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Show 262 FORTY YEARS AMONG THE INDIANS. hard labor in the U. S. House of Correction at Detroit and $ 500 fine. He appealed and was admitted to bail. The appeal will come up in June. " Brother Cannon has been seated in Congress; his contestant has not made much of a show yet. I notice by the telegrams that Mr. Christiancy, senator from Michigan, has introduced a bill to provide for challenges to jurors in trials for bigamy and polygamy ; that it shall be sufficient cause, for the rejection of a juror, that he has more than one wife living, or that he believes it mor-ally right for a man to live with more than one wife. Well, the faster it comes the sooner the end will be. " Our legislature is now in session with plenty of work provided for it. If the members feel it consistent or necessary to attend to all that is suggested they will have to be very wary and prudent, or our ever watchful enemies will introduce some bills that, if enacted, will prove snares and pitfalls. They will have to work for nothing, for Congress has allowed the U. S. Marshal to spend the appropriations for the payment of the legisla-ture and passed a law prohibiting the legislature from passing any act to pay themselves out of the Territorial Treasury. " The new building of the Z. C. M. I. is a great suc-cess. It is lighter than the most sanguine expected. It presents, now that the elegent front is on, a most hand-some and imposing appearance. We expect to com-mence business in it about the yth of March. " My health is generally good; occasionally I catch cold and then I suffer from rheumatism. I hope the temple at St. George will be sufficiently near completion at the end of February to enable me to go down at that time and dedicate the lower portion. " With love to yourself and all the brethren associ-ated with you, and with constant prayers that you may enjoy all the blessings that in your heart you can right-eously desire, and that abundant success may crown your labors, I remain " Your brother in the Gospel, " BRIGHAM YOUNG." |