Show correspondence HEBER HEARD FROM dry CITY wasatch county december 14 1886 editor deseret news the health of the people here is pretty good at present no serious sickness prevailing that I 1 know of winter wanter commenced some sa sl weeks earlier than usual causing feed to rise to double the usual value ane cold weather of last month put a stop to rock laying ingon on the stake house three weeks more of tine fine weather would have enabled the masons to complete the rock work on the tower A financial report was read to the building committee covering somewhere about up to the present the all absorbing topic on the street Is the coming railroad the colorado and utah midland the surveying party composed of about 20 persons were camping in our town last week on saturday last they struck camp and folded their tents and moved over the rim of the basin into strawberry valley andare and are now surveying east towards the utah line there is quite a lot of our people out hauling wood and doing other kind of work for the boys in alue at fort deschesne Dus chesne and a nui number fiber of others are longing lor spring to come so they can get out to work for uncle sam and relieve his coffers of a low few of the surplus dollars therein on the ath dinst our home dramatic club presented to a crowded house the sensational scotch drama wenlock of wenlock they abey have also under rehearsal the octoroon tor for th the christmas holidays we have some six day schools in full blast all crowded our sunday school under the able management of bishop clegg and staff of officers Is in a prosperous condition and the scalars are contemplating haying having a grand time at christman with santa clause and his presents our stores are doing a booming bustness business in supplying the people with their winter and christmas goods our mails are very irregular and have been for the last three months the ane NEWS and most of the time one day behind time where the fault lies we cannot find out we are having some beautiful weather at the present cold nights but pleasant in the day A WORD FROM DETROIT DETROIT HOUSE OP corrections CORRECTION 9 michigan dec editor deew qa news please allow me through your columns to address a few lines to my beloved bret brethren bren and fediow prisoners for conscience sake brethren sisters and friends in zion the priesthood generally and good and kind friends everywhere thousands of miles away makes us feel keenly our position and appreciate an opportunity to communicate our feelings to our fellow sufferers feeling keenly the suffer sufferings legs of our wives and children thus deprived of husbands fathers and protectors we join in solemn prayer constantly for their welfare and ask the ti blessing lessing of got god upon our brethren and sisters in zion who in an any m manner anner aid la in encouraging and materially y ate i 1 ly helping the for a time w widows ido ws and we can say jike ake our savior did I 1 lay in prison 1 and ye visited me I 1 was naked mul ail ye clothed me hungry and ye gave me to eat what ye did to my family ye did to me I 1 your brethren have not been deserted by the spirit of god even in this far off location loca tiou friendly feelings are exhibited towards the servants of god b by 3 F which our stay here is made corn com ively easy and through our hum ble and faithful prayers much prejudice u is being removed from the minds mind s of honorable men and women which we always pray may bear fruit in the lords own time our arizona brethren broke the joe ice and laid a foundation on which we are our best to build a structure that some d day I 1 may become a pleasant abode for the ably holy spirit to occupy I 1 am ALM sati satisfied on ed that our imprisonment preaches louder than any sermon we might deliver as through our daily actions we as a people will be more understood der stood and abd our sincerity of conviction will be more and more established among the honorable on the tarth and this fact gives us happiness to perform our duties and invoke the blessings of god upon our humble efforts and count it a bles blessing ging to be a coworker co worker in the establishment of gods kingdom in the last days tat it is only a matter of til we shall hall be allowed to serve grod flod according to the dictates of our oar own conscience and according to the spirit of the glorious constitution of our country as near as I 1 can learn this is the sentiment with all the elders here and thanks to the officers Aind kindness ness we enjoy more liberty and privileges than we expected when first entering this institution as liberty is we do not feel like murmuring murm over our position but ut say I 1 rather at A thy y will I 1 be done one looking with pleasure ceasare to the day a y when en we e can meet beet our families and friends tb he elders are enjoying enjoy injo ins ying good health so far as I 1 can see with h friendship and love to all I 1 la I 1 am ya yours U ra respectfully NELs MELS THE CUE DALTON BEAVER utah december 17 1886 editor deseret news As I 1 presume you have been posted as to the circumstances of the murder of af our le leloyd loed brother edward dalton jr of carowan parowan Pa rowan rowau by deputy marshal W william ilia in tompson I 1 need not repeat them the first place everybody who knows anything of law knows that an officer has no right to kill a 8 man charged with a misdemeanor although he may be escaping escalin from said officer much less a man who w nao had bad not been examined or tried and whom the oe law holds awas to be innocent innocenti until guilty the extent of the offense of which brother dalton was chirped cb arged was wai six months imprisonment and ane still he must be shot down by a man clothed with a little brief authority simply because he be did not bow down to his bis dictum there is not a shadow of law to sustain the in murderous ui deed As well might i a police man of your city shoot a min man who 1 had ad beba disturbing the peace of the community and try trying fag to evade arrest in faut the oase case would be more aggravated for everyone knows that to disturb the peace is wrong whilst the man killed was merely indicted on a charge of having obeyed merely the dictates of nis conscience clence iq in living jiving with his wives whom it is understood der stood he be married before the passage of the export ex post facto edmunds law that the cabe is clearly one of wilful murder to itly my mygind mind d docs not 1 admit of a reason reasonable reasonably abl doubt now OW aja aped to this thid mormon apostate and deputy deput vU S marshall marshal nothing need be said sal about him where his bis character is known his and Gleason Glea sons li raids upon the pr premises amses of citizens of in ibis h to county are still fresh in ill the winds minds of the citizens of that place and ado thi the public it will also alky ba remembered that this same man then a guard but row cow a deputy mar marshal deserted his hie post a few years ago and thereby permitted the convicted murder erthe notorious ben Tasker to make his bis escape george tracy was placed at the north and front ol 01 of the court house and thompson at the south and rear the only possible poss ble places of escape the ninh was a S a little cold and tracy built a tire fir while 4 thompson better known as bill 01 U 11 I 1 achis t post ta 9 warm at tracy n fire re during D his al 4 sence the made Ws tys escape through the rear of the bill should nave been on the lookout A little of that vigilance he has recently been using towards his once Mf irmon bYk brethren thren would have held the notorious talker for the atonement of his crimes and saved the suspicion dicion that there was money in the lob job cannot our government th the e best on earth find better material to execute its mandates if not its cause must be exceedingly degrading or we are drifting to anarchy and ruin as fast and as surely as the sun rises and sets will the law for once nce ibe enforced against the assassins of a latter oay day saint we shall shall see DANIEL T abit I 1 |