Show Was Indian Mission Bennett chapel razed by fire An early Sunday morning fire destroyed newly remodeled Uintah Indian Mission chapel and recreation hall at which had been designated as a Branch of the mission last Loss of the plus furnishings and fixtures was estimated by some of the mission officials as approximately This amount has not been corroborated by the general authorities of the IVAN and his residents of who were living in the quarters provided for the were awakened about 2 p.m. the smell of A quick investigation revealed fire was in They had difficulty in getting an alarm message sent immediately because the telephone in the was not A patrolman for the Ute Indian Tribe police department turned in the alarm to the City-County Fire Department at Roosevelt When firemen reached ithe building at about 3 o'clock they were too j late to save the which burned to the Ross and his wife were unable to reenter the building after they left their He to enter to recover some of their and received a burned which was later treated at the Roosevelt CAUSE OF THE was j not readily but Sec CHAPEL page 8 What's left of Bennett Indian Mission branch 1 These Bureau of Indian Affairs officials and members of the Ute joined in a two-day Natural Resources Conference at Fort Duchesne last Many worthwhile ideas were presented at this phase of tho arc to Georgo assistant area 9 Jason Tribal committee mem- M D. E. BIA Sidney H member of and Harvey Nat- I Tribal Committee Confer- I ence was very H Chapel fire when he was awakened the roof above the furnace room was He said it could have been faulty wiring that started ithe Very lit-I tie chance to make a complete determination of the cause is removed toy the entire structure being The frame structure first served as a school house in the early days for community of Leeton until about After school children were transferred to the church acquired the building and it into a meeting Coincidental with the burning of the building Sunday was the funeral of John Bolton on who was bishop of the Bennett ward when the building was acquired to hold their meetings UNDER THE leadership of Otis remodeling of the was done in In 1956 the Bennett ward was discontinued merged with After being several years it was taken over by Indian Mis- r who supervised renovating sand dollars were spent onH later chapel was dedicated last Elder S. Young as a branch of tab Indian fM NO PLANS HAD M by the Preside n of the church for TeS ing the Floyd lahn first counselor in the Stake supervision the chapel operation were assigned to I ported he talked with Joseph about future He said the irS iter would be taken S and a JS reached within the next r Plans for continuing the m gram of the Bennett the mission will be by President Leo J. Walker his and Elmo and two small children of Lake visited over the with Taylor's parents J and Arch |