Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-12
UTAH PIONEERS
TRAVEL IN STATE
CROSS PLAINS, BUT NOT IN
PRAIRIE SCH0oNERS
Picturesque Party From Utah Guests
of Senator w. A. Clark, Presi-
dent of the Salt Lake
Road

Travelling in a magnificent train over
the route covered fifty years ago IN
prairie schooners," thirty pioneers of
the Mormon church arrived in Los
Angeles yesterday. For many OF
them it is the first trip to the coast
since by order of the prophet Brigham
Young they came to this valley IN
1851 to establish a fort and trading
post.
Grizzled and bowed though many of
them are, they are renewing their
youth and enjoying this outing as a
child enjoys a vacation from. school,
The members of the party are the
guests of Senator w. A. Clark, presl-
dent of the Salt Lake road, and Sen
ator Clark means to give the remnant
Of the old guard of pioneers the very
best time possible.
Among the party are representatives
of the highest councils in the Mormon
church, and nearly all were intimate
friends and acquaintances of Brigham
Young, the greatest president of the
Mormon church. There is one old man
among the number who played the
violin at several Of the weddings of
the Prophet Young; this is Hop Pend
Ter, the first man who ever played a
violin in Utah.
other picturesque members of the
party are: Nathan Tanner, the oldest
Mormon in Utah. He built what is
now the oldest house in San Bernar-
dino, in 1851. He came to the west with
the advance guard of the little army
Of pioneers in 1S47. He was a member
OF the company with Brigham Young.
A. Milton Musser has for many years
been chief scribe In the historian s
Office. Musser went to Utah in 1s4S
w. c. A. Smoot, Junior and senior,
are nephew and brother respectively of
United states Senator Reed Smoot.
Mr.. Smoot jr, has charge of the party.
Phil Margette, the oldest and best
loved actor in Utah, was not one of the
pioneers, properly speaking, but as he
was engineer on the first train that
thought by Senator Clark that he de-
served a place in the party.
To Ruel Barnes belongs the distinc-
tion of being the subject of the first
daguerrotype taken in the west. His
picture was taken by that process
in 1860. He was commissioned lieu
tenant in the war against Mexico, for
which Brigham Young for the Mormon
church furnished 500 men.
Charles Crismon built the first mill
in the San Bernardino valley in 1854.
1t was a flour mill and stood for many
years near the site of the present city
of San Bernardno.
Other members of the party are
James Oakley. William c. Mitchell,
William Robins, A. c. Gemill, George
Speers and wife, Elliott Weldon,
George Harrison, Mrs. George Merritt,
Thomas Dallin. J. Lawson. Nathan
Tanner, James Hardy, James A. Bean,
A. L. Hale, Benjamin Cluff, w w.
Cluff and wife, S. L. Ensign. S. S.
Worthington and W. Price Barnes
The party is being entertained at
the Lexington hotel. A program en-
bracing many of the trips around Los
Angeles, has been prepared for the
pioneers.
Today at one o'clock the party will be
taken over the beach lines of the Salt
Lake, in a parlor car provided for
them by the management of the road.
They were entertained all day yester-
day by the chamber or commerce at
San Bernardino. They will remain for
about week in the vicinity of Los
Angeles.
The directors of the chamber of COM
merce have appointed A. w. Skinner,
w. II. Workman, Maj r. w. Jones and
Maj. ]. NJ. Quinn as a committee to act
at the reception to be given to the Salt
Lake pioneers in the rooms Of the
chamber Of commerce tomorrow after
noon from to s O'Clock