The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-26
CHURCH RULES
IN ALL THINGS
Will Of the Almighty Expressed
Through the Priesthood.
SAINTS EXPECTED TO OBEY
MORE ABOUT THE BOX ELDER
STAKE OF ZION.
Especial Correspondence)


BRIGHAM CITY. Utah. Feb. 22.-
d WheE the people learned that
Apostle Rudger Clawson was here
Saturday and certain churchmen We're
called together by him, all hope turned
TO ashes. Apostle Smith, son of the
president of the church. was here. and
also Andrew Jensen but Apostle Claw
son arranged matters and did most OF
the talking. All of Apostle CIaws0n's
talk was TO the effect that the priest
hood must be obeyed in all things tenn
poral and spiritual. That Temporal and
spiritual things cannot be separa ted
anymore than the soul and the body
and that the power of the priesthood
was the word OF God TO man as eX-
pressed through bis priesthood and the
people must obey
The visiting brethren were mon0p-
olized by the other side and the people
never even had q chance al a hearing.
Words dropped from the visiting breth-
rem showed that they had been preiu-
diced against the musicians and against
those who cad lost their official heads
on account CT voting against counsel
Kelly Used Strong Language.
President Kelly spoke and said that
every word that HAD been written
against him was as false as he'll, and
nearly every man and woman in that
congregation knew that every word
that had been written was true.
President Kelly was sustained. The
right of a man filled with malignant
hate to personally SANDER his fellow
man from the pulpit seems to have been
sanctioned. The right of presider.t
Of the stake to control in business and
politics seems to have been upheld.
Square Belongs to City.
All expectation was defeated by +he
acts Of Apostle Clawson the day before
conference. Apostle Clawson was for
merry president of this stake, ard
President Kelly was one Of his couns
seiiors. Apostle CIaWson is a human
being and il was not to be expected
that he would reverse himself. Prob
ably his connection with matters here
should be more fully explained. The
Brigham City opera house was erected
by the people upon the main square"
of Brigham City At one time it was
used as a school house. The city OBJ
tanned a patent from the United States
which ran to the mayor. On the I'd Of
August 1876, the mayor conveyed this
public "main square" and all other
squares. parks and streets to Brigham
City corporation. The City's title to the
main square is the same that it has
to each and every street and park and
square in Brigham City. The plate
and maps filed in washington designat-
ed this land upon which the opera house
is situated as main square. The
city's chain of title from the United
States is perfect and complete, and no
one has ever pretended that Brigham
City corpora ton" could convey or has.
ever attempted to convey this main
square.
Mortgaged City Property
The B. c. NJ. & NJ. association first
went into possession of this public
square without the appearance of a
deed from the Brigham City corpora
ton. This company mOrtgaged the
opera house to Mr.. Rich's bank, as your
correspondent is informed, to pay an
overdraft. This pretended security was
all that Mr.. Rich could get at the time
Then the city officials realized that an
attempt was being made TO reduce TINS
'smain square to private ownership.
The original map, showing the dedica-
ton Of this land as the "main square,
was found. They then proposed to take
steps to- regain possession. Apostle
Rudger Clawson at that time was pres
fdent of this stake. He-was an alb
stractor and had an Office with Mr..
Rich. President Kelly at that time
was counselor to Clawson. Ciawson'I
and Kelly at that time 'c0unseled and
advised the members Of the Church of
Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints re-
siding in Brigham City, Third eccIesf- |
asticaI ward of the Box Elder stake Of
Zion, to take up the mortgage and
they did so and a deed was made and
filed and recorded, in which the grantee
was named as 1.-The members Of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints residing in Brigham City, Third
ward of the Box Elder
stake of Zion
When the Notes Fell Due.
It seems to be "a fact that the opera
house did not pay and the notes fell
due some time last year. When the
notes fell due, Apostle Clawson came
up here and, speaking in the Taber-
nacle. ''COunse1ed and advised the
Saints that 1t would be a good business
for the four wards to buy
the opera house. and that now would
be the proper time to buy because 'the
notes were due
In accordance with this counsel
the four wards have done what they
could to pay off these notes, but no
transfer appears Of record as yet from
the Third ward.
Apostle ClaWs0n having ''couHseled'
the Third ward TO permit Rich 10 un-
load upon them, and having "com-
seleds the four wards to permit the
Third ward to unload upon them. would
naturally be an interested party. In
the nature of things he could not fair
Is decide any matter between the mt
sieians and the opera. house manage
nent
President Kelly and Apostle Clawson
thus prevented the city authorities
from recovering possession Of their