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Show LAST CHANCE:Todayis thefinal day of the 2003 Utah StateFair. B8 B TAH Dhe Halt Lake Tribune »« SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 14, 2003 inside Will Bagley B2 Lottery B3 Point/Counterpoint B3 State of the State BS WWW.SLTRIB.COM Closure sought on mASSACTC reconciliation between the descendants By Mark Haynes The Salt Lake Tribune HOLLY MULLEN Someplaces, roots require special grit ia , MOUNTAIN MEADOWS —A group of about 50 people wandered over Mountain Meadows on Saturday, some laying flowers on stones, others following old ruts of wagon wheels that, though barely visible now, have left an indelible mark on Utah’s history. The occasion was a meeting this weekend of the descendants of those on both sides of a massacre 146 years ago. Members of a Mormon militia are said to have killed 120 people in an Arkansas of victims and participants, visited the Descendants from both sides meet at Mountain Meadowsfor remembrance, healing and Missouri wagon train rolling through the grassy valley of emerging springs 37 miles southwest of Cedar City, as they headed to a new life in California. Shortly after the slaughterof all but 18 children, accusations, cover-ups, lies and denials of responsibility began to blossom, as journalists, historians, and an outraged nation sought to establish what would compel settlers from Cedar City to commit such an atrocity on the group led by Alexander Fancher andincluding many membersofhis family. Members of the Mountain Meadows Association, created in 1991 to bring site on Saturday where the immigrants, laden with an exceptional amount Of wealth in cattle and commodities, were attacked. The goods werenever returned to surviving family members in Arkansas. Recently, several new books have joined the compendium of publications spawned by the Mountain Meadows Massacre, which cameat a time when an army was marching toward the Utah Territory to quell what federal See DESCENDANTS, 85 peatEE «sa | BPec° SBR saree’ Meee reee £ UCHESNE — Whatthis D town needs is somevariety. Some Harry Potter wall hangings, a bigger inventory of Christmas kitsch and more craft supplies. And a better stock of LDS necessities “clean” romance novels, and wallets with a “CTR”logo. So went the thought process of Diane Miller three years ago. She valiantly opened her variety store at 97 E. Main St. in this townof 4,000 and called it what else? Odds ’n’ Ends. But now it’s over. Last week, Miller was downto increasingly bare shelves. You could buy new Levi Strauss jeansfor $9 and kids’ toys were practicallyfree. The shop’s windowswere filled with those hand-lettered signs every entrepreneur dreads:“All items 70 percentoff,” and “Going out of business.” “She really tried,” says Miller’s niece, Misty Wallace, whois working on college homeworkat another storefront four doors down.“It’s better here than 20 years ago, but the economyis still so bad.” Inside, Misty’s 26-year-old husband, Leroy, runs U.B. Computer Services with his partner, Rick Flesher. Offering computer repair, THE GIFT BEHOLD THE WONDER OF MUSIC Courtesy ofthe Shropshire Music Foundation Students of the Shropshire Music Foundation - which has been teaching musicto children of Kosovo since 1999 — transcribe songs in the town of Gjakove. A BYUgraduate brings her passionand aestheticto the » data recovery and software, Le- childrenofpostwar Kosovo roy is sending a hopefulvibe. High-tech services in the far reaches of the Uinta Basin. Doesn't that have “success” written all overit? By MICHAEL YOUNT The Salt Lake Tribune Leroy shrugs and smiles. N ational Public Radiolisteners are familiar with the term “driveway moments.” it’s an “Well, we hope so. People are just getting to the computer era out here. You got peoplestill running Windows95.I try to get apt description for those rare — whenalisteneris so riveted by a story that léaving the car will just have to wait. : Most driveway momentslast a few seconds. But Liz Shropshire’s driveway moment has end for them to update, and they say, ‘Can’t you just make this work better?’ ” four years. She was so moved by NPR’sdetails of atrocities in Kosovo, she opted out ofa four-week The Wallaces grew up in the basin. They married less than vacation to Austria in search of some small way te two years ago. Then baby Colton, who wasn’t part of the immediate plan, arrived. Heis blue-eyed, 8 months old, witha thatch of velvet blond hair. Le- | | roy brings him to work often. | “IT can make good money pipelining,” says Leroy. On a big natural gas pipeline project, such as the one he helped lay from Cedar City to Barstow, Calif., last year, he can take home $60,000 to $100,000 a year. “But I’m awaytoo long.I want to see my boy grow up.I like my wife.” Young as they are, Misty and Leroy represent the hardscrabble best of the basin. They are Exhibit A ofa unique character species that has evolved over time out here. Regardless of what happens to the economy,or their business, the Wallaces have no intention of leaving. And this separates them from thousands of their predecessors who scrambled to get out when the gas-and-oil economy collapsed in the ’80s. Thefittest membersofthe species managed torideit out, plant their feet and survive. This is no accident. Look at the Uinta Basin on a map.Big and wild and distant, it could be See ROOTS, B3 STORY ON BS luxury. | sm “Why music in a place where kids are still play-* ing in uraniumtailings?” asked Texas resident Joanna Brooks, Shropshire’s longtime friend and-chief grant writer for the Shropshire Music Foun=.. | | dation. “You can’t just feed bodies you have to -— feed souls. .. Parents want totake their children’> | See FOUNDATION, B4 Fraternity rowdiness reduced; neighbors relieved Peaceat last: After years ofquarreling, students on Greek Row and surrounding Federal Heights residents are on better terms By BRANDON GRrIGGs TheSalt Lake Tribune A long-simmering feud between partying students and the more placid residents of the University of Utah’s Greek Row appears to have cooled. After two decades of tension over rowdy fraternity and sorority bashes, the rival neighborhood groups are celebrat- ing détente. Fraternity and sorority leaders say they are educating their members about civic responsibility. And noise complaints from their middle-aged neighbors have plummeted. The two groups even cozied up to each other at a Saturday news conference called by Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson, who residents say deserves credit for addressing the problem. Anderson maybe in a uniqueposition to help mediate the dispute: The 1973 University of Utah graduate lived on Greek Row himself as a memberof the Sigma Chi fraternity. “I well remember the conflicts that arose [when I was a student] because I was probably helping to create them,” said Anderson on the steps of the Sigma Phi Epsilon frat house. “We don’t expect there will always be peace and quiet in lai manetntencicti = even roofs are necessities, music may seem like a-— Lean Hoasren/ The Salt Lake Tribune THREE-YEAR-OLD Stone Sadler of South Jordan showsoff his creation (with some help from his grandmother Mary Crowther) of paper made from blue jean pulp at the Great Salt Lake Book Festival on Saturday. At the Salt Lake City downtown library, book lovers gathered to listen to popular authors speak and would-be poets performed poetry slams. help in the Balkans. Shropshire, who graduated ~ from Brigham Young University, never imagined her monthlong volunteerstint would turn into a fo" cused relief effort using musicto help kids cope ~= with life after war. “ In a place whereclothes, medicine, foodand = "o Coming)! Furnace Replacement Specials Furnace Service and Safety Check - “ Plumbing &e Heating, L.C. this neighborhood. You get young people together in a collegesetting . . . and there will beissues, But it’s vastly improved.” In the city’s affluent Federal Heights neighborhood, where retired professors live next door to fraternity houses, com plaints about noise, litter and drunkenness have been an annual occurren¢e. In response, cityofficials hired professional arbitrators two years ago to mediate a series of meetings between fraternity members and neighbors. Fraternities See MEDIATION, B3 |
