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Show TWO YEARS OF CHANGE. 119 Dakota, broke through the ice in the Big Sioux River, and was held fast for twenty- four hours, his legs crushed by the ice and chilled by the cold water. Both limbs were amputated ; but he enjoys good health, walks upon corks, and to use the language of an admiring con-stituent " is able to stump ' round an' do a heap o' devilment." It's the physical condition at the time that does it. Debauchees have died from the scratch of a rusty nail ; mountaineers have survived a dozen gaping wounds, any one of which, by sound medical reasoning, should have killed them. My principal assailant proved to be the son of Judge Smith. He was arrested by the Mormon authorities and fined five dollars. It is well known in Utah that, in such cases, the fine is seldom paid. Two years afterwards, W. R. Keithley, a lawyer in Salt Lake City, struck a Mormon editor two blows with a light cane, doing no particular damage. He was taken before the Mormon justice, fined a hundred dollars, and put under bonds of four hundred to keep the peace. That was about the percentage of difference in those days between justice to the Saint and the Gentile. It is different now thanks to Ulysses Grant and Judge McKean. But as for me, I can safely swear that I have a little more than balanced the account with the Mor-mons. I can lay my hand on my heart and say that they do n't owe me a cent. After a winter visit to the East, I returned to Utah early in 1870, eager to be fighting the old battles again. There had been great changes. The first reaction, following the completion of the Union Pacific Railroad, was past, and the mountains were lively again. Rich silver veins had been opened in the Wasatch, and miners by hundreds were pouring in. Better than all, U. S. Grant was at the helm, and had sent men to represent the government in Utah. His civil career has been fiercely criticised*, but his was the first admin-istration that accomplished any good for Utah. No more bowing to Brigham in the Gentile programme. No more of Federal officials dancing with his " wives," and taking an invitation to his house as a high honor. No more asking his gracious permission to remain in Utah ; and especially no negligence in looking after Gentile interests. Every day brought tidings of rich discoveries in the mountains. When I visited the Sevier district in 1869, there was not a mining shaft fifty feet deep, and not more than a thousand non- Mormons in Utah; by the close of 1870, the mining population increased to 4,000, and it was soon established, beyond doubt, that Utah was a rich mining country. In one month the Walker Brothers shipped |