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"You have learned, I suppose," said Arnold, "something about the Deseret family by this time?" "Oh, yes, I have heard all about the family-tree. I dare say I shall get to know it by heart in time. But you don't expect me all at once, to care much for it." "Little Republican!" said Clara. "She actually does not feel a pride in belonging to a good old family." The girl made a little gesture.
In this day of newspapers and electric telegraphs, in which common sense and ridicule can magnetize a whole continent between dinner and tea, we say that such a phenomenon as Mahomet were impossible, and behold Joe Smith and the State of Deseret!
People were more jealous about their names in those days. He had better," added the unsuccessful veteran of letters, "he had far better have made his living as a as a" he looked about him for a fitting simile "as a bookseller." "Then, sir," said Arnold, "what was his real name?" "His name was Claude Deseret, of course." "Iris," said Arnold, taking her hand, "this is the last proof.
One of the reporters of the Deseret News, the Church's newspaper, subsequently stated that he had been detailed, with others, to pursue Russell day and night, soliciting interviews, plaguing him with questions, and demanding the legal proofs of Tanner's marriage which, of course, it was known that Russell could not give until Russell's friends, fearing that he might be driven to violence, persuaded him to leave the state.
From Sunset Crossing Camp, G. C. Wood wrote, in April, 1876, "The brethren built a long shanty, with a long table in it and all ate their meals together, worked together and got along finely." In February, 1878, President Lot Smith wrote the Deseret News in a strain that indicated doubt concerning the efficiency of the United Order system.
Joseph Washington, stating that he wrote to me on account of the only child and heiress of the late Claude Deseret." "Who is Dr. Joseph Washington?" "He is a physician, he says, and an American." "Yes; will you go on?" "I do not mind it, Arnold; I really do not. I must give up my house and put down my carriage, but it is for Claude's daughter.
Later, a petition was sent asking to be admitted into the Union under the name of "The State of Deseret." Until Congress could act, a temporary government was formed which existed for nearly two years. President Young was elected governor, and there were the other officers usually found in a state. September 9, 1850, Congress passed an act organizing Utah Territory.
He was for many years editor of the Deseret News. He wrote a number of our best songs. He was called and ordained to be an apostle and set apart as one of the Twelve, July 7, 1904. He presided over the European Mission from December, 1906, to June, 1910. In January, 1903, Reed Smoot was elected Senator to represent Utah in the Congress of the United States at Washington.
"Poor boy! Poor Claude! The letter speaks of his child. It says " She opened and read the letter. "He says: 'Some day my child will, I hope, come to you, and say: Cousin Clara, I am Iris Deseret." "Iris?" said Arnold. "It is her name, Arnold. It was the child's grandmother's name." "A strange coincidence," he said. "Pray go on." "'She will say: Cousin Clara, I am Iris Deseret.
On a tract of land lying six miles below the point where the river emerges from a box canyon, land was cleared in the fall of 1864, crops were put in "and then the enterprise was dedicated to the Lord," according to a report by the leader at Salt Lake. An item in the Deseret News tells that Miller was "called" in the fall of 1863 to go to the Virgin.
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