The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-04-08
Talk With 'Frisco's Mayor.

Talk With 'Frisco's Mayor.
Recently he said, Il was talking with
the Mayor OF San Francisco and he bore
testimony TO the fact that Isaiah WAS Il
prophet. He said. i want TO tell YOU eld-
er. that IL is a marvellous work YOU are
doing. and wonder While he Is not
religious man. 50 he says. he is con-
Vcrsant with what our people have done
and particularly conversant with the eco
nomlc side OF Mormonism" Another In
cident related by the speaker was that
recently he met distinguished English
educator. who expressed considerable in
terest In the Mormon work of coloniziug
In New Mexico and other phases OF the
work, and the Saxon added: "A question
of great -momctlt-Is VIII the nutlVe son
OF the Golden State live TO be a great
grandfather OF not? The native son Is
not Increasing in worldly goods In
numbers"
This Is What Counts
Speaking OF tlthes. the speaker said
that one man who was out OF employment
paid Sl20 out OF his surplus and that u
young sister brought a cneck Tor $3.50
Ground Has Been Cursed.
German e. Ellsworth OF the Northern
States mission was the next speaker He
spoke enCouragingly of the condition OF
the mission. While they had not baptized
any more converts since last conference.
| they had established SUNDAY school
with an average attendance of about
| forty and their meetings Were attended
| by from two TO four hundred people.
| Speaking OF Nauyoo, he said one m9n had
| told him that the ground around NauNoo
| had been cursed for the Iattcr-oay saints
and would never be worth anything mntll
| they came back and built upon II. Iheir
city Is dead" he said.
In Dowie's Zion.
Some months ago." said the presi-
| don't some of our elders were driven
out OF hotel in Zion city at II o'clock
| al night and had TO walk through the
| snow to another city. In few months
the elders have found more than they
could do working with these people. They
with apostles by the man that they
thought to be Elijah II We have not
baptized any yet, but number ql Ihe
best people welcome us 10 their homes
| and in short time VIC Will nave the
| privilege of baptizing some;
The chndren's chorus then rendered
| "One Hundred Years
Elder Was Whipped.
J. D. Dumn of the Central states mis-, rs.
sion related an incident where one OF the
| oi1nrs had been taken into the woods.
| tied to a tree and whipped: he had
communicated with the ,oIsoT GoTeTnGT raSross o.
bTf he did not say whether or not the
promise had been fulfilled. He did ga
that the wife Of the Judge IN "nGS6 }u1i ttaG
| dioiaI district the crime was committee
u,e,a n,e" ~ The time OF It's commission In Salt
| Lake City for her health
Great Burning Business.
pn, F Rich OF the Southern States
mission was the last speaker ae salo
in his jurisdiction meg nal nae f' tbev , had
ccers,dereble trouble in Harker's Island iI
Snrth Carolina. where the populace mrs
burned a church then nm sfbeoi fbe house use Of Of
e,Sobant .neS In which classes were oelnt
nlnn6uc,ed President Smith had askee
him II the people were ro' e''''"
| the air.
Ben Talks of Home Affairs
Lien, p,cb left the mission field
| oiis.,iveN, spcaking, and started In OF
hSnne affairs He advocated that theS
ncniy. more help from the hlgh prles's
na,ne That Is their business. ~ 8 tn'
hosi1ess hU.ho of Of the seventies TO go into tn,
Unrld and preach the gospel spSak.ne KIM
~ a revealed religion, he asSet.Gu asSe INA tna
%, ihere arc no visions. the people snel
II ~, He urged the recognition oil TN
PPrnnhets that they should hon0r AZ, an.
sustain them and not always ~ oe aeencY
sue sus he false We all have tree h6ency
E,,o,, T., Tho prophets OF God have pcen siVe'
their free agency and must De le.t ,C,IS 10 oh ~
erciae that free agency, else II "ouia o
de5ti IIa oShtcctcd to criticism OF the author
,,,as tle -, the church and said before inc!
started In TO critlcise tney S'i2u,m ,bnmseives
~ No More Books for You.
few days ago sodd,Jn a II"a any S'n more e rowe I
Sae Wn3 II took up the Doctrne an an
Snrcnents and said. Here 3 one. nagc 20
Covl'tImt? rcnd mat? And he replied M too
a1os6Sr % G9srSA e hs SG5s Ssd aPS d'
and as aSKeS Not ,t'' all through And repieG
wei il was o,bsr 1ns f@lsh}y looks 70 read %Go%
give yS you IoaSo nr,S Yourself acquainted wit
~l,uI lullaby song was sung by E the toine Gnl.
u H. md tho entire congregation Joine
drcn UNI u,ioInD ~ america" and CONFER
! en- nnoe0 ,sI adjoIrned until this moFniHss