examined this document it would be morning at 4 o'clock symptoms of
interesting to know what he thought of pneumonia appeared, and since that
the legal elucidation. He could hardly time he had not left his bed. Every-
have been infatuated with its logic, al- thing was done that medical skill and
that he is in line with its sentiment- grew more feeble until the hour of his
though he has given ample evidence nursing could do, but he gradually
the reduction of home rule in Utah death. His wife, Mrs. Electa Bullock,
and its concentration in a few officials is at Laramie, Wyoming, or soine
in whose selection and appointment point between that place and this city.
the people have no choice.
She stopped off at Laramie, on her re-
turn from her trip to Washington as a
delegate to the North American Wo
man
some relatives.
Suffrage Convention, to visit

Three telegrams have been sent to various points to basten her return.

"It may not be out of place to call your attention to the fact that the right was given to the Governor of this Territory to "appoint the time and place of holding court in each" of the districts of this Territory by section 1916, Revised Statutes, United States; and it might be further noted that section 3 of the act of Congress of June 23, 1874, entitled, "An act in rela- The corresondents of Senator Edtion to courts and judicial officers in the munds appear to have forgotten that Territory of Utah," to be found on page Congress empowered the Legislative 107 of supplement to Revised Statutes of Assembly to enact laws "on all rightthe United States, Vol. I, does not interfere with the right already given our ful subjects of legislation." This cerGovernor. It may also be noted that tainly includes authority to designate the Utah legislature has passed enact- the places of holding terms of court. Telegrams have also been sent to ments fixing the place of holding terms Surely the representatives of the people Isaac Bullock, Jr., in Wyoming, and to of court, but as this was a power given ought not to be charged with usurpa- Mrs. Tucker at Scofield, breaking the the Governor, and never given to the tion for performing a duty so simple sad news. Piedmont is the nearest Legislature of Utah, the said legislation on and so plainly within their right as point from which Mr. Bullock can re the subject by the Legislature of Utah was that. without and contrary to authority and ceive word by telegraph. From Pie It is the duty of every patriotic citi-mo t the message will have to be car consequently void. (Compiled Laws of Utah, Vol. II, p. 454). Section 1865, Re-zen to contend for the rights of the ried by horse-back, a distance of forty vised Statutes, United States, has a bear- sovereign people, opposing every en- miles, to the Bullock ranche. ing upon this question also. croachment upon their prerogatives President Bullock was born in the We did not think it necessary to get under a republican form of govern- northern part of the State of New York many subscribers for the petition, and got ment. This contention should enter in October, 1824, and was consequenta list only of the leading men. into the minutest details, and it is ly 66 years and 5 months old at the regretful that men can be found in time of his death. He was one of the the commuuity who, on account of early settlers of Provo, and had creating local professional business, assisted in will urge a reduction of popular rights ber of other opening up a numand their bestowal upon new countries. He an official has held a great many important who has exercised all the energy and offices in Provo City and in Utah cunning of which he is possessed to ob- County, both in civil and religious tain a kingly power over Utah. He capacities. He was the first attorney has also sought, by all his resources of admitted to the bar of the First Distriv device, to produce the disfranchise Court of this Territory. In 1863 be ment of a majority of the people-in-was elected mayor of Provo City, bu cluding, we presume, the correspondents with Mr. Edmunds. No man should perform auy act or utter a word that would, in the smallest degree, tend to the production of fetters which would shackle himself.

"Hoping that you will make the amendment asked, and confer upon the Governor a power that is consistent with previous legislation on the subject by Congress and which will authorize him to exercise a power which is doubtful whether he now possesses, and thus confer upon the people of northern Utah a right long needed. Yours respectfully,

CHAS. H. HART,
RICH & RICH.

TO HON. GEO. F. EDMUNDS,

United States Senate."

There is one feature of the foregoing correspondence which is brought into prominence by its absence-modesty; These young men who have exhibited such deep interest in the public local welfare and shown such feverish impatience at the mere prospect of a delay of benefits, inform the stoical

pacity he has been a hard and faithful worker. He has traveled abroad ad of the earth and has baptized many preached the Gospel to the nations At one time he was president of the Lonion conference. He has been s home missionary in the Utah Stake of Zion for several years. This is a

For min

years he was a member of the big council of this Stake and at the hour of his death be was president of the Higi Priest's quorum.

was sent to prison for the observance o About two years ago Brother Bulloc his religious principles. He had

resigned in favor of his brother, Kimbal Bullock, on account of his numerou other duties. In addition to the civil offices mentioned above, he has at vari ous periods held the following: Shent of Utah County, deputy United State conclusion, a striking paragraph clip the Provo city council, member of the We will here introduce, as a fitting Marshal for this district, alderman in ped from the American Sentinel: Utah legislature, and United States Senator from the State of Vermont that "If the citizens do not regard their lib-mail contractor. In a religious ca the passing of enactments by the Utah erties with a jealous care, if they do not Legislature fixing the place of holding vigorously oppose the first indication of terms of court was a ursurpation by steps in unjust taxa ion, if they do not despotism, if they do not re-ist the first that honorable body of "a power given an agonize the minor violations of the the Governor." This was a power principle of religious equality, the time never given to the Legislature." will come, and it may not be very far Therefore the conclusion is inevitable distant, when the rights of the people -the enactments were "contrary to will be trampled in the dust. authority and cons quently void." danger that has been seen and emphasized This is, on its face, a strong plea for by the greatest of our American statestyranny and autocracy, and a knock-men. It is a trait of human nature too down argument against popular rule. manifest to escape the observing mind. Unfortunately for its safety the gentle-ings of our early statesmen utter this Some of the most impor ant of the writmen who made use of it overlooked the warning to the American people, and the necessity for the preservation of the truth of their words is so evident to the consistency of one part of their state-lover of our free institutions that we canment with the rest of it. Had they not disregard them with impunity." grasped this essential they would have written the closing paragraph, which asks Mr. Edmundswhom the Logan gentlemen seem to regard as the entire Senate-to "confer upon the Governor a power that is consistent with prevsous legislation on the subject by Congress and which will authorize him to exercise a power which it is doubtful whether he now pos sesses, and thus confer upon the people of Northern Utah a right long needed." Such a statement as that after having previously asserted that Congress had already given such power to the Governor, and that to exercise it by the Legislative Assembly was consequent ly without authority and void, is, to say the least, a trifle absurd. If the astute Senator from Vermont critically

never

THE LATE PRESIDENT BULLOCK.

In our issue of March 21 we published a brief notice, sent by telephone, of the death of President Isaac Bullock, one of the old pioneers of Utah, which occurred at Provo that morning. The Provo Enquirer furnishes the following interesting facts concerning the life and labors of the deceased:

President Isaac Bullock departed this life at 7:45 o'clock this morning at the residence of his son-in-law, A. O. Smoot, Jr. He had been ailing for three weeks past, with la grippe, but on Tuesday he went out as one of the appraisers of the Seaton Milner estate and caught cold. On Wednesday

hardy constitution, but it was shattere by the many severe trials and ordesh which he has passed through. Hi health has been gradually failing fo several years past.

BERLIN, March 25.-A conferenc in which a number of prominent Ger man manufacturers took part and a which the Chicago World's Fair and the prospects of Germany there were discussed took place today. The manu facturers concurred in the belief that a representation worthy of the German empire could only be obtained if the government commissioner to the Unit ed States were clothed with powers to insure to the manufacturers of Ger many who might contemplate exhibite ing, all the advantages which German industry is entitled to.

THE BANNOCK STAKE OF ZION.

BY ANDREW JENSON.

n the spring of 1857, President Smith in visited Utah, but returned to t Limni on the 8th of May, 1857, in ipany with President Brigham ung and a strong escort who came ay a visit to the Sints in Oregon. e following interesting account of visit to Fort Limbi was written a member of the party and pub ed in the DESERET NEWs of June 1857:

soon enters the Plain and runs a more

with the Goose Creek Mountains. The the Three Buttes, there being no other
Bannock is a small stream with a slug-apparent hindrance to traveling across
gish current until it is joined by its right- that portion of Shanghi Plain, except
hand fork, which considerably increases breaking a track through the sage which
the volume and speed, after which it almost every where densely clothes it.
westerly course in a narrow, steep-banked
channel to its outlet into the Snake River,
some three miles below the mouth of the
Portneuf. A few small willows, birch
and alder fringe the Bannock.

His Excellency Governor Young,
sidents Heber C. Kimball and Daniel
Wells and Elders Orson Hyde and
nklin D. Richards, with several
ers, left Salt Lake City, on Friday, the
a of April, to visit the settlement on
mon River, to rest their minds, to in-
orate their bodies, and to examine the
ermediate country. The company
ched Brigham City on the afternoon
the 25th, attended meeting there in the
enoon of Sunday, the 26th, were joined
Elder Lorenzo Snow and others of that
y and several from Ogden City, North
den and Willow Creek, and in the after-dered nearly useless by alkaline patches,
on passed on to Bear River ferry, crossed sloughs, and the numerous spring runs
er and camped on the right bank and that burst forth along the base of the up-
ganized by unanimously electing Pres-land banks. There is a narrow margin of
ents Brigham Young, Heber C. Kim- good land along Ross Creek, and the first
Il and Daniel H. Wils, presidents of low hills east of the road are well clothed
→ company; Eiders Orson Hyde, Frank- with grass, but timber would have to be
D. Richards and Lorenzo Snow, chap- obtained from the rugged mountains
ns; Robert T. Burton, captain; Jesse C. some twenty or more miles further east.
itle, marshal; Warren S. Snow, ser- "We reached Snake River by noon of
ant of the guard; Albert Carrington, May 1st, when a wharf was built on the
esse W. Fox, and T. D. Brown, engi-left bank and the boats at once prepared
eers; James W. Cummings and T. D.
rown, clerks; with a captain to each of
e five tens. The organized company
mprised 115 men, 22 women and 5 boys,
ith 168 horses and mules, 54 wagons
ad carriages, and two light boats, with
ecking planks for ferrying.

it, was about ten feet wide by one and a "Spring Creek, where the road strikes half deep, with a gravelly bed and rapid current; is fringed with small willows, birch, and alders, interspersed with a few small cottonwoods, and either sinks or forms a pond a few miles below. The valley here opens into Shanghi Plain, has an average width of about five miles, a general course north, by 30 degrees west, is rather poorly grassed and is bounded on the east by a long, lime stone spur range from the Rocky Mountains and on the west by the high, rugged, east flanking range of the Salmon River Mouutains.

"The ascent to the summit of Spring Creek Pass, a distance of 37 miles and 330 miles from Salt Lake City, is very smooth and gradual, as is also the descent, with the exception of a few smooth ascents and descent in the pass, caused by table land cross ranges connecting the Rocky and Salmon River Mountains.

"From the mouth of Bannock Valley the road enters upon the southern border of Shanghi Plain, and, keeping a general course a few degrees east of north, intersects the emigrant road from the States to Oregon some six miles south by east from Fort Hall, and follows that road across the bridges over the Portneuf and Ross Creek, when it leaves the old road to the right and strikes Snake River from one-fourth to one-half a mile below the mouth of Blackfoot Fork, and 193 miles from Salt Lake City. The Portneuf issues from the hills a few miles above the bridge, which is some six miles southeast of Fort Hall, and at the bridge runs with a rapid current five feet deep by forty feet wide, being swollen by the melting of the snow. The narrow strip "From this pass the course is northof bottom land upon this stream is ren-westerly¡down the right hand fork of Salmon River, from near the source of its headwaters in the Rocky Mountains to Fort Limbi, a distance of 49 miles, and 379 from Salt Lake City. A few miles northeast from the mouth of the Little Muddy, a small affluent to the right bank of Deer Creek, which is the first branch of Salmon River intersected by the road, is a narrow gorge in the Rocky Mountains (which here are not very lofty and terminate abruptly on the bench land) through which it is said to be only three for ferrying, and by 10 p.m. the company or four miles from the waters of the Saland their vehicles were all safely crossed mon to the waters of the Missouri River. over, at an average of nine minutes to a The right hand fork of Salmon River, wagon, including a rest of about half an from its source in the Rocky and Salmon hour. The animals were all safely swara River Mountains to its junction with the on the morning of the 2nd. This river, left hand fork, about twenty miles below though very low for the time of year, is at Limhi, has but little bottom land and no the ferry about 130 yards wide and eight valley, and may be said to ruu in merely feet deep in the center of the channel an open canyon. It has the usual willow, with a strong current has but litile bottom birch and alder fringe, until within a few land so far as we traveled upon its bank miles above Limhi, from which point above the ferry, a distance of 56%1⁄2 miles small cottonwoods thickly cover in a northeasterly direction, is plentifully narrow bottoms. The left hand fork of supplied with islands, has the customary Salmon River rises in Kamas Valley in willow fringe with a few small, scattering the Salmon River Mountains, at an esticottonwoods, a few current bushes just mated dis ance of 120 miles west of Limblossoming, still fewer dwarf cedar, and hi, and pursuing a northeasterly course, is crossed by several belts of black vol-joins the right hand fork, and both run canic rock.

"Among the pebbles and boulders thickly strewn on the banks of Snake River, sand stones and lime stones of various qualities are the characteristic kinds, interspersed with numerous specimens of granite and a few of porphery.

the

in a still narrower canyon for about twenty miles, when the river enters the mountains. The left fork of Salmon River is stated to be nearly twice the size of the right, which at Fort Limhi was some twenty-five yards wide and two feet deep, with a rapid current and gravelly bed.

"On the 27th and 28th the general course as a little west of north, up Bear River > the ford, then deflecting westerly into falad Valley, which opens onto Bear iver, and up that valley, crossing sever1 small tributaries to the Malad, also its eft hand fork, and camping on the 28th ear the head spring of the right hand ranch of the right fork of the Malad where the Hudspeth Cut-off on the California road crosses. The Malad Valley, from its southern extremity to the cross range of mountains between the main right and left forks, has a varying width of from four to ten miles, has a generally fertile soil, a surface peculiarly well adapted to irrigation, is well grassed, tolerably well watered, rather scantily supplied with fuel and timber, and is "The ford on Snake River is 131⁄2 miles "The company reached Fort Limhi at bounded on the east and west by ranges above the ferry, at a point where three 6 p.m. on Friday May 8th. This fort is a of low mountains, the points and peaks islands divide the river into four chan- neat stockade inclosing a space sixteen of the western range being smoothly nels, but the water, though low for the rods square, and has a large and securely rounded and covered with grass nearly season, was too high for crossing with fenced vard for animals, and a small, to their summits. Taken altogether it is wagons, as was also the Blackfoot Fork. grist mill not yet finished, though suffimuch the best locality for settlement of "Should travel ever warrant the alter-ciently so to be used. any observed on the route beyond Bear ation, the ferrying point should be near River. the ford and a bridge be made across “From the junction with the Hudspeth | Blackfoot, thus shortening and otherwise Cut-off the new track made by the settl-bettering the route. ers in going to Limbi leads northwest- "Meeting was held in the forenoon of erly, and by a smooth, somewhat winding and gradual ascent, in about six miles reaches the summit of the northern rim of the Basin, 133 miles from Salt Lake City. From this point the descent is rather rapid down the crest of a nar-union, conduct in traveling, etc. row and rocky spur ridge into Bannock Valley, which has a general course north, ten degrees west, averages about four miles wide, is tolerably well grassed in some portions, very sparsely timbered, opens onto Shanghi Plain (the greatest desert region surrounding the Three Buttes), and is bounded on the east by the Basin rim and its spur ranges, and on the west by a rugged range which blends

Sunday, May 3rd, during which Elders
Lorenzo Snow, Franklin D. Richards and
Orson Hyde, and Presidents Brigham
Young and Heber C. Kimball made in-
structive and appropriate remarks upon

"The general course from leaving
Snake River to where the road strikes
Spring Creek is west by south for 434
miles, crossing a small sluggish stream
called Kamas, and passing by a small
pond named Muddy Lake, into which the
Kamas empties.

"The circuitous route from near Fort Hall to Spring Creek is caused by the want of grass and water in the region of

*

There are

two good sized fields mostly plowed and sown, in which the crops look promising, considering the coolness and consequent lateness of the season. The big and red sided salmon are said to be very plentiful here in their season, for which we were about a month too soon; but a few redside 1 saimon were purchased from the Indians. They are a fine flavored fish, and average about two and a half feet in length. A few Bannock Indians had pitched their lodges adjacent to the fort, among whom Governor Young distrib uted many presents of blankets, etc., on the 11th of May, which were very gladly received.

"During the stay of four days and a half at Fort Limhi, the weather was generally cool and cloudy, affording but little opportunity for observations for latitude and longitude.

"Sunday, May 10th, a meeting was held in the fort, and President Brigham Young, Elders Orson Hyde, Franklin D. Richards and Lorenzo Snow, Presidents Heber C. Kimball and Daniel H. Wells, Patriarch and President John Young and President Thomas S. Smith severally addressed the congregation, and gave some excellent instructions. In the afternoon, Snack, the head chief of this tribe of the Bannocks, and several other Indians, came into the fort and had a smoke and a long and very friendly talk, in which Arrapeen, head chief of the Utahs and who accompanied the expedition, participated.

"Sand stone of an excellent quality for grind stones and a very superior chalk are found a few miles below the fort, and coal is reported about twenty-five miles below, but the beds have not been examined. *

*

We left Fort Limhi at noon of Wednesday, May 13th, and arrived in Salt Lake City at 6:30 p. m. of May 26th, having had a very pleasant trip out and back, and been absent 33 days.

"The weather was very pleasant for traveling, except the evening, night and day of May 7th and 8th, during which it snowed quite rapidly at times, but soon melted; the evening, night and morning of May 14th and 15th, which were rendered very disagreeable by a high, cold north wind, causing the coldest weather any of the company had ever experienced at like date, and forming ice more than half an inch in buckets, and finishing up with a snow squall in Spring Creek Pass from 11 a. m. until noon of the 15th, and a heavy rain on Snake River from 7 a. m. of May 18th to 11:30 a. m. of the 19th, which thoroughly soaked the very dry soil to the depth of several inches, and made the road quite muddy until evening.

Sec nd Crossing of Deer Creek.........
First Fork Salmon River.............. .....................................
Second Fork Salon River...............
Camp on Salmon River......
Summit of Mountain Sp gs...
Second Creek Crossing....
Fort Limhi.

34° W.

N 4312 W.

Junction with Oregon and California Road..
Portneuf Kiver .........................................................

Ross' Fork....

Snake River Ferry........................................
Snake River Ford................................................................................
Snake River..........

Cedar Point..................................................
Snake R ver.

............

Leave Snake River............................

Muddy La e..............
Summit oint....................
Spring Creek....

Camp on Spring Creek....

First Crossing of Spring Creek..
Second Cro sing of spring Creek......
Third Crossing of Spring Creek......
Bear Creek.

Summit of Divide.

"At Bear River, returning. Governor Young expressed his unalloyed gratification with the peace, good order, harmony and alacrity invariably displayed by each "The compass courses and odometer member of the company and welcome readings and calculations were made by them to the free use of two boats whih Territorial Surveyor General Je-se W. he had built and transported to Snake Fox. Two brass odometers were used, River and back expressly for their use, and it is highly creditable to the correcta distance of 193 miles, also to the ferri-ness of the instruments and the care and age at Bear River without charge, which accuracy of Mr. Fox, that they differed was quite a sum at the legal rates of toll only about one-half a mile in the whole for so large a company. A united and 379 miles, which is easily accounted for most heartfelt vote of thanks was re- in the difference of driving, noon halting turned to our President for his fatherly and camping with two vehicles, over so care and kindness, for his prudent mode long a distance in even the same comof regulating the travel, noon halts, and pany." camps, and for his most excellent example, counsels and instruction during the journey.

N. 469 W.

8. 8840 W.

N. 120 W.

been very friendly) made a sudde break upon the herd and drove off mos of the stock belonging to the fort, a the same killing Geo. McBride and James Miller, and wounding President Thos. S. Smith, Fountain Welch. L W. Shurtliff, Oliver Robinson and Andrew Quigley. A man named J. H. Powell, who came into the Fa Head country with Geo. Stevens' su veying party, and was afterwards the employ of persons under Mr. Bun Soon after President Young's party late U. S. surveyor in Utah, was with returned to Utah, more farming the Indians and assisted them♫ "In the different settlements where the land was surveyed at Fort Limhi, and plundering, wounding and killing company halted, they were very hospita- an addition made to the fort; and at a brethren. bly received and entertained, and at Brig-meeting held May 27, 1857, it was deham City, on their return, the whole cided to build another fort on the first company were seated at tables tastefully creek to the north. This second fort arranged and sumptuously furnished in the large basement room of the public (where a few houses subsequently were hall, the upper rooms being not yet fin-built, and several of the brethren spent the following winter) was laid off by President Smith and others two days later (May 29th).

ished.

"The road track is generally very good (being smooth and level for a mountainous country), with the exception of a few boggy places and bench land hills on Salmon River, the volcanic belts and sandy stretches on Shanghi Plain, and the northern slope of the rim of the Basin. "With regard to the extensive region of country passed through beyond the Malad Valley, suffice it to say that so far as it was observed on the immediate line of travel, or could be seen to the right and left of the route and beyond Limhi, the whole of that extensive region is of but little worth, save to answer the purpose of connecting territory, which might otherwise be separated by a great gulf. "In this brief sketch of the journey and country but little allusion has been made to courses and distances, they being given in the accompanyeng table. The distances include the turnings to and from

noon halts and camps,

left for his home in Utah, leaving
June 14, 1857, President Smith again
Thomas Bingham in charge at Fort
Limhi during his absence. He re.
turned Oct. 22nd following, and then
remained with the colony until it was
broken up the following spring.

A pretty good crop of wheat and
other grain was raised in the fall of
1857, which in fact was the only crop
of any consequence raised by the
brethren while on that mission.

On the 25th of February, 1858, while several of the brethren were busily engaged in mowing hay, hauling timber, etc., a large party of Bannock and Shoshone Indians (many of whom lived around the fort, and had previously

the

mon River missionaries, in describing
Elder Thomas Corless, one of the Se
this Indian outrage, says that he and
a number of other brethren were at the
fort when the alarm was given that
the Indians were in the act of stealing
the herd, comprising the cows and oxen
belonging to the settlers, which were
east of the fort. Immediately a party
grazing on the low hills a short distance
of ten men (nine on foot and one on
horseback) started out to assist the
herders (Brothers Andrew Quigley and
O. Rose), and were endeavoring to
head off the stock, when Indians to the
number of one hundred and fifty of
more surrounded them and com
menced shooting with guns and bows
and arrows. The brethren, seeing the
overwhelming number of the enemy,
soon began to retreat towards the fort
but the Indians tried to cut them
and the brethren were compelled
fight their way through the ranks of
the savages, while the bullets and al
rows were flying thick and fast all

to

d them. George McBride, who he only white man on horseback, red out some distance ahead of mpanions, and was killed at the encement; and Brother Quigley, of the herders, and Fountain were wounded at the same One ball passed through Brother s' hat, another cut off the knot neck-tie and a third grazed his

ar.

Elder Corless has always bed it to the miraculous interpo. of the Almighty that the brethere not all killed.

sident Smith, in his private jourives the following account of this

ffair:

em,

then through Oliver Robinson's right
hand. James Miller was shot through in
the same manner as Geo. McBride; he
ran a few steps and fell dead; the Indians
stripped him of everything.
"All the brethren came in that night
except James Miller, whose dead body
was found the next morning by ten men
I had dispatched for that purpose."

dition.

The following day (Feb. 26th) the remains of Geo. McBride and James Miller were buried by their companions. The other brethren who were wounded subsequently recovered. On Saturday, the 27th, some of the brethren made preparations to cache their wheat, as they were desirous of ursday, February 25th, 1958. As I returning to Utah, but at a meeting turning from the field to the fort I held on the Sunday (the 28th) Presilarge party of Indians riding at fullent Smith asked the missionaries if toward the point where our herd they were satisfied that they had filled grazing. Quick as possible I un- their mission, and would they return ssed my horses, and, moun'ing one without word from President Young? proceeded, in company with The reply being in the negative, a Barnard, who was also mounted, vote to send an express to Salt Lake rd the herd. After going about a City p evailed, and that same evening, we discovered that the Indians had after dark, Ezra Barnard and Baldwin possession of all our stock, and that Watts started on this dangerous expewere driving back the brethren who gone in pursuit ahead of us. As as the Indians saw us, six of their iors took after us, when we changed ourse toward the other brethren, but g that we could not gain the point e they were, we turned toward the and as we rode down the bench, the ins, who pursued us, fired upon us, of the bullets passing through my enders and lodged in my horse's jaw, a little below the joint. The e jumped, whereby my left stirrup ce, and I, losing my balance, was wn off the horse. In the fall I lost pistol. Fortunately Brother Barnard ht my horse, but before I could reach , a ball passed through the rim of my near my right ear, and while I was in act of mounting, another ball passed ugh the upper part of my right arm, ttle below the elbow, as the Indians inued shooting all the time. We hed the fort without further diffiy, but in running in I had to hold my dover the wound of my animal to vent him from bleeding to death.

On the 1st of March the brethren went to work repairing the fort and building bastions with the timber which had been hauled from the lower fort. This labor was continued for several days and the brethren also threshed their oats, worked on the mill-race, started to make a cannon, etc.

On the 8th some Indians brought back twenty-eight head of the stolen stock and pretended to be very friend ly. The following day they brought back seven cows and a yearling.

On the 20th the mail and several

brethren arrived from Salt Lake City, bringing the news that 150 men were coming to help the missionaries away. On the 22nd this company, in command of Colonel Andrew Cunningham, arrived, and on the 24th the colonel and President Smith, with sixty other men, visited the camp of Soon after we got in, the brethren the Indians, who delivered to President had gone out on foot also returned ith three cows and calves and six h Brother Welch, whom the Indians i shot in the small of the back, the ponies in payment for cattle they had I lodging against the back bone. He killed.

i also been struck twice on the head

On the 26th ten men started from the and messages for President Young, fort for Salt Lake City with the mail stating the condition of the camp, as it was feared at the headquarters of the Church in Salt Lake City that all the brethren of the mission had been murdered by the Indians.

men who had left with the mail on the 26th, in charge of Elder B. F. Cummings, were suddenly and furiously fired upon by a party of Indians in Creek, on the 31st of March, 1858. On ambush, while traveling up Bannock this occasion Bailey Lake, one of the party, was killed by the Indians, who also robbed the company of eleven horses. The rest of the brethren reached the settlements in Utah a few days later.

Thus ended the famous Salmon River mission which proved to be one of the most dangerous missions ever performed among the Indians in the North; and no attempt has since been made to establish any settlement of the Saints on Salmon River; most of the lands cultivated by the missionaries are now included in the Lemhi Indian Reservation.

Different theories have been advanced as to the cause of this sudden and unexpected Indian outbreak, but the most correct one is perhaps based upon the fact that the U. S. soldiers, under General A. S. Johnston (who were encamped in the mountains near Fort Bridger, in the winter of 1857-58) were influencing the Indians at that time to commit all manner of depredations upon the "Mormons." It was even asserted by parties who ought to know that the officers of the army were offering the Indians a certain amount for every "Mormon” scalp they could secure. At any rate, it was generally believed in these early days that the Salmon River outbreak was due to the influence of the soldiers. Hubert H. Bancroft, in his history of Idaho, page 403, says:

Mormon settlers, knowing that the gov"The Nez Perces became jealous of the ernment was opposed to the Mormon occupation of Utah, and fearing lest they should be driven out to overrun the Flathead country, if they were permitted to retain a footing there."

The whole Salmon River region remained in undisturbed possession of the aborigines until 1866, when mining and Salmon City, a mining town was discoveries opened up the country, founded in the spring of 1867, at the west of where Fort Limhi stood. point where Lemhi River empties into the Salmon, about twenty miles north

A county called Lemhi, which in 1880 hid a population of 2,230, was 9, 1869. Were there any Saints in created by the Idaho legislature, Jan. this region of country now, they would geographically belong to the Bannock Stake of Zion.

THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

munition and stripping him of his h a gun; and after taking his gun and rt the savages left him for dead. The Indians who had chased us to the t now joined their companions who re driving off our herd, and I sent out 1 men to hunt for the missing herdsn. While they were gone Brother O. >se,one of the herders, came in unhurt. On the 27th the ox teams, with a pore ten men returned a little before sun- tion of the missionaries and such effects t with the dead body of Geo. McBride, as they could take with them, started ho had been shot from his horse and for Utah, and on the 28th Fort Limbi ripped of everything except his socks, was entirely vacated by the departure nts and garments. He was also scalped. of the remaining brethren, who left le ball that killed him had entered his with horse teams, together with their ody under the left arm and came out friends who had come to help them nder his right arm. The ten men also away. President Smith gave the und Brother Andrew Quigley, who as shot in the shoulder, the ball' lodg-friendly Indians about six hundred ig against the collar bone. He had been bushels of wheat and left about a thoutruck several blows on the head and left sand bushels with them to trade for y the savages for dead, but after they horses. ad gone, he came to and subsequently The last company, after traveling The following letter from Parley L. ecovered. fo rteen miles, overtook the ox teams, Williams, the Board's attorney, in rewhich had stopped on account of Hsponse to a communication from the Harmon's wife, who was confined committee on finance, was read and and delivered of a fine girl. filed: Without further accident the reached Snake company River on the 3rd of April, and, continuing the journey, arrived in the settlements in Utah safe and well. But the ten

"There were five of the brethren down where the other fort stood, after hay, and he Indians meeting them there immeditely opened fire upon them, and drove hem from their teams, killing James Miller and wounding L. W. Shurtliff and Oliver Robinson.

"One ball passed through Brother Shurtliff's right arm below the elbow and

cation held March 19, Vice-President At a meeting of the Board of. EduNelson presided. The members present were Messrs. Young, Armstrong, Snow, Colbath, Pyper and Pike.

CONCERNING THE ELECTION.

Gentlemen.-Replying to your inquiry conveyed by letters of Mr. Moreton of March 16, I have been unable to give the requisite attention to your inquiries fully in detail, and my absence from the city