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Show The Salt LakeTribune M@ FORTHE RECORD, B-2 ROLLY & WELLS COMICS, B-4 MITELEVISION, B-S HEHAPPENING TODAY, B-6 MI WEATHER, B-8 MAY8, 2000 Legendary Sheriff Carved Early Utah Saga BY WILL BAGLEY SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE cut short before he reached middle age. him in 1842. He escorted Apostle A cache of unpublished letters written in Ferguson's own handreveals howclose Wilford Woodruff's family to Ilinois in 1846 and joined the Mormon emigration to they Territorial Utah came to war in 1857. Fed- AstheSalt Lake County Sheriff's Office quietly celebrates its 150th year, and the eral troops were poised to put down a state begins its observance of law week perceived rebellion, and Mormon scouts today, a recentdiscovery by a California had“ordersto fire upon them if they come this side of Bridger,” Ferguson wrote we serving as a militia general in Echo anyon near Coalville. “In that case war documentcollector has shed newlight on thelife of Utah’sfirst sheriff. SheriffJames Ferguson’s exploits have PAUL ROLLY and JOANN JACOBSEN-WELLS © 2000, The Salt Lake Tribune always been short on documentation but Too Much Boos the federal government. Yetthe brilliant Can Wreck MANN LANDERS, B-5 has commenced.” Born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1828, Fer- long on notoriety, from hunting for mountain man Jim Bridgerto almostig- niting a war between frontier Utah and guson was always fiercely proud of his Trish heritage. At age 12 he began working West. With the \putbreak of war with Mexico, the young emigrant en- listed in the Mormon this Campaign.” The 18-year- careerofthis colorful soldier, actor, mis- as a clerk in Liverpool. Here oneof the charismatic, missionaries known as the old served as sergeant major, the outfit’s highest-ranking enlisted man, through most of the battalion's 2,000-mile sionary, newspaperman and attorney was “Young Lions of Mormonism” baptized marchto Southern California. A Good Party James Ferguson, first sheriff of Salt Lake County. Battalion. Apostle Willard Richards appointed Ferguson “the Historian of See SAGA,Page B-8 S.L. May Bolt City Group HOT FOOD FOR THOUGHT "When Gov. Mike Leavitt and Sen. Orrin Hatch were booed by delegates atthe Republican State Convention on Saturday, it was a strange case of, deja vu. In 1972,the first year 18-year-olds were allowed to vote and at the heightofthe anti-Vietnam War movement,presidential candidate George McGovernwasthedarling of the liberals. The Utah Democratic convention wasfull of McGovern supporters. Then-Democratic Gov. Calvin Rampton, Sen. Frank Moss and Congressman Gunn McKay backed Edmund Muskiefor president. They were booed loudly by the Anderson questions value of league participation delegates andall three failed to win election as delegatesto the national convention. ), That was the beginningof the end for the Utah Democratic Party. Many moderate Democrats eventually LAKE TRIBUNE joined the ranksof the Republicans, who have dominated Utahpolitics eversince. Otherbizarre tidbits at the GOP Utah League of Cities and TownsDirector Ken Bullock boasts his organization's 100 percent membership to anyonewhowill listen at national ° conventions. convention on Saturday: | Ml lineofpeoplewith tattoos, shaved headsandleatherjackets | stood outside the E Center and were | mistaken for delegates. They were actually buying WWFwrestling tickets. Nearby, another groupofpeople asked passers-by to sign a petition to repeal the 17th Amendment, which took the selection ofU.S. senators “We're unusual in the country,” Bullock says. But Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson mayruin that record. This past week, Anderson proposed dropping the city’s $85,000 annual league membership dues fromnext year’s budget. In the process, he has thrown leagueofficials and staffers into a lobbying and marketing flurry. League President Tom Dolan, Sandy’s mayor, has sent letters to Salt Lake City Council members urging them to restore that line item. Council ChairmanCarlton Christensen, a league board member, already has wrunghis hands about the ) from the hands of state legislatures and putit in the Handsofthe voting public. 4 possibility of los- @ Democratic 3rd Congressional | District candidate Donald Dunn showed upat the GOP convention wearing a boxingreferee's uniform. He was metwith dirty looks, but 2nd Steve Griffin/TheSalt Lake Tribune DaveProws chats with pupils enjoying the hot breakfast he prepared at Guadalupe Schoolin Salt Lake City. Compliments of the Chef District Congressman Merrill Cook. wholookedlike he needed a friend, asked Dunnto have his picture taken with him. | Ml Whenformer Congresswoman Enid Greene nominated Cook challenger Jeff Wright for the 2nd Congressional District, one delegate commented: “Wright could be a real millionaire she could marry.” | Ml After Wright — young,single and non-Mormon — came out on stage aloneandsaidit didn’t matter about the age, marital statusor religion of a candidate, Derrick Smith, the next candidate opposing Cook, walked onstage with his entire family. | Min the midstofall the booing andraucous convention behavior, a womanwalked to the credentials desk, laid down herdelegate badge and said: “I have to go find another party. Youpeopleare crazy.” @ FormerLDSRelief Society President Barbara Smith, seconding the nomination of Hatch, intoned: “I am term Congressman Jim Hansen, unopposed forre-election, they voted down the motion. | @ Campaign buttonsbeingsold at the GOP convention: “Feminist movements belong in the bathroom,” ichard Nixon in 2000. He’s not as stiff as Al Gore” and “Monica became Republican because the Democrats left a bad taste in her mouth.” | M@ Thecoverof the convention's program read: “Orderof Buisiness.” ‘lew Gubernatorial candidate Tim wson wore chains around his neck tb signify the shackles of govern- ent, He said that Utah’s govern- league’s conven- ————————"____— slated for Salt LakeCity in the fall of 2002. And Bullock has produced a slew of documents and brochures outlining his group’s extensive services. “Weprovidea lot of training, Web service, le- gal service, budget information, planning and Thanksto program,kidsstart school with a steaming breakfast BY NANCY HOBBS guidelines for food-stampeligibility, and that parents lack high schooldi- THE SALT LAKETRIBUNE plomas themselves. Chef Dave Prows has discovered a symbiotic relationship. with students at Guadalupe Schoolin Salt LakeCity: Heintroduces them to newfoods; they reciprocate with a hugetasteofsatis- faction and humility. - Prowsstarted cooking a hot breakfast once a month at the Central City school almost three years ago, after learning that breakfast for kindergartners through third-graders, day after day, is cold cereal and toast. That's better than nothing,of course, which is what manyofthe young students face, coming as they do from low-income and educationally disadvantaged families. A prerequisite for enrollment in the school is that the family be within U.S. poverty Many ofthe families struggle to put even one meal dayonthetable, so the school serves students breakfast and lunch every school day. Busload by busload, the 5- to 9- year-olds arriving at school Friday headed to the small cafeteria where “Chef Dave” was cooking up eggs and pancakes. As the children politely walked through the food line, Prows zoning expertise,” he says. “Wedothis 365 days a year.” money — althoughthatis one motivationfor this effort. Salt Lake City’s dues — based on property year-old Christopher Barnes, returning with an emptyplate. “He’s just like my mama. Hecooks like my mama. That's why I come in.” This morning, much as the next-largest cities of West Valley City, Provo and Sandy. And Salt Lake City’s money makes up6 percent of the local league’s he added, his favorite thing on the menu wasscrambledeggs, and hees- welcomed them by name. They, in turn, commented on his beard —a new addition since last month. After all were served, the former strawberries and went back for another helping of those. By the time class was aboutto start, she figured chef at the Delta Center, who recently turned in that toqueto try his own catering business, meandered from table she had eaten eight ofthefruits. For many of the students, strawberries are a fairly recent discovery, to table chatting with his young pals and makingsure theygotplenty to eat. Sce CHEF, Page B-2 Rally Seeks Support to Pull Plug on Lake Powell BY LISA CHURCH redrock rimsvisible below the water’s surface are a beautiful, yet eerie, reminder that the houseboats and motorboats crowding the lake throughout the summerare floating above a canyon with sheer rock walls plunging hundreds of feet down into what was once the bed of the Colorado River. Glen Canyon, the scenic sandstone chasm that wasflooded to create Lake Powell, was the subject of a daylong workshop — sponsored by the Colorado Plateau River Guides and the Glen Canyon Action Network, a group devoted to draining the lake — in Moabon Sunday. About 80 people attended the event, which pityem: together several generationsof river runners and environmental activists who presented lectures, slide shows, songs and film footage documenting the area before and after Glen Canyon Dam was built in the early 1960s. Since 1964, water backed up behind the dam has floode’ more than 200 miles of * U.S. Gun Zealot Alters U.K. Law Britonstighten toughrestrictions after discovery of weapons cache issionaries. Police searched Kleasen's homeafter his En. glish wife, Marie, reported he had threatened to kill her. Theguns theyfound, including twoillegal semi-automatic pistols and an uncertified pumpaction shotgun,led to criminal charges that made headlines on both sides of the Atlantic and now have changed English law. Kleasen,67, had struck up a pen-pal friendship with Marie fromhis cell in a New York prison, wherehe was serving a sentence for assault. In time, " See LEAGUE,Page B-2 illegal firearms in the home of Robert Elmer For some, it was an emotional journey back in See GLEN CANYON,Page B-7 Just four monthsin office, Andersonis dissat isfied with the league on several counts. So after Kleasen, an American with a violent past including a two-yearstint on Texas’ death rowin the 1971 for allegedly killing oneof twoslain Mormon canyon systems. in the 1950s, Prior to 1964, when the carfyon was filled with water, Lee made almost 20 trips through the Perhaps more importantly, without the capital city on board, the league loses clout and legitimacy as the voice for all of Utah’s 236 cities and towns, a job the organizationhasheld for 93 years. The United Kingdom boasts some of the most rigid firearms laws in the world. Handguns are banned and even the police don’t carry guns ex ceptin the mostextraordinary circumstances. So English police officers were shocked last October whentheydiscovereda cacheof legal and southern Utah causes a strange sense of vertigo. The “Yes!” “Are we for “Yes!” “Do Ihave your pwer taxi tote?” “No!” $1.2 million annual budget. c 2000, THE SALT LAKETRIBUNE MOAB — Looking down into Lake Powell in ‘What's under that reservoir was so incredibly beautiful, It was a crime and inhuman to do what eeeeeeee el values,sales taxes and population — are twice as BY KEVIN CANTERA SPECIALTO THE TRIBUNE ent had grown too much under yeavitt. He then shouted, “Are we al ” The league’s campaign is about more than If not, they were invited back for seconds — orthirds. “Chef Dave is the best,” said 8- pecially liked them withthelittle bit of syrupthat hadslid from his pancake. Second time around, he just squeezed syrup over everything. Marilee Dennis loves big, juicy proud to second the nomination of = Hatchfor pres. . . I mean senator.” @ Cookasked delegates to nominate him for a secondterm.Helater explained he was justtrying to valiite the accuracy ofthe press, since The Salt Lake Tribune reported in a story abouthis firing of somestaffers after his 1998 election that he seemed unaware he had wona secdnd term, | Ml Whendelegates were asked to approve a three-minute talk by 10- ing the national jg Who pays most, least B-2 tion, September 1990,after he was released on proba- tion, Kleasen wentto live at her home in Barton upon-Humber, a hamlet of9,500 about 150 miles northeastof London. Kleasen, who pleaded guilty to four weapons ee re Cathedralin the Desert in 1963, part of the Glen Canyon river network before the area wasflooded to create Lake Powell. ‘ \ charges in March, had procureddozensof licenses Sce KLEASEN,Page B-3 4 ¢ |
