Show SANDWICH ISLANDS MISSION drefs refs rn of elders dean and acox tinder this mornings train from the west brought two returning missionaries missionaries sion sion aries aries from the sandwich islands they were respectively clively elders joseph H dean of the ward salt lake city and W D alexander of provo each of these brethren was accompanied by his wife and children elder dean left utah for liia his missionary mission rry field in december 1877 and has consequently antl been absent nearly four years c when lie and mrs dean bean left homo home they had but one child but return with three a boy and a girl having been born on tho the islands the rhe only privilege lost by the chubby little male kanaka by liis his foreign nativity y is i is pro prospective echito and rot remote note but lie is li gible to all other offices in the gift ift of the republic except lent ent however unless the position becomes more desirable than at present he will have no caule bauo for reut regret elder ider dean learned to write the native tongue and sneak speak it fluently he ile traveled on six dif different islands preached to the people and baptized quite a number mr and mrs joseph dean and mr and mrs henry arnold of salt lake city athe the parents of elder dean and his wife came to ogden and met their children the meeting as may be imagined after so long a separation was joyful and arid affecting f fec ting the hours that elder dean was enabled to spare from his other labors he devoted to translating jaques catechism into the native language which will probably be printed before long elder alexander accompanied d ballis by his wife being then newly married left utah for the islands in november 1878 and has consequently been gone nearly three years he ile had bad two children born both of the wee Kanal banakas ras being little ladies his IM missionary labo labors s extended to four of the islands his health was not very robust during the first year but was good the latter portion of the time ho ile traveled and preached a gre great l at deal having teamed learned to speak the langu language ae 14 he baptized quite a number of people who believed his testimony ho he was released to return homo home somewhat earlier than he would otherwise wise owing to the dangerous ill illness ness of his father who is in a precarious condition from those E elders iders we were enabled to glean some information relative to the general condition of the sandwich cli islands missionaries elder 11 H chuff who is in cl is in good health besides beside si the eight arfe it other utah missionaries who arella arc laboring with him the church numbers on the islands about the plantation at laic oahu bahu is in a sound financial condition there being several thousand dollars of a balance last De december comber since then however a sugar factory costing about has been bu built it etwas it was finished and operations begun in it in the early part of july it has a capacity for making three and it half tons of sugar su ar per day between two and alfand ah and three tons of sugar is being turned out by br it this product of the plantation is shipped to san francisco through an agent at honolulu there being always a ready market for it A wooden flume from the mountains to the factor being constructed to convey water for the sugar vacuum which has to have a stream almost constantly running through it missionary work among the na feia tives ia is uphill business there is no difficulty in converting to keep them in the strict line of moral rectitude is it no cosy ms but in nna instances ml most nil impossible imp ible task some sonic time since ns as our readers acro informed by tho the smallpox AT was raging on the island landl principally in honolulu this malady lias has however almost entirely disappeared both the returned cider who are young men state that they have been greatly bles blessed cl on their mission mission but are exceedingly glad to bo be once more in the old home in the mountains |