The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-20
sANPETE SPLINTERS.
A Hot Fight Over the County Seat Removal
An Interesting Conference.


An Interesting Conference
La grippe has now nearly made it's round
in this city. Few have, however, escaped
it yet.
Winter once more. 1t has been showing
nearly all last night and partly through the
day, making our dry streets and roads wet
again.
The merchants all over the county all
claim this is the worst year yet; they can
easily sell the goods but cannot get any
thing back for them.
The dreadful disease, diphtheria, has
made its appearanc &c again, this time in the
family of c. L. Thorp, which is the third
time his family has been quarantined.
All the clerks in the Farmers exchange
were out of the store several days at one
time. La grippe was the cause, so the pro-
prietor was entirely alone waiting on the
customers.
The great question of the day nearly all
over IN this county is the removal of the
county seat from Manti,wheere it is now, to
some other place in this county where it
Will be to the best accommodation of the peo-
pie. Ephraim considers herself to be the
centre and thinks it ought to be the place;
other towns think the same, SO the question
arises which of all will be lucky!
Trade is very dull and collections much
worse; our merchants claim that it is next
to impossible to get anything in of their
outstanding debts. The reason is, the peo-
pie have raised small crop of grain last
year, which is what they are mostly de-
pending upon; another thing which don't
make it better is that many from this place
went to work on the Denver & Rio Grande
Western railroad for small sub-contractors,
got time checks in payment for their labor,
when time checks became due contractors
could not pay them, so the Workingman
was left could not pay his Indebtedness
where they had been buying goods from to
supply his familys wants while working,
causing disappointment on all sides.
The stake conference was held in the
tabernacle of Ephraim Saturday and Sun
day, February Is and 16. Present on the
stand were Apostle A. H. Lund, President
Canute Peterson and Counselors Beal and
Maiben, Presidents PaXman and Sperry,
of Juab stake, also most of the bishops and
counSelors of the different wards of this
stake. Reports given by the bishops
showed the wards in good condition and as
a general thing the people feeling well;
from some wards was reported consider
able sickness. On Saturday afternoon
President Paxman gave US very inter
esting sermon on the privileges we enjoy
in having embraced the gospel of Christ
and showed us the necessity of sustaining
home industry and manufacture, and
especially of sustaining our own brethren.
In the evening Apostle Lund gave US a
| lecture on the "Priesthood, its blessings
and Privileges which was very much APP
preciated by the audience. President
Peterson gave also few good and in
structive remarks which were well re-
ceived by the people. On Sunday both
| forenoon and afternoon the house was
filled to the very utmost and many stood
outside. The speakers were Counselor
Sperry, from Nephi, Apostle A. H. Lund,
President d. H. Wells and Counselor j. B.
Maiben, all these brethren encouraged the
saints to be true and faithful to their
covenants, let come what may; gave their
testimony to the truth of the Book of
Mormon and the great labor performed by
Joseph Smith, the latter days prophet, etc.
a most pleasant time was felt all through
and conference was adjourned for three
months, to meet at Manti.
| Manti has issued a circular claiming it
has more places of interest to the visitors
of this county than any other place, such
as the temple, their cemetery, t'unk's lake,
| five miles from there), their natural san
itary advantages are unexcelled, they have
| the best water supply, ETC.; they claim the
southern part of the county is susceptible
of greater development than the north,
| showing forth what Gunnison intends to
do in the future, and what great benefits
will be for the south when all this is done.
Also stating that people who travel from
and to Emery county, must do business
with the county court, and it will be so
much better for them if the county seat
were in Manti as it is on their way. All
these and many more advantages are
claimed for Manti. Then come others and
say, we can't see any attraction in Manti
cemeteryl What has that to do with the
county seat? What has Funks' lake to dc
with it? What has the sanitary advan-
tages to do with the county seat! or their
water supply, as they don't have any bet
ter than settlements in the north; there is
as much land north if not more than will
be brought under cultivation shortly, than
what there is south; what have the people
of Emery county to do with Sanpete
county seat? Another thing is only a very
small part of the year can the people OF
Emery county 60 to their homes through
Salina canon, but have to go north and
pass through the mountains east of Fair
view. The fight about removing the
county seat will come off on August 4, 1890
and before that day good many stumr
speeches will be made. S. p. V.
EPHRAIM. February II, 1890.