June 12 to 15-Marshal's posse, under R. T. Burton, left Great Salt Lake City for the Morrisite Camp on the Weber river. After three days siege it surrendered. Morris, Banks and four others of the Morrisites and two of the posse were killed. The remainder of the Morrisites were brought as prisoners to the City.

July-The anti-polygamy law was passed by the Congress of the U. S.

July 7-Stephen S. Harding, Utah's fourth governor, arrived in Great Salt Lake City. He was appointed to the governorship March 31st.

1863.

March 3-A great mass-meeting was held in the tabernacle, to protest against the infamous course which was taken by Gov. Harding, Judges Wait and Drake, and a petition asking for the removal of these officers was subsequently sent to President Lincoln.

President Young was arrested for polygamy, but the grand jury refused to indict him.

May-384 wagons, 488 men, 3,604 oxen, and 225,969 pounds of flour, were sent east to assist the poor in emigrating to Utah. June-Gov. Harding was succeeded by James D. Doty, Utah's fifth governor.

This year Bear Lake valley was settled by C. C. Rich and many others. Wasatch county was also settled.

1864.

July 4-The Daily Telegraph, a weekly newspaper, was first issued, with T. B. H. Stenhouse as proprietor and editor. This year Wyoming was selected as the outfitting place for the emigrants.

The Emigration Fund Company sent 170 wagons, 1,717 oxen, and 277 men to the Missouri river for the poor during this year.

1865.

January-Sevier and Piute counties were settled.

Apostle Orson Pratt, accompanied by Elder W. W. Riter arrived in Austria, as missionaries to open up the gospel door in that country. They made Vienna their headquarters, but after seven months' unsuccessful labors they returned to England.

13-Governor Doty died in Utah.

October 8-The semi-weekly Deseret News was first issued.

Charles Durkee, Utah's sixth governor, arrived in the

Territory about this time. His appointment to the governorship was dated July 15th.

This year the construction of the Deseret Telegraph line was commenced.

1866.

January 1-The first number of the Juvenile Instructor was published; Geo. Q. Gannon, editor.

June 11-Gen. D. H. Wells and some militia started for Sanpete to protect the settlements, as an Indian war was going on in the southern counties and several whites had already been killed. All the settlements on the Sevier river, south of Richfield, were broken up.

December 2-The Deseret Telegraph line was opened between St. George and Logan.

1867.

October 6-The first conference in the large tabernacle was commenced. This structure, which had just been completed, is 250 feet long and 150 feet wide; its immense roof is arched without a pillar. The interior of the building is 68 feet from the floor to the roof.

8--Joseph F. Smith was appointed to fill the vacancy in the quorum of the Twelve, occasioned by the apostasy of Amasa M. Lyman.

This year the emigrating Saints traveled as far as Julesburgh on the U. P. R. R. To this point teams were sent to help the poor.

1868.

January 29-An act was approved changing the name of Great Salt Lake City and county, to Salt Lake City and county. June 19-Ground was broken for the U. P. R. R., in Weber

Canyon. President Young had taken contract to do the grading on 90 miles of the road, and great numbers of men from the valleys turned out to labor on it.

22-Heber C. Kimball, first counselor to President Young died. George A. Smith was chosen to fill the vacancy. October 8-Brigham Young, Jun., was set apart as one of the Twelve Apostles.

16-Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution was founded

in Salt Lake City, with Brigham Young as President. Co-operative stores were shortly after opened in most of the towns and settlements of the territory.

1869.

February 25-Delegate Wm. H. Hooper, by an able speech in

the House of Representatives, frustrated a plan to divide the territory of Utah.

March 8-The University of Deseret was opened in the Council House, Salt Lake City.

May 25-The first company of Latter-day Saint emigrants arrived at Ogden, by U. P. R. R., in charge of Elder Elias Morris.

September 3—Apostle Ezra T. Benson died at Ogden, Utah. October 7-A mass meeting was held in Salt Lake City, as a step towards again petitioning Congress for the admission of Utah into the Union.

31-Some Indians made a raid on the town of Kanarra, Kane County, Utah.

1870.

January 1-The first number of the Ogden Junction was issued. 10-The last rail of the Utah Central Railroad was laid. There was a public celebration of the event.

February 12-An act conferring the elective franchise upon women became a law of Utah.

March 21-Hon. J. Wilson Schaeffer, seventh governor of Utah, arrived in Salt Lake City. He proved to be one of the most bitter officials that the Territory ever had.

April 27-Patriarch John Young, President Young's eldest brother, died in Salt Lake City.

May 12-Amasa M. Lyman was excommunicated from the Church.

June 6-The first number of the Salt Lake Daily Herald was published.

July 3-Albert Carrington was ordained one of the Twelve Apostles.

August 12-A discussion commenced in Salt Lake City between

Professor Orson Pratt and Dr. J. P Newman, Chaplain of the U. S. Senate, on the question, "Does the Bible sanction polygamy?" It was continued three days. 28-Martin Harris, one of the witnesses of the Book of Mormon, arrived in Salt Lake City. He was eighty-eight years old. In the ensuing confr.ence he bore a faithful testimony to the truth of the Book of Mormon. September 15-Governor J. W. Schaeffer issued a proclamation forbidding the assembly of the Territorial militia for any purpose whatever, except by his orders.

22-On the night of this day a party of U. S. troops, stationed near Provo, made a raid on some of the citizens of the town, some of whom they abused severely.

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October 31-Governor Schaeffer died in Salt Lake City. November 21-The "wooden gun rebellion," in the 20th Ward, occurred. Messrs. Savage, Ottinger, Graham and others were arrested for treason and confined at Camp Douglas.

1871.

February 2-Geo. L. Woods was appointed governor of Utah. May 1-Ground was first broken for the Utah Southern Railroad, August 26-Ground was broken for the Utah Northern Railroad, at Brigham City.

September 1-The National Bank of Deseret commenced business in Salt Lake City.

At this time, the U. S. officials in Utah acted more like bigoted missionaries than administrators of the law. Absurd rulings, illegal processes, and packed juries characterized their proceedings.

October 2-President Young was arrested by the U. S. marshal on an indictment founded on a charge of lacivious cohabitation.

9-President Young went into court. After several days' trial he was admitted to five thousand dollar bail, and the case was postponed until the prosecution was better prepared for action.

24-President Young, accompanied by George A. Smith, started for Southern Utah.

28-D. H. Wells, mayor of Salt Lake City, Hosea Stout and W. H. Kimball were arrested on a trumped up charge of murder, and committed to the military prison at Camp Douglas. On the 30th, Mayor Wells was admitted to bail. November 9--The site for the St. George Temple was dedicated 27-Through intense malice, Judge McKean called up the

case of President Young, and thus compelled him to travel all the way from St. George to Salt Lake City in the dead of winter.

This year the grasshoppers again damaged the crops considerably.

1872.

January 2-President Young again went to court, but his case was posponed until March.

February-The Japanese embassy held a reception in the City Hall, Salt Lake City.

19-A convention for the adoption of proper measures for the admission of Utah into the Union, met in the City Hall.

There had been for some time a dead lock in the U. S. courts in Utah for want of funds to defray expenses.

March 6-Thos. Fitch, Geo. Q. Cannon and F. Fuller left Salt Lake City for Washington, as delegates from the late con

vention to present to Congress the claims of the proposed State of Deseret.

April 25-President Young was released from custody on a writ of habeas corpus from Elias Smith, probate judge of Salt Lake County.

30-Hosea Stout, Wm. Kimball and others were released by the U. S. Supreme court reversing the decisions of the district court.

June 1-The first number of the Woman's Exponent was published in Salt Lake City.

9-The first passenger train was run on the Utah Northern Railroad.

12-General James A. Garfield visited Salt Lake City.

18-Some U. S. troops left Camp Douglas for Sanpete, where Indian difficulties of a serious nature existed.

22-A treaty was concluded at Springville with the Utes by General Morrow.

October 14--President George A. Smith left Salt Lake City on his Palestine trip. He was accompanied by Feramorz

Little and daughter, and W. H. Fuller. Afterwards he was joined by others.

1873,

January 25-The Palestine party arrived at Jerusalem.

March 2-The Palestine party held solemn worship on the Mount of Olives. After having visited all the noted places in Jerusalem and vicinity, the party left that city on March 5th and journeyed northward, visiting the ancient cities of Shiloh, Shechem (now Nablous), Samaria, Nazareth, Cana, Tiberias, by the Sea of Galilee, Bethsaida, Capernaum, Dan and Cesarea Philippi, at the foot of Mt. Hermon, and arrived in Damascus, Syria, March 15th. From that city the journey was continued over the mountains of Lebanon to Beyrout, where they embarked on a steamer for Constantinople, Turkey, arriving there on April 1st.

8-Quite a large number having been called by the authorities of the Church to plant colonies in Arizona, a general meeting was held in the Old Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, where they were instructed concerning their movements, by President Young.