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Show wswrntE itowjce. Lorn in a, Towa, April 7. The world's general annual conference of the re-organized Church of Jesus Christ of Bailor-day Saints assembled assem-bled hero yesterday with over five j hundred representatives and dele-I dele-I Bales present. Joseph Smith, son I of Joseph Smith, the founder I of the Mormon Church, was chosen ' to preside. The forenoon session ! t.-oo Mnsnnied with speeches by Joseph Smith, W. W. Blair, A. IT. Smith and others. These people claim to lie the representatives of the successors of the original church and arc now engaged in an important legal action for the recovery from the present occupants of the temple lot I in Independence, Mo. They allege : that all property rights of theorigi j nal church belong to them. The afternoon session was taken ; up with the reading of the church 1 treasurer's and recorder's reportalid ! the reports of the ministry. The re-- re-- corder's report shows an increase in membership in tho last year of over 2MiO, the greatest increase the re-organization has ever hail. The reporls ol the ministry show a bright outlook and generally breathed a hopeful tone. Thcrr was preaching at night by Elder Thomas Doty, California, and a meeting for prayer held this morning morn-ing Sp cial. |