On that occasion the name was changed from Cedar Point to Basalt, the latter being the name of the postoffice. John Croft and Jacob Hutchin son were chosen as his counselors on the same occasion, but they have not yet been set apart. Meetings and Sunday schools were held in private houses until January, 1890. when a smail log building at Basalt Station was donated to the ward for meeting purposes by Mrs. Maria Ingelstrom, in which meetings are now beld.

Lewis D. Wilson, of Ogden, Utah, and Lot and Samuel F. Adams, of Richmond, Cache County, Utah, were the first "Mormon” settlers in that district of country lying across the Snake River from Blackfoot now known as Riverdale. These three families took up their present farms in the fall of 1885 and built houses the following winter. A few more families arrived in 1886, when the first crops were raised, water for irrigating purposes having been brought upon the farms from Snake River, through a canal seven miles long. The few Saints who comprise the little branch at present are somewhat disappointed because so few of their faith have chosen to cast their lot with them, although they claim to have some of the very best farming land and the most extensive range in the whole valley.

Riverdale Sunday school was organized in the fall of 1888, and the place became a branch of the Basalt Ward in the beginning of 1889, with Joseph Murdock as presiding Priest, but he soon afterward moved away, since which neither meetings nor Sunday schools have been held regularly.

The Louisville Ward having been organized in August, 1884, the Cedar Point Branch became a part of that ward, and when the Eagle Rock Ward was organized in November, 1886, it was attached to that ward, continuing thus until it became a separate ward. At a meeting held at Basalt, August 13, 1888, Williain F, Rigby and James E. Steele being present, Andrew O. May 15, 1886, the townsite was locatIngelstrom was presented to the peo-ed by Bishop Reuben Hiatt and Counple, now numbering sixteen families, selors, Bishop William B. Preston for their future bishop and accepted. naming it Brighton. He was ordained at the quarterly conference at Louisville, August 19th following.

THE DREADFUL NEWS

to the bereaved widow and daughters. come and had to be assisted to her Mrs. Windom was completely overchamber. The shock was a terrible

one, as when the Secretary left Washdent and members of the Cabinet, who ington this morning he seemed in the best of health and spirits. The Presithe stricken family and offered their were present, extended sympathy to

wonderful rapidity, and, although the The news of the death spread with hour was 'ate, a large number of friends went to the residence of Mrs. Windom to express sympathy with ber and her daughters.

No official action will be taken until tomorrow.

dent's official family was more highly Probably no member of the Presiesteemed than Secretary Windom, and

Louisville, east to the Iona and south meetings, President William B. Pres- When Mrs. Windom and her daughto the Taylor Ward. West it extends ton, who visited the Snake River Val- ters reached the house, Mrs. Colgate across the river as far into the adjoin- ley in October, 1882, appointed Gideon gently broke ing county as there are any Latter-day Murphy to take charge of the meetings, Saints. Most of the Saints residing at of which a few were held at different Eagle Rock are employes of the branch times in the winter of 1882-83. In the houses of the Z. C. M. I., the Consoli- meantime Elder Murphy moved away, dated Implement Company and the and no meetings were held until later in Co-op. Wagon and Machine Company. 1883, when Thomas E. Ricks, who Others are employed by the railway had been appointed Bishop of the themselves. There is in the ward a Evans to call the brethren at Eagle company, and a few are in business for Bannock ward, authorized John D. fully organized Sunday school, a Re- Rock together and hold meetings with lief Society, a Y. M. M. I. A., a Y. L. them, which was done. No change M. I. A., and a Primary Association. was made at the time of the organiza-services to them. The town of Eagle Rock, containing tion of the Sta e in 1884, but on Januabout 2000 inhabitants, is situated on a ary 10, 1886, a more complete branch sandy tract of land on the left or east organization was effected, with John bauk of Suake River and on the Utah D. Evans as presiding Priest; he was & Northern Railway, 240 miles north to act under the direction of the Louisof Ogden, Utah, and thirty-four miles ville ward bishopric. by way of the Big Butte ferry south- In May, 1886, when Apostle John west of Rexburg. It is the important W. Taylor visited the Stake, Joseph B. market town of the surrounding Hawkley was appointed and set apart country. The streets, although straight, as presiding Priest of the brauch. He have been laid off like most of other acted for a few months until the ward railway towns, with a view of conform- was organized. ing to the direction of the railway tract, ignoring the cardinal points of the compass. The Utah & Northern Railway here crosses the river on a substantial iron bridge, built immediately below the renowned old Taylor bridge. At the point where these bridges span the Snake River this immense stream is suddenly contracted from a width ranging all the way from five hundred feet to half a mile to the space of about eighty feet in the main channel, and about thirty-five feet in a side channel. The water is forced between two perpendicular walls of solid rock and is said to have a depth of 160 feet immediately under the bridges. It also has quite a fall for several hundred yards, which gives Eagle Rock most excellent facilities for water power. So far this has only been taken advantage of in the erection of a first-class flouring mill, standing on the right bank of the river, at the point where the bridges cross it.

At a special meeting held at Eagle Rock November 18, 1886, at which Apostle John Henry Smith was present, a ward organization was eftected at that place, with James Thomas as Bishop, and William Thomas as his First and John D. Evans as his Second Counselor. This is still the bishopric of Eagle Rock.

The Saints' meeting house at Eagle Rock, a frame building, 16x28 feet, standing a little north of the centre of the town, was built by donations in 1885; it cost $450.

(To be continued.)

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EXPRESSIONS OF SORROW from the President and those of his Cabinet in Washington indicate how highly they prized his friendship and valued his counsels. As the bulletin, announcing somewhat in detail the Secretary's death, was read to the President, while still at the PostmasterGeneral's house, he covered his eyes with his hand and moved away without uttering a word, so greatly was he moved. He subsequently said that he regarded it as a great calamity, which afflicted him sorely.

THE POOR IN EUROPE

DEATH OF SECRETARY WINDOM. WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.--The THE accounts of the suffering of the nouncement of the sudden death of poor in Europe are soul-sickening. The Secretary Windom in New York to following recently came over the cable night was so terrible, sudden and unto this country in the form of a disexpected hat all who heard the news were profoundly shocked, and so over-patch: come as to be unable to express the "From all parts of Europe comes the grief they felt. As soon as the tele- cry of the suffering poor. London is as HISTORY.-Eagle Rock was originally gram bearing the sad intelligence was much in need of the Balfour relief fund the name of a ferry located about eight received by the Associated Press, as is Ireland. The poor boxes kept in miles north of the present Eagle Rock its the Magistrate's Court are exhausted in were immediately Station. The name was suggested by communicated to President Harri answering the calls of respectable and a rock in the river near that point son at the White House. He was in thousands are known to be starving at well-recommended hungry people, and frequently visited by eagles. In 1865 the library at the time talking with home sooner than accept the alternative and 1866 James W. Taylor, Robert Mrs. Harrison, and when the message of going to the workhouse. Anderson and William Bartlett built was read to him he was greatly disthe first wagon bridge at the point tressed and almost completely overwhere the town of Eagle Rock come. He immediately ordered his now is situated. This bridge was carriage and went at once to the house washed away in July 1867. Soon of the Postmaster-General, but a few afterwards the present bridge was constructed. which, before the advent of the railroad, proved very profitable to its owners, it being on the main road of travel to Montana. The toll charged was $1.50 per wagon.

In 1879, the Utah and Northern Railway was built through that part of the country, and in 1880' the railway company built a round house and machine shop at Eagle Rock, which made that place at once an important centre. These shops were subsequently removed to Pocatello.

blocks away, where a cabinet dinner had been in progress and from which he had returned but a few moments before. A reception had followed the dinner, so the guests had not all dis persed. Mrs. Windom and her two daughters and Mrs. Colgate of New York, who is visiting them, were among those present. As soon as the President arrived he had a hurried conversation with Secretaries Blaine and Proctor and the Postmaster-Gen eral and told them of the grief that had befallen them. They then privately Among the men employed by the informed Mrs. Colgate of Mr. Winrailway company in erecting the build-dom's death, and she, without exciting ings at Eagle Rock were a number of the suspicion of Mrs. Windom and her Latter-day Saints, and in 1882 James daughters, succeeded in getting them Thomas, John D. Evans and other to their carriage and home. The brethren located there with their fam- President, Secretary Proctor and Postilies with an eye to business. There master-General Wanamaker entered being a desire manifested for holding carriages and followed directly after.

"The Salvation Army quarters are crowded and for several nights many have had to be turned away for lack of accommodations. The charge at these shelters for supper, a bed and breakfast is 4 pence, but those without money are received and are allowed to pay in

labor.

"In Paris the authorities are hiring additional buildings for the reception of the destitute, numbers of whom wander all night in the street. Warming rooms for their comfort is very successful in alleviating misery, and a movement is on foot to add a bowl of soup for each person.

"A petition has been presented to the German Emperor representing the terrible condition of the inhabitants of Schweidnitz and other districts in Silesia, where typhus fever, which is brought on by hunger, is claiming many victims."

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their representatives.

The words we have quoted above THE prospect for water with which were given as comments upon a pro- to mature the crops next fall is becomposed Amendment to the Constitution ing gra lually more gloomy. We are concerning suffra.e. It would base nearing the close of the first month of the congressional representation upon the new year, and there has been practhe voting population. This contem- tically no Snowfall in this region. plates the suppression of the negro This condition is, we believe, unparal vote, and the cutting down of the num-leled in the history of this part of the Το ber of representatives from the South-country since its first settlement. February 7, 1891. ern States. We do not propose to dis- say the least the subject is assuming a cuss this question. We have no idea serious aspect. Even should there be that the proposition will be favorably a heavy deposit of snow before warm entertained by Congress. And should weather sets in, it will lie so lightly in it pass, it is not at all probab'e that it the mountain fastnesses that the action of the sun of early summer will bring would be ratified by a sufficient num ber of the States to make it a part of it tumbling and tearing down in to the the supreme law of the land. We only valleys before it is needed, destroying care, just now, to draw attention to the property in its uncontrolable descent. principle which the Tribune at present The soil would thus be left without the advocates in general, but to which it requisite moisture further along when is opposed as applied to the "Mormons" it is indispensable for the development in particular. to maturity of growing cereals.

EATING HIS OWN WORDS.

"BUT that there should be a class of non-voters in a country popularly governed, and that such a country should consent to such an anomaly, and even to the seizing back of such right after it had been conferred by law for more than twenty years-such an act would make a roaring farce of all our pretensions to regard for equal rights; such an act is impossible to the thoughtful, intelligent people of this country."

The foregoing contains good doctrine. The reasoning is sound. The conclusion is warranted by the premises and by correct principle. Strange to say, it comes from the Salt Lake Tribune. It is a substantial and convincing argument against the proposition of that paper, which it has set forth and insisted upon for a long time, to strike from the hands of the majority of the voters of Utah, the right of suffrage which they have held for much more than "twenty years."

But this sound political reasoning is advanced in the cause of the negro voters of the South. The writer forgot the fact that it is applicable everywhere and to all voters throughout the United States. What is right as regards the black citizen, must be equally right in reference to the "Mormou" citizen. At any rate, the principle is laid down broadly, that a class of non-voters in a country popularly governed would be "a roaring farce," and that the act of taking away the right to vote after it had been conferred by law for more than twenty years, would be impossible for the intelligent people of this country to corsent to.

As a radical Republican organ it Hope inspires confidence that Proviwould fight any proposition to take dence will make up the deficiency by away the vote of the negro. As a furnishing the later rains. Naturally ring "Liberal" organ it advocates tak- speaking, however, these are not likely ing away the vote of every"Mormon." to be forthcoming. As a rule, from Thus it denounces the "anomaly" which there are occasionally excepwhich it would fain create. It would tions-as was the case last fall-abundmake "a roaring farce" of all "pre-ance of winter snow renders more tensions to regard for equal rights" in certain a plenitude of summer rains. this popular government. And it almost daily expends its energy and devotes its space to demands for an act which it now declares "impossible to the thoughtful, intelligent people of this country.

From a natural standpoint, the reasonable anticipation is that there is a strong probability of short crops for Whether this shall be Utah in 1891. the case or not it is well that this be taken into consideration as among the possibilities of this year, and that action, individually or in concert, as people may elect, be taken to provide against

The only object that could be achieved by the establishment of such an anomaly in this government of the people would be the domination of a such a contingency. few voters over the many. A reversal A crop failure would entail wide dis of the principle that majorities rule.tress, the degree of which can be largeMen who cannot gain office and its ly mitigated by providing, so far as emoluments by the suffrages of the practicable, against what the future people who are to be governed, could attain the objects of their ambition and their greed through the disfranchisement of those citizens who will not vote for them. This is all their is in this scheme which is in direct antag. onism to the principles and the reason

But this very "farcical" and "iming now advanced by its projectors. possible" act, is exactly what the Tribune has been plotting for and clamoring for, continually, for sev ral years. Its editor-in-chief went into the political field as a candidate for public office, on the ground of this scheme to take back a right conferred by law and to establish a non-voting class in this popularly governed country. He failed miserably, utterly. But he still urges his "impossible" and "farcical" scheme, and hopes to accomplish it in the face of the views of "the thought-ment, and an impossibility in the light ful, intelligent people of this country," of calm thought and unbiased intelliby arousing the prejudices and so blind-gence.

may develop. Breadstuffs are cheap at present and those who can do so will do well to lay in a stock for an emergency. Whether the necessity for it shall arise or not it is good material to have on hand, because the prices are not likely to be lower than they are now.

Of course arguments are used in opposition to the view of thrift and pru. dence expressed above. It is held that the facilities for transportation are so great now-a-days that actual famine in any one part of the land 18 well nigh impossible. But this would depend upon the width of the area of scarcity.

The pretext put forth as an excuse for this violation of right and departure from fundamental principle would have no proper bearing even if it were true. But it is founded in falsehood and is repeated with intent to deceive. And were it not for the unreasoning prejudice which prevails in relation to the majority of the people of Utah, it would not be entertained for a moment by intelligent people. For it sive crop failure in Utah, what would would be indeed a burlesque upon the prevent of the people uoctrine of equal rights, an anomaly from being pinched, even though there under our system of popular governmight be comparative plenty in the land at large? The latter situation is, however, by no means an assured fact.

For instance should there be an exten

the mass

The population of this Territory is overwhelmingly agricultural. If the soil refused, from lack of moisture or from any other cause, to give forth its fruits, from whence would the farmers obtain their supplies for subsistence? What money they handle is derived from the sale of their products. No products no money. No money means hard scratching to live.

in

RESTRICTING IMMIGRATION.

Union.

to be final unless appeal is taken to the Superintendent of Immigration.

A NEW bill to regulate immigration All' aliens deemed to have come here was reported to the House of Repre- unlawfully are to be returned, if pracsentatives of the United States on the ticable, on the vessel which brought 15th of January, by Mr. Owen of In- them, at the expense of the ship owndiana. It is a substitute for a bill re-ers, and during their detention their ferred to the committee on irrigation expenses must be paid by such owners, and naturalization. The new bill was on penalty of a maximum fine of three read twice and committed to the com- hundred dollars for each offence. Any With all due deference to transporta-mittee of the whole on the state of the alien unlawfully landing or becoming tion facilities in the way of obviating a public charge may be returned with-the distress accruing from short in one year thereafter, at the expense crops, if breadstuffs should in of the person or company bringing an emergency of the kind him, if practicable, and if not, at the question, be brought in from other expense of the United States. quarters of what special benefit would it be to those who would have no cash with which to purchase supplies? If the source of revenue should be cut off, from whence would come the wherewithal. Besides all this, unless an unexpected tide sets in connected with local financial affairs, money is not likely to flow in a lively way through any of the avenues of local business. Matters in that respect are at present very much strained. A little tersion and the string will break.

more

It provides for the exclusion from landing on these shores, in addition to Chinese laborers, all idiots, insane persons, paupers or persons likely to become a public charge, persons suffering from a loathsome or contagious disease, persons convicted of a felony or gross misdemeanor, polygamists, and all passengers whose ticket or passage is paid for with the money of another, or who are assisted to come, unless it is shown that they do not belong to one of the foregoing classes.

Any alien coming here in consequence of the promise of employment through advertisements printed and published in a foreign country, is to be excluded as a contract laborer. Steamship or transportation companies that by agents, or writing or printing, or oral representation solicit immigration into the United States, except by ordinary methods, stating the sailings of vessels and the facilities of transportation, are to be subject to heavy penalties.

This is the substance of the bill. Con

sidering the other important questions which are likely to occupy the attention of Congress during the short time that intervenes between now and the 3rd of March, it is very doubtful whether this bill can become a law.

There are provisions in it, too, that seem to be impracti able.. How adver tising for emigrants in foreign lands can be prevented, and on what principle of law prosecutions can be maintained in the United States for acts committed outside the jurisdiction of the United States, we are not able to discover. And the proposition to exclude an immigrant because he has seen some advertisement or publication setting forth the advantages of certain portions of the United States to settlers, appears to us to be not only impossible to carry out, but absurd on its very face.

That some measures are needed to

We are of the unqualified opinion that many of the people have been and are now, living beyond their income. It needs no prophet to predict the inevitable disaster that ensues in every instance where this is the case-it is a mere matter of arithmetical calculation. It is an unavoidable effect of a cause which operates unerringly. In Any person bringing or landing or many instances the heads of families aiding to bring or land any alien not have been subjected to great straits by lawfully entitled to enter the United restrict immigration as closely as posthe demands made upon them. Young States, is to be subject to a maximum sible to persons who are likely to be a and old and middle aged have caught fine of a thousand dollars, or imprison-benefit instead of a detriment or a the contagion to conform to the tyranny ment not exceeding one year, or burden to the community, is evident of fashion. And everywhere women both. to all who have carefully reflected and children can be seen with the Regularly ordained ministers of the upon the evils that have been wrought, contents of wheat bins upon thefr gospel, professors of colleges, and per- through the influx of criminals and heads in the shape of fine bon- sons belonging to any recognized pro- paupers and those disorderly persons fession are exempted from the pro- who despise government and seek to visions of the contract labor law. destroy society.

nets bedecked with assassinated
birds and expensive ribbous and
feathers, while their forms are ap-
pareled with the farm team transformed
into expensive clothing. In the larger
towns many of the sisters are clad
with the careworn aspect and the
sweet-moistened brows of their over-
worked and anxious husbands and
fathers. On the other hand men are
also carried away by the pervading
spirit of reckless extravagance, never
stopping until they are confronted
with overwhelming financial catastrɔ-
phe, with resources cut off, and credit,
which they have abused, swept away.
In connection with the ideas offered
on the subject of probable scarcity, it
may not be amiss to drop a hint to
those who need it, that retrenchment
would be in harmony with good sense
and the demands of the times.

A Superintendent of Immigration, with a salary of five thousand dollars a year, is to be appointed by the President and Senate. He is to belong to the Treasury Department, have a chief clerk and two assistant clerks and an office in Washington, and make annual reports and such special reports as may be necessary on immigration mat

ters and transactions.

On the arrival of an immigrant vessel the officer or agent is to report the name, nationality, last residence and destination of every alien on board, before any of them are landed. A medical examination is to be made by surgeons of the Marine Hospital service. Inspection officers may administer oaths and take testimony concerning such aliens, and their decisions are

But such laws ought to be well considered, and while devised to effect this needful purpose, should not shut out from "the asylum for the oppressed," any worthy person who is poor but who may become a strength to the natlon, and for whom there is plenty of room and ample opportunities for advancement in this splendid and productive land of liberty.

A RIGHTEOUS RULING.

By courtesy of Sutherland and Judd, the eminent attorneys for the appellants, we are able to print today the full text of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Cope case, a brief synopsis of which we published a few days ago. Judge Suther

land received it from Justice Brown with whom he was formerly associated in Michigan.

The Opinion is terse and clear and leaves no room for doubt as to its legal soundness. The reasoning is conclusive and the objections of counsel for respondent-John M. Zane, are effectually disposed of. We are pleased to note that the position taken by the Court on this question is the same as that held by the DESERET NEWS.

Under this important ruling, children of polygamous parents are entitled to inherit the estate of a deceased parent who died previous to 1876 the same as if they were legally recognized as legitimate. From 1876 to 1888 polygamous children inherit the deceased mother's estate, and also the deceased father's estate if acknowledged by him as his children. This applies to all children who are known to the law as illegitimate. The Edmunds-Tucker Act of 1887 repealed the law which secured these property rights to such children, and from March 3, 1888, only those children recognized as legitimate by the law can inherit a deceased parent's estate.

As to the justice or injustice of this provision of the law it is useless now to argue. The duty of the court was to interpret the laws as it found them. This has been done in a luclú an convincing manner, and the decision will settle the property rights of many per. sons in this Territory, while it will disappoint several individuals who have sought to gratify their greed at the expense of justice and against the claims of kinared.

THE UNFORTUNATE "FORCE BILL."

ALTHOUGH a good deal has been written in reference to the measure popularly known as the "Force Bill" now pending in the Senate of the United States, but few people, comparatively, know what its provisions are and what would be its probable effects if it should become a law. They understand that it is a Republican scheme, designed to perpetuate the control by that party of the affairs of the nation, but are not acquainted with its details. The

parliamentary title of the measure is "A bill (H. R. 11,045) to

colored citizen. Chiefly to protect Re-
publican negro voters the bill was
ostensibly framed. It is claimed that
in reality it was to place all Federal
elections in the control of the Repub-
lican party.

Quay, however, has endeavored to sim-
plify this portion of the bill by introduc-
the President may suspend the habeas
ing an amendment to it providing that
corpus act if he deems it necessary.
tions is to be held for life, and salaries
"The office of Chief Supervisor of Elec-
are made payable by permanent appro-
priations, and not from year to year, like
next House of Representatives will not
ordinary expenditures. In this way the
be able to cut off payments under the
bill except with the concurrence of a
President."
Republican Senate and a Republican

It was introduced originally in the House of Representatives, as may be seen by its title, and passed under the management of Henry Cabot Lodge. It was therefore known as the Lodge bill. When it reached the Senate it met with several objections and a sub-measure has caused so much ill feeling This will give some idea why the stitute was presented by Senator Hoar, and so much debate in the Senate. It who has had charge of the bill and has was hoped that the bill was virtually been much mortified at the opposition killed when Senator Stewart succeeded it has met and the action taken in in shelving it in favor of the Silver reference to it by some members of his bill, with the aid of several Republiown party. cans, among them the new Senators from Idaho. But on the passage of the silver bill the force bill was again brought forward, with a fair prospect of its passage until yesterday when, to the surprise of many Republicans and the renewed and deeper disgust of the Apportionment bill prevailed by a Senator Hoar, a motion to consider majority of one vote, and thus the Force bill was again pushed aside in company with a measure designed to and known as the Closure bill. aid in its passage by cutting off debate

The annexed summary of its chief provisions is taken from the editorial columns of the New York Sun:

"The first portion of both bills is occupied with the extending of the powers of the present Federal Supervisors of Election. The chief supervisors, present supervision of elections, with the enand prospective, are charged with the forcement of national election laws, and with the prevention of frauds and irregularities in naturalization.

In any election throughout the country whenever there is any federal office to be supervisors and their subordinates to see filled it is made the duty of these chief that the polls are 'guarded, scrutinized and supervised.' For the purposes of the congressional districts, (2) entire towns bill the country is divided into (1) entire or cities of 20,000 inhabitants or upward, (3) any subdivision of a Congressional

district for election purposes.

the Senate, that fair people of both parties will rejoice over the probable death of both these bills, and it will be very difficult to resurrect them.

It looks now as though both these will be a great relief to the country if obnoxious measures were doomed. It they are not again taken down from the shelf-or up from the table. The "The provisions of the bill are to be- Force bill is so manifestly a partizan come operative on the filing of a petition signed by any one hundred duly quali- scheme, and the Closure bill so clearly district, and by fifty voters in any subdi-bate which have hitherto governed fied voters in any entire congressional a departure from the rules of free devision of an entire congressionai district. As soon as such a petition has been filed, the Chief Supervisor of Elections for tha district is to give notice to the Circuit Court Judge of the United States whose jurisdiction in other matters covers that district. Within ten days this judge must open a special session of his court night and day, in the legal sense, until for election purposes, and keep it open two days afterthe impending election. THE Provo Dispatch is issued regu"Each Chief Supervisor of Elections is deputies for each electoral subdivision in and is under the able management of empowered anddirected to appoint three larly on Wednesdays and Saturdays his district, only tw of whom shall be James H. Wallis. It looks like a The payment ofthese deputies is to be on living journal and we understand is to e same political party. the per diem system, and provision is advance to the dignity and usefulness made that in case there is no work there of a daily in the course of a month two.

members of

shall be no pay.

PROVO PROGRESSING.

or

The Provo Press is a "Liberal" semiWeekly, neat in appearance and well patronized as to advertisements. It is published by G. F. and E. H. Rathbone,

amend and supplement the election having more than 20,000 inhabitants. It and intends to work for the interests of

Utah County.

The Chief Supervisor is empowered to remove or suspend at pleasure any of his deputies, and afterward apply for confirmation of his action to the Circuit Court Judge. He is also empowered, under very elastic regulations, to make a list of all naturalized persons in cities laws of the United States, and to pro- is probable that under this clause theChief vide for the more efficient enforcement Supervisor and his myrmidons would of such laws, and for other purposes." he thought fit, much like that possessed reliable Enquirer still flourishes and With three live papers-for the old have power to make domiciliary visits, if The pretext under which it was intro- by the police force under the Irish coer- works for the good of the city and duced was the charge that the negro vote in the South is suppressed, and mention In the Hoar bill there is no direct county, Provo is moving forward as a of bayonets and United vigorous, progressive city. Its mail that Democratic domination in the States troops, because the President facilities, too, are to be increased, as we Southern States is maintained by un-stitution to "take already has power under the Concare that the laws learn from the following, which we clip lawful means and the oppression of the shall be faithfully executed." Senator from the Dispatch of January 24th:

cion acts.