| 464 of the meeting: Joseph Smith, W. W. Blair, E. C. Briggs, James Caffall, Charles Derry, J. C. Crabb, Phineas Cadwell, H. A. Stebbins, E. C. Brand, Rudolph Etzenhouser, J. F. Mintun, Levi Gamet, Elijah Banta, B. V. Springer, J. S. Roth, G. S. Hyde, J. F. McDowell, J. W. Chatburn, Henry Garner, W. W. Whiting, Robert McKenzie, John Rounds, W. A. Carroll, John Hawley, John Pett, Henry Kemp, William Rumel, and others. Of the reunion the editor of the Herald wrote:
The moral tone of the meeting was most excellent; peace and her votaries were friends, and all vied in good humor to observe the proprieties of the meeting. The committees on ground, singing and police all did their work well, and left nothing that they could do, or get done, undone to make the occasion a success.
There were three or four cases of sickness in the camp, three of which were sick when brought there. Of these two died, one a child two years old, the other Sr. Dorothy Fry, aged eighty-four years and two months; who came, as she said, preferring to die among the Saints, if so be the good Lord be pleased to take her.
There were one hundred and twenty-four tents in the camp, at noon on Saturday the 11th, and at noon on Sunday there were in addition five hundred and fifty-seven teams, representing an aggregate of over three thousand people, who were more than ordinarily quiet and orderly. Brn. Jarius Putney and James Emerson, of the police force, reported that they found no one captious, or inclined to show disrespect to the rules of the camp when spoken to.
An eight day discussion, beginning October 16, was hold at Edenville, Iowa, between Reverend J. H. Scull of the Methodist Church, and Elder I. N. White.
In the trial of Rudger Clawson in the Third District Court, Salt Lake City, Utah, which began October 15, 1884, Judge C. S. Zane presiding, both John Taylor and George Q. Cannon testified that they did not know whether records of marriages celebrated in the Endowment House were kept or not. Each testified that they had celebrated marriages there but kept no minutes, and did not know if any were kept. President Taylor, however, evidently felt quite indignant over the efforts being made by the Government to suppress polygamy, for on the 5th of October he delivered a discourse in the tabernacle, at Salt Lake City, in which he referred to the so-called revelation
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