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JOSEPH FIELDING SMITH
Joseph Fielding- Smith was presi- j
dent of the Mormon church, the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-!
Day Saints, the seat of which cult
is in Utah, though its members are1
scattered in colonies through the,
world to the number of some 400,- j
000. The church is ruled by council, j
but Smith was its nominal head, and
laid claim to the authority of the'
original Mormon Prohpet, Joseph i
Smith, his uncle. This ciaim was
disputed by several apostate organi
zations, including the Missouri
branch, at the head of which was
Joseph Smith, son of the prophet,
who died in 1914.
With the death, of both Smiths,
has passed probably the last of the
Mormon leaders whose birth occur
red prior to the settlement of the
cult in Utah. Joseph Fielding Smith
was SO years old; (born in 1838).
His father, Hyrum Smith, and his
uncle, the original Prophet Smith,
were shot to death by a mob which
stormed the jail in Carthage, Mo.,
where the two were confined shortly
after they began to preach plurality
of wives. When his mother. with
the rest of the Mormons, was driven
from N'auvoo, 111., the eight-year-old
Joseph Fileding Smith drove an ox
team across the plains into Utah and
became a herd boy, and then a
missionary, when in 1852, Brigham
Young established the headquarters
of the Mormon sect at Salt Lake
City, Utah He was sent on a
mission to Hawaii when only 15
years old.
He entered the army which Young
despatched to intercept the United
States troops which were about to
invade Utah, and performed active
service as a scout, harrassing the
federai expedition until the Presi
dent’s procalmation ended the "Mor
mon War.”
Joseph Fielding Smith was at
avowed polygamist. According ti
his own testimony in the Unitec
States Senate inquiry into the cast
of Reed Smoot, United States sen
ator from Utah. Smith had fivt
wives. It is said his children num
be red 43.
In 1890, after the Supreme Cour
hail upheld the Edmunds-Tucker Ac
making polygamy unlawful in thi
territories—which resulted in tin
imprisonment of more than 1,00(
Mormons—President Woodruff o
the church issued a manifesto declar
ing that polygamy' was no longe
I
practiced by the Mormons. In pub
lic admonitions, President Smith up- i
held his manifesto, but as to his own
ease, he said, before the Smoot in
quiry, that although it was con
trary to the law of the land, he
had a plural family for many years
and he preferred to meet the con
sequences of the law rather than to :
abandon his children and their
mothers. He testified that he had
eleven children born since 1890, and
that all of his wives had borne child
ren since that time, but he reit-5
erated that no plural marriages had
been perfromed by the church since
1890.
President Smith, like a number of
his associates, was at various times
subjected to prosecution and on one
occasion paid a fine of $300.
He directed vast business enter
1 prises in connection with his ad
ministration of church affairs. In
the inquiry into the “Sugar Trust”
he told how the church had half
a million dollars invested in sugar.
Smith’s private fortune was also
i reputed to be large.
Aside from his religious activities.
Smith was several times a member
; of the Utah state legislature and of
the city council of Salt Lake City.
, He was a widely travelled man. hav
' ing made many trips to Europe. In
1874 he was sent to England as a
missionary and was so active with
the Mormon propaganda that his
work attracted wide attention.
On Smith’s return from Europe
he became second counsellor to John
Taylor, then president of the church.
He held a similar office under Wil
ford Woodruff and Lorenzo Snow,
subsequent presidents. In 1901.
Smith was chosen president of the
church, after the death of President
Snow.
As head of the church, President
Smith was trustee in trust of all the
church holdings and, according to
the creed of the church, was prophet
seer and relator.
He was president of Brigham
Young Univeristy, at Provo, Utah,
and also of Brigham Young College
and lesser educational institutions.
He was president of a national bank
: director of the Union Pacific rail
: road and head of at least three in
• dustrial corporations.
■ In 1918 President Smith had five
I living wives, although he had beer
: married six times. Of his forty
• three children thirty were living, anc
• he had ninety-one grandchildren.
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.AS VEGAS DAM j
10 WATER LAND
OF LARGE AREA
EAST LAS VEGAS, N. M—Al
hough nine months will elapse be- ■
'ore the big dam of the Las Vegas
rrigation project is completed, the
•eservoir contains many feet of
vater, the outlet canal is finished
ind it would be possible to irrigate
nany acres for the 1919 crop. De
ays caused by the war, the most
serious of which was labor short
ige, made it impossible to finish
:he great project this year, as had
been expected.
The irrigation system is being
built by San Francisco contractors,
on land belonging to the Las Vegas
grant, a tract given to the com
munity under the terms of an old
Spanish deed, hundreds of years
old. The acreage to be watered
is 11,000, with 5,000 acres lying
near which can be put under ditch.
The dam is 80 feet in height and
2.000 feet long. It will impound
30.000 acre feet forming a lake a
mile wide by three miles long. The
total cost will approximate $600,000
It will be operated as a private
enterprise.
The water is drawn from the
Gallinas river, a mountain stream,
through an inlet canal two miles
in length. It is carried through an
outlet canal 20 miles in length, a
portion of which, 2,500 feet long, is
in concrete lined tunnel. Anothei
portion is carried in a 1200-fool
flume and still another is carriec
under the Santa Fe railway right ol
way in a concrete lined syphon.
The contractor and the boar<
governing the grant are determines
not to throw the project open t<
settlers until it his been proved i
success and, because they are no
exploiting it, have been reticent t<
the point of near-silence in regan
to the work being done.
It is believed the project will havi
an inspiring effect on agricultura
operations in this locality and tha
it will mark the end of “shipped
in” vegetables. Several other larg
projects, including the La Cueva am
Los Alamos, will join with the sys
tern to put 40,001) acres under ditc
near Las Vegas. The La Cueva an
Los Alamos systems are partially i
operation now.
TEAMS LEAVING FOR
WORK AT FAIRBANK
A team of horses and sled vhic
had been used by P. A. Thelin fo
work on his grading contract, lef
yesterday morning for Fairbanks t
be used in the wood hauling bus
ness in the upper town. The teat
is owned by William Borden, wh
has a ranch near Fairbanks, an
was hired by Thelin for work on h
grading contract. A1 Stone too
the team up and had Fred Harkir
as a passenger for Fairbanks.
This morning Raymond l-ekol
' pulled out for Fairbanks with
, team, double-ender and one extr
horse. Joe Sabanoff went with hii
as a passenger for Fairbanks. Leko
will be engaged in hauling woo
for the N. C. company and Chari*
L. Thompson all winter, and expect
• to return to Nenana when wot
opens up on the railroad in th
! spring.
BIG LEAGUE PLAYERS
MAKE GOOD IN NAV
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! GREAT LAKES. 111.—Two of tl
j most highly prized promotions ai
■ nounced at the Great Lakes Navi
! Training Station have gone to majt
: league ball players. John Pai
Jones, of the New York Giants an
one of the pitchers for the Grei
Lakes team this year, and Verr
Clemons, of the St. Louis Amer
cans, also a navy player, have r
ceived their third stripe and no
are first class gunners’ mates. T1
) rating is one of the most difficu
j to attain in the navy. The b
leaguers are now ready for sea dut
| 1,185,000 tons of sugar will 1
[ saved the first year if each of \
; uses one ounce less each day. Th
[ will keep sugar plentiful and chea
LOCATION PARTY
BACK IN NENANA
On the train pulling into town last
night from the end of steel, Super
visnig Engineer Herbert K. Ward
and his party, known as location |
party No. 3, arrived in town, the ,
work of relocating a section of the I
road for which they were sent out, \
having been completed.
The party left Nenana on October
9th and established camp at mile;
3C0, which is about five miles be
yond Lignite and about opposite to
the mouth of the Ilealey fork.
A relocation of the line was made
necessary owing to the fact that
at several points along the old loca
tion of the road, the Nenana river
encroachments had cut into the right
of way and several other places were
similarly threatened.
The relocation work done by Mr.
Ward and his party now throws the
line back, about half a mile, from
the river, and all danger of future
encroachments by the river has
, thereby been eliminate'1 About
i six miles of the right of way extend
| ing from Lignite up to Healey fork
i have been relocated,
i The relocated section runs through
■ partly timbered country and also
j shortens the line slightly. It is ex
i pected that it will be soon ready
j for the clearing and grading work.
Field work in connection with the
relocation was completed on Satur
, day last, and camp was struck next
j day. Mr. Ward says that good
weather was experienced during the
i time the party was in the field, and
j that the real cold weather, such as
I would seriously interfere with the
S work, had just about commenced
| when the party had finished the
t work. The snowfall in that sectior
was about the same as that ex
I perienced in Nenana, about a foe
, of snow being on the ground at the
jtime they left.
Shortly after Mr. Ward's part;
had settled down in camp near the
; Nenana canyon, the heavy wind
I storms prevailing along about th<
I'10th of October drove large herd:
; of caribou down from the hills an<
for several days the animals were
I plentiful in the immediate neighbor
I hood of the camp. A supply o
fresh meat sufficient for the need
of the party was easily obtained
( Shortly after the first snows of th
winter, bear tracks were notice'
i .
; around camp, but none of the am
mals were seen.
BONDHOLDERS, NOTICE!
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Don’t forget that the second pay
ment of 20 per cent on your Fourt
I Liberty Loan Bond is due on o
before noon on November 2ls1
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' Payments can be made any time be
! fore that time at the office of th
[l
i special disbursing agent of th
a, . .
I! Alaskan Engineering commission a
s ' the general office building.
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a R observation station, Xenana
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T ;R Minimum 10 below
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' VANCOUVER STREET CARS
STICK TO LEFT SID
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, VANCOUVER, B. C—Street ear:
automobiles, and other vehicles i
i Vancouver, Victoria and other Brii
f ish Columbia cities, still follow a
i old English custom of running t
ejthe left side of the street.
l" j In all other provinces of Canad
j it is believed, the traffic uses th
r 1 right side, as in the “States.”
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d. Frederich Blitz, of Telegrap
it; creek near Wrangell is considerin
e' moving his large fox farm close
i- j to town. During the past few yeai
:-! a number of people have engage
iv ‘ in fox farming on the Stikine an
e failed. But Mr. Blitz has ha
It | enough determination to stay wit
gj the undertaking for the past nir
f-; years and is making a great sucee
j of it. However, he has tired of tl
ie • solitude and is seeking a locatic
is where he will not be shut off fro
is! his neighbors six months out <
p. the year.
WANT ADSi
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY—North
Star—Mike’s Place. For rent,
ready for business—on most reas
onable terms. Apply R. S. Mc
Donald.
FOR RENT—One room cabin, com
pletely furnished, next to the -
Bowen building. Apply at News
office. 23
I.OST—Bunch of Keys; five flat
Yale keys and two round keys.
Finder please return to News
Office. Reward.
LOST—Small black leather pocket
book, containing two keys. Finder
please leave at the News office |
or the Carter House.
DOG FISH—8c a pound. Johnson’s
Store. 13
MONUMENT ON BORDER
TO MARK BLOOD SPOT
NOGALES, Ariz.—A bill has been j
introduced in the Sonora state senate
proposing to erect a monument in ,
J Nogales, Sonora, opposite here, to |
the men who were killed during the
1 skirmish which occurred here August
J 27- It is proposed to erect the
! memorial in the Plaza de Armas,
] near the custom house.
Skof House
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
Mrs Norman Campbell
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Don’t Leave
ALASKA
Men wanting employment can
obtain work at good wages at
Juneau, Kennecott and Latouche.
If you go out you will only
come back “Butsed" in the spring
TAKE EMPLOYMENT FOR THE
WINTER.
Two hundred men wanted at
Juneau and vicinity; one hundred
and fifty at Latouche and
Kennecott.
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