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Show 79TH SEMI-ANNUAL CONFERENCE Tho attendance nt tho oponlng ses-L ses-L slons of tho seventy-ninth seml-nn- II nunl conference of tho Mormon chu- I rch, which began yestorday Is estl- II mated at 1G.000 persons, and the con- foronco of the Deserot Sunday school II union In tho ovonlng was character- II Ized by President Joseph F. Smith as H the largest gathering nt a Sunday I school conference that ho had ever ft -witnessed. For tho morning session, II an overflow meeting In tho assembly H ' hall was necessary to accommodate U 2,600 who could not crowd In tho j Tabernacle. In the afternoon about H 44,000 porsons nttonded tho two over- H flow meetings and In tho evonlng at W tho Sunday school conferonco tho II Tabernacle was filled to Its capacity M with many late arrivals unable to I gain ndmlsslon, Presldont Smith, I with his counselors, and nil of the I apostles with tho oxcoptlon of need I Smoot nnd C. W. Penrose, as woll as I nearly nil of tho other high officials I of tho church, wero present. George. Roynolda was honorably roleased ns first assistant to tho gonornl superintendent super-intendent of tho Sunday School un-' un-' Ion on account of poor health. David O. McKay, second assistant, was advanced ad-vanced to fill the vacancy, and Stephen Step-hen L. Richards was nppolntod to succeed Mr. McKay. Inter-Mountnln Republican. |