Show Sisters Sisters' Brodders and Being the early life Ufe and times limes of the Mormon town of Ephraim Sanpete County Utah and in including including including in- in to be sure the famous Ephraim Stories By ByGrace ByGrace ByGrace Grace Johnson Copyrighted Editors Editor's Note This Is one Ina in ina ina a series of stories from the book Brodders Brooders and Sisters by author Grace Johnson At the conclusion of the serial publications publications publications a limited number of copies of the book will be avail avail- able Copies may be reserved by calling the Messenger- Messenger Enterprise office Installment 4 The Incredible Beginnings It is singular but true every so often there appears on the stage of world history history in in inexplicably In Inexplicably and without heraldry or pomp pomp a a personage who al alters alters alters al- al the shape of things to come of empires and peoples The born and the unborn In the person of another American there was one who If he had been told that his life Ufe and times would be affected by the pronouncement of the young American prophet would have expressed a contemptuous doubt This American had a body odor dizzying at 10 feet A fearsome name from Mexico to Utah and Colorado he rarely rarely rarely rare rare- ly had a bath except when he got wet plunging through a river on an expedition of kill killing ing stealing and trading in prisoner slaves Of the number of his killings killings killings kill kill- ings he had long since lost count but it Is said he wore a necklace of human finger fingernails fingernails fingernails nails to remind him of their approximate number The senior citizen problem he solved by tying up old men and old women In barren wilderness and leaving them to die With fine Impartiality he had thusly tied up his old mother and lefther left lefther lefther her to perish slowly but she got away Magnificent stinking powerful powerful powerful power power- ful he was handsome as a movie star He was Great War Chief of the Ute Indian Nation In the person of still another American there was such a one aone who if he had been told the pronouncement of the young New Englander would vitally affect his life and times would have smiled In disbelief He was an old man wrinkled with the weight of his years his flesh hanging loosely on his old bones t cp c r. All unknown to him he too would move out on history's stage and alter the shape of things to come The stage was Spanish Fork Canyon The year July 24 1847 Smoke curling from twilight twilight twilight twi twi- light fires the Utes were en encamped encamped encamped en- en camped for tor the a bevy of braves emerging from a cloud of dust slid sUd to a stop with ominous news A small company of whites with plows cattle and covered wagons had arri arrived ved In the valley of the Great Salt Lake and had already overturned overturned overturned over over- turned some soil soUl Destroy them now Every living soul Break their plows Burn their wagons and drive off their stock Let the dead the broken plows and the ashes of the burned wagons be a lesson to other Invaders It was Great War Chief of the Utes who spoke and was quiet Then there was that silence when before time again ticked off ort the moments history empIre empire empire em em- pire life Ufe and death wavered in a vacuum of uncertainty But not for tor long r 0 u L we ve win will not noi destroy these inese t whites Break their plows Burn their wagons Drive off ort their stock We will leave them alone It was the old man who spoke and he had his way Twice again In moments of peril perU he stood on the side of the Mormon whites At Manti Mantl and at Fort Utah Once he took tooka a whip and whipped the great before his braves Once he threatened to fight on the side of the whites if it the Utes attacked Who was he A man out of his time and place Contrary to race and tradition A man who came out 0 of mystery and who returned to mystery He was aged aged political chieftain of the Ute Nation without whom the history of Utah and the intermountain West would have been something else But for him Manti ManU and Ephraim Ephr Ephraim Eph Eph- r raim im as we know them would not now exist My mother would not have married my father I would not have been born And I would not be taking the water tonight at 2 am a.m. The One Furrow Water Turn In the Midwest and East our brother the sons-of-the-soil are sitting on their front porches estimating their profits as the water heavenly-water-faucets turn on and regularly drench their crops while well-oiled well combines combines combines com com- bines await the harvest V t jt r j w y Jf J 4 i f iJ r 1 t ti t s r f a Y y yr r u y y W- W A I F CATHOLIC LEADERS Anthony Lavorin Wenzl Berard Gerard Connolly Howard Hall Terry will lead Sanpete Catholics In Ephraim tonIght's is going to be a one furrow water turn For this Is August and The Crick has shriveled In Into into into in- in to what an Easterner would call callan callan callan an ordinary brook but In Ephraim mathematically divided divided divided divid divid- ed Into a one furrow tour of parched gardens and fields In a one furrow one furrow water turn your shovel directs your share of the now vanished winter winter winter win win- ter snows mountain springs now with Its progress carefully carefully carefully care care- fully watched and the minute It gets to the bottom quickly transferred Into the next row In drier two furrow years the precious little stream is turned into every other furrow roots roots yearningly reaching out toward moisture too ot often n be beyond beyond beyond be- be yond them them in in that epic and unceasing battle with that mer mer- ciless ogre the climate of the Great Basin Tonight I shall direct my one furrow turn exclusively exclusive exclusive- ly upon the corn This year the enemy pulled a fast one A late season we couldn't plant until the first week in June then a sneak attack of frost later on just right to wipe out the tomatoes Somehow the corn put up a sturdier fight and came back It is symbolic of the battle Early the settlers learned the bitter lesson that survival de depended depended dp- dp upon frugality A dollar A half dollar A quarter A dime shrewdly and ac c Jv ati-Jv measured against Its Us rt return in value All of which leads Jt acIs to an understanding and ap appreciation appreciation appreciation ap- ap of Y Yergen- Yergen sen who appraising material for his wife's burial clothes remarked It It looks all right but will it WEAR Or Thompson who confronted with an early city council considering considering considering con con- the extravagance of building a fence around d the cemetery challenged the city fathers thusly For vy he wanted to know do you vant to build a fence around the cemetery The ones inside CAN CANT CAN'T GET OUT The ones outside DONT DON'T V VANT ANT TO GO IN I tink ve ye can spend our to money greater advantage Here is a man born before his time We need Thompson in Washington But nowhere was the principle principle principle prin prin- ciple of thrift more eloquently expressed than in that succulent gourmet special Swine Goulash Supreme PIG Potato peelings boiled or Table scraps scraps if there are any except a bone for the dog Dandelion greens or enough of another weed to gl give ve veit It body Add dishwater enough to cover which may contain minute food scraps heretofore heretofore heretofore here here- missed by the naked eye but adding nourish nourish- ment Stir well and let set seta a couple of hours for the the flavors to blend Just before serving and a gourmet secret add all the green apples that have fallen on the ground wormy of course or they wouldn't have fallen but adding both C and protein There you have It A nu nutritional nutritional nu- nu triumph C Cand Cand Cand and A calcium The value of green apple worm protein has not yet been established but just the name Indicates its rich potentialities On this gastronomical tri triumph triumph triumph tri tri- the pigs thrived thrive and flour flourished and so in turn did diel the pioneers who lived to light tight an another another another an- an other day To Be Continued |