The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-24
LOCAL HISTORY
WHAT HAPPENED JULY "a.

1s47-Brigham Young entered Great Salt
Lake valley and Joined the main hody
of pioneers at . p. m. Not a member
of the company had died on the jour
ney.
1S49-The first celebration TO comnaemo-
rate the entrance OF the Pioneers in
Salt Lake valley was held in Salt
Lake City
1s50-Pioneer day was celebrated In Salt
Lake City; the brass band occupied a
carriage built for the occasion, nine
feet wide and twenty-nine feet long.
drawn by fourteen horses. Willard
Richards delivered the GRAFTON,
1S51-Pioneer day was celebrated in Salt
Lake City. and the different settle
ments throughout the state.
1S5s-John Berry and Clark Roberts were
fired upon by the Indians and wound
ed: at Summit Creek while bring
ing an express through. The inhabi-
tants had deserted the place and
moved TO Payson. Richard Balan-
tyne and Robert Shelton arrived at
Madaras. India, to preach Mormon
ism.
1s55-William Nixon was killed at Provo.
Utah county, by the bursting of a
cannon,
1S56-Pioneer day was celebrated on tho
headwaters of Big Cottonwood creek.
where a temporary bowery had been
erected for the occasion.
1s67-The people of Salt Lake City and
vicinity celebrated the tenth anniver-
sary OF the arrival OF the pioneers by
feast. near the head OF Big Cot
tonwood canyon. While the festivi-
ties were going on. Abraham c.
smoot and Judson Stoddard arrived
from Independence. Mo. without the
mails. the postmaster there having
refused TO forward them. They re-
ported that General Harney. with
1000 infantry and a proportionate
number of artillery and cavalry, were
ordered to Utah.
1s6o-The day was celebrated by the
citizens OF Salt Lake county near the
headwaters Of Big Cottonwood
1S6b-The people OF southern Utah cele-
brated the day in the pines, two and
one-half miles above Pine valley,
Washington county. Hon. j, NJ. Ash
ley addressed an audience in the bow
cry. Salt Lake City, at the celebra-
ton OF the territorial anniversary.
1S67-Brigham Willard Kimball a son Of
Heber c. Kimball. died on Pole creek
while returning from mission to
England.
were killed by S. NJ Butcher. near
the mouth OF Bingham canyon, Salt
Lake county.
1S74-The anniversary of the entrance of
the pioneers into Salt Lake valley
was celebrated by Juvenile Jubilee
In the large tabernacle Salt Lake
city. Four thousand musicians and
singers participated.
io' - icSiueHl oIlBldHl 1OunS decided
96.2 acres OF land in Cache valley to
the B. Y. college at Logan
1SS2-The Saints who had settled on the
Provo river northeast OF Heber CITY
Wasatch county, were organized as
the Woodland ward; Henry Moon.
bishop.
1SS6-An assembly was held In Salt Lake
City in commemoration of the en-
trance of the pioneers into Salt Lake
valley. Mark Lindsay was arrested
at Ogden on charge OF unlawful
cohabltatlon. and placed under $1,000
bonds. William Grant OF American
FORK was discharged from the peni-
lsS7-Henry Grow was discharged from
the penitentiary.
1S90-Utah's Pioneer day was generally
celebrated throughout the territory
1S91-Peter e. Olsen was discharged from,
the penitentiary.
lso2-The Granite ward meeting house
salt Lake county, was dedicated
William C. Winder and missionarv
companions, who had returned to
Stanley county, South Carolina, were
mobbed.
lseS-The Raymond ward. Bingham