Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-04-06

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picked band Of Pioneers; SET gu, 10 nnv
people ana make good the prophecy
sboaid bprarec ~ mighty people In
Tho mia, ~ tho Rocky Mountains
They traver.sa The trackless plains iy-
inr wrst ~ ia Ntissouri river. pe'lc-
,pe,ss ~. o. ,ne cs am mountain fast-
nesses of IN. Great American DESERT.
and ON the y,,, ~ tuly arrived on the
shores Of Tho si,ent salt Lake. a thouS.
and mIIea fro,n clvtiizntlon, where they
founded Salt Lake ,'lty. the metropolis
81 the lntermo,,ntnin region. the parent
OF more than Two n inbred cities. towns
and viltages that owe their existence
10 tho energy ~ tho Mormon people
ana the genius Of their great leader.
Brirhnfu Young
IL ,,autd ~, -, t,,,, n a,orv 10 mar
80. ,n 49,, ~ vi '',aS ,,,, cVs,ts that
have crowded Ike waves nponI the
shore Of history aluce the Mormon pio-
neera settled mis- once deso'atc rc.
,rIon-"a vnit land not lnhab-
ted" save by Wild beasts. say.
axe red mon and Voracloua
rfup.dostroyinr insects. which. with the
natural drynese of tho soil. uecessitat.
ing irrigation. constituted almost in
aurmountnble barriers to It's reclama-
ton. This article n not story NJ the
settlement Of Il an: ltlta sketch. and a
mcagro one, OF Niormonism.
PRESIDENT BRIGHAM YOUNG.
~
inc flrrt Presidency vacant since
the death OF Joseph smith-was
Isvrkahixed December -. $50 Rts'
ne return Of the Pioneers 70
Winter ountters. bigham Young
"r'am' President OF thc ,hurch nl ".
sus chti.t Of Lattcr-dny saints W eli
NC world WIN Hetcr kimhan ana
" h,nrh iIchntdH ~ ms cpuhH,lot-.
thu.t thei l'adtfHhlp tIs man pnnl
OF the saints vacating winter Quhr-
,t.is. ,foss.d the plains IN the ruihiner
81 ~, following ~ the wax. 81 9ther
Mormon .miHrant trains To SAT- Lake
Nnh'S. ln'lt hiIlNAl neie IN SNp'c,h.
YET anu 'etoh'f sWeilrl lhc popula-
ZION OF me pioneer CITY 10 tour or hNe
th"uHahd souls.
ON the 18th 81 February. 1879. four
vacancies Ia the Apostolic Council were
nlicd. the new inoumbcnts being
Charles g. Rich. Lorenzo SNOW. EIas-
tus snow and Franklin u. Richards.
Their conffcrcs. the eight other Apos.
ties. were orpon Hyde. Farley T.. Pratt.
orron Pratt. John Taylor. Wlford
Woodruff GeorHc a. Smith, Amnaa VI.
Lyman and Ezra T. Benson. The same
month permanent stake organization,
after the pattern " those formed
In ohio. Missouri and Illinois. and tue
nrst of forty such organi1a-
lions now In existence was
established at Salt Lake city.
which was divided into nineteen &c
clcsiantleal wards. with Bishop over
slen, Newcl Is. whitney WAS the Presid-
Wt phh"p VI th' 'Huttn' lhe same year
went tprth ~" nrrt missionaries rom
the lsocky Mountains. MS follows; John
IuNInF NfnTfIu ~ llNlHAu laAA Ia4A
70 france. brhhtus snow ana 70, Han
son 70 Denmark John u rorATren TO
sweden Lorenzo SNOW ana Joseph
Toronto 10 Italy. Franklin u. Hch-
ardr. jos. w. johnson. Jos. W. YOUNG
Jnp hurth, iladcn W church. leo u.
wallace md John y, hlEbcc to Great
tirithin. Charles e. Rich and Francis
~. iomcrny 10 Lower California. ...-
olson Pratt and james THROWN 20 N.
soelr'y Islands Hiram ,iark. George q.
ahnnn' h.nfy W. Hlgler, Hyrum
hhckWcn, Thomah white Thomas
Mptrir' iohn niNon. James llaw-
hhr' Nlillam Fafrer ana james
hcclef. To the sandwich iHlandn' a
company or Elders was alho
,,nt 70 me .ah,ornia gold mines
Ihe fer.ptunl EmiKfnunE fund
snulIhy was "rsanlAeh, 20 hHNr, pdnr
saints m the United stater ana IN
EUROPE 70 cmiHtatc. ana bishop Ed-
Marh nH',eF.s ~ agent OF the iuni,
WIS .nt 70 the trenucr 70 put into
/ "p',as'h w ll"NfiphH ana rupctlh-
t'nn IN. next h'AsnlH enlgrntlon'
The britlnh mission nj this period
| Contained nearly thirty thousand
Mormon converts. ana three ~ nve
Thousand more were reported from the
socivlY leiai,uss inYsssiar ~ piua 81
Dtes were scattered through the Unit
ca states ana canada. FROM TINS time
FORM they wer" destined 70 COM from
nearly every nation under heaven, NY
lng upon the shoulders Of the rhilH-
TINES the steamships and railroads Of
the bentlicN,rupplemcu BY their own
/ os-tchinA nnd hhnd-curth-' toward the
| West ccaselcsH tide OF immigration.
lowing unto The mountain Of The
lord'r house now established In the
tops OF the Rocky Mountains.
Thc prlnciphl subsequent events Of
President founE'H long. prosperous ana
comparatively peaceful career omit
ting his multitudlnous and incessani
labofH OF exploring culoniking. city and
temple building. founding OF home Ia
dutifiea. establishment of foreign and
local missions, Indian missions, etc.
etc, may thus be summarized.
tD The organiEation NJ the Terri
tory Of Titan by act of Congress np.
proved Feptember y 1850. ANA the np.
pointfncnt Of brigham Young aa dow
ernor, By President Willard Fillmore.
go The first public PRONUNCIATION u
the principle OF plural marriage, at n
| conference held at Salt Lake city