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Show Jos. Newbold on The College H Makes a Suggestion about Fight and 'M Tells What He is Seeing in the East. M ST. LOUIS, Mo, July 30, UMHI -Editoii IIki'uiimuax: I thought a few lines from your old friend might be interesting in-teresting to some of your readers, I was set apart for missionary work and assigned to Central States mission on July 11, '0(1, and left Ogdon the day following. It Is a beautiful sight thro Ogdon canj on, but after reaching W-omlng W-omlng the scene changes and for somo four hundred to live hundred miles there is not an aero of plowed ground, there being little or no water for this vast country. After leaving Denver, we traveled through a rich farming district, plenty of all kinds of crops, especially corn throughout the entire state of Kansas. Wo arrived in Kansas, Mo., on Frl-day, Frl-day, after a rtdo of two nights and two days. Our headquarters for the mission mis-sion Is 1405 Locust street, Kansas, Mo, Here I met Prcs. Jumes G. Duftln.who has labored here for somo seven years. He is a very ablo man for tho position, and has succeeded in bringing this mission to a high standard, both spiritually spir-itually and financially. There arc now In this mission eight conferences, 120 elders traveling on their own expenses, ex-penses, eight meeting houses owned by the church, twenty Sunday Schools, four Relief Societies, four Muluals, besides be-sides a colony of Saints located in Texas and numbering about 350 souls. There have been 104 baptisms the past ycir with brighter prospects for this jqar. The Kansas City ofllcc does a business busi-ness of about $13,000 yearly. Thcro aro some 2,845 members of the church In this mission. Pres. Dutlln has secured se-cured several pieces of proporty for tho church, among which Is about twenty-eight twenty-eight acres of tho original temple lot at Independence, Mo. |