| 312 John Eames, referred to president of Rocky Mountain Mission. E. W. Tullidge, under direction of W. W. Blair. Daniel S. Crawley, Kansas and Missouri. Jobe Brown, Iowa, Minnesota, and Southern Wisconsin. Clarence Saint Clair, with M. H. Forscutt in Chicago. Daniel McPherson, with J. R. Lambert in Minnesota and Iowa. Rudolph Etzenhouser, with I. N. White in Iowa. Charles Wickes, Texas and Western Louisana [Louisiana]. George F. Weston, W. H. Kelley's field.
President Smith made statements that investigation had fully exonerated Elders D. H. Bays and A. J. Cato from disabilities attaching at last conference.
Conference for the Pacific Slope Mission convened on April 6, at San Bernardino, California, J. F. Burton presiding, H. L. Holt secretary. A resolution was adopted dividing the mission, which was indorsed [endorsed] by General Conference as before noted.
May 8, 1880, Elder Samuel H. Gurley died at Lamoni, Iowa, and the body was taken to Sandwich, Illinois, where it was laid beside the remains of his first wife, his father, brother, and two sisters. Elder Gurley will be remembered by readers of the history as the one who with Elder E. C. Briggs visited Joseph Smith in 1856. (See volume 3, pages 260, 728, 748.)
About this time the work was given a new impetus in Chicago. A hall was rented and dedicated at 619 West Lake Street, Elder M. H. Forscutt being engaged there as missionary.
On the night of May 26 an armed mob waited upon C. A. Wickes, missionary to Texas, and J. O. Stewart, a local elder, near Manchester, in Red River County, Texas, and at the point of pistols exacted a promise from the missionary to leave within three days. An effort was made to prosecute the disturbers of the peace, but the authorities did not manifest a desire to bring them to justice. A compromise was finally effected between the Saints and the mob. The Saints agreed to drop the case and send the missionary
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