Show PROPOSE TO MARK OLD MORMON mum TRAILS the fulloni ng from an eastern paper should be of interest to utah people wholly aside from tho tile religious or social aspects of the movement founded by joseph smith mit and carried to the point 0 of economic econ success by the indomitable brig hain young there will be no email small measure of interest among stud entson elite of the weats building up in the proposed marking of the bior man trails nothing definite deti nite has las yet it appears been determined with regard to the scope of the proposed undertaking contrary to a very prevalent belief the wanderings of the latter day sainte began long before brig drig liam linni young led the migration lacross across the missouri river at aoun cl cli bluffs along the platte through tho the nebraska wilderness around the foothills of the eastern slope of the rocky mountains in wyom ing and nod finally across the utah line into the great salt stilt lake val ley even on the this historic trite art k the tile parties divided and the trails frequently and widely diverged the vermonter joseph smith founded mormonism niana at fayette seneca county N Y on april 0 6 he lie prof professed eased much earlier to be in I 1 posses possession siou of the book of 31 mormon ormon 11 and to have received revelations this book engraved in hie his s story tory tie to trans tho the result being the tion of the mormon bible upon its publication his followers greatly increased and a large body bodi of them seeking greater freedom of eirp espres res eion sion traveled westi rard to kirt land laud ohio prom this point after conce concentrating nt they moved to in ia copen dependence deuce ato a town later to become one of the terminals of the overland freighters and the pony express and at that time timo the start ing place for tr adre sod and advent nd over tha santa po fo trail trall the cormons mormons Mor mons in independence and around about in jackson county in numbered num bred about 1200 they antagonized the I 1 gentiles however and soon a popular uprising against them forced another migration one half of them left by the lot 1st of jan nary of the year nair cairol a 1 the other halt half by the first of april rough characters ihara clere on the gentile Gentil ii bide aide a difficulty which resulted tragically bat but the mormons were blat blamed ned and they were compelled to keep moving until they were practically driven abrass a tho the missouri all river into clay county where they made tho the town of lib erty their headquarters A num nm berof her of their set who bal hwi remained in kirtland inc including ladIng joseph smith rejoined td them here but there was to bo be no halting batting for them in clay county and the next move moie was to caldwell then a part of ray county where they founded is town which they called far nest they made other dettlo ments in ili diamond dan davia is county at dewitt in carroll county and at other points dm developing eloping the tile new C country here ae as they had done elsewhere community system gave them a decided nd ad i over ordinary settlers and also excited jea jealousy lonsy and pro provoked aked qua gunnels in davie davis county were daentl citizenship and nd this thil was wits the beaning ct of a series of differences differ encee with the gentiles 1 which culminated in the tilt usual way thoro there wa was apparently nothing for the mormons to do bat but to pick up and tako take the trait again thu the mass ot 0 these people were et ripped of f their property before they succeeded hi in gl otting out of missouri bu bus undaunted end and still ar hope hopp ful as ever oe of finding is alao of rest thoy they moved into illinois Illino ip in midwinter undergoing great prill on tile way thy found many A illinois find relief parties dispatched through out ati tile auntry with tales nf if tile aises to which they had been sub ejected brought back mony money find nd provi elo ue in liberal quan tiflis selecting elect jug as the elt eatn of their tit w set doment thu tho allago of coin coll norco norce on thu the river they founds the tilt city of manoo in the winter whiter the tho minot legislature granted them cotrit ordinary privileges their laws within their own settlement were to bo paramo int to the laws of tho the state enormous wire granted the mayor of nauvoo continued oa on pio page 4 PROPOSE TO HARK MARK OLD MORMON TRAILS from front first pe an agricultural machine aring o 0 company a it anh university erdity and n hotel were chartered under the arts of thu tile Legis iture joseph smith proceeded as mayor Otti Octie eral ral of the tho nauvoo legan and keeper of tho the Nauvoo hotel 1 Conf liotis with popular opinion and find with the law wore were in lit the ilia cir oft baund to tle mormons were aero aggressive and a successful ps ople but they lacked the tact that might lieve enabled them to enoy enjoy privilege without c causing ottense and ninny in u ci entente dents mall small al at first piled up to bring about the ilia lawlessness and tho the which put an end to the nauvoo settlement an cud to tho tile rulo rule of if joseph smith mido m ido last and the tile greatest grea teat moie of nil all that toward the tile kock mountains Mount nine rind gave them their damone leader brigham young thie tills Is opt I 1 n history ol 01 ilor mor morose mon ieni aa i only a hasty glance over the ilia trails which tho ilia latter day lay saints followed so thero there is is no opportunity for indulging in III details dot aile lyt let it suffice to eay say that perhaps no moru more daring adventure than that carried out under the leadership of brigham young voting at council bluffs ia is rosr ded in american history without know ing with any degree of certainly certainty I 1 what ho he hull had to contend with or what ho he wan wast going to find he be his life party into three sel biens und unit set out out across tho the plains the hardships and sulT ering ol 01 these pilgrims pil grime were gnat but their triumph over nde rue e wits greater still iu in an all incredibly short hu ahmo hmo 0 o after reach log ing utah they had wrested tin tilt hit lake lako valley from the tile wilder nese ness and their pluck and indu industry str havo have compelled admiration even evet where their religious and socia have been denied approval at cho cormona hino haia pi an im por tant ni wll ae as at nn interesting uart oart in tile mchug of tile west nd ind th ir trails arti worth pre preserve for historic il masona ahne ch ris tiati sait flee monitor of boston |