Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-07-30

1 now numbering at least 12, 900, became in- voiycd in a general war with the gentiles and were driven from the state. with great loss and terrible suffering. In the Hawn,s beforc they could organize for resistance, and after the surrender SarJlius smith, aged ytars, was dragged from behind the bellows in a blacksmith shop, where he had been hidden, and his brains blown out by n Missourian. This was in rcvenge, as was alleged, for the death of two gen tile children at the time n Mormon mob burned the town of Gallafin, but it Is not likely that we shall ever learn the exact .acts of the Mormon war in Missouri.
 Their next settlement was on the Illi- nuis side of the Dcs Moines rapids of the Mississippi. Hero they built Nauvoo, once the largest city in Illinois, and prospered greatly for four years. Quhrrcls among themselves led to the destruction of a non Mormon printing prcss in Nauvoo. War rants wcrc issued, and Joseph Smith called out the militia to resist, for which he and others werc arrested for treason and lodged in the jail at Carthage, capital of Han cock county, Ills. There, June g, lSi4 an Illinois mob forced the jail, killed Jo- seph smith and his brother Hiram and shot three bullets into John Taylor, late president of the Mormon church Twenty eight years later I trayerscd Hancock county, collecting evidence on the subject, and interviewed Thomas C. Sharpe editor of the Warsaw Signal and one of several who were tried for the murder of the smiths It was freely admitted by all the survivors that many cruel things had been done on both sides, but they were unani- nous in declaring that it was impossible to enjoy peace and security in n commu- nity where the Mormons controlled the elections, as their fanaticism was such that they would never convict one of their own number, even on the clearcst eyi- dence, and all civil suits went against the gentile us a matter of course. The Nor mon war ragged intermittently with many horrible murders on both sides, till late in lS45, when the MormOns agreed to leave. The first band of 1000 crossed the river on the ice, and by tho 1st of May 16, 900 had left. Nevertheless the gentiles again rose to the number of l, 500 or more, committed some atrocious outrages and drove out tho remnant at the point of tho bayonet. About 20, 900 Mormons made a temporary settlement on the Missouri, about Council Bluffs and the present Omaha and early in lS47 started west ward, the pioneers reaching the present site of Salt Lake on July 24, which has ever since been celebrated as Anniversary day.
 King Brigham Young.
 Late in 1879 they organized state gov ernment, naming the state Deserct, but in the great year of compromise, 1850, con gross organized the territory of Utah, of which President Fillmore appointed Brig ham Young governor. Many hundrcd em- igrants to California wintercd in Great Salt lake in 1S52-3, and then the troubles began again. They gradually incrcased until 1857, when the called Mormon war came on. All the distant outposts Nn...l Al. Al church leaders was thcrcaftcr directed to making Utah financially and industri- ally independent. They opened the lead mines and manufacturcd iron with some success, established cotton and wOOlcn mills, began the silk culturc and in their settlements in the south brought the fig and other scmitropical fruits to great per lection. Cotton was successfully grown thcrc, and the cuarscr kinds of manufac- ture attained great success. All this time the government was u purc thcocracy, and although the United States sent a govern or and judges, who set up n sort of fed eral image, as it were, 1t was a very harm less image indeed. Brigham Young was king. 1 have often heard him say that so long as the saints were faithful no govern mcnt could prevail against them, and that whenever n move that way was made war would break out not only between the hoTth anu sbutIi- but uSIWCSIl Nlit tstet uiltl west. Many n time l have sat in Mormon cabins and heard the old folks tell how the war would soon revive and continue till the country was dcsolatcd and almost dc populated, and then the saints would rc- turn in triumph to Jackson county, Mo, and establish the New Jerusalem, ns the prophet Joseph had forctold. In lSG9 had my only long talk with the prophet Brigham and wrote this sketch of him:
 la as Is ever allowed to one of our wrctchCdly developed race. Six feet high and uncom- monly well musClcd he Is yet so compact ly built that strangers invariably pro nouncc him smaller than he is. He meas ures fl inches around the chest and weighs BIO pounds. His hands and feet arc rath- CT large, his head extremely and very broad across the base, slOping thence be- fore and behind toward the crown. With very light or golden hair, n cold, glittcring blue eye and n massive under jaw that shuts like n wise, he has the firmncss and vigor that usually go with such an ganization, and that happy mixture of the sanguine and bilious tcmpcramcnts which makes one easily believe himself a man of destiny"
 Good American Stafc.
 Such in appearance was the man whose statue will hold the place of h ,nor in the CupltbI Oi ouE IpEtN- -llltn stNt, anu WHO will stand in our history as the founder of Utah. Tho world has heard much of crimes and blunders during the worst pc- riod of Mormon absolutism, but 1t Is not so generally known that nearly all these things occurred in the space of thrce years -IS56-S. In the Mountain Meadows mas sacrc 132 gcntilcs were murdered. In the ''hand cart expedition" when 2, 900 Nor mon converts tried to cross the plains late in the season with hand carts, about 300 lives were lost. Of the so called church murders committed during the period of fanaticism known in Mormon annals as the ''rcformation' no exact account can be given, hut from all that could hc learned estimate that at least 70 persons died hy violence in those three years Altogether the losses in those fCarfSl years must have exceeded 500 And out of all the guilty just one man was punished. My friend and sometime host, John Doyle Lee, was shot for his share in the Mountain Meadows massacre. But it s all over now, and Utah Is to be as good an American state as we could ask. J. B. PARKE- A lad Use For the Doctor.
 Bobbs always was a quick witted