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Show fe if when it facing u,'ionr. an u j rti'Jit w'tieh never wear e l in teil fi iii g I I he viiliitlles wun d tell l Ihf w,.te nt,il I .ife riiiii'Selui. tjf the most l.dililul (if II tilth, tj the just :aA -ivcr, i.l Hie tx- , enmve i knew liuw to tie la r a i . I iiuiiprfilisan, ol Ihe religionist s h.nitsi and sinCeie in his convieti ii inn p.uns and prnullifS anil martvit nil it-t-ll luul ii. terrors for him; ol a lu-.nt s.i sot: that il was woin.11.lv in i's Mii;a:hies and f a ualu'e sn slein Unit wi-u Hit- i ucchsioii trqu led 11 c uiil I t- Sjiui.in in its timidity. Willi (he thousands to tt hoin Ins name and form and tunes have so loii litm tanuliai.ue admired and l'.ved I h is goml man, and Willi lliest thousands we will nniiirn his depailure. We 1 oved li in In. cause we knew him.and knew Imw n'eai and noble and lute he was, and we w II rnuiini lur him liectuse ii liis r!eili , th loses one of tier lotindets, one who luni dune more than his shate to make this territory (treatand her people nappy .tid miglitv; because he was a iieru in the best sense of the word, and hec uise he was a friend whoes friendship had been tested and loliud of the truest and litsi. In the yeats to come, when the histotv of the Mormon churcii shall he wntteti : y the mpartial pen, Squue WfcLLS wiP fill many ol its brightest paet-; and al;0 in the vears w hen the Ian and uuthlul histoiy of Salt Lake city and and U ah lerntoiv shall be told, the name and ac hievemants of Squire U hl.l.s, as a leader a pioneer, a Inundei , a creator and an executive, will slaud amo: those of the lot emost of this community 's gieat names and their mighty deeds. It is a glorious heritage which Daniel Hanmer Wells has left to bistamily, atid a great commonwealth feels that it has a right to share the te.uS'. wit ithat family, fami-ly, as ii shares with it the pieseut gtief and sorrow. DANIEL H. WELLS. Under the above caption the Salt Lake Herald says about the "fallen chief t Squire Wells is dead. Very few people peo-ple knew of his illness, and the anounce mem ol his death will come like a shock to thousands in this and surrounding states and territories. And the news will bring sadness and sorrow, for the deceased was one 0 God's own men. He was loved as few are loved, and to manv households from Arizona to Idaho the mourning will be as for a member of the family, a dear relative, fof one closer than friend, so deep was the atfcctioa of the maeaes for the sturdy, the stalwart, the kind hearted old hero wkose busy life has just come to a peac ful termination. The story of his career is too briefly told in this issue of the Herald. Volumes mitht be written on the life of President vVelis, and they would be entertainir.jr and instructive, for they would tell ol three-quarters of a century of heroism, of ihe snuggles of a brave.an earnest good man for the cause ol human tights; of a big; and active brain always exercised in the interest of justice; of a coyrane which knew no |