Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-06-16
SAINTS ON The CHA.
Enthusiastically They Compose Tho
81. Joseph Stake.
LIST OF WARDS AND OFFICERS,
Also the History Of the solil'moni' tue
Water Sources, the Products
aud the Prospects.
THATCHER, Graham Co.,
Arizona, May 3, 1894.

AflAouht hh1 o. Ao"h
Eiior Dsscrct AeOG
on the 18th Of April last finished
my labors In Sonora, and In company
with Elder James w. Ray left Oaxaca,
with a light conveyance bound for
Colonia Diaz. After travelling ten
miles up the river We onoamped 1t the
foot Of n hgh and almost perpon e
dluulaf bluh Tor the night. nstarling
early the next m0rnlug our mules
(hfler fording the river at y point
wherethe water was quite deep refused
TO take Us up the opposite bank, aud
wheeled suddenly around into the
river again. win considerable eIer.
tlon we saved tbs baggage from being
dumped into the water aud the vchi-
clio from turning over butt Il cost Bro.
Ray an involuntary plunge bath, nnd
bis little daughter, who Travelled with
Us, a genuine scare. The stupid ani-
mails were made TO pay ior their little
"frolio" IN speed, ~ the driver,
somewhat offended al his un-
deslarblo contact With the cold water,
dlt not forget to apply the lash; hence
the hundred miles travel 10 Diaz was
completed within iorty-eight hours
after we had said goodbye 20 our friends
on the Bayispu river. After speuding
Sunday, the 10Th, 40 DlHz, Elder John
). Harris took me 10 Domiug, n. NJ,
from whence Travelled 10 miles by
rail 10 Bogie station, In Arizona,
where arrived on the l9th.
On the 20lh Que Of President Christie
pher LAyt1n's stage coaches brought
me safely 10 solomonyillo, "A distance
Of nearly forty miles. This l. the
county feat Of Graham county, and
being Informed that tho stage would
stop here half an hour, took a niteon-
minutes ramblo through the town,
which contains perhaps a thousand
inhabitants. When 1 got back TO the
post0filoe l found that tho stage had
gone on and left me on foot. Looking
ahead / saw Mexican on horseback
travelling along at an easy gait By
doubling my own speed 1 soon overlook
him, and my next endeavor was 10 put
the half dozen Spanish words Or more
which had learned In Mexico 10 tins
best poisiblo advantage. by signs
anu words both tried 10 make
thiHf Mexican undorutAnd that the
"carfO" (wAgOn) which he could see on
the "camino reap (roAd) ahead of US
had left me, and tina. would like him
TO urge his "cabello" (horse) on and
tell the "hom0rt" tmanl who was
driving TO stop for me. "No sAbe, "
IA d A.. Na.a.. H...
Nher, using Two Ot three more Spanish
words, but all 10 nOpurpOse. Then
commenced 10 abuse him In Danish;
but insiead OF getting angry, he looked
pitifully ut me. WIN "nTokenN BWe-
dish and "unCOnnectedD German
Jared no better, anu getting rtcOnclled
10 my fate, l started out on foot, deter
mined 90 reach Thatcher, the point OF
my destination, eight or nine miles
away, at all hazards before night.
Having walked half that distance,
one Of tho brethren came along with
a wagon anu took mo on board, ana 1
arrived at Thatcher about hall an hour
after the stage got la. 10 took mo ten
days 10 "catch up" that hall hour.
For that leugth OF time / was thirty
minutes late In filling most VI my at-
pointmunts, aud my UxperienUs win
the stage was my standard excuse fos
this while lRboring In the 81. Joseph
Stake OF Zion, The stage driver, VINO
was new hand ut the business, alter.
wards npologlzud aud promised never
10 leave another mi6li mary a. he left
me, ~ ! iorgayc him anu Withhold his
name from the public.
Arriving NJ Thatcher, found that
President Layton hRd nOt yet rr-
turned from the General Conference
held In Salt LaRo City, but his coub.
selor, Elder William d. johnson, "took
mo in," and inside his huBpilablp
home my headquarters during my
s0lOurn ip this Stake.
From the time VI my arrival In this
Stake I'LL date have beoD busily en-.
gagged In gathering historical iniorma-
ton about the Saints residing on tie
ella river. have reid speCial meet.
ings In all the settlements Of the
Saints here (diahHm tXeeptodl. AMI
have been successful Ia my IN.
bOfa, though have ioun
both ward and Stake records very i'm.
perfectly kept, in consequence OF
which am afraid there viii DO "gapsi
and "0uts" In the history OF the 81.
Joseph stake. This 10 partly due 10 Inn.
competent clerks aud partly 10 nvglecf