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-Presidents Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball, Apostle Orson Hyde, Bishop Newel K. Whitney, Daniel H. Wells and others left Great Salt Lake City for the purpose of locating a city on the Weber (Ogden). They returned on the 31st, having located the corner stake and given a plan for the city of Ogden.
September. Sun. 1 .- A small branch of the Church was organized in Dublin, Ireland, by Eider Edward Sutherland.
Isaac Morley was authorized to select one hundred men, with or without families, to settle San Pete Valley.
Mon. 9 .- The act of Congress providing for the organiza- tion of the Territory of Utah was approved. The original size of the Territory was about 225,000 square miles, being bound on the north by Oregon, east by the summit of the Rocky Mountains, south by the 37th parallel of north lati- tude, and west by California.
Sun. 15 .- At a public meeting (resolved into a special con- ference of the Church), held in the Bowery, Salt Lake City, Brigham Young was chosen president of the Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company, with Heber C. Kimbali, Willard Richards. Newel K. Whitney, Orson Hyde, George A. Smith, Ezra T. Benson, Jedediah M. Grant, Daniel H. Welis. Willard Snow, Edward Hunter, Daniel Spencer, Thomas Bullock, John Brown, William Crosby, Amasa M. Lyman, Charles C. Rich, Lorenzo Young and Parley P. Pratt as assistants.
Fri. 20 .- Pres. Brigham Young was appointed governor of Utah Territory; Benjamin D. Harris, of Vermont, secretary; Joseph Buffington, of Pennsylvania, chief justice; Perry C. Brocchus, of Alabama, and Zerubbabel Snow, of Ohio, asso- ciate justices; Seth M. Biair, of Utah, U. S. attorney, and Joseph L. Heywood, of Utah, U. S. marshal.
Mon. 23 .- Newel K. Whitney, presiding Bishop of the Church, died in Great Salt Lake City.
October .- Springviile, Utah Co., was settled by Aaron Johnson and others.
Sat. 5 .- The general assembly of Deseret met and passed a bili, providing for the organization of Davis County.
Thurs. 10 .- Eider Geo. P. Dykes arrived as a missionary in Aalborg, Jutland, Denmark, where he commenced to bap- tize Oct. 27th. A month later (Nov. 25th) he organized a branch of the Church at Aalborg, which was the second branch in Scandinavia.
Tues. 15 .- The mail bringing the first information to the Valley of the organization of the Territory of Utah, arrived in Great Salt Lake City.
Sun. 20 .- James Pace and others with their families ar- rived on Peteetneet Creek, Utah Valley, and setticd what is now Payson.
Sun. 27 .- Apostle Lorenzo Snow baptized a man at La Tour, Valley of Luzerne, Piedmont, Italy, as the first fruit of preaching the fulness of the gospel in that land. Soon afterwards a number of others were baptized in the same locality.
November. Sun. 3 .- Thomas Ford, ex-governor of Illi- nois, died at Peoria, Ili.
Wed. 27 .- The Warm Springs bath-house north of Great Salt Lake City, was opened with a festivai attended by the First Presidency, a number of the Apostles and other lead- ing men; Heber C. Kimball offered the dedicatory prayer. December .- Thirty families, including 118 men, left Great Salt Lake City with 101 wagons and six hundred head of stock, under the direction of Apostle Geo. A. Smith, for the Little Sait Lake Valley, to locate a settlement there.
Sat. 7 .- A branch of the Church was organized by Apostle John Taylor and co-laborers in Paris, France.
Thurs. 12 .- Hiram Clark, Thos. Whittle, Henry W. Bigler, Thos. Morris, John Dixon, Wm. Farrer, James Hawkins, Hiram H. Blackwell, James Keeler and Geo. Q. Cannon ar- rived at Honolulu as the first Latter-day Saint missionaries to Hawaii (Sandwich Islands).
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January .- City charters were granted to Ogden, Provo, Manti and Parowan, by the general assembly of the State of Deseret.
Fri. 3 .- The first criminal trial by jury took place in the Provisional State of Deseret, in Great Salt Lake City.
Thurs. 9 .- The bill incorporating Great Salt Lake City was passed by the general assembly of Deseret, and the following officers were appointed by the governor and as- sembly: Jedediah M. Grant, mayor; Nathaniel H. Felt, Wm. Snow, Jesse P. Harmon and Nathaniel V. Jones, aldermen; Vincent Shurtliff, Benjamin L. Clapp, Zera Pulsipher, Wm. G. Perkins, Lewis Robison, Harrison Burgess, Jeter Clinton, John L. Dunyon, and Samuel W. Richards, councilors.
Sat. 11 .- The Great Salt Lake City council assembled in the Representatives Hall, and the officers elect took their oath of office from Thomas Bullock, clerk of the county court; when the council proceeded to complete the city or- ganization by electing Robert Campbell, recorder; Thomas Rhodes, treasurer, and Elam Luddington, marshal. The city was divided into four municipal wards.
Mon. 13 .- Apostle Geo. A. Smith and company of settlers arrived on Center Creek, Little Salt Lake Valley, Utah, where they located a town site, which later was named Parowan. They commenced their settiement by building a fort.
Mon. 20 .- Presidents Brigham Young and Heber C. Kim- ball, Apostle Amasa M. Lyman. Elder Jedediah M. Grant and others left Great Salt Lake City to visit the settlements in Davis and Weber Counties. In the evening they preached in the house of Perrigrine Sessions, and organized a branch of the Church; John Stoker was ordained Bishop. The place at that time was known as Sessions settlement.
Sun. 26 .- Pres. Brigham Young and party held meetings with the Saints in the south fort, Ogden, when Lorin Farr was chosen President of the Weber Stake, with Charles R. Dana and David B. Dille as counselors. A High Council was also organized. Isaac Ciark was ordained Bishop of the South Ward, with James Browning and James Brown as counselors; and Erastus Bingham Bishop of the North
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Ward, with Charles Hubbart and Stephen Perry as coun- selors.
Mon. 27 .- Pres. Brigham Young and party held a meeting with the Saints who had settled on Kay's creek, (now Kays- ville, Davis Co.,) and appointed William Kay Bishop of that Ward.
February. Mon. 3 .- Brigham Young took the oath of office as governor of the Territory of Utah.
Mon. 17 .- Robert Dickson opened a school in the 14th Ward, Great Salt Lake City, with 18 scholars, teaching phonography.
March .- Brigham City, Box Elder Co., was settled by Wil- liam Davis, James Brooks and Thomas Pierce.
Wed. 19 .- A Stake of .Zion was organized by Pres. Brig- ham Young at Provo, Utah Co., with Isaac Higbee as pres- ident, and John Blackburn and Thos. Willis as counselors. Thurs. 20 .- A branch of the Church was organized by Pres. Brigham Young, at Springville, Utah Co., Utah, with Asahel Perry as president and Aaron Johnson as Bishop. Sun. 23 .- Benjamin Cross was ordained a High Priest and set apart to act as the first Bishop of Payson.
Mon. 24 .- A company of settlers for Southern California was organized for traveling, at Payson, Utah Co., and com- menced the journey the same day, under the presidency of Apostles Amasa M. Lyman and Charles C. Rich, accom- panied by Apostle Parley P. Pratt and a party of mission- aries going to different countries to preach the gospel.
Fri, 28 .- The general assembly of Deseret met and passed a number of resolutions expressive of their good feelings toward the government for creating the Territory of Utah.
April .- Pres. Brigham Young dictated the plan for a tabernacle to be erected on the southwest corner of the Temple Block, Great Salt Lake City.
-The Eighteenth Ward, Great Salt Lake City, was or- ganized with Lorenzo D. Young as Bishop.
Mon. 7 .- At the general conference held in Great Salt Lake City it was voted to build a Temple. Edward Hunter was appointed successor to the late Newel K. Whitney as presiding Bishop of the whole Church. At this time there were about thirty thousand inhabitants in Utah, of which nearly five thousand were in Great Salt Lake City.
May .- The Book of Mormon in the Danish language, trans- lated by Peter O. Hansen, was published by Erastus Snow in Copenhagen, Denmark; it was the first edition of the book printed in a foreign language.
June .- Apostles Amasa M. Lyman and Charles C. Rich,' with about five hundred souls from Utah, arrived at San Bernardino, Cal., for the purpose of making a settlement. -Elder Joseph Richards, member of the British army, arrived at Calcutta, India, having been authorized by the presidency of the British mission to introduce the gospel in that country.
Sun. 22 .- Elder Geo. Q. Cannon commenced to baptize natives in the district of Kula, on the island of Maui, Hawaii. This was the commencement of a great mission- ary work on that island; a few natives had previously been baptized on the island of Hawail, and one or more at Hon- olulu.
-Elder Joseph Richards baptized James Patrick Meik, Mary Ann Meik, Matthew McCune and Maurice White, at Calcutta, India.
July. Sat. 19 .- Four of the newly appointed Federal offi- cers for Utah, namely, Judge Zerubbabel Snow, Secretary Benjamin D. Harris and Indian Agents Stephen B. Rose and Henry R. Day arrived in Great Salt Lake City, accompanied by Dr. John M. Bernhisel and Almon W. Babbitt.
August .- The first kiln of earthen ware was burned at the Deseret Pottery, located near the head of Emigration or Third South Streets.
Mon. 4 .- The first election for delegate to Congress and members of the Territorial legislature took place in Utah. Dr. John M. Bernhisel was elected Utali's first delegate to Congress.
Sun. 17 .- Apostle Orson Hyde, Albert Carrington and others arrived in Great Salt Lake City from Kanesville, Ia., accompanied by Perry E. Brocchus, one of the newly ap- pointed judges for Utah; they brought with them a brass cannon.
September .- Juab County was settled by Joseph L. Hey- wood and others, who located on Salt Creek (now Nephi).
-Chief Justice Brandenbury, Assoclate Judge Perry E. Brocchus and Secretary Benjamin D. Harris deserted their official posts in Utah and went to the States, taking with them the $24,000 which had been appropriated by Congress for the legislature.
Sun. 7 .- The general conference of the Church convened in the Bowery, Great Salt Lake City; it was continucd four days. During the conference Judge Perry E. Brocchus, who with the other Federal officers had been invited to the stand, spoke insultingly to the large assembly.
Mon. 22 .- The first legislature of Utah Territory convened in Great Salt Lake City and organized by electing Heber C. Kimball president of the Council, and Wm. W. Phelps speaker of the house.
-Amasa M. Lyman and party purchased the Ranche of San Bernardino, containing about one hundred thousand acres of land. The location was about one hundred miles from San Diego, seventy miles from the seaport of San Pedro, and fifty miles from Pueblo de los Angeles.
October. Sat. 4 .- A joint resolution, passed by the Utah legislature legalizing the laws of the provisional government of the State of Deseret, was approved by the governor.
Sun. 5 .- Elder Maurice White baptized Anna, a daughter of a high caste Brahmin, at Calcutta, India, as the first native convert to "Mormonism" in the East India mission. Wed. 29 .- Fillmore, Millard Co., Utah, which had just been settled by Anson Call and thirty families, was selected for the capital of the Territory.
-Elder James S. Brown was arrested by order of the French officials at Anaa, Society Islands mission, and the next day placed on board a French man-of-war.
Thurs. 30 .- John Murdock and Charles W. Wandell, arrived at Sydney, as Latter-day Saint missionaries to Australia, and commenced to preach the gospel.
November. Sat. 8 .- Apostle Parley P. Pratt and Rufus Allen arrived as missionaries in Valparaiso, Chili, South America, after 64 days' rough sailing from San Francisco.
Tues. 11 .- The "University of the State of Deseret" was opened in Great Salt Lake City.
Sat. 15 .- The "Deseret News" which had been suspended for lack of paper since Aug. 19th, commenced its second volume. December .- Three families commenced a settlement on Clover Creek (Mona), eight miles north of Nephi, Juab Co.
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January. Tues. 27 .- Elder Geo. Q. Cannon commenced the translation of the Book of Mormon in the Hawaiian language, at Wailuku, Maui.
February .- The Territorial Library was opened in the Council House, Great Salt Lake City, with Wm. C. Staines, as librarian. Congress had appropriated $5,000 towards the purchase of books, which were selected by Delegate Bern- hisel.
Tues. 3 .- Legislative acts, providing for the organization of the counties of Great Salt Lake, Weber, Utah, San Pete, Juab, Tooele, Iron, Davis (previously created by acts of the general assembly of Deseret). Millard, Washington, Green River and Deseret Counties were approved.
Sat. 7 .- Gov. Brigham Young approved an act, recently passed by the Utah legislature, appointing probate judges in the counties in Utah; to-wit: Isaac Clark, Weber Co .; Joseph Holbrook, Davis Co .; Ellas Smith, Great Salt Lake Co .; Preston Thomas, Utah Co .; Alfred Lee, Tooele Co .; Geo. W. Bradley, Juab Co .; Geo. Peacock, San Pete Co .; Anson Call, Millard Co .; Chapman Duncan, Iron Co.
Tues. 10 .- A branch of the Church was organized at Mountainville (Alpine), Utah Co., Utah; Charles S. Peter- son, president.
Sat. 14 .- The legislative assembly of Utah Territory memorialized Congress for the construction of a great national central railroad from the Missouri river to the Pacific coast. The memorial was approved on the 3rd of March following. At the same session, the legislature pe- titioned Congress for the establishment of a telegraph line across the continent.
March. Thurs. 11 .- The ship "Italy" sailed from Liverpool, England, with 28 Scandinavian Salnts-the first from the Scandinavian mission-under the direction of Ole U. S. Mon- ster. The company arrived at New Orleans May 10th and in Great Salt Lake City Oct. 16th, crossing the plains in Eli B. Kelsey's company.
Mon. 15 .- Great Salt Lake County was organized with Elias Smith as county and probate judge.
April. Tues. 6 .- The building subsequently known as the Old Tabernacle, which had been erected and just completed on the southwest corner of the Temple Block, in Great Salt Lake City, was dedicated. This structure, built of adobe, was 126 feet long, 64 feet wide and arched without a pillar. It was capable of seating about twenty-five hundred people. The ground is now occupied by the Assembly Hall.
Fri. 9 .- A number of emigrating Saints lost their lives by the explosion of the steamboat "Saluda," at Lexington, Missouri. There were about one hundred and ten Saints on board when the calamity occurred.
May. Sat. 15 .- Wm. Willes reported 189 members of the Church in Calcutta, India, and vicinity, of whom 170 were "Ryots," who previously had professed Christianity.
July .- A townsite called Palmyra was surveyed on the Spanish Fork river, Utah Co., on which the first house was built in the following August. This settlement was after- wards united with and absorbed in Spanish Fork.
Tues. 27 .- The thermometer stood 127 degrees F. in the sun, in Great Salt Lake City.
August .- Provo, Utah Co., was divided into five Bishop's Wards, with Jonathan O. Duke as Bishop of the First, James Bird of the Second, Ellas H. Blackburn of the Third, Wm. M. Wall of the Fourth and Wm. Faucett of the Fifth Ward. -Elder Michael Johnson, who was sent to Sweden to continue the work commenced there by John E. Forsgren two years previously, was arrested and brought as a pris- oner to Stockholm, after which he was sent in chains six hundred miles to Malmo, together with two thieves.
Sun. 1 .- A small branch of the Church was organized in Hamburg, Germany, by Elder Daniel Garn.
Thurs. 12 .- Hiram Page, one of the Eight Witnesses to the Book of Mormon, died near Excelsior Springs, Ray Co., Mo .*
Sat. 28 .- A special two days' conference was commenced in Great Salt Lake City; 106 Elders were called to go on missions, namely 6 to the United States, 4 to Nova Scotia and the British N. A. Provinces, 2 to British Guiana (South America), 4 to the West Indies, 39 to Great Britain, 1 to France, 4 to Germany, 3 to Prussia, 2 to Gibraltar, 1 to Den- mark, 2 to Norway, 9 to Calcutta and Hindostan, 4 to China, 3 to Siam, 3 to Cape of Good Hope, Africa, 10 to Australia and 9 to the Hawaiian Islands.
Sun. 29 .- The revelation on celestial marriage was first made publlc. It was read in the conference held in Great Salt Lake City, and Apostle Orson Pratt delivered the first public discourse on that principle. -
Tues. 31 .- The Utah "run away judges" were superseded by the appointment of Lazarus H. Reed, as chief justice, and Leonidas Shaver, as associate justice. Ben. G. Ferris had previously been commissioned as secretary.
September .- Mary Fielding Smith, widow of Hyrum Smith, died in Great Salt Lake County.
November. Thurs. 11 .- Apostles Erastus Snow and Frank- lin D. Richards left Great Salt Lake City for Iron County where they surveyed a tract of land for the "Deseret Iron Company." They returned to the city Dec. 12th.
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January. Sat. 1 .- The Soclal Ilall, on First East Street, Great Salt Lake City, was dedicated; it was erected the year previous.
Wed. 19 .- The first theatrical play in tile Social Hall was presented.
February. Mon. 14 .- The Temple Block, in Great Salt Lake City, was consecrated, and the ground broken for the foun- dation of the Temple.
March. Mon. 7 .- Edward Stevenson and Nathan T. Porter arrived at Gibraltar, as the first Latter-day Saint mission- aries to Spain.
Aprll. Sun. 3 .- The Saints who had settled in Cedar Val- ley, Utah, were organized Into a Ward; Allen Weeks, Bishop. Wed. 6 .- The corner stones of the Temple in Great Salt Lake City were laid under the direction of the First Presi- dency of the Church.
Tues. 26 .- Elders Nathaniel V. Jones, Amos Milton Musser, Richard Ballantyne, Robert Skelton, Robert Owen, Wm. F. Carter, Wm. Fotheringham, Truman Leonard, Samuel A. Woolley, Chauncey W. West, Elam Luddington, Levi Savage and Benjamin F. Dewey arrived at Calcutta as missionarles from Utah to Hindostan and Siam, after 86 days' voyage from San Francisco, Cal.
Wed. 27 .- Elders Hosea Stout, James Lewis and Chapman Duncan arrived at Hong Kong, as the first Latter-day Salnt missionarles to China. Soon afterwards they commenced to preach the gospel, but meeting with no success, they re- turned to California.
-Rodney Badger, one of the Pioneers of 1847, was acci- dentally drowned in the Weber river, Utah.
July. Mon. 18 .- Alexander Keel was kliled by Indians under the chief Walker, near Payson, Utah Co. This was the commencement of another Indlan war.
Sat. 23 .- Peter W. Connover's company of militia, sent out from Provo to protect the weaker settlements, had an en- gagement with the Indians, near the Pleasant Creek settle- ment (Mount Pleasant), San Pete Co., in which six Indians were killed.
Sun. 24 .- John Berry and Clark Roberts were fired upon and wounded by Indlans at Summit Creek (Santaquin), while bringing an express through. The inhabitants had deserted the place and moved to Payson.
August. Mon. 1 .- John M. Bernhlsel was re-elected dele- gate to Congress from Utah.
Wed. 17 .- John Dixon, a Utah Pioneer of 1847, and John Quayle were killed and John Hoagland was wounded by Indians, near Parley's Park, Utah.
Mon, 29 .- Resolutions were adopted by the city council, in compliance with expressed request of the Inhabitants, to build a Spanish wail around Great Salt Lake City.
September. Tues. 13 .- Wm. Hatton was killed by Indians, while standing guard at Fillmore, Utah.
October. Sat. 1 .- James Nelson, Wm. Luke, Wm. Reed and Thos. Clark were killed by Indlans at the Uintah Springs, San Pete Valley.
Sun. 2 .- At a skirmish between the whites and Indians, at Nephi, Juab Co., Utah, eight Indians were killed, and one squaw and two boys taken prisoners.
Tues. 4 .- John E. Warner and Wm. Mills were killed by Indlans, a few hundred yards above the grist mill, at Manti, San Pete Co., Utah.
According to the Bishops' reports read at conference, the number of souls In the various settlements in the Ter- rltory was as follows: Great Salt Lake City. 1st Ward, 260; 2nd Ward, 149; 3rd Ward, 170; 4th Ward, 183; 5th Ward, 69; 6th Ward, 206: 7th Ward, 384; 8th Ward, 236; 9th Ward, 298; 10th Ward, 219; 11th Ward, 180; 12th Ward, 345; 13th Ward, 454; 14th Ward, 662; 15th Ward, 501; 16th Ward, 444; 17th Ward, 406; 18th Ward, 241; 19th Ward. 572. Great Salt Lake County: Butterfield Settlement. 71; West Jordan, 361; Mill Creek, 668; Big Cottonwood, 161; South Cotton- wood, 517; Little Cottonwood, 273; Willow Creek, 222. Utah County: Dry Creek, 458; American Fork, 212; Pleasant Grove, 290; Provo: 1st Ward, 423; 2nd Ward, 264; 3rd Ward, 248; 4th Ward, 424; Mountainville, no report; Springville, 799; Palmyra, 404; Payson and Summit, 427; Cedar Valley, 115. Juab County: Salt Creek, 229. Sanpete County: Manti, 647; Pleasant Creek, 118. Millard County: Flllmore, 304. Iron County: Parowan, 392; Cedar, 455. Tooele Coun- ty. Grantsville, 215; Tooele, no report. Davis County: North Kanyon, 574; Centreville, 194; North Cottonwood, 413; Kays Ward, 417. Weber County: East Weber, 233; Ogden: 1st Ward, 449; 2nd Ward, 683; 3rd Ward, 200; Willow Creek, 163. Box Elder, 204.
Fri. 14 .- About thirty Indlans attacked a few men, who were securing thelr crops at Summit Creek (Santaquin), Utah Co., kllled and scalped F. F. Tindrel, and drove off a number of head of stock.
Wed. 26 .- Capt. John W. Gunnison, of the U. S. Topo- graphical Engineer Corps, and seven other men, were killed by Indlans, near the swamps of the Sevler river, in revenge for the killing of an Indian and the woundIng of two others, alleged to have been perpetrated by a company of emigrants bound for Callfornia.
November .- Previous to this Pres. Brigham Young pur- chased of James Bridger a Mexican grant for 30 square miles of land and some cabins, afterwards known as Ft. Bridger. This was the first property owned by the Saints In Green River County.
Sun. 6 .- Chase's sawmill, in San Pete County, was burned by Indians.
Wed. 9 .- The Indians burned six houses at Summit Creek (Santaquin), Utah Co.
Sun. 13 .- The mall traln was attacked by Indlans six mlles from Laramie, and three men were killed.
December .- The so-called Spanish wall bullt in part around Great Salt Lake City this year was twelve feet high, six feet thick at the base, tapering to two feet six Inches three feet from the ground, and preserving that thickness to the top. It was six mlles In length.
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January .- The "Deseret News" was changed from a semi- monthly to a weekly paper.
Tues. 3 .- The ship "Jesse Munn" sailed from Liverpool, England, with 300 Scandinavian and 33 German Saints, under the direction of Christian Larsen. It arrived at New Orleans Feb. 10th, and the emigrants continued up the rivers to Kansas City, Mo., which this year was selected as the outfitting place for the Saints crossing the plains.
-A mass meeting was held In Great Salt Lake City for the purpose of taking steps towards memorializing Congress to construct a national rallroad from the Missouri river, via the South Pass and Great Salt Lake City, to the Pacific.
February. Tues. 7 .- John C. Fremont, with a company of nine whites and twelve Delaware Indlans, arrived at Parowan, Iron Co., in a state of starvation. One man had fallen dead from his horse near the settlement, and others were nearly dead. Animals and provisions were supplled by the Saints, and, after resting until the 20th, Fremont and company con- tinued their journey to California.
March .- Elias Smith succeeded the late Willard Richards as postmaster of Great Salt Lake City.
-Ephraim, San Pete Co., was first settled.
Sat. 11 .- Dr. Wlilard Richards, second Counselor to Pres. Brigham Young, and editor of the "Deseret News," dled in Great Salt Lake City, of dropsy.
Wed. 22 .- The ship "Julia Ann" sailed from Sydney, Aus- tralia, with about seventy Saints, bound for Utah, under the direction of Wm. Hyde. The company landed at San Pedro, Cal., June 12th.
April .- A number of Elders were called on a mission to the Indians in southern Utah. This more directly resulted In opening up that part of Utah south of the Great Basin to settlement.
May. Tues. 23 .- Patriarch John Smith died In Great Salt Lake City, and on June 28th John Smith, son of Hyrum Smith, was chosen Patriarch to the Church in place of the deceased.
Late in May (after a "talk" with Pres. Brigham Young), the Indian chlef Walker, surrounded by his braves, and Kanosh, chief of the Pauvan Indians, entered Into a formal treaty of peace at Chicken Creek, Juab Co. This ended the Ute war, during which 19 white persons and many Indians had been killed, a number of the smaller settlements had been broken up, and their Inhabitants moved to the larger towns.
June. Fri. 16 .- The workmen began at the southeast cor- ner to lay the foundation of the Temple, in Great Salt Lake City.
July. 'Thurs. 13 .- The Jordan river bridge, west of Great Salt Lake City, was crossed by teams and herds for the first time.
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