| 368 Canada. J. F. Mintun, Nebraska. E. C. Brand, Nebraska. J. F. McDowell, under W. H. Kelley. John Thomas and George Montague, Southeastern Mission. M. T. Short, Utah. J. W. Gillon, Australian Mission until spring, "at which time he is at liberty to return home, having filled his mission as he agreed." Heman C. Smith, Southwestern Mission. E. M. Wildermuth, Missouri. J. C. Foss, Eastern Mission., W. T. Bozarth and Joseph Luff, Missouri and Northeastern Kansas. G. W. Shute, Northern Kansas and Southern Nebraska. Charles Derry, Northwestern Iowa and Eastern Nebraska. R. M. Elvin, Southwestern Iowa and Southeastern Nebraska. J. S. Patterson, Northern Illinois and Eastern Iowa. B. V. Springer, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, and Canada. Glaud Rodger, California. J. T. Davies, Southwestern Missouri and Southeastern Kansas. J. C. Clapp, Oregon Mission. Thomas Taylor, English Mission. Robert Evans, Welsh Mission. P. N. Brix, Scandinavian Mission. J. L. Bear, Switzerland and German Mission. J. H. Hansen, to labor as far as practicable until he reports himself for more active labor. Hiram Robinson, Pennsylvania.
The Quorum of Seventy reported that it had dropped the names of J. T. Phillips and J. W. Roberts, at their own request, on account of age and infirmity. It had also dropped from the quorum I. Newkirk, W. Newkirk, I. Guilford, E. Griffiths, W. Griffiths, W. Smith, B. R. Tatum, I. Harlow, W. Harlow, H. H. Ovitt, I. A. Butterfield, and S. M. Hough.
September 10, 1881, Honorable M. B. Castle, who had known President Joseph Smith for sixteen years, advocated his appointment as governor of Utah, as a solution of the Utah problem. In an article on the subject published in the Sandwich (Ill.) Argus, he gave his reasons. 1
1 The danger in Mormonism lies in the practice of polygamy. That makes them a distinct people, a nation within a nation, threatening a revolution and a religious war, however erroneous the claim. These converts are spreading over that rich central portion of our domain, believing in their right to practice this abomination, and strengthened in that belief by being allowed to do so. The "Argus" has frequently pointed out a remedy, which
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