CURRENT EVENTS. Temple Notice. The Manti Temple will close on Edmunds Law Prosecutions. Charles Y. Taggart, the musician and piano tuner was arrested at his residence on O Street at 7:30 March 10, by Deputy United States Marshals Dyer and Doyle, on the charge of unlawful cohabitation. Later in the evening he was taken before Commissioner Greenman, when he waived examination and gave bonds in the sum of $1000 for himself and $200 for his alleged plural wife. The case went direct to the grand jury and the witnesses were examined by them today. The result could not be learned in time for publication. Death of Isaac Bullock. By telephone March 16th we learned of the death of Isaac Bullock, an old and respected resident of Provo, at 8:30 Monday, March 16th, after an illness of ten days, from pneumonia. To make make matters worse, his wife is now in the East, whither she went sometime ago in the interest of the Woman Suffrage Association. For several days ineffectual attempts have been made by wire to apprise Sister Bullock of the expected demise, but her exact whereabouts have not yet been discovered. Sunday School Union Conference. The semi-annual conference of the Deseret Sunday School Union will convene at 7:30 p.m., on Sunday, April 5th, 1891, in the Tabernacle. It is particularly desired that each Stake of Zion be represented at this meeting, and that the Stake superintendencies, officers and teachers at tending the General Conference of the Church be present. A cordial invitation is extended to the general public. GEORGE Q. CANNON, A Severe Snowstorm. CHICAGO, March 9.-Dispatches from numerous points throughout Minnesota, Northern Iowa, Central Illinois, Southern Wisconsin and Eastern Nebraska report that the severest snowstorm of the winter raged all day Sunday. Trains were running behind time and in many places none was moving. Travel on wagon roads was, at numerous points, wholly suspended, and in cities the street car traffic was more or less delayed. Severe storms are reported from various points of Texas. Snow and sleet have fallen and it is feared the fruit trees are bad. ly damaged. The choir sang the hymn: Zion stands with hills surroundedZion kept by power divine. the move, and the Mormons claim that In conversation with a leading Mormon tonight we learned that the administration is favorable to the change and there can be no doubt but what the congressional delegation will favor it, as this would forever do away with the Mormon question in Idaho, and the new election bill, by disfranchising them for all time to come, shows the Mormons are not wanted in the State. Released from Prison. The Priesthood of the Fifteenth of the Lord's Supper. APOSTLE HEBER J. GRANT addressed the congregation. Several months had elapsed, he said, since he last had the privilege of meeting with the Latter-day Saints, and he rejoiced to have the opportunity of being with them on the present occasion He was very much pleased with the appearance of the interior of the Tabernacle, and the improvements which had been recently made there. Referring to the musical exercises by the James Butler, aged 72, of Spring choir, he said he felt equally as much Lake, was released from the peniten- interest in listening to the songs of tiary Sunday, March 15, after serving Zion as he did in listening to the ada sentence of six months for unlawful dresses of the Elders. Incohabitation. There was no fine nor deed he rejoiced to find that costs in this case. in the various Wards and Stakes of Zion so much regard was paid to the Brother George M. Crawford, of Wash-musical exercises in connection with ington, Washington County, was re- their worship. He rejoiced, further, leased from the Penitentiary Thursday, that they had now such an excellent March 12, after serving a six months' choir, and trusted that its leader and term for the offense of living with his members might be blessed, as he doubtwives. Not having more property ed not they would be. than the law would exempt from execution, he did not pay the fine and costs assessed against him, and was accordingly required to remain an extra thirty days in prison. There are twenty-one persons now enduring imprisonment in the Penitentiary for violation of the Edmunds law, all of whom are in fair health. Information Wanted. Since he last met with the Saints in that building he had been east as far as New York and west to San Fran ex cisco. He had met and conversed with a great many people, and it was a matter of surprise to him to find-despite the great extent of preaching that was being done and the great amount of information published-that so much ignorance still prevailed with reference to the Latter-day Saints. Almost Will you be kind enough to ask, without exception surprise was through the NEWS, if there be any of pressed that they believed in the Bible. the members of the Mormon Battalion People seemed to think that they had who served in the second enlistment, discarded the Scriptures altogether; and were stationed at San Diego, but, so far as he knew, it was a notorious California, that can tell me the names fact that no peopie kept closer to the of the post doctor and hospital steward Scriptures than the Latter-day Saints. at the time of the death of Corporal They believed firmly in the teachings Lafayette Frost, which happened on of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the 8th of September, 1847? If there and that it was necessary to follow be any that can tell the names, please them out in our daily walk and converdo so through the NEWS, as the pension department requests me to furnish the above names, which I cannot do for I never knew them, as I was on detached service at San Luis Rey during the term, only while in the hospital in San Diego. The above information will be thankfully received. Respectfully. JAMES V. WILLIAMS, RELIGIOUS. Sunday Services. Religious services were held at the Glorious things of Thee are spoken sation. He had sometimes wondered whether as Latter-day Saints they were not to some extent blameable in the sight of the Lord for failing to endeavor to carry to the world the principles of the Gospel by having lectures delivered by those who are capable in some of the large cities. There was no question as to the Latter-day Saints being an unpopular people. They were looked upon by the world at large as ignorant, deluded and bigoted, without enlightenment and intelligence; but he had always maintained that no people on the face of the earth were as eulightened as the "Mormons." They had had their minds lit up by the light of the Holy Spirit, they had received a testimony from God as to the divinity of the work in which they are engaged, and they stood in the same position as did the followers of Christ in His day. He told ments of God they should know of the them that if they kept the commanddoctrine whether it be of God or of man. Our fathers, because of the drivings and persecutions through which the people had to pass, had very few opPrayer was offered by Elder W. C. portunities of obtaining education; but Dunbar. the brightest men, to his mind, the could not prevail against the work of He prayed that they might grow and PRESIDENT GEORGE Q. CANNON enced in avoiding them; and it was for this very reason, be said, that God, in His infinite mercy, in these last days, in revealing His everlasting Gospel, had inspired His people to gather together from the various nations of the earth. This was the reason why they were located here in these valleys. This was the reason why, in the early history of the Church, the spirit of gathering rested upon the Latter-day Saints. Wherever the Elders had gone the same spirit of gathering had accompanied their labors. Thus were the people separated, from the world and enabled to carry out in their lives the principles of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Church of Christ had ever had were those who had not been educated at school. Some of the finest discourses he had ever listened to had been delivered by men of this class, but who yet spoke with power, intelligence and ability, and, above all, by the light and inspiration of the Spirit of God. Knowledge was of no particular value unless accompanied by that Spirit in speaking to the Saints. A man de- also spoke. He said he had been void of the Spirit of God could not much interested in the remarks of warm the hearts of the people. He Brother Grant and the testimony which was delighted to witness the growth of he had borne. He had explained very education among the Latter-day clearly the character of the bond that Saints and also the increase exists between the Latter-day Saints, of wealth; but all these things and which held them together as a were of no avail unless they could re-people-a bond that was of God and tain the light and inspiration of God's not of man. This, indeed, was the Having enumerated some of the Spirit and the desire to know the mind secret of the union and strength as duties of Christians, among others fair and will of our Heavenly Father and exhibited by the Saints in their or-dealing in business and the loving of keep His commandments. "For what gauization and dwelling together. our neighbor as ourselves, the speaker shall it profit a man if he gain the said he prayed God to help them as a whole world and lose his own soul." people so to live that the world, in looking at their actions, would see in them faithful examples of the principles of the Gospel of Christ. The rich, the learned and the wise paid no attention to this "delusion" called "Mormonism;" but it occurred to him that i they would just stop and reflect upon the testimony borne to them by the history of the Latter-day Saints, it would, at least, lead them to study the principles which they were asked to investigate. The Latter-day Saints bore a testimony to the world that ought to cause all mankind to reflect. It was said by some persons at the time that the killing of the Prophet Joseph Smith would mean the killing of "Mormonism." But instead of the Prophet's death retarding the progress of God's work it had exactly the opposite effect. He had heard it said, "Let Brigham Young die and 'Mormonism' will go to pieces; it depends upon his great ability;" and yet the death of Brigham Young had no particular effect in regard to hindering the progress of this work. It was the power of God which led it; the Priesthood of Almighty God once more restored to the earth had controled it. The same power and the same authority which were upon the earth in the days of our Savior were upon the earth today. The same promises which He made in the ancient days were made today to the Latter-day Saints; and there were thousands among them who could now stand up, and in all humil ity bear testimony that they had seen the working of the Spirit and the fulfilment of the promises made to those who had embraced the Gospel. It was of the first importance that they, both as a people and individuals, should live their religion. They must be doers of the Word as well as listeners to it. No man or woman could long expect to retain the gift of the Spirit of God if he or she did not live a Godly life and keep pace with the onward progress of the work of God. The religion of the Latter-day Saints was not a holiday religion-not a religion for the Sabbath day alone; but one that should be with them in all their avocations, in all their associations, in all their business dealings. A religion which did not have any influence upon the daily life of a man or woman was not the religion of Jesus Christ. In this respect they were distinguished from many other people; because he believed there was a real disposition and strong desire on the part of the majority of the Latter-day Saints to live up to the principles which they professed." Brother Grant had truthfully spoken of the vast amount of ignorance which existed concerning the Latter-day Saints; but for this they themselves were not altogether to blame. He had seen as many as five hundred strangers in that Tabernacle at one time; he had heard as eloquent discourses delivered there as he had ever listened to in his life-convincing proofs of the divinity of this work; yet those strangers hs gone away and forgotten it all. The seed had not fallen on good ground. It was the duty of every human be ing, after hearing this testimony borne, to warn his neighbor; but men did not care about doing this. Such things had no interest for them. Why, if a "Mormon" newspaper and an anti"Mormon” newspaper were offered for sale on the cars at the same time, it would be seen that in almost every The Latter-day Saints had been dwelling in these valleys for over 40 years and the work accomplished by them was before the world; but their characters had been beclouded by falsehood-and a great many persons preferred fa'sehood to truth. Of course there were very many exceptions. The speaker made mention of an interesting discussion which he said recently took place in a popular magainstance-where the difference was zine between an avowed infidela known to the purchaser- the antiwoman-and a priest on the subject of "Mormon" sheet was bought in preChristianity, and the leading features ference. Men did not want to hear of which he briefly narrated. He anything at all about "Mormonism;" it could see there was truth on both sides; was offensive to them. and while he could not, of course, sympathize with infidelity or infidels in their attacks upon religion, yet there were too many weaknesses connected with the practice of religion, as we saw it around us, to furnish a foundation for atheistic attacks against the so-called Gospel of Christ. On the other hand, he felt confident that there were thousands upon thousands of sincere believers in Jesus in the various denomina tions who were serving Him and striving to keep His commandments to the very utmost of their ability. These people according to their light, knowledge and sincerity, had a portion of His Holy Spirit with them. He believed they should circulate The trials, the mobbings and the permore printed matter than they did. secutions of the Latter-day Saints, the Still, there were reasons why this had despoiling of their property, and the not been done, the chief difficulty havmeans. The robbery which had been perpetrated ing been the lack of by the great Government of the United Latter-day Saints might themselves, States-all these things, through the however, do a great deal in this direc inspiration of the Spirit of God, had no instead of casting it aside when read tion. When they bought a newspaper, discouraging effect upon the people. They believed that if they lost every- No people on earth today made such let them put a stamp upon it and mail thing here but gained eternal life, then professions and bore such testimonies it to their friends at a distance. This they were richer than any other people as did the Latter-day Saints, and they would probably excite some interest in on earth.. The very troubles through would assuredly be judged their work, and help to remove many' which the Saints were passing today according to their knowledge of the erroneous impressions and much were a testimony to them of the di- and testimonies. Having received of the prejudice which at present exvinity of the mission of Jos- knowledge from God they should live isted concerning this people. In conclusion, eph Smith. The speaker referred fully up to that knowledge, and if they Brother Cannon to many prophecies which had already failed to do so they were worse than prayed that the blessing of God would been fulfilled. Even the government the heathen, and their condition in the continue to rest upon the work of the had seen fit to array itself against this next world would be worse than theirs. Saints and that it would go on and handful of people; and this was simply prosper abundantly. a fulfilment of prophecy. No power on earth could weaken the faith of the Latter-day Saints; even the gates of hell President Cannon pointed out many of the evils which beset the path of the Christian in the present age of the world, and the difficulty experi The choir sang the anthem: Let God arise. Benediction by Elder E. B. Tripp. "TRIBUNE" PETTIFOGGING. The NEWS of March 5th published a portion of a lecture by a Mormon Elder on "Joseph Smith as a true Prophet." The Elder re-told the account of Joseph Smith's conversation with Steven A. Douglas in which it was predicted that Mr. Douglas would attempt to secure the Presidency of the nation. Referring to this lecture as though it were an editorial of the NEWS, the Tribune said: "Stephen A. Douglas was an American statesman. Formerly he was a Judge on the Bench in Illinois. When the Mormons were driven out of Missouri into Illinois, with the vigor which was part of their system and reached the irresistible bis nature he investigated thoroughly conclusion that it was something more than a creed, that it was a government diametrically opposed to the Government of the United States; and when the Saints in turn were driven out of Illinois, and, when from this region they petitioned for Statehood, Judge Douglas in his inclsive way declared that the United send a Commission here to govern this States Government should interpose and Territory, backed with sufficient force to enforce its edicts." disappointment hastened Greely's Brother Mulliner himself, can be relied "Samuel Mulliner was born in Haddington. East Lothian, Scotland, Jan. 15, 1809. He spent his boyhood days at Dunbar, where he also learned the shoemaker's trade. He married Catherine Nisbet Dec. 4, 1830, and shortly afterward decided to emigrate to Australia, but finding himself short of means he changed his plans, and emigrated to America in 1832 settling near the city of Toronto, in Canada, where he first heard the fulness of the Gospel proclaimed, and was baptized by Theodore Turley Sept. 10, 1837, together with his wife. In the following spring he started with his family for Missouri and arrived in Springfield, Ill., on his way thither, July 30, 1838. There his family location of a number of families from remained while he performed his mission to Scotland. Owing to the temporary Kirtland, Ohio, in 1838 a branch of the Church was organized at Springfield, Nov. 4, 1838, in which Elder Mulliner officiated as a Teacher. Later, a Stake of Zion was organized there. Brother Mull iner was ordained to the office of an Elder March 10, 1839, and to that of a Seventy which he did and left his family at May 6, 1839. On the latter date he was advised to prepare for a foreign mission, Springfield, July 16, 1839, and started in company with an Elder Snider for New York, where they arrived Aug. 10th. After preaching in the neighborhood of that city and having made a visit to Kirtland, Ohio, he sailed from New York, in company with Elders Hiram Clark and Alexander Wright, Nov. 6, 1839. They arrived in Liverpool, England, Dec. 3rd. On the 7th they started for Preston, where they arrived on the sth. There they spent about ten days very pleasantly with Willard Richards and the Saints. On the evening of Dec. 19th, Elders Mulliner and Wright started for Scotland and arrived at Glasgow on the 20th. successful mission Elder Mulliner took After a an affectionate leave of the and sailed from Mr. Douglas knew Mr. Smith and doubtless many more of the Mormons well. Mr. Douglas, knowing more about the Mormons than the editor of the Tribune seems to know, was their the malice of Brocchus, Drummond, friend for many years, and not until Magraw, and others of their kind had succeeded in creating a belief in the East that the Mormons were in rebelllou against the government of the United States, did Mr. Douglas say a He had not word against them. known them personally for fourteen driven. He may have believed that years. He knew how they had been they were in rebellion, as charged, and so believing he may have made up his I want to call attention to a misrep- mind that they should be destroyed. resentation in the above. It was when Then, again, the outcry against the the Mormons were driven from Miis- Mormons in the East was very bitter souri that Mr. Douglas became and general. No man could have their friend, and there is noth-hoped to be elected to the Presidency ing to indicate that he was not their of the nation who should defend them. friend all through their persecution Mr. Douglas, it was remembered, had in Illinois. Up to 1843, at least, he been he friend of the Mormons. When was intimate with Joseph Smith, and he thought the time had come for him on the 18th of May of that year Mr. to ask for the highest office in the gift Douglas dined with Mr. Smith at Car- of the people, he may have reflected thage, Illinois, and it was on that oc- that his friendship for the hated Morcasion that the prediction was made mons would be raised against him and that it is claimed was a "true" proph- hence he would kill the possibility of ecy. That was but a year before Mr. such a thing by denouncing them. Smith's death and Mr. Douglas said Such a thing is not only possible, but Saints in Scotland Glasgow Oct. 2, 1840, on his nothing against the Mormons until it is human, and Mr. Douglas was way back to America. After vis1857, fourteen years after that conver- human. All the facts in the case iting among the Saints of Liverpool, sation took place. and all the presumptions are solid he attended a General Conference at against the rancor of the Tribune as Manchester and then engaged passage for shown in its efforts to twist, distort a small company of Saints from Scotland and misrepresent the actual relation on board the ship Isaac Newton, which ship that existed between Steven A. sailed from Liverpool on the 15th. Douglas, Joseph Smith and the Mor- was the first company of emigrants who mon people prior to 1857. went by way of New Orleans, where the There is no reason to doubt that such company arrived December 2nd, after a a conversation did occur, as is reported. afterwards the favorite route of emigrapleasant voyage of 481⁄2 days. For years If the Mormon people call it a true tion from Great Britrin to Nauvoo, Ill., prophecy, what is there wrong in that? was via New Orleans. Elder Mulliner's If there were prophets in ancient little company of Scotch Saints continued times, why should there not be proph- their travel from New Orleans by steamets now? The Tribune dotes on the boat up the Mississippi River to St. Louis, prophets of the past, why should it Mo., where Elder Mulliner left the comstultify itself by assuming a position, pany and travele by stage to Springfield, the logical outcome of which is that ., where he was again united wit his God is dead and therefore the gift of time after his return home Elder Mullifamily on December 19th, 1840. Some prophecy is lost forever? Let us tell ner removed with his family to Nauvoo, the truth and leave the event to time. Ill., from which place he was sent on a That is to say, the Tribune asserts CHARLES ELLIS. mission in November, 1842. In crossing that when Mr. Douglas dined with Mr. the lake from Chicago to Buffalo, a terriSmith on the 18th of May, 1843, he ble storm came up which wrecked nearly was suffering from a disease "which every vessel on the lake except the one was beyond the science of medicine to Elder Mulliner and a fellow-missionary, relieve." Yet he lived eighteen years Janes Houston, were on. In parting with On Tuesday, March 10th an account the captain of the vessel (Mr. Walker) at after that dinner, that conversation of the death of Brother Samuel Mulli- Buffalo, Elder Mulliner made him a presand that prediction! It will doubtless ner, of Lehi, which occurred on the eut of some Church books and thanked be news to Mr. Douglas to be in- 25th of February, appeared in the him for bringing him safe across. formed thus that in 1842 he was already EVENING NEWS, together with a captain replied with emphasis: "Elder So far gone that medical skill could not recital of some of the prominent inci- Mulliner, don't thank me; it is I who relieve him. This is only another evidents in his life, as furnished us by aam under obligation to you for a safe dence of the Tribune's skill as a petti- correspondent. Owing to a number of voyage, for I am fully convinced that had fogger. It was well known that Mr. Douglas' the interesting nature of the career of the bottom. And I wish you, when you the dates given being erroneous, and it not been for you Mormon Elders being on board, the ship would have gone to disappointment hastened his death, as the deceased, we copy the following get back home, to tell your brethren that similar disappointment had hurried from the Historical Record of 1887, if any of your Elders wish to cross these Webster into the unknown, as similar which, as the data was furnished by akes, let them inquire for Captain Walk Furthermore, the Mormous petitioned for Statehood in 1849, eight years before Mr. Douglas opened his is against them. It is clear, therefore, that the Tribune misrepresents Mr. Douglas, and yet this is a matter of history. It shows how little reliance can be placed upon the Tribune's statements in anything concerning the Mormons. Again the Tribune, in its pettifogging effort to weaken the force of the statements made to Mr. Doulas by Mr. Smith, says: "It was safe to tell him, too, that he would die, for the disease even then was upon him which killed him, a disease which was beyond the science of medicine to relieve." SAMUEL MULLINER. This The er, and they shall have a free passage." From Buffalo the missionaries walked to Lewiston, on the Niagara River, and the Dover mail boat came near The railroads of Kent and Sessex are Information was received from Cardiff this afternoon to the effect that much damage was done by the storms. where they commenced preaching and Work on the docks in and about baptizing. Elder Mulliner organized a London is partially suspended, owing branch at Cambria, Niagara County, to the mass of snow accumulated about N.Y., April 27, 1843. Among those baptized by him in that part of the country them. was George A. Neal, a wealthy farmer, In South Devonshire the snowstorm and others, who afterwards became the railroad lines and upon the continues in violence. The railroads country roads. Two trains full are blockaded, and the mail train of passengers in the midlands bound from Southampton for London were snowed up last night. is snowed up. The towns on the The passengers were not rescued until channel Islands are also cut off by this morning. The rescued people suf- snow from all communication with fered terribly from cold during the each other. At Lydd, a small seaport night, owing to the unheated condi- town of Kent, while the coast guard tion of the cars. The train on the life-boat was going to rescue the crew North Kent railroad bound for this of an endangered vessel, the life boat city was snowed up last night and still capsized and several of its occupants remains in the railroad cutting where were drowned. it was stopped by a drift. A number of engines have been sent to the scene, but they are unable as yet to move the train. The Sherness mail car cannot be found. It was lost somewhere along the line between this city and Sherness. A search party has been sent out after the missing mail car and rescued the engineer of the lost engine. He was found half frozen in the snow. known as faithful members of the Church. He also crossed the river into Canada and preached at St. Catherine, where the people became so interested in the principles he advocated that they offered to build him a chapel, send for his family and pay him a salary, if he would consent to settle down and remain with them to preach; provided, however, that he would agree not to say anything about Joseph Smith and the "Golden Bible." From this important mission Elder Mulliner returned to Nauvoo, arriving there July 2nd, 1843, having traveled all the way from Cambria, N. Y., in twenty-four days with a light horse and buggy. Soon afterwards he located as a shoemaker at Monmouth, Warren County, Ill., where he remained doing good business until the following spring, when he returned to Nauvoo. At the October Conference, 1845, he was called to act as one of the Presidents of the Twelfth Quorum of Seventies, and subsequently received his endowments in the Nauvoo Temple. In 1846, at the time of the exodus, he prepared an outfit with which to travel west, but the authorities of the Church asked more. Two clergymen were snowed up in a carriage on the Faversham road last night, and more were rescued with difficulty after having suffered severely. Reports from the provinces show that the blizzard prevailed from St. George's Channel to the North Sea. One of the effects of the severe storm has been the stoppage of the South Wales iron works. All road traffic is stopped and trains delayed. Near Hastings, Sussex County, five fishing smacks were wrecked and three fishermen drowned. The others barely escaped. At one period of the storm it was said the mail boat plying between Dover and Calais, and on her way to the latter port, foundered. The report turned out to be incorrect, the mail boat having reached Calais in safety, but in a terrible battered condition. In addition to the blockaded trains already referred to, several are snowed him to remain a little longer and let some up at different places along the various one else have the use of his outfit. Elder roads. In all cases the passengers have Mulliner readily consented to do this, resuffered severely. Several persons are turned to Monmouth, where he during reported missing and it is believed ther the following winter earned another outhave found death in the snow drifts fit, with which he traveled to Winter while endeavoring to reach places of Quarters in the spring of 1847. There he shelter. This afternoon there are only was asked a second time to part with his In Somersetshire, Dorsetshire, meagre telegrams from various parts animals and wagons for the benefit of of England and Wales. The lines, acHampshire and Gloucestershire there others, which he did as willingly as the first time. He then took his family to are snowdrifts many feet deep, render-cording to these dispatches, are gener ally blocked. Savannah, Mo., where he remained one ing field work impossible. In these LONDON, March 10.-Cornwall conyear and then started for the valley once counties the mail service is completely In passing through Kanesville, stopped, and the farmers suffer im- tinues to be isolated from the rest of he met Apostle Orson Hyde who desired mense loss in cattle and sheep. An- England because of the recent blizzard. him to remain with him. Immediately other instance of a snow-blockaded Many wrecks are reported on that coast Elder Mulliner bought a house at Kanes-train upon a road familiar to Ameri- and at Lands-end. A number of ville, left his teanis and wagons at Broth- cans who cross the channel to and people are frozen to death. er Hyde's disposal, and went to work to from the continent, is the passenger A foreign steamship, name unknown, earn another outfit to go west the next train which left Charing Cross Rail- was wrecked near Dartsmouth, Devonyear, but when the spring of 1849 came. Elder Mulliner was sent on a business road Station at midnight for Norfolk-shire, during the recent storm, and all mission to the East, from which, how-store. It was caught in huge the crew and passengers were drowned. ever, he returned the same year; and in snowdrift outside Folkstone. The pas- The British ship Dryad, bound for 1850, having earned another good outfit sengers were not rescued until this Valparaiso, was also wrecked off Start to cross the plains with, he came on to morning when many of them were Point, near Devonshire. Her crew of Great Salt Lake Valley with his family. severely ill, owing to the fact that they twenty-four were drowned. He bought a lot in Great Salt Lake City were almost frozen. for $500-the lot now occupied by Walker Brothers' store and adjacent buildingsstarted a tannery and shoe shop and built a comfortable dwelling house. In 1858, during the time of the move, he bought a mill at American Fork, and also built a mill on Spring Creek, between that town and Lehi, where he resided until quite recently. A few years ago he removed part of his family to Orderville, Kane County, where he spent some two years, and then returned to Utah County. A BLIZZARD IN ENGLAND. LONDON, March 9.-A terrible bliz zard prevails throughout the southwest portion of England. The storm is the severest on record in that part of the country. Many small ves els were wrecked off the coast. The loss of live stock is also reported heavy. A storm has been raging in Scotland and the north of England for a week past, but not until yesterday did it come in the south of England. All Jast night it raged in fury. The channel steamers had a very tough time The passengers had neither food nor Railroad the trains are delayed for LONDON, March 10.-A dispatch Among the schooners lost off Start Point was the Lunesdale. Four of her crew were drowned. It is already known that at least seventy lives have zard and, in addition, at least ten men been lost off the coast during the bliz perished from the cold after reaching the shore. It is feared the list of wrecks and the record of lives lost are far from being complete, as a number of other vessels are known to be missing. Many points in-land where the storm has been most severely felt are still isolated from the surrounding country, and days must elapse before through freight and passenger traffic will be entirely restored. Large gangs of laborers have been sent in all direc tions to clear the lines; the loss to farm stock is enormous and will cause much suffering among the farmers. The water mains at Plymouth are snowed up. People of that city have had no water since last Monday. A force of two hundred soldiers have been sent to assist the waterworks employes in clearing the mains, so that they can be used. W. G. Stewart et al., asked for a remission of the license imposed upon assayers. Committee on license. Lorenzo D. Young and twenty others, asked for an extension of water mains on Fourth East Street. Com mittee on waterworks. W. S. Hanson and others asked for an extension of watermains on South Temple Street from Fifth to Eighth West Street. Committee on waterworks. E. P. Sears asked to be allowed to pile building material at 27 South Franklin Avenue. Granted. Mrs. R. Regel asked to be relieved from paying the assessment for extending the water mains of Second West Street, on the ground that she had been assessed for the same purpose once before. Committee on waterworks. Walter Westerman asked to lease the sand beds on the Jordan River near the Black Bridge. Committee on public grounds. REPORTS O. K. six-foot sidewalk and balance of the disThe committee on finance reported eight-foot walk. The cost as estimated trict covered by this report, to lay an that they had examined the annual re-will be for the six-foot walk, 66 cents per ports of the auditor, recorder and city front foot or 11 cents per square foot: and attorney and found them correct. for the eight-foot walk, 80 cents per front Adopted. foot or 10 cents per square foot. That the The committee on municipal laws, sidewalk follow the contour of the presto whom was referred the petition of ent grades as nearly as practicable. This the pawnbrokers, also the ordinance plan, if carried out, will give a good sidelicensing and regulating pawnbrokers, walk and crosswalks to the railway starecommended that the petition betions on two of the main streets leading east from East Temple Street." granted with such amendments as were offered to the ordinance. Filed. FOR A LEVELING INSTRUMENT. The city engineer reported that the bill of Buff & Berger, amounting to the sum of $142.45, for a leveling instrument, was justly due and he recommended that the same be paid. The report was adopted and the amount appropriated. FROM THE COMMITTEE ON LICENSE. The committee on license recommended that Showell and Demorest be allowed a rebate on their license of $4.60; that the unexpired portion of Jeff. Campbell's license be remitted, and that W. H. Chapman be granted a free license. Adopted. COMPLETION OF NOTICE. The recorder reported the completion of notice for extending water mains on Thirteenth East Street. The report was adopted and the assessment confirmed. E. B. Wicks asked that the applicaTHE SWITCH CAN BE LAID. tion to grant a license to sell liquor in the Franklin Avenue Theatre be re-mended that the petition of Watson The committee on streets recom. fused. Committee on license. Bros. to lay a railway switch on Sixth West Street be granted. Adopted. E. E. Darling et al. asked that the intersection of First and Second Streets be graded. Committee on streets. Burton, Groesbeck & Company et al. asked that no more liquor licenses be granted on First East Street between Second and Third South Streets. Com mittee on licenses. O. P. Pratt asked to be relieved from the assessment for extending water mains, on the ground that the mains do not abut on his property. Referred to the city attorney. At the conclusion of the reading of the report Councilman Spafford sprang suddenly to his feet and with great than twelve months have passed since earnestness said: Gentlemen, more we became members of this council and yet we have done nothing, and I am getting tired of such trifling. I move that this council meet from night to night until the paving and joint building questions have been disposed of. A hearty round of applause was given Mr. Spafford by the mud bespattered spectators in the auditorium of the council chamber. On motion of Mr. Pembroke the re port was made the order for a special meeting to be held on Friday evening next. PAWNBROKERS' ORDINANCE PASSED. The ordinance licensing and regulating pawnbrokers, published in a recent issue of the NEWS, was taken up and passed. AGREEMENT WITH JAMES H. BACON. This agreement, made the day of -, A. D. 1891, between Salt Lake City, a municipal corporation, in the Territory of Utah, party of the first part, and James H. Bacon of said city, party of the second part, witnesseth: that the said The committee on streets reported as party of the first part agrees to sell and as follows: BRICK SIDEWALKS. cheapness and cost of repairs that hard or "We are of the opinion that for utility, vitrified brick walks take the precedence. Much of the prejudice against brick pavements or sidewalks and the doubt as to their durability, is based upon the experience in using common building brick | that were improperly or insufficiently burned. We do not doubt that if properThe Burton Gardner Company askedly burned brick be used according to the that the Utah Central railway switch ou Eighth South Street be allowed to remain. Committee on streets. plans and specifications prepared by our engineer that these objections will be overcome. Suitable brick are made here and the money expended in the manufacture of same and laying of sidewalk would not go outside of the city. The The following report was read from immediate necessity of good walks in this the city attorney: FROM THE CITY ATTORNEY. as convey to the said party of the second part, his heirs, representatives or the county of Salt Lake, Territory of signs, all that parcel of land situate in Utah, described as follows: All of block 48, plat A, Salt Lake City survey, in said city, provided said party of the second part, his heirs, representatives, or assigns shall cause to be built from said premises, westerly, a distance of 200 miles, a standard guage railroad, and pay said party of the first part $150,000, as follows: The building of said railroad to be commenced within ninety days from the date of this contract, and to be prosecu ed continuously until completed, excepting only delays caused by the elements, or otherwise unavoidable. Said railroad to be built to the east line of city cannot be over estimated. We would Nevada within eighteen months from recommend that the city engineer furnish this date, and the balance of the 200 miles estimates for the cost of laying brick to be built within two years from this walks on the following streets and side-date. When said 200 miles are built and walks: In district Nos. 1 and 2, both trains running thereon, and said $150,000 sides of First South, from west line of paid to the said city, which Seventh East to the east line of Fourth be paid when said two hundred miles of West; and both sides of West Temple from First South to South Temple. In districts 3 and 4, both sides of Second South, from west line of Seventh East to west line of Fifth West. We recommend that a new district be created called district No. 12, to include both sides of South Temple, from the east line of East Temple to the east line of Third West. shall road are built, then said city by its mayor shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to said Bacon, his heirs, representatives or assigns, a good and sufficient deed conveying to said Bacon, his heirs, representatives and assigns, all of the right, title and interest of said city in and to said premises. I herewith report as follows: By direction of the committee on municipal laws a bill for an ordinance further regulating the issuance of liquor licenses with in Salt Lake City. The ordinance forbids the issuance of any liquor license to be used at any place in Salt Lake City, within twenty rods on the same street of any public or private school, hospital, church or other place of public worship; that hereafter no liquor license shall be granted against a remonstrance, signed by property owners holding two-thirds of the foot frontage on the face of the block, where said license shall be grantIt is also understood and agreed that Fur her, that where permanent walks said Bacon his heirs, representatives or ed at the same meeting of the Council, at are already laid that the abbutting prop- assigns shall not have possession of said which the petition therefor is presented. erty be not taxed, and further, that where premises until two hundred miles of said In regard to appropriating the Eighth the improvements are not of a permanent road shail have been built and said $150,Ward Square as a site for the city and nature and where abbutting owners pre-000 paid to said city, and from that time county building the attorney suggested shall be allowed some other material, that they said Bacon, his heirs, representatives or that it would be politic to await the walks, provided they do so immedi- session of said premises. construct such assigns shall be entitled to have the posdecision of the court in the case of ately. This is а matter that can It is also expressly understood and Pickard vs. Salt Lake City before call- be adjusted fairly by the board of equal- agreed that if said Bacon, his heirs, reping upon him for an opinion as to the ization. From Second East Street east resentatives and assigns, do not comlegality of the appropriation. Adopted. we would recommend the laying of a mence the active and earnest construc fer to |