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Show HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. 62 The Utah Posten, the was issued. December. first Danish paper published in Utah, 1874. May 2. The Fairview Coal Mining and Coke com- pany was- incorporated. July 24. Anniversary of the entrance of pioneers into Salt Lake Valley was celebrated in the capital, over 1.000 singers participating in the At the general August. new tabernacle. election Hon. Cannon received 2160 votes and Hon. George Q. R. N. Baskin 3, for Delegate to Congress, in Sanpete county. 1875. January Indians were first married according to the ordinances of the Mormon church. March 3. Rev. D. J. McMillan preached the first Gentile sermon in Sanpete, at Mt. Pleasant. March 29. The entire tribe of Shebit Indians, numbering 117, was baptized into the Mormon church, at St. George. April 20. The first mission school under the Presbyterian Board of Missions was opened at Mt. Pleasant, by J. S. McMillan. 22. April. About twenty families from Ephraim removed to Mayfield. August 5. Joseph A. Young died at Manti. September 1. George A. Smith died in Salt Lake City. December 11. A bill House Utah to form the admission of Utah into was presented in the of Representatives to enable the people of a State government, and for the Union. 1876. July 24. Levi Larsen was killed at Ephraim. |
