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Show THE WEEKLY Wok WEEKLY. TP TE K FRIBUNE ‘HE 178 RUSSIAN PLAGUE. BS & we THE BURTON I SE. CASE EVERY SATURDAY, Ty se taakis decdlat : : le pestience thab 18 How desolatoe ee ing Russia fills the minds of the | The Defendant Put on the Stand to Tribune Publishing Company, | neighboring nations with alarm, and Fell His Stery. sg tate £ rel Onet a ie : 1s the cause of apprehension in this eo : country. And this uneasiness isnot | He Bid Not See Mrs. Bowman at 1. altogether groundless, as we carry 5 Sit ions TareeMONTHS...) ss 1.00 yal ait veral ports of Rus on a trade with several ports o = sia, and large numbers of Mennon-| He PliLy PRIBUNE ager rae a pacepicd) at the followine rates, postage prepaid: ONE Yuar ites are emigrating By $10.00 sevevsevvevevevseeese SIX MONTHS...) WERE MONTHS og..05 5. eno teae Soe ee Sara such. x ; Geechee ae defies iey je of tl his Os calculation. all danger, Story of “a Rush to} the Piling Up Arms.” ge In Surgeon Marshal, U. gin The adie Shoot] Se might scourge Him Her “Accidentally.” the shores, and ‘the vil that mieht result from the in- THE SUNDAY TRIBUNE is mailed to subscribers at $2.00 per year, post- Gen- In the Burton case 8 : yester¢ ay ee esterday authority renders exe- vice of the writ submitted to you isex-| pected at your you have ee t Wy AY ire diseases, to invite that body to consider the propriety of legislation | = that will enable the Government to eee maintain two medical officers in | * Bb Kurope, asscientific outposts to watch | SURDAY,. 00 vs oes--s+1-March 1, 1879. | the westward advance of this estwa. é this AsAsiatic | scourge, and guard against its intro{b early spring directory is bloomduction in this country, on the adod aspiring villages like Chicago mitted theory that it is easier to exsuis and Philadelphia Know just clude it from our shores than to conany people they contain. The trol its ravages when the disease claims 900,000, while the a foothold. Referring cities are satisfied with a has gained to the efforts being made in Europe 00 ee ya Jesh to check the spreead of the disease, ~nost bitterly: ip lispedt ue New York Herald says: Hag ft 1 9 y (lover ing of versation and individual hands, moet wie lay . and ever hands et cue occurred. on a invested capital | “PRoimted to put it in force. the cle- FRANK In my first K ULLER, that Acting Governor. ] he@ a Hoy BE ica i 10 have now oxwot HF SUCCUNIO. t been | fected places to more salubrious local. by mili: and their theisolation ities, ‘cordons: tary comple there incineration ; French | of all their eflects, and the absolute detye op | struction by fire of every village in [loeeee Presipentr Grevy of the RT = ea rcs Republic dresses very havine5 worn even ae: a live Be modestly, never which the ie the uniform of the | 4¢ 1 Should this had plan shown be carried { effect, and she tome es had arms. Pere ldard Stoddar Imet we saw peers -the-fort--with-a-| them. stack tet whenl with as little loss of we were greatly men as. pos- annoyed by arms over eo ihe rush....Our men-. aded. the to the left of the was and | 13th of him. ber the than Bur- | ence were men ! and then started into to come stack of comin tance bat through 1 rode “After vetting thein fort. a. Shortdis | slioulder and behind. with Burton ordered me back the clothing the up behind him, and to bring loads in it, because I had fired | come on.” three or four shots when Lewis charged the house in ts ge (ide all Wiel ‘T thought the response was pretty general to shvated wie wes & Has firing. sine” Arolling breast work was improvised, be did HOR Anpeae a He TOME OF Nas the shMorrisite udp forces. BEd I 5 brought then said: “Stop him, boys.” oses. : As a curious their distrust isa eae teenled 1 hime! ‘ ene then I being in the winter on, business. Hug | officer |e annoy ed, and | ger on the east s1¢ ; by the late Russo-Turkish war, a | the another pen is moyed in precisely : simrom orces this see ‘ : , uti, | friend calls our attention to the fol: Dern Tompson, oe Davis and the character of contracted many Professor Leonidas, en I left few men had charge of the ] prisoners,e & inthe | while some remained in camp at head r county. 13th Indianapolis turn to the intocourt. court The and Eee ani ed oan to the slough in j the west lane, | where they became ‘unmanageable, but it had the desired effect. I felt to make a charge, but feared the result to both sides. In my notice to the Morrisites to surrender, I told them to remove their women and children, but. they | here he commence in Russia, originating from ‘ silk brought 1 over from “Eeypt, silks sypt, Cairo 4 and Turkey. It will extend across the settled a board bill for $30 at one of the hotels, ‘. Thad writs. proclamation contracted long ago, and he also sur- | Baltic sea, desolate. Son een rised a railroad conductor byrepaying | immense mortality in England, and States. This :a borrowed $5 which thateee oe then spread to the United U official had dreadful epidemic will spot the people long sinee. forgotten. In Toronto, like a leopard, and turn the flesh to a ‘ where he plays this owes $2,700, and we week, Tompson understand that | carry off The such an pestilence amount of pe GO. ee will mortals on my camp at'Ya.m.,| house was found vacated. on the platform, and in filling the body the || 1.6 te details details were bya private emttanes, the ofseals wer tithrown inintoinduloe to indulge hall. Shortly pefore 2 o'clock the | @ morbid imagination. But he has ! : street unable to gain admission. platform seats were oceupied by ing merchants, and business and pro. city, and St sé ol proper three. | cautions to prevent the malady At 2 o'clock Mayor Bryant called the The Governor made a short ae forcible address, dwelling upon. th magnitude of the occasion, and the propriety of calling such a meeting to Resolutions conyince Presidentwe ofhadthebeenUnited Bees that the aden fe | eee 20 Ae Heel Deon tat: det etdy aie ioodlan een on dentandeda restriction of Chinese im: migration; but the solid men, property | holders, and the mercantile i yiGeauee Ti Geers California, and M. tev inet oe ae Doruck, secretary the Gover spl Chinese Poe ae 'y a es Phot He dhe Judement ot HG Ohaiber Gaba SEMEL Scott flicts wate ang dtc abiadodt inc Hit tte ind Sens of bie edie onan | OPE isting Po between ee the Empire of China of thé Re. Vee O : Leas jie + resi firing having ceased. martial music in the after firing the New York, eb.2 21.—At a special meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, this morning, the following resolutions were offered by A ow and were adopted: Jeesolved, That in the judgment of this Chamber, the paramount duty of theat fcllowed. ‘The z white | fied to. who bore their me what was wanted, and I told him it was an unconditional surrender; that they were required to stack their arms ina conspicuous place from where I : was. He returned, but 1 can’t say that Resolved, Thattreaty if there is one the existing which more article than first cannon siderabie force, to forma shot. eee the meeting: the firm of Irving M. Scott, | “The Unit ed States of America and :{ Co.2 | Hm pire of China cordially recosnize Williams, the inherent. and inaleiate nian of Prescott, Scott & ingstone eho Te man to change his home and alle the child free, and the child he did. the I passed behind the horsemen were together. mony. Trode a bright bay school | Morrisite camp. Croxall, rate all As I) their arms. I don’t know that I pave any direction as to the arms, for I an- ticipated no danger. Everything indi-| cateda genuine surrender. I had a| particular reason for restricting the number of men I took in, as it might retard my work and create trouble. was in front of the Morrisites, and cast (LOM ut to see the prisoners | in fo way escape thought the | i would probably surrender, but | we Gee they were not going to Paste fire,” at in killed maid Bn I execution against im, he orA or pase IR RE out, pad It was to By in a OR ie whether I firstlanguage. spoke, give the exact posse, | my remembrance is that general expected us to a ee thwhich Jerrod Smith : killed at the mouth of the west lane thal ei ent thete a ae pe fi 5 Oreste the 12th of June, a dome « to eae ane however, in about the following c in | language: Hace 5 Hoe : “I have a writ for Morris, Blenetend ad Veh eae a a Naess and I i friends’ who : 1 wanted also i were but L sorrel, and trom Als pistol, and ee saw While in jail I and Moss ‘that kill the prisoners was "old ine Hewitt intended to they and hypocrites to- sether. Morris had a strong influence over the people. Whatever he told ee they would do. They consec rated their property and took an oath fo obey all the revelations of Morris. It was after I had been told by Hewitt and Moss that I was to be killed, that Hansen came to me. I saw Stoddard when he served the writ on Morris and Banks. The day that Burton and his forces arrived there was June 13th, and J could see his posse on. the plutt south of the fort.. I never heard anything about the summons sent to surrender. While in prison my family was in camp, but after two or three weeks they were not allowed to see Pe I ate only what -my wile sent tom through Kiemguard. On the 13th of June, “about 1 or 2 o'clock, Klemguard me there and told the prison came wag a into revelation, to let-the prisoners go. [asked Hinks to. were o eae. ate did. Itread: “The word of the Lord ; a ye ng | Unto Joseph concerning the prisoners. theT enemy.” aad Klemguard‘ it he EA Romie yyen eutside who would Aer in |e said-he had no nate ee cone 19 Kill me. Itook a white flag and seees to some I remained with Burton’s posse until Morrisit odesI saw | {he last day, when I served on the west the fort. I was one of a party house which had been occupied by the Morrisites I bursted the door in with a three or four after the sur- Excused. MARK rock, but the house was then The sixteen CROXALL men deserted. and followed, then the cannon | was called and testified; I live in | one of them was shot in the door. t 8s was fired. | Salt Lake City, and resided here in| remained in that house about twenty- shot the || 1862. strike strike in the in bowery. knew that time. fort,I ofaI knew place Burton called at Kingston. Ki the fight. I accompanied Burton as bugler to blow the calls, and for that purpose I was near his person all the time. I remember going into the fort on the evening of the last day from the west lane. Stoddard, Golding an were with him and we entered + the tort five minutes. Out of were opened ed fire on 1 the the north Morrisites rrisi side who ) pets a ‘Mto Morrae Wwie enaaea Pn he fleeing the leg as he was running across the fort and he was near the north lane when he fell. He was a Danishman. Just after the rolling breastworks stopped, there a white flag atraised in the TREE was Werle tcedl iden ERE WO RGe Fe. from the west on horseback. As we | fort. A ae hil Hh dand” Bur: rode in I heard Burton say he was ee loa WALELC van Toek ae thankful they had got through with as ee a Le ae Dat ed hen ie little bloodshed as there had been, but Oe en Da : ee aie deals a gst te ecomed a ite ee arms. Barton with Golding, Steddard and the bugler then started into the fort. Some one told Ross to send in ten men, and some isn or ten | bid Toot Then Pe |ing and another man Stoddard, GoldIsaw going in. ; progeny soins fo ey ted ee ace that she lay there with in her arms struggling to be I asked.a Morrisite to take away from her grasp, which I don’t know how many pri- went in | wit ime time, and just are about ont the time Burton got them we were at the armes. Burton had reached a position in front of the crowd of Morrisites just at the a a corner of SS school house. Parsons asked: “What is re- that building where the Morrisites were gathered, when hé took from his poc ket and read a paper Ce minutes after, when- Golding came pack and called for one or two platoons Morris, Banks and others of the a i Bes e pee Ee and I heard Morris say: Ce“All who are tothe crow follow | Willing to follow me though lifé and a oa save out of ee Willing us even to death, the same time there “Ay, ay, come on’? the arms. General Mor come on,’ and at was a response of and a rush towards Burton raised his Mr. Stoddard’s horse in Croxall’s was and I saw ten or fifteen men oles going in I could hear é Le it was ae ees death, come on,” and soon after I heard Burton cr y halt, and simultaneously a tumult of “ay, ay.’ Then heard a few shots in quick succession, when all became immediately still. The shots : en some food which I did. he turned to his people when | Ihave known Burton twenty years | he mace that call, but the Morrisites and never heard him swear. Burton’s said, “aye, aye, to% ar ms,” and there was character for being orderly and peacea loud noise and confusion. One Morable is good. He has always been € risite put to the school-house, and public officer. His reputation in the seized a gun from inside the door, but the | Community is that he is peaceable and | I-wrenched was a | Mild in his disposition. When I inclined my having to be life Cross-Hxamined. taken the I lost two men were stationed between | fired. Cross-examined. Those who went in | with Burton [ think were all armed. [| was the commissory and quartermas. | ter. I-cam’t tell how many rations I | issued, but probably fifty to 100. Can’t | tell how many men Burton had, but I | sandy name explode of should judge 200. here, I ted, in . Duunvere’ used for shot: Our owder was put up in ordinary flannel cartridges, being some three inches in rushed in from all directions. ie: I heard the bugle call about the time the shoot- ing occurred. Itwas, I should think, some where near the school house. I eee tvoutthe last one in. When I and from Burtoi him. was By | Those and My impression is that there were no Morrisites ana school house, as prisoners. ‘Turnimg round to the front of the school- house, I saw Joseph Morris lying on the ground with Mrs. Bowman lying two_or three feet southwest of im, and Banks lying near the school- house. Northeast of the their | #’Ms were stacked, and saying | arms except the four horsemen I have | by a line of men two house were the guarded or three deep. I from | “halt,” and ‘finally he said, “stop him.” | named. The men who had followed | 88w Mr. Bowman kneeling down by than | I am not positive how many shots he | us in had not reached the stacked | the wounded Danishman, and I went: I did not see any one fall, for | arms. the aris: and the Morrisites. All our the shots were fired quick and close footmen were arméd, I think. Some together. I should think cight or ten of them went in force behind the roll- | shots were fired, one after another, just ing breastworks, and I think not all | as quick as could be, perhaps requiring of them were armed. three seconds time. When J heard the than I am. I am not accustomed to use profane language, never hardly in Deity in vain. who the gun that time. Cross-ceamined: 1 was under fire at| the Morris camp, but: not under fire while in the camp. The was no firing done by the Morrisites after the surrender. got | this time Morris had got some distance | men between the a black | into the fort there were those who enter- | towards me, was quite wight complextioned Eman, more Moris slipped out of the crowd a step | men were slationed by ws. Morrisites’ (, iwo and said: “All who will stick | arms. They had followed us by ine and my God, follow me,’ and a | that time I am under the inpreesioe general rush was made fopard. ene: (ver were tiGn Huet foun who entered thougl: the weat Lee prior SO Whee asia ae ie | ee cers,andandaehe the directed go to/ ofarms. Morris the direction | the fort, but afew men followed us in | Went in there were.come inen peadine womenme andto child. Burton, but 1started don’t in remember that | on foot. I was seventeen year old at | With their backs to the aek. of the 5 feet 11 or 1114 inches, a litile shorter | twenty, perhaps the women and children to separate | I heard the shots fired and it was all themselves frfron nee Oe Some gic GYover in five or eae seconds. Burton’s ee Poe le and it was Brats* af ie effect of my sm Someta: ee who went the others When Morris called people to follow him, I was great danger. The situation on_ thought at that his | to him and told him his wite was shot. there moment I deemed critical. I thought that unless they could be stayed they would get possession of their arms and slaughter Call of Morris, and saw the movement Of his people, I thought we had gotten OUrSelves into a snap, and that we were going to have a hell of a time there in @ few minutes. [I ran to the schoolhouse because I thought that was the He got up and went away. I don’t remember seeing him after that. When I went back to ihe schoolhouse I saw Burton trying to get the Morrisites into line. He was on his horse all ne time, and then I went to my house o see my mother Cross- examined: I was in that house. in the lane about twenty-five minutes. ' I could not see out and over the schgolhouse. J sat there when Goulding came back. He came back just before the ae ee three or four minutes. strongest. place in the fort. Burton afterwards did not dismount in the fort. By aJurove My impression is that ten or twelve men followed us in, and formed behind the school-house, while the stacked arms were to the east of the house. Our relative positions were Burton and Stoddard facing the Mor- out. We had some difficulty in get. | ting the women separated from the | men, as the womea were gathered | around the body of Morris, screaming, | dard and Golding were in advance back into the fort —it is impossible for mea short distance. My impressionof || Me tosay how long before the firing. is that Golding was behind Burton and | He walked, and the men followed Stoddard. My impression is that the him. It was forty-five or fifty steps their own provisions with || out.He wasIt getting I reported march | myseif to risites, Golding Burton. just behind was darkthe men whenin lineto we marched and | fda He was orgone behind him. Burton them, and Stodso, andonlythena Iquarter saw himof goa | made my reports to him. I suppose gathering themin || ten remained menand were behind engaged! tl® school]or twelve ee Some where of those men who whoto went followed us in || from in were unI was the schoolhouse. together the rations came out of some of the grocery stores here in town. We took I did not see any prisoners north of the school house. House, nor Bee La between us and the arm a. WILLIAM J. JONES massed ThoseI Stailouet ee up, but I heard thegare firing, when I got I did not go over to to the school house ite pound The My longforce gun came carried six || Men, from - from ‘ oethe wh some fifty or sixty || saw of it. After the firing | was called and testified: I live in cil Ueno HEE ball. from a the diferent companies. I wentwereintosouth the school house, and sa South Web che 1 Bave lived ; andnae ihere Whats (0 gctpeeto the militia of the Territory, commanded by § ome were in Heber Kimball's regi- | that the floor had co faken up a] ree since (peouth 1861.WeberI and Nene ‘ ama fe farmer, and d was a | fore the shooting. I eneral Wells, formerly., The tactics | ent of fhethe Nauvoo Legion. I don’t | cellar dug for a rifle T saw “hike Ve hGeldies as school b a oy.h d th a mana | | f Aenea, t that Tk new the he Mor M | side of the school h aerl used were Upton’ s for the infantry, and | k know Ww : hether wera got “all the men 7 coming out with an ar rmafual of guns, t ple. vhat unve: Before Il w in|; ein eo ment 1 tisite people. Cook’s Before I went to their for the cavalry. in’ "The arms Ww th f the e used | from from hihis command, but I know he|and when I went in I found four | fort belbelow them. I joine | school house, 2 eee yas. th there at t the th ficht. Burton Bur 8 a Mo li wed II joined about fifty. men in a company, with | Was perhaps two rods. B was a | others. Hehad six or eight in his| the i P P ee captains of tens, and these we had with sae ele We ae at the | arms. The gun I took away from the |] 1861. I ida ak lowes in Wolo. ° Se ae Eee oe ee es us. The artiller eo eee a aw ee olan Cee oes Beene See iG = eee ee eee eee ee le Pe ae ners wre a tee eed ge ee (pews pe ie lintel with the school house’ either bodies the next morning Bee. short time after that I saw the white | fiag displayed in the southeast corner | ofthe fort, and it was brought by a | man named Brown to the west lane, | the blood pony on hera f}men that‘ eine Gren company had not | turned to the fort, the people com- | hensive. e passed around the bac See : : menced coming out and Bickel their | side of the school house to the front of | Who else went into the fort until a few pacer. The color of the other horses J | ed with him on horseback, and can’t remember. Stoddard was about | te2 to twenty footmen; not more pea oes) 10 to take a house south of the west lane; sixteen volunteered to follow me — into thatmenhouse. In taking the house we encountered a heavy fire. We left the mud wall on the west side to take the house. The object was, in taking the house, to take the a ce Lae a him, but I don’t know who they were. | é Ty cre were two any men cannon and twoballswomen. Idid not see gath: Cred UD. I was in H. P. Kimball’s | ten. Twas on the south. side of the | fort ina ditch. There were probably | fifly men on the south side. I saw in| gee cindy fe took battery approachthey saw the rolling It was in ae probably 950 men. and on the morning of the I took a prisoner. The man | 1862. I was there on the last day of | ing up the west lane, they deserted that butI | our Our shells, eight inwasnumber, would not || Whom OVer theI got bills them, to him, ammunition and I suppose very imperfect. I suppose. I turned I || Picking and a fewthem of theup Parsons first broke the silence. I knew Banks and but I did not know }Parsons slightly, The was sipted, ied ee es at night, he ball was probably as | [tis the will of the Lord that they be fist, probably three inches | get free, as it may appease the wrath of Be SM given dead persons lying in the school house, | side of render. fort. After the man with the flag re fied by armed men. A cellar had been | wounded. where the first cannoa got the rations here, and | dug and the dirt thrown up, but I di-| ae ed. Iwas under fire | Charged them up to the command, or | rected my attention to the crowd in myself sometimes. The artillery | t Burton. know who paid front of me, and some parleying ensued. Waste kept in action, because | forthem. HeI don’t settled with those from availed know availed themselves themsely of the | don’t I cannot “way that the Morrisites 5 tis camp. bodies, eine sme chasing him through the country for a BY qe in reler- | week or two, when they captured him cannon. soners Wwe took, but probably about 150 | quired of us?” aud Burton had a paper | hand and I commenced blowing the 2 — thanI am,and spare built, like me. came around in front of the school ouse, the Morrisites were gathered in His beard ‘was long, longer “than mine a promiscuous crowd. They stood in is now, While mine was cut short, and silence with the exception that ali the shaved at the sides of my face, but covtime some of them were bringingg in | ered my upper lip and chin. ‘Stoddard line around ree Shots from the fight, one in the lane and the other where I remained night asbefore—to a hasty I glance the strongly school house, avoid fhe shedding the of blood of theaiher house far as| | which saw had at been had toute | atandthedoor Seer ue > vaswe charged, slightly || them. | Sy 1 meniory is | shooting of | were made woman or| was a little after 7 o SelGge p.m. Al success, an ADU OOM: saw the boys packing some guns.out | the arrangements for securing the | ualties to your force from yur en- —perhaps 10 or 1 muskets. Béirton| fore dark, T teovehtee sored na Be | menched anil barsicaded foe. Ba ade ae ee Lick with ah Golding, Gace Ce ee ours Respectfully, ack engaged to camp thatthe fort night.in giving Hel | fort Croxalk. and Stod"RANK FULLER, was while in dard by my side on horseback, saying ActingGovernor Utah. orders to form the prisoners in line. to the men. behind the breastworks to I replied to this letter. My second The ordere were given to subordinate in others dent. The resolutions weré adopted || ;anv 5 ‘| an} cunder Col. Ross, who was ears the impress of the € id directed to | “ What do you wants 2?” I think I took with greatest enthusiasm. ce aden 1 hand, ; it is that which con- | get near and old wall, and in | from my pocket the writ for contempt, a Yq a position h he received The thefollowing gentlemen then 5ad-| tame i an e following doing as pretty heavy | but I don’t i know whether I read it. : declarations, viz: Mi so Hon, Philip A I have resided here ever since | EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, et AH, / GREAT SALT mi KE City, ne 16, 1862. ee and Deputy Horst BL DUP: to ; ‘ I next | remembrance is that I was first in the the east side of the fort, and Major Cunningham was sent to the west side, and both received a heavy fire before they got into position. I supposed that the river would prevent escape on the north, as the stream was high. When we got in position firing was done on ‘both sides, and my orders were to the officers, if not the men—at the camp proclamation and came and they informed me er detailed comb ted tiie Sane OL sm See a oe ae bean: men, Who were taken up to our camp ih his hands, which he read, ening call for the advance,but I only” cave one | followed each other in foie a theirarms was ie indicate it. I direct: an aa who have been found in re. | 224 ‘provided with food. oorvare for Morris, Banks, Klemguard and | or two measures when my horse acted dee selon oe eee ed Young to go and order all firing to sistance to civil authority, will Be held ae «on uae. epartly a Gai ae | others oe ofoe theek Oa. calleea eo th . Mon All of thea eee sixteen mien were still im the ubae2 fetoxa had been | ton Morrisites hewho ened wadded— p hird 1 ect | and brought before the court. discovered i minutes few Ina cease. “ikoss en ithy -eis Merwnind iow aware. tacking | this, T ‘thin! further process ail be | Perhaps one third of the whole number. | engaged in resisting him, and dirécted | risites to halt, and cmiscinbely after eke epee a ee fort, where | fort. | interpreted that as an indication that they did not intend to surrender. then directed Major Egan, with con- Seeveral veral hadhad an is ip his coming nie the a he pee aes The second letter was read to the ee the womanae flag, asked | jury as follows: neck. After ‘ The first fring from small arms came | arms, being accompanied by aye the fort, perhaps twenty minutes | Stoddard and Golding—atany tion on the part of either of the conCentral Com mittee, tracting parties cqually invalidates the reaffirmingi the reso- | whole of said treaty ; publican State read resolutions ont Condenming woman approached me and tried to | east to cease shootin My seize my horse by the bridle, nor did | perfectly distinct as to the any person do such a thing. the woman. No remarks among the witnesses on whose testi.|t0 Burton then by any The sur- | but I don’t remember what they testi- ex- | the Morrisites seemed to take up arms. | house between the Morrisites and their uyae as theeting to order, and after. calling attention to the importance of the occaSion, and brietly reviewing the history of the anti- Chines¢ agitation, introduced a Irwin as the presiding offi- heard was pursued hichmatended Houtze, to sec if there were any wound- | went out to Burton’s posse in the lane. was | Everything overor when T took in the evening was named | they Burton firedwas two three Morris shots, fell. and | coe The firing with smal] arms senthen he ordered the women to separate was commenced by the Morrisites, parfrom the men and the latter to form just after the two cannon shots were into line. Just after the firing ceased, fired. was not near the rolling Burton raised up in his stirrups and was breastworks got down to the wall about no shouted to his men coming in from the | 5 or 6 o'clock Sunday evening, and a | Toeet a the fort.breastworks, “Twelve men narrated the fight, ne ngcoe# house ee Ein | follow eg me into ee the six || letter and asked what. the’events shouid beof done with is Oe e for ioe oth were tired | armed and six unarmed. After pro-| the prisoners. under the same order, my purpose be- | ceeding a few yards, I saw the MorrisRecess until 1: 30 “p.m. ing to induce the Morrisites to surrenites gathering south of the school der, by ‘first admonishing them. I ouse, and sent. Golding back Afierncon Proceedings. heard no response trom them. After for ten more men, the others following The defendant continued his testi. that I again sent the flag down to the me, or perhaps being with me, but my page ee prisoners were || north ] areaof e, and thehe woman fell about feet|]— eld sawand one held on bail— where fell. tenAfter then | eee tho Tose pre- | fourths of the audience’ consisted of | tending to this country. substantial citizens, while the workin gmen were represented by a large atNEW YORK SPEAKS. Ww ” AB o “ tendance. soon Gone 5 been nearly correct iz assigning the use of the present pestilence, and im sending a chance shot has shown The | astonishing accuracy of aim. We lead. will TEAS: Eadie uae SF at Ege Geneel the and died instantly fell she my | was that had reloaded. I was Burton’s commissary | flag was 1862. Before returning to Salt Lake coming down the line to within speakCity I received a letter from the Gov- quartermaster for the posse, and was generally with him on this expedition. ing distance. Firing then ceased, as ernor, and shortly after getting the obeyed the there ere was w der to respe talon rst letter f; from the the G@ overnor 1I wrotete a general 1 order aalso wasae an aid, and . any thing that was signal of surren- | him again on the evening of the 15th. orders which he ‘gave e at different | I was under the impression that they got the note about 8 o’clock. I made no disposition of the forces, but remained ne G inactive for some time, i and efore firing the first gun, I sent | cae Sai es ends, ae Bey x ee fi a ee ae Te tiowat te ee infected will fall and dic wherever ee ne nites On of the people in | Hkass aivouns Conk oy | they tale it. “los See co ee the fort. a a no Teponee had | | J directed giglock are owas soothsayer” The Hoosier of 6ot the Tequest Supervisors pepe the Chamber of Commerce, ai Platt’s S1er § y Sp fort, the a first 6 ee Ted dv 10-0 Cise Hall this afternoon, was an imposing dent enough to set no time for the | m. June 13th., I can not be positive demonstration, Long before the doors | fulfillment of his prediction. “The | 8 to the second shot, but lam ofitheim-| opened, Montgomery street was blocked rings around the gun” which reee ihe ra ine ce ae aaa ‘thousands awaiting entrance. ‘ sa vealed veal to his mind's eye such a hor- | then ei Yodged gel ia Meer Mahe beyond ond | river bank Several Vice-Pres‘ in the idents, hundred, prominent including citizens and repre. | rible picture, gave admonition far in the fort, while the second shot struck a | sentatives of the press were admitted | advance: and we trust that some of ee ficld between the gun and the | fessional men of the render ce he hadg disposed of the eommunication, He | ond had received nothing in reply, and doors were opened, andin five minutes the building was packed to its utmost’| capacity. Nearly five thousand were in the hall and as many more on the| the made under cover of as heavy a fire as | mony “the Morrisites were convicted, | #4Y i body else, and I heard Gen.: | he said he would raise his hand for me (Witness recognized the t see nor pet wastce Fs tethere hisany | where he met Burton, C ) 3 > thenthen as as now. , | body a reaching & out for his bridle reins. | eral eya] Burton Bur 8 eir | toees blow happen the advance to the Morrisites hereto- | possible, but one of the men selected to | and I gave my testimony tell him to stack . their guile call 16 ifine anything a {8 : ae ; iaon the defense, » lver. Previ reni take that house was killed. The | r The Morrisites testified | B PUrtoOn used d a navy revolver. Erevlous | arms ini some convenient place ini the ee ee 6 oP 1. es got there, as near as Imiles. Ty forces can state, at 8:"30 o’clock, or perhaps a little later, gelting to the south bluff. I r. Stoddard alittle before arriv-~ | ae s co and learned from him how streets of our cities, towns and Silas will be swarmed with the dead and dying. The groans and yells of horror will fill every breast with consternation.. Confusion will abound on all cent.” THE CHINESE | MUST : black. he has calleda mecting of his creditors, | that there will not be Q enough sive the-dead. Christian: butts and intends playing there until he has paid back every = purple 1 te on | very shortly after. Three shots were | | was about 10 rods from afull re- | then fired at. Morris, all beingat him, | when the first shot Sitionin was made and of theshowing Morrisites, put evidence, that were tried, convicted of murder, tenced, and in three days after, doned. Burton continued: WhenI standing in front of the Morrisites } ae Y | astrologer, after looking at the Tings | omnine of the 13th, at 7-o’clock,1| had not done so. I determined to make | debts, but kept a record of them all, around the sun, makes the following Sent De Bean, Judson. Stoddard, a charge on the house in the lane, and | and now has begun to pay up. The Phorrible propliecy: I_ observe by the | Ay ott aoa Smith, to take a communi- | take it by a detachment of 15 or 20 men | Rochester Democrat says: “During | plancts that a dreadful plague will cation to Morris and others for whom | under Lieut. Lewis. . That charge was | his recent engagement out, and The witness at great length through. T remained the withafter downuntil and came there the surrender posse. I was in the fort, but not when | Morris was killed, and was the first in the camp the next morning, with a Mr. | They Feed eed he Bank oe Betas guard, and onae telling Banks that |the ; evening Theshooting lasted only District | than Morris. of the Third The record ing, I spent some of my time with the movin a astworks, ae were roll. | Court, June 19th, showing what dispo- | a few seconds, Hise betas no cessation. | first day wi ee ad es mee Dette: pincon had pot been in rese I took L Se about | quarter. Golding, J. A, Young and | 0% ® portion of them—while others | the shooting was over, I saw Banks ly- | Qn Sunday I was at the west side of| occupied by the Morrisites at that} were barricaded in alhouse nor east of of Morris’ | Streeper were my couriers. On the were A ee ee Ani near the school house, wounded, | the fort, where we had a howitzer, I | time. I was one of a posse that accom. | US, and one of our men shot a Meee my whole | westside of the fort, on Sunday even- Bat oe : : __._,| ten or fifteen feet nearer the house was there: most of the tie. In the panied Burton there in e had | foe oe eat fe the wa ee one six pounder—an ee ee iron or black gun —and a howitzer, the calibre of which I do not remember. am not positive how we left here, perhaps a portion on foot and a portion in wagons. From went on foot, ie T had a eae lr : On the | ee butee have slight faith in modern prophecy, and ean only regard this as a sage prediction. It runs as follows: the actor, before he succeeded so wellin Joshitia sWhitcomtbs ea fore Stenhouse cs WV by Elder oe, copied es and was See he spirit a by @epeibband, i guided 34 nee of return partial with a ey Tied ahi en olan Dae to ie at | men on the east, and perhaps a little | WU Jer it sk that I had 250 men | over 100 men were on the west, anda uesday evening, and made ilar curves and motions. The writer oy aradaetin. enc fared a pichiake een writes im London, the ink marks i | (OWI .DECCICMOR, wien epRie i pene 2 this side Brighton. The pen has ail the appear- | in the Chattanooga Gazette im 1867, | tour Rae an and , Be 109 | Dewey ioe ive Sten sania hence a hoe a asking lanes ude? bequeathed f th 1k racies, Nis | EOEbe ODS : OF? ct) egnehnat moves Bee and ee simultaneously pen, Brighton Lee ae eye : ee of ie ee public before the Society Telegraph Engineers. : —_o—- haps two-thirds of the whole number— told bit Ww a iron gun. large as my : whelming posse to.g0. might frighten the supposed which is . somewhat ne Saat order SiVen | to firing not say Gai AeS sa I Desai des ae cca eeae ae in ee miles and , half from es ome camp. In the spring and early ts mer: of 1862Sine the reputation of the eyMer: ete, Ob eer eho and E ba ee el ae and they were discharged the next We Fisbis vehanlde a de: wilh: me, s0 ubat Aivet,of aneny Oren ene : on morning in n ny mp. Banks was not | } was four or five feet from Burton at WMiorisiies. into | to out some danger, as he was rifle pits. My marching force was dikilled outright, but died about 2 a.m., | that moment, and Morris was eight or submission. I addressed the Governor on Monday. I sent the bodies of Mor. ae epee on a to this | 0m the subject at the suegesngn ae ws aS meet seein risind Banke te this city with Mr. A. fee iroeke iM aed Blade ay, coincidence terrible calamity, en- mechanical vented by an English perhaps better guide for us as to what will take place than the declaration of her pur- an June 18, 1862, I was with | the Circumersnces S a clad all in | tions, and Panama. 1040, ae ne the fort. He expected a _reply to the | flag but none came. We had been on | the. ground two hours, and he was walkie toand tro behind the Cae, | those and he “said: “Good God! are people going to compel me io i force of ee I hope to God they | Five | risites was bad. I had been there as an shots were'fired,chotbéine the first Huedobyo two Gogo tdacther 841} WILLIAM BROWN ealibitfor othey > was conliedc ») ALN Gee ce : men, ‘to attra#et the tient ion of the soe fone northweut “We Blurton ae M orrisites wiht he charge eras being’ | worsenven all’ sl60a toBeiighs aane: Tt tnt 140 pcontis. ur aaa Meda i Ae aieenLG epee ta brought only 90 to the city, 2 having left | times, iy ut he diddid not StOp, ston but he the “balance uuedaice tee were Got in ye a T generally be seen saunter | seem to exhibit confidence in her inten- | Judge seemed ing about the Bot cores ray, and crowned with a Slay, Fe ae eu Hee ae him. .Adlourhorses | will not.’ He wason the bluff south of the were somewhat -excited. I did not see half moon around him to the south. fort. I have known Burton thirty anyone take hold of the horses or push A man named Parsons standing to the years at least, and used to haul wood them. I can’t teli. how many arms we left end of the line asked what Burton with him out of the canyon. I know I -don’t know that we wanted, and Burton said when he first captured, and his reputation among his neighbors, captured | any ammunition. came he wanted to arrest only four or and he is considered a very peaceable By a juror: I suppose Morris was five of the leading Morrisile; but he man. in the crowd when I rode up, but I did now considered it his duty to arrest all Oross-eramined: Major. Ladd sighted not know him. A good portion of the those who had taken part in the fight. the gun, but I did not notice how it Morrisites had then stacked their guns, Parsons asked if Morris might have was done. He had charge of the guns, and perhaps 12 or 1 pieces were. afterthe privilege of speaking to his people, and [I think he had some experience as wards stacked. Burton and Stoddard and Burton said yes, if he will be an artijleryman. JI am notsure if he were right close together. when the first gyick and not say anythine to excite or not. || time sighted second who thing | sighted first Banke fired. I The step- | two Then a to man further ped out pebetntioe whom I supposed be Morsaid shots was bywere Parsons. first saw I cannotthe begun the positive sae wal “said: prsthirer ‘anc sisters, all | after the shooting was all over. Ex.|it. Iam not positive that we Ook. who are ready to follow me to cdeath, | cusec more ee a at - st, ae ee $s time he may since ihem since the last revelation failed me. Thad a yoke of cattle and a wagon, aah ie net oh on Morris’ | bluff on the other side of the river. did not see where the ball struck, Af ter that there was a flag sent down to woman stood close the ball struck her - Nation: ar Q it, it, as | and mt was being SP pushed lane | SUS or mnskets, 25maepistols, and about.| ton delle ie Louie Hvcumadnrde g y diel bi were regarded as lawless. National Guard. He is aman of Re | would be, for instance,; in Germany, if | home, and he told me all about. hich up badthe« west very salu. co ee ent toI met servewitan also, who was} to that house, Ww lich had u very salu- that number of sabers, and 25 bayonets. | fret shot killingoahe oWomatd OMG. iene ae ina Bavias Ok ce publican simplicity in allhis way s. | ordered by the superior authorities, the | did Judge Kinney estern World might discharge from | thorot ighl 7 conversant W ith the facts tary effect, causing most of the Morrisz We SeHool” Wbusé te ; . ae : In his every-day attire, even in Paris,. ge ner ein hoe a a or lite mn ad apprehension as to : the re- | in the case.case When dnd ged inney fred) andnT concealed cOneesied imother places in the.| ep minee Morria:and:ciose meiiateiie fo him—so_ close that eee ) Men oeof | ies in theelioase eae We oilstacked’ ad | slebaadstiy men ee at the ae west gate hehas aiways donned a wide-awake itcurrence 2of trouble next summer; but | called on me I declined, and tl 1 sie See posteyeetecata] aa bee fort? (Pitose found ald’ dlsc. she ae | eased ee Thebellball he es ahdtwoona es instead of a silk hat; andin summer | Ryssia’s neighbors in Europe do not ter was dropped for the time, but the ; ae where were : nearly all loaded—per- | passed through the coat ot Morris on hates eA aim cee eG fad enléved | 5 le of the fort was so : Te ae ae who | him at the Morrisite camp and was one | apostacy from the _Morrisite’ went | of his posse. we ne ee ol the | They followed him in armed clothes... behind Morris lived here their | defentant. with can’t tell which : nedrer eee ee were.near..the | Morris’ woman the Stoddard I shot ee ee ee pleas Sor he made 2%ms, there was the strongest position | yp (en additional men, and they were | in the neck. -I saw three persons who | #2 the fort in front of Morris, and he accordingly sent in by Ross. I got up | Were killed in that fracas, though I was rushing for it. I was bewildered | 45 the school house just about the time | understand there were two women, but | sawiotlyeones. The woman 1 saw, acted promptly | Burton got there, having HO in fast the best of my | so as to overtake’ him. “He had been | killed did not say anything to Burton | it as a momentof | around the school-house, and in front |0r anybody else. She started with | thought thattime the | of him a weére Jar ee formed crowd of in’ women and || Wao Morriswould when follow he asked forall those | I had no children a sort-of sible: “1 Was at various places: during the day accompanied by a bugler. had taken one outlying house the ae day,and were then trying to get a second house that stood in the awest lane E where ei got| their S got out into | stacked arms, in line, and he when ees a | who came towards me when my | the lane he asked Burton what he guns her | wanted, and the reply was he w auted | fire fora moment, but I and quickly, and to. judgment. I regarded imminent danger, and surrender was asham. ‘I | fort, while L did-my best to close in.on | ree been itself. | ing out on the plains when I was com-| in. Then out-of. white flag, and ad-| quieted twenty or twenty-two men in with me; there was a long a | there that the Morrisites would prob- | from Lot'| learned || ably Smith resist aboutme.=1 “it when we camped at | where we camped to- | | Devil’s Gate, | gether, I think, one day as he was go- out, asit|ing hee cy and started 7° it into the fort. were driven out. Lot Smith came twice; the first time for Mr. Parks for a poll tax, but was resisted. Leonard Rice came with Smith to take a horse, but they prevented it, and had thirty armed men ina tentto kill him if he should take the horse away. pe On the 28th day of April, 1862, I Wanted to leave if iL pe take my not in They knew I was Property. fellowship, as I had done pothine with When I called on Morris to halt, I} schoolhouse, and form themselves ina | ton. Morris was facing Burton and | by Burton to Major Ladd, whom he | Gurson and Jensen, back to the Morlook at the situation and it appeared to line on the other side. We remained | Was going tow: ard him when he was | told to sight the gun and throw the risite cam and put oe in jail, mé that I was sold. I had ordered only | outside until the arms were stacked, | shot. T ye ball that. killed the woman | ball clear over the fort and strike the putting witness in iron simply narrated my proceedings as far as they had gone, including a statement of the death ofi cole one ae of our men. T aa d fceNoonuee a Teh thirty days prior to that I had been on the plains in the service of the Government after the Indians who had been stripping the the mail line. : Certain writs stripping This plan | the District after they on ee your acts still be tempered with mercy, | given name, and I said “tellthe women | them to surrender and unconditionaily. | through de. | DUt see that the laws are vindicated. they have nothing to fear” or words to] And he was told where they were to killed the fake included cremation of the bodies of the | Before they were det 7 the | dead; removal of the living from-in-| learned from officers who of killed and they ate. They had revela tions which made“ them lawless, and made them claim to be above labor. Excused. Sat eciomned until Thursday, at} 9:30a es THURSDAY. Inthe Burton case, Thursday, an-| other batch of witnesses was exam. | jd for the defense. single | man-coming I fort. the in ad the Morrisites opened fire on them. It had been placed in my hands alter my to act otherwise than promptly, and I came on very rainy, and little or return to serve on Joseph Morris. acted as I.acted, and have never connothing was done of importance, the cealed anything about that transaction. (Witness recognized the writs which ositions remaining the same until Lieutenant Lewis, who took the house were put in evidence a few days ago, Sunday morning. During Saturday in the west lane, isdead. I can’t say as being the ones he was called to we tested the temper of the enemy by how far. Morris was away from me placing hats on sticks and getting serve on the Morrisite leaders). The when I shot at him, but he fell ten or them in sight where they drew fire, twelve feet from. the school house door. writ of habeas corpus I had was adSome of the Morrisites—perhaps some Banks was lying nearer the school dressed to Joseph Morris, Richard | forty in number—came out of the fort, house door, with his head toward it. I and surrendered. Mrs. Cook that day Cook, ae Klemguard and I think P ot. sure-=perhaps went in several times to induce her looked baek at-the bodies eS about ten : > arsons, butI am not st pare 4 vag | seconds after I fired. The firing did | it was | five seconds, than there ley not ‘Sin aay »ve -* peem” oe idle sae geeBoling out the eekeieh: disease 0b wasn pis adopted and I think man named. Guree Fee Toe ead like last one more volley,and was no interval eetce On y Bu eae ote arcs OS a Neca Banke—fo fr Jour Be ey, and now | by a ministerial council on the 29th | so These writs were acters Ye ae a ue tap all | between the’ shots. Dade: i. sik-. old wages. ult. and a sanitary commission was on oy ee Pie ae Tamiey. day they doin Pi deaicei ain Fela. ihe shooter, and there were only Wo or | pleasure MARCH 1° fHv¥. I remember being here then, and went two and looked up and down the line. with Burton aod his posse to Davisis | He was facing the school house, and county to fight with the Morrisite péo- | he said: “All Who are willing to folple. On Sunday, the last day of the fight, |} !ow me unto death, come on,’ and 1 was at the camp south of the fort unstarted towards the arms; ong from tilnear evening, when I went with | twelve to twenty feet before he fell, his | Burton t6 the west side of the fort bepeople rushing after him in a crowd. hind a mud wall, and went as far as | Morris walked quickly, and got from the end of the lane. Croxail and | twelve to twenty feet before “he was ~Croxall | Burton, Stoddard and Stoddard were with me, and we were | shot, on horseback. We found there a party | had pistols. I had a pistol also. When | , did | roll call to your aid a | dressed a woman who had been the purpose. Let | neighbor—Margreat Guthrie—by was charged with the execution of sev- | q i ie ae dT wanted to be re. | write acai t the Morrisites. For lie at o me on f the res nonsibility | eral04) writs against, the 2 i HONS Obey aE Ge I Y| as possible. I sent a courier with the Beret ane se eat 1 aaa oa téth ake Aaa ae ae morning as showed themselves, soon as as I my y men ’ - his The ser- been empowered to sufficient force for UN e sy Woodworth, of the United | fendant was first put on the stand and aie 5a age Je eee aoa et ee he ne AES stified : Salt Lake City, Utah. | States Marine service, has addressed | teste fa T live in Salt ie City and am the | a letter to the Chairman of the Condefendant in this case. In 1862 I was oy4 + | aee ssionalpA committee on epidemic fe . a deputy Territorial Marshal, and cli ‘ MORNING, ers. I do not remember any con- | of the posse building a roiling battery-j I entered the fort | went between the in.re- | Versation with Bowman about the kill- | of wagon wheels and willows. Soon | school house and the< arms, and I was of blood sistance to civil cution of the law imperative. ear Cx ie © But R. J. Golding Saw country. a | Seeds of the terrible > 5.50 3.00 | be brought to our age prepaid OT to this intercommunication SATURDAY hear any woman say anything to me, vindication of justice and the enforce- approving or disapproving. An irregment of the law. Frank FuLupr, ular pile of human bodies had thrown j Acting Governor of Utah. themselves on Morris, tut I did not | The reply of the Governor to Burton dismount at all that night until late, as | —above referred to—was offered in ey- | 1 had 140 prisoners to arrange for. 7 idence and read to the jury: ordered Colonel Ross to detail four ur- | ExEcurivE DEPARTMENT, UTAH, armed men to separate the women | Great Sar ae Crry, | from the men, as the women were ter-| ribly excited, and the men were drawn | une 14, 1862, Col. R. T. Be Deu Territorial | Up in line to be marched off as prison- | PUBLISHED Is aa TRIBUNE: force for the arrest of the offenders, the a Fenty Ugh ede antes ae Hee eats a themed ide Minar Mgnt pat ee i est woe eee fom te Ss Tee cee ee eT ee eae eeae re poe ae Oe A Gees oe ae ee a pee ee aont a oe ely Ae eee ee Bue no ee Soe a Fe shawnee Bae ern oe ate ieee . 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