Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-07-30
Tue MALAD STAKE.


Ihny WIN AIoNNt JUhN w. '"s '''i
1 left salt Lake city to visit the
Mnlad Stake OF Zion in the Interest Of
Church history. Alter travelling by
rail 10 miles 10 Col.inston station, Box
Elder Co., we continued the Journey
by team to West Portage, q miles
further, whca we put w for The night
with President Oliver G.. Hoshins.
The following day we Travelled Il
mlles to MalAd CITY, whore we, on
that and the next day Sunday and
Monday, June l2,h aud i8lhl attended
the quarterly conference u tho Malad
stake Of Zi.n, In connection with
President Seymour y. Young, OF the
Seventies, who had proceeded ~.
After the conference Apostle Tay lor
returned home, and | ut once entered
upon my historical laboTs by visiting
all the settlements la the Stake and
holding meetings with tho people.
Alter visiting wgai Portage, Woodruff,
Cherry creek, Malad aud ST. John, |
ret out for the distan, settlements Of
RocklRnd and Neeloyville, accom-.
panied by four members Of the High
Council (Aiiles Hall, Jcsse II. prcdgc,
Gcrvia Mansfield and David Hall who
went ~ home missionaries, and Sisters
Alvira a. Harrison aud Mary u.
Bolingbrokc, who were out In the in'
tercst OF the Y. l.. NJ. /. a. and Pfin.
AIRY associations. We hold three meet.
iups in Neeloyvlllo ON the 18Th and
three iu R9cklnnd on the 10Th, hnd a
go01 time and returned 10 Samaria on
the Goth.
The Alslad stake u Zion embraces
the northeast part Of Box Elder coun-
ty, Utah, and pnft OF Oneida county,
idahoyit consists Of ton whrda and one
brnnch, namely, the Portage, Wnena'
HE, North Plymouth and south Ply
mouth wards, IN Utah, and the w odfuii,
Malad, st. John, Samaria, R0cklaud
and Nceleyvillo wards ant the Cher.
Creek branch In Idaho. The stake
contains 355 families, or 9l4S m-mbers,
consisting OF 10 Seventies, SO High
Priests, 1877 Elders, ~ Prleala, 10
Teacher, i85 Dtacons 1919 lay mem
bora and 100 children under eight
years OF age. oliver Cromwell Hos
Eina, formerly Bishop Of Portage, pre-
sidos over the Stake, and John NJ. Me-
Crnry acts ny his ilut aud Wan. II.
Gibbs as his second counselor. VIM.
Anthony Is stake clerk
All The eettl, menis, excepting Rock
land aud Necleyyille, Hes within easy
reach VI tho headquarters Of the stake,
which are htWrst rorAgs,a il0urishing
little town situated IN Box Elder county,
ON the wost side Of the Malad river
one aud hall miles south Of the
northern boundary Of Utah, and
tWenty.Oue mllea northwest Of Collins
ton, the uOareet railway station.
West Portage Ward includes n few
scattered settlers reading on the east
side OF the river ut what Ia locally
called East Portage, ilrst settled In
1854. The ward comprises 50 families,
OF a9l souls, under the presidency Of
Bishop Ennch HarrlH. Wcst Portage
was firat settled In 1867.
Three miles southeast Of Portage II
the Indian town called Mashukie,
where nbout $50 Lanlnuitcs are en-.
gagged In tilling the soil aud learning
to live ~ white people do. They have
uuat nni commodiOus meeting house
also used for school purposes, while
most Of their dwellings consist or small
frame buildings, IN the erection Of
which. ~ well ns In the building Of
their meeting house, they received CON
/ siderable assistance from the lrus,ce.in.
trust. A numher Of them also partly
/ live In their wiul;-e-ups, which they
! pitch In thelr door yards. MOroni
| Ward presidcs rs Bishop over the
Washable ward, and u doing all Ia his
/ power to teach the Lanauilcs the pfln-
/ ciples OF the Gospel, as well NJ branches
l OF industry, and II may be pleasing for
some OF the readers ~ the NEWS 10
learn that these Indians iu their farm.
log operations are fully 10 euccCss'ul AS
most Of their white neighoOrs; they
own considerable machinery and have
good teams, as n rule, aud they are
getting moro comfortable year after
year. There II n good sunday school
tau.ht In the Washable wuTi, suporln.
tended by Ammon Pugagt", Lamar.
ito; aud also aiY. NJ. NJ. |. A., presided
over by Yegah TimbimbO, another
native; there IL also n Relief Society.
The school population Of Washakee
consists Of i0rty-sevcn children,uamely
thirty boys and seventeen girls, mostly
indians, between the ages OF elk and
eighteen. The trustees VI the Portage
district school, OF which Washable
Joins a part, receive IA n special contrl.
button trOm the government, $40 for
every sixty days attendance atischOOl
OF each Indian child.
In the evening Of June 2ls;, at
Washable, had the privilege Of
speaking 10 the fret Lamnulte con.
gfegAtiOn that | ever addressed, aud
they listened very atienlively when I
related % them something about my
late visit to the hill Cumnrah, ana the
coming forth Of tue Book " Mormon.
Ny discourse was ably interpreted by
nn intelligent native known rs jim
brown, who, together With a number
Oi other Lam mites understands Eng.
llsh pretty well.
Boy ond a low ridge, which separates
Malad valley properfrom theBearRiv,I
Flat lies the little village called square
town, or Plymouth, now the con,re OF
North Plymouth ward recently organ
lied. This place r. eleven miles south
east of Portage, aud ten miles uutth.
east OF Culinston. Tho North Ply
mouth ward numhrrs sixteen iamllle,
or eighty -four sOul', most Of whom
i've In n scattered condition,
South Of North Plymouth, omO rae
ing latge portion OF the scattered
Bettlers residing on that eXttnsiy,