| Show HEBER CITY NOTES HEBER CITY march 13 1 editor deseret news Win winter teris is slowly giving way to the balmy air of spring which seems to dawn on us with the month about the beginning of it we had bad some two feet of snow but now it is nearly gone we have had bad a long tedious winter it commenced about the first ot of november there has fallen from that time up to the present about eight feet of snow that is measured in a loose state just after each fall of snow besides a great amount of rain I 1 think there will be no lack of water this coming season from reports of the deep snows in the mountains I 1 will relate a curious phenomenon t that hat occurred in this valley on the iotti of last month it was on the same day that the wind blew over a train on the utah nevada line near dear black rock the wind rolled up balls of snow all over the country from tue the size of a mans hand band to as big as a washtub something I 1 never heard beard of before we have had several deaths some six funerals this year up to date an average of two per month with a population of 1600 there was a sad occurrence occur reace trans tired the other day down v at harleston barleston one joseph bagley got shot in the arm with buckshot the cause of it was resist resisting ingan an officer in his bis duty mr bagley had some difficulty with a neighbor the officer went to make the arrest and had bad to shoot to bring him to terms mr bagley was tried on three charges on saturday last and bound over to the grand jury today to day being Sund sunday ayour our meetinghouse was crowded to overflowing doing honor to elder frank frau fraughton gaton who has as just returned from a mission of two years in south carolina he related some of his bis experience on the mission one ot of which I 1 will mention about one month after his bis arrival in his neld field of labor he be with his was sent off to visit a tribe of indians about seventy miles away where a branch of the church had been organized they were waited upon by a deputation of white citizens commanding them to leave the county f forthwith orth witti or suffer the consequences but realizing they had broken no law and being bein in a free country they took no notice of it but held their meeting the next sunday on monday following in the evening while chatting with their host and hostess a mob of twenty five or thirty men surrounded the house bouse franks companion ran through the back door and got away with a shot through the chin as a reminder out but brother fraughton was marched off to the woods a mile away and received forty stripes with oak switches administered by four men 10 each while being led to the woods lie he laid his case before the lord in secret prayer and all fear left him his bis flesh was black and blue from shoulder to ankle but the greatest greate pt te testimony that the lord was with min him was that he be felt no pain then or after next day he walked ten miles and the next twenty miles everybody is waiting anxiously to put thi the plow in the ground yours etc JOHN CROOK |
