| Show AN HISTORIC SWORD A letter dated a frd graham county Artz arizona na lr ir m alonzo H packer ojo cio talus the following 1 I read with much lite reat the correspondence respond eDco from old timer as I 1 am more or lew leas acquainted with all these inci incidents dente they hey are the more interest my I 1 have an old relic which il if deemed worthy can be among the duany that will be on exhibition at the jubilee I 1 have bare in my possession a sword that the late juige judge holbrook of bountiful davis davie county utah used on the 24 h of october 1888 1838 in a band to band conflict in the battle of crooked river where apostle david W patten fell a martyr to the cause or of truth after the battle mr hol hoi brouk brook discovered tbt while in the midst of the conflict be bad made a ditcu in the be edge of thin sword thip ditch yet remaina DAMS I 1 this 0 ord above anything I 1 possess on reflecting bacig to the parade grounds at brigham city utah when my father jonathan T parker as aa macj r this abia sword in hand ras at the head of the boxelder Bo Box zelder elder militia alwais brings to me a pleasant remembrance of my lather father now dead 1 I was wae boru born april 1841 in crowed the with my parents when but seven years olo walking the entire distance rom from winter quarter lere on the banks of the missouri urr river to salt halt lake valley bare tooted my father drove one oha wi ui the be tour lour wagons that entered the valley aug 81 31 1843 arriving about sixteen days daye in advance 0 of the other father built the first house erected tn in the first ward suit bait lake city the first grist griet will mill in ulai was a small mall one built on city cily crook creek oot not far above where president Prealo ent Young 18 houses now stand aland AU indian boy stole a sack of corn meal fro fruitt this will mill his bis chief procured a pair of shears and cut off the boys bord hair close olo to hi bb head this to him was a great ereal punishment I 1 will mention no be hart any old veteran of the chur churoff will know from the above dates th that hyve passed through many 11 carson nevada appeal ansal recently kinney of carson inform in chinese who had bad b ben been en in jail a I 1 1 11 days for selling belling whisky t to 0 indians dianis tb abl hir bia time was up the poor fellow fell jaw dropped nearly a foot tb intelligence was was having a very nice time in with a sure bed and three posit meals a day the idea of bet belo thrown out in the street with a H I 1 summer coming on was anything scything pleasant he fie began to argue with fc jailor that there was waa some inist about the time and that he be had bed tb more days daya caming orai Dir the aberl WOUld listen to him and takli dakil him by the arm led him aim out oui into u street the poor fellow argued u begged bagged and pleaded tor for a lew few 02 mo day but the sheriff was nd ind told him V tj got get out john M plunkett a united bati custo customs me iu was waa killed hilled ea saturday mornin ir while on duty the steamer resolute jn in sau pran co harbor plunkett was standing et andine J the house boube of the steamer ehat chatting ting W wi captain capaan Kommer uw the mentor 1 the be vessel when there came a a U bild crash just u under uder the boj it aud and the next instant the ibe pilot lao was waa torn roc from ane deem or the ves the Ra Baso solute luie had run loto into this tr shored sacramento an d jibbo m had irked across the de beoka eka the steamer toe tate heavy timber wi driven wita preal great force through U pilot bodeo and I 1 a end crushed U revenue official against the alter w w ot of the from jooa which spot the lured durej man dropped through an cure to u the engine room beneat crushing his head bead in the rail fall |
