Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-09-05
1AlK ON MIs OWN LIFE AND plOpLL.


San Francisco Chrunlclc' Wuford
woodruff. President Of the Mormon
church. died al tho rcaidenoo Of Colonel
Isaac Trumbo shortly after : o'clock
yesterday morning.
He died surrounded BY every comfort
that loving hands could provide, while
close beside him were his wife and hls
old friends, George Q. Cannon Prosi'
dent and counselor In the Church. ana
bishop Hiram H. ciawson. who. with
their wives. were aojourning in The
same hospliabl, home
President woodruff had for some
time been suffering from kidney ana
bladder troubf but stu remaihea se,
tive and though IN MS nlnety -r.g9nn
wear frankly proclaimed his Intention
~ becomiug a csntcnnrinn. lie grew
40 feehlc, however. that when Ia luy
he was urged 70 come down 10 san
Frnnclsco and take o Niilc hohdhy' no
,1l1ed upon the Idea With boys en-
thuslaam, and Immediately began prop
aratlons for the journey, tdling an hn
friends that he was Eolng on Tor va,
eation. lie was very hard workfrhnn
every check paid out IN the great MOT
mon cooperative industrial organiHs-
,lon had 10 pass through his hands, Ito
,oid MA attending physician here thAt
an thc day before ne lcft he signed 800
eheekr. Yet he stood the journey wen
and greatly enjoyed the chrnre. ~
dinner given In his honor NJ the rooms
OF tho bohemian club the gihlr hlkh''
III which no msn under 80 was pct-
,,itt.d 10 partake and where ceefke
nromley. Or. n0hr aud other ociogena-
rl.rr ~ local note were Assembled,
tsider Woofruff was voted the Hmnfisti
a, Inc Marty. The day before he died
he wns taking Of going out hahinG =.
ON Thursday night he complalncd OF
feeling m. and Or. WinHloN Ana .. ..,n.
his physician. called IN blA' M'" -
and buckley IN consultation, ann ns-
sided thnt therc was little hope that ne
would acr another dawn. lie paaa.a
avay IKE n chiid In his sleep, when the
,nnfnlnr tiuht was breaking.
N ao chances that the chronlcle
possessca President woodruff own
story Of his NE. rccountcd IN tnia ~
on the 18th OF AnEuli.the Gay ,oi ~, ~.
his arrival and chafaftrfiAee n w.
yigorous. plain old Saxon which always
marked the old mans speech.
~ vas horn IN FarmlnFion. Conn, on
,hs tst day VI March. 1907. and you
,nirh. say shat I went through the
~.1r o. ISIS a. a boz. You see:. I'm ~,
"a r.sn.s yioce rang With nome. pride
al Ne pdt forth eh.s claim. y am =
mIiirr Nv trade, and my father ana MS
,,th.r and grandfather before nm were
miiier., All % my ancestors W.T.
girong laharing men. My MINER ai'1
when l WAS a boy pt i2uI.s.1, .., oas :
she was and gave an own my,hers
enre. we had Eonn ODD namia IN our
fasniiy. Aiy graudat.hrr wAs Aplek
MSoiruff. my fathers name wac ~,
dad Thers were three buyH OF ~, anu
In 1880 We wfne 20 York ttaw ana 81
ucd In OENcEJ c1ur,y, joined the
NormofaI there and wis hap,lEoi IN
ig.a. NV father and brothers wer, WIN
me in the church. When the M1rm1na
were driven out a NauNpo We Nst'
among The exilea, ! took tAther 70 th'
winter quarters on the Mltalufl river,
~ was jus. "a men; AMI I weui on %
Utah. arriving on the site ~ the pre-
en- SAT- Lake City IN company WIN
brigham Young, and I stood ny MS
slde when SLm nfanhan uNemptei 60
persuade him 90 pQsne on ~ SANlHhlA'
and when h. drove hls cAnr lnsu INC
ground and dscsirad shat he would
hulld a osy and tcmpis mere. And
he ala II and lived % lay the temples
corner ntonel"
The aged man said shni hs had nsyer
seen cause ~ rtgis hi conversion g.
she Mormon faith, Ne was an ardent
admlrer and friend of Brigham fonhg'
sWs had a great leader; one Of The
0trnnrest men tla world has ever proc
duced. We believed ln him. and We
stood by him. and time demonstrated
she whsiom ~ our chuce.'
Elder Woodruff was q member on the
usah fnElslature Tor 'Wpniy-afven
years, and atslftea In the framing Of
siws which have had a deep slgnlh-
oance In the drvenpintut % thag pros
perlty which attended this F,iunFr act
tlemcn; IN What was IN ghc beginning
occeffed a. dNlne rcvelatlon c1nctrn-
Ing po,ygany, but whsn the United
S.atCa government commanded that
tha practice should roufa he bowed %
che viii - no natlpn and himself r.
sued q manifep'l agalnsi p1lyEamy
which BROUGHT sorrow and clnatefna-
lion 70 ~ many Mormon homo. Mean
time NJ has been NOR, active a. nils
e,pDary and Travelled WILDLY upon the
ccntlnent OF Eurgpe, througlFlu. this
country, cfntclaliy 81 the South. and
mad trips 10 Tar paclhc Islands. n1mc
hb,oOo miles w al, AeeoiluE 90 hls own
eslmaie. IN 1880 h had been ordained
one OF the Twelve Apostles Of the
Church With the special dfslgnat lion VI
THE Banner ~ the Oaspel."
Elder Woodruff took great pride IN
the happiness and material advance
Nl'Nk 81 MNN HNNaNNs 1T was NANNNNlWNlN
proud o. the fact that although utaha
original population hld been LARGELY
drawn from the Ignorant and the poor
OF other nations. she now showed az
most the lowest percentage Qf lllll0rnCy
OF any state. The aelf-supportlng con.
dillon Of the people was another matter
very dear TO him.
Il am proud that when I slt down %
my own table, almost every article If
food upon II n produced by the pe1pl,
OF Utah, aud that everything that car
b. raised In my own garden 10 grown
there
These were his own words, rpoken {,
a caller three weeks ago. tie f0ll0wa,
this Etatement by saying that the Nor
mon leaders aimed al a much more per
feet condition OF society, which ihel
would call "the United order" and 4
which perfect equality OF social condi
lions should rule and an absolute co
operative plan u supplies, but n
added. with Slgh. that his people wer