The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-06-27
BY JORDAN'S BANKS
The Shieks of Ell Jebel Camp in
Fair Zion.
STORY OF THEIR PILGRIMAGE
From Mecca They Hail and Cover Their Heads
With Fee and Moisten Their
Lips With FiZL

The special train conveying the nobility
of FL Jebel Temple, Denver, arrived in this
city yesterday morning and the shieks
pitched their tents at the Hotel Knutsford.
Potentate T. M. Bishop of Ell Kalab
Temple with a number OF the mobiles OF
Zion, join ed the pilgrims at Provo, where a
sumptuous feast and many Inequalities
were extended to the visitors during their
brief stay.
On arriving in Zion the pilgrims shook
of the dust from their sandals and sat down
to the refreshments prepared by Host
Holmes.
The afternoon was spent in go as-yoa-
please style, the shieks hitching their
camels about the walls of the great
temple, and, squattinC on the ground, eX-
changed many strange stories o. their
pilrimage across the desert to the oasis De-
side the Jordan. Others were seen riding
about the city in the modern vehicles,
which caused the derisive iufidels to ex-
claim, "Who be those strange men in the
little red caps!' which made the men OF
noble lineage smile at this leering OF the
emblem of the Kaaba, while they uncov-
cred their heads Of the Turkish fez and
kissed the ensign of the black stone.
At 80 o'clock the pilgrims sat down to
delightful to their nostrils, and they ate it
with zest and rejoiced greatly that in the
oasis they found land Of milk and honey,
with liquids that sparkle and fzz, making
all the mobiles dance in joyful ecstacy.
At 80 Potentate S. A Shepherd pro-
ceeded with his mobiles to the Masonic hall,
where large class OF novices were init
ated into the mysteries of the shrine. The
class included some forty persons from
Salt Lake city, Ogden. Evanston, Poca-
tello, HALEY, Butte and Helena.
ORIGIN OF THE sHRINERs.
Potentate S. A. Shepherd, who was in
troduced to THE HERALD scribe by DR..
Houghton-himself high in the council
kindly impaired some OF the strange his
tory of this mysterious order. 'It was"
said the potentate, sin the time that is past
that Billy Florence while at the foot 0f Mt.
Sinai was confronted by az Arab chief and
authorized TO establish temple in
New York city. which he was
pilgrims should go This shrine was es-
tablished in 1876, and later on the Lula in
the City of Brotheriy Love, and so great
was the favor in which they were held that
cities were established in all the leading
cities and to the coast"
The Ksaba originates from the original
Kaaba temples, which Is the inner
temple Of the great Mecca temple
the sanctum sauctorium. PHI
grims kiss the Kaaba stone with
great reverence, and its miraculous effects
are some Of the mysteries Of the shrine
The Kaaba stone 10 of black formation To-
Gated in the northeast corner Of the temple.
None but Nohamedans are admitted to the
inner temple, which contains 400 pillars
built of precious stone.
The order had it, greatest growth during
the imperial potentage Of Sam Briggs, Of
Cleveland, Ohio.
A. the Knights Templar couclave at
washington there were Loco shriEers In
inc and PotentAse Shepherd predicts that
lot less than 10000 will visit Denver dur
nR the conclsve OF 49,
None but thirty two degree Masons or
4n;Qhts Templar can join the order. max