy homes I 1 would say that there are some good farms for sale ranging from WG to with good improvements prove ments it is the opinion of many that some gome kinds of fruit will do well here hem such as apples hardy plums gooseberries goose berries currants grapes and straw strawberries strawberry berr fee tomatoes sugar cane melons and white flint corn pay par as well as all sorts of vegetables timber ie plentiful 25 or 30 miles away and when rafted crafted on the river it comes very reasonable building bu alding is likewise plen plentiful tIMI and brick clay and lime rock are in abundance the winters as a rule are mild for stock wintering out there is a good and extensive range after what I 1 have stated I 1 ask your readers to reflect back for a moment to the time of the arrival of our parents in utah with the then scarcity of water and themselves one thousand miles beyond the region of civilization poor weary and footsore then compare the advantages offered today in idaho with the disadvantages against which they formerly had to contend and I 1 am sure we shall all a come to the conclusion to see for ourselves and make a home here though it will require some hard knocks to be sure we have our meetings sabbath schools mutu als etc in good working order so that with warm hearts what if the storms do occasionally rage wilford Wl lford idaho idah 0 J 1 K M 11 sends u us the e mowing following from wilford bing bingmon county aunt idaho under date january 15 on sunday and monda monday last d district s me meetings edings were held at I 1 I 1 there were present presidents ricks rigby bigby and gunnell bishops davis da vis donaldson and parker patriarchs smith and hinckley a few influential visitors from utah and many citizens from the neigh neighboring addressed dressel borin settlement this the speakers ad addressed the meetings with animation and to the point and were attentively listened to the subjects treated upon u n were the building up of the country cou the duties we owe to god and to one another the maintaining of confidence fi union of effort and the necessity of becoming self sustaining behave we have large larget farms arms here anait and it requires union to fence them and to construct arri irrigating eating canals and to build meeting meetinghouses houses auses we were also reminded of the necessity of caring for the poor and assisting the distressed we should remember our devotions attend fast meetings and bri bring in in our offerings on those days assil assist the relief societies and as the building of temples and public enterprises rises requires means it is necessary that halwe we pay our tithes and offerings seeing that we e have no contribution boxes in our houses of worship our presidents and bishops visited the mutual improvement associations on sunday evening and gave some useful instruction president rieke bicks considers it beneficial to have district meetings in the different settlements occasionally and in a fow few weeks a similar one is to be held in parker ward three miles north of here at the close of our conference for such it really was the teton brass band discoursed some good music while the assembly was dispersing we have an abundant range for sheep and other stock wherever one goes for miles and miles there extends a vast prairie of gra grass of the finest qu quality allty wilford produce excellent corn without water last summer and some wheat WO we also raised a number of squashes each of which weighed over pounds and there were melons in great quantities which lasted until about the I 1 ast 1st st of november we are to have hae a new meeting house this building will be shortly commenced and teams alb be hauling rock to build the walls it in a few days we also expect to fencer 1 in a cou couple ae of big fields next spring wilford has one canal about four miles in length which carries the fertilizing fluid into a fair section of country but our largest aanal is one olle from fall river biver northeast of here and which is said to carry a stream of water forty feet wide and four deep the canal is already out on the level so that by next summer we expect to use it OR on a large plain between the teton and north fork rivers rexburg rehburg has a good grist mill a saw mill and shingle mill teton has as a steam saw and shingle mill and a planer in the mountain east of the he town wilford possesses a saw mill and will have a grist mill by the coining spring we want men of enterprise to build up the coun try wy A few school teachers as well as 48 blacksmiths and other mechanics age are very much needed in this valley WO IM we consider the snake aver biver country capable of sustaining two hundred thousand people pe opte timber is ily obtained and teams often ring home two cordson cords of house logs affe one tri trip though it takes two days taw I 1 ft the union pacific company I 1 am told will run a branch line from eagle rock bock through these settlements ments to the yellow stone park next summer so we are lookin looking for or a 4 busy season the country is being 1 ng fast taken up and those who ex expect pee t to come here for homes should hu hurry rry along otherwise they will probably have but little choice money is however scarce just now american ancients the following appeared in the cleveland Plain dealer prof F W putman curator of the peabody museum at cambridge mass and perhaps the most distin squished dished archEe archaeologist in america lectured before the western reserve Rist historical orical society last eve evening I 1 ng on the mounds and mound builders of ohio prof putman has spent the he past two months in exploring the he g great re serpent nt mound in adams county a allt Y te he began with a word aj about ut tie the a ancient lent people of america there were said the speaker four great antique races on this continent or the people if of one leoyle mee show a greater d diversity hersity than any other on earth for instance we e found in one mound in fia ohio 1500 SOO skeletons na and these were of vallous lous sizes and differed in their characteristics the four great races ean call be resolved into two the longheaded people and the people with short and broad heads beads there is evidence that the longheaded long headed people came from northern asia and crossing behring strait continued their way downward as far at as california they then crossed to the great lakes went down the st law ance noe made their way along the at ewig coast as far south as north spread themselves into ohio and pennsylvania there is evidence Jl T dence that they resemble the peo ve pe of northern asia in face and borm the short headed people had e characteristics of the people of southern fou thern asia and resemble the avrace ay race the first traces of them we find in peru and central america from there they worked toward the north into mexico new mexico arizona and following the rivers rivera which empty into the gulf of mexico notably the mississippi ippi they mingled at last with the longheaded people in tennessee and ohio and were finally absorbed by them the indian is a descendant of those two races the speaker wen went on to describe the mounds built by these people he told how the former method of digging a hole in the centre of the mound which was wasat at first practiced by explorers has been abandoned for a more exhaustive method of research prof putnam does not excavate the mounds but slices them off in perpendicular sections until ahe whole mound has been laid open to inspection he describes describe sat at length the use of the mounds for fo burial and said there were many ways in which the bodies were prepared for interment sometimes they were cremated and sometimes simply laid in the ground sometimes iv houi rough gh stone tomb surrounded the bodies sometimes a sort of log house work of timber besides the burial mounds there are other mounds sald said the speaker that is mounds used for great religious ceremonies I 1 have been making explorations in the little miami valley and I 1 am glad at this time to pay a tribute to the work of col in the little miami valley to him we owe much of our information of the ancient lake superior mining as well of the mounds of the little miami valley the mounds in that valley aret are sacred mounds that is they were for the purpose of sacrifice and religious ceremonies on these mounds fires were kindled and sacrifices were made not human sacrifices but sacrifices fides to the fire in one of these mounds we found ter terra beotta figures beautifully carved and perfect representations of people in a perfect attitude of rest there was nothing to suggest action there were beside these stone images of fine shape there were copper pendants pennants pend ants and thousands of copper beads many earrings an were found of copper covered irna with native silver and over pearls it seemed as if the pearls of all the tribes had been cast upon this altar we have found these altars in several mounds and sometimes we found several altars so you see many of the great mounds were for no other purposes than burial |