Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-08-22

believe tnh houlNNhaA H'NnN 49,"
years ago lots Of people from Idaho and
Utah went into Big Hole Basin in Beav'
erhead county, between twenty and
thirty miles northwest from Bannack,
and think tina, some young Mormon
people among them. Up here, It up
pears to me, that a good many OF those
Who are Mormons and come here to
work have to certain ex,en, made and
done a good mission. In many cases,
and in most cases, in fact, Mormons are
sought for. In one instance a man had
Mormon who is somewha, lame ON one
leg, to herd sheep ior him for some i've
years Altogether, bu, he had left and gone
home to Spanish Fork, Utah. While he
was gone the man had some mishap
with his sheep and new herders very
nearly every month. Speaking about
this matter he once made this remark In
the presence OF a good many IN Ban
mack, 81 would no, swap Johns lame
leg Tor all the herders In Montana
Last year big eattlemau in this
neighborhood, VINO had several men
working lor him, had to leave his ranch
Tor some time. Before starting he one
day began by asking one OF his men
whether he was Mormon, and then
one after another. All made some tx
cuse. they had been Mormons; were not
themselves but their parents had been,
etc. Finally he reached one. care you
no, Mormon" YES" said the man;
U,yhat Is that to your ! am Mormon
and hope shall be-"
Then III let you know what II is to
me-" said the boss. 81 have TO so OIL
ON some business for some time. aud |
want YOU 10 take charge OF everything
while am gone, and you get sixty cents
more a day I'LL come back again."
could relate several more Instances like
these, but this Is enough.
see by the NKws that Brother An
drew Ienson will probably soon be Ia
Europe. On his trip he will probably
10 to Iceland, which Is my native land.
have several good friends 10 that land
whom want to point out to him, ON the
east coast. | do not know who they
are, but u he comes ON Seidis Ford
(Seithis ljorth) he will meet with many
from the Westmanna Isles (Ncstman
Ogii and they know most Of the people
VINO are In Spanish Fork. II he comes
20 Vestman Oene (the Wes,manna lslcsl
the pilot, Hannes Johnson. has a mar
led sister In Spanish Fork, and Is an OLD
playmate OF mine and dear to me as
brother.
First and foremost OF all on those Is.
ands Is DR.. Thorsteinn Johnson. lie Is
a highly educated man, OF extraordinary
intelligence, ana broad and liberal
views. lie has been from the first a
stauneh and faithful friend TO our peo-
pie, and always in the past stood up Tor,
demanded and protected their rights,
and today he Is the most respected man
In that community aud ranks among the
foremost men In the whole land. lie Is
a selimade man, n poor but honest
mans son. He has at least ON one &C.
casion contTadietvd a villihcalion that
appeared In one Of the papers about our
people. When was poor, parentlcss,
homeless and crippled boy, he took me
and gave me the Instruction In the Eng.
lish tongue that enables me to write this
sketch, and the pupil Is never above his
master. lie speaks Danish MS well as
his native tongue, as also French and
German. lie has not had much oppor.
tunity to talk English, but he Is an eN'
cellent English scholar.
On those islands, any one can poltt
Brother lcnson out the place called Hn
murd, where the first persons who en-.
braced the Gospel la Iceland were hap.
TIED. They can also show him ledge
OF rock, or rather bluli, on an isle
called Ellirey, where when fifteen yeam
old fell over down into 4 mass OF big
boulders over eighty feet below. It
does indeed appear impossible that a
man who falls into a solid mass OF rocks
eighty feet iall-cnn live and be able
to do most all kinds OF work, yet that Is
the case with me, and | eau easily prove
II, not only by the people In those isles,
but by people In Spanish Fork. Most
people In the seaport towns OF lcela nj
talk good Danish.
Among other curiosities that Brother
lenson ought to see II he goes to those
ISLES, are Hundradsmanna Hellir The
Hundredmen's Cave) where one hun
bred people hid themselves when pirates
from Algeria came to the Islands about
the latter part OF the seventeenth cen-
turn, as also a shelf In rock called
Thorlaugargerdis Hilda, where several
hundred saved themselves on the same
occasion.
The chief wonder OF these isles Is the
isle Sulnasker, which takes It's name
from the abundance OF the Solln geese
that have made It their home. II Is four
square, and stands on four legs as q
table. II stands over three hundred feet
above the sea, when /; is highest, and
under the center OF Il the sea Is over
ninety feet deep. and is size Is about
one fourth OF an English mile each side,
not lar from square. think Brother
Eriok Hanson aud Blafni b. S3enson IN
Spanish Fork have climbed to the top
OF il.
II Brother Jensen should come TO
Beykjavik there are two intimate friends
OF mloe, John IhoTstelnson, the sou OF
DR.. Thorsiein Johnson and John Afna.
son, both from the Westmanna ISLANDS.
] think also that two brothers from
there, old friends OF mine, Harold and
Axel Muller, are also IN Reykjayile.
Blom Johnson, the editor OF lSalold, the
government organ, also knows me
through DR.. T. Johnson and my cores
pondence to his paper. | write this to
the NEws 80 as to be sure that Il will
reach Brother Jenson. Private letters
know not where to address to
AS undoubtedly he comes to Copen.
hagen, | would like Tor him 10 call at
the Office OF the lcelandic Literary
SDcietv aud agl IN NJ Nntyr Cutnun.