Show I 11 MAJOR MAJO FRANK WILSON A few points vroni front the ev eve life of a journalist major IT ajor frank G wilson is stopping at the junction city hotel the nil major is an old newspaper man and is also in the life insurance business his newspaper ex experience clience covers about forty years and was in ill new york san francisco chicago st louis and portland oregon for a time he was reporter for the new nony york sun that afis while moses Y beach was proprietor and before Oli oharles arles A dana owned the outfit he ile was afterwards traveling correspondent of the new now york herald and reported the trip of duke alexis from prince edwards island to detroit for that paper he was afterwards on oil theSa nr ran cisco chronicle chronick and call he ile was founder of the sail san francisco sun while the the sun major wilson wrote up tip the life of the de young family and the paper which contained the article sold at per copy the result was the akrc arrest A and anti imprisonment of the major and his compositors who laid in in jail eight days refusing bail on account of tho the feeling throughout the city the cost was to the chronicle and tho the extinction of the sun tho the article was read by rev J S kalloch in front of liis his I temple which caused the attack on his life fife by diaries charles DC do young and the final death of oade de young at the hands lands of young kalloch an and d the confinement of gus G us de young in the insane asylum at stockton the major went with the union army as private r i vate in the eighteenth new now vo york r k an and d was mustered out as major in in I the first sharpshooters 11 major wilson is veil well acquainted with this country ha leaving ving crossed the great salt lake basin in 1849 landing in sacramento nov ath of that year the gentleman knew this territory when it was a howling desert and is pleased to see lee it now in its flourishing and prosperous condition which ho be is fair enough to attribute to the thrift and industry of the cormons mormons Mor mons he ile visited utah also in 1870 when he lie had bad the pleasure of making the acquaintance li li of president B brigham vo young of whom lie still p preserves rese arves a very favorable and respectful remembrance membra mem brance uce ho he remembers the last words of the late Pre president Adent when you report us to the sun san just tell the truth that is all we want of you newspaper men it is by the way a pity that so few newspaper newspapermen men w will I act according to this sentiment when writing abat utah and her leonle people weare we arc pleased to count major wilson among the few and hope that his st stay ay in the valle valleys Ts odthe of the mountains will be pleasant and agreeable the major thinks that if mormonism inon ism is a curse to this valley our people had better bottle some ome and find send it to the cities and towns east and west |