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COMMERCE AND COMMUNICATION.
Pyper, a native of Ayrshire, Scotland, who in 1874 was appointed police
court judge of Salt Lake City. His administration of justice was somewhat
in cDntrast with that which prevailed in the third judicial district, James B.
McKean being in office during the same year. At that date the questions
asked by the prosecuting attorney of jurors and applicants for citizenship
were of such a nature that they frequently excluded persons who were not
jiolygamists but simply believed in the Mormon faith, among them being,
'Are you a Mormon?' 'Have you been through the Mormon Endowment
House?' 'Do you believe that polygamy is a divine revelation?' 'My education
and religion,' remarked Judge Pyper, 'have taught me to deal fairly and
justly toward all men, under the law, irrespective of their conditions or
opinions.'
David O. Calder, a native of Thurso, Caithness, Scotland, joined the
Mormon church in 1840, and in 1851 started for Utah, accompanied by his
mother and her family. A man of excellent business ability, his talents were
quickly recognized. In 1857 he was appointed chief clerk to the trustee in
trust of the church, and in that position organized a system of accounts
and records in all the departments of the church. Between 1859 and 1870
he held office as territorial treasurer, and after a visit to his native country,
where he also labored as a missionary, was chosen business manager and
managing editor of the Deseret News, and a director of Zion's Cooperative
Mercantile Institute, which latter position he held until his decease in July
1884.
Among the presidents of the Utah stake of Zion may be mentioned Harvey
Harris Cluff, a native of Kirtland, whose ancestors settled at Durham, N. H.,
a few years after the arrival of the Mayflower, and whose father, David Cluff,
served in the American army during the war of 1812. Removing from Durham
to Ohio in 1830, David and his family joined the Mormon faith, and proceeding
thence to Nauvoo, shared in all the hardships of the exodus, arriving
in the autumn of 1850 in the valley of Great Salt Lake, where they cast in
their lot at Provo. On the 6th of October, 1856, when Brigham Young announced
before a general conference of the church the threatened disaster to
the hand-cart emigrants, Harvey Cluff, then only in his twentieth year, was
one of the first who volunteered to go to their aid. On this occasion he
states that the provisions and clothing furnished before nightfall were more
than sufficent to load 22 teams. In 1859 Mr Cluff was elected city councillor,
and in 1875, after his missionary labors, principally in Europe and the Sandwich
Islands, was ordained bishop, and assigned two years later to the charge
of the fourth ward of Provo City. Biog. Sketch of II. II. Cluff, MS.
Biographies of other prominent men are given in Richards' Bibliog. of
Utah, MS.; Utah Biog. Sketches, MS.; Contributor; Tullidge's Mag.; Deseret
News; 8. L. C. Tribune; S. L. C. Herald, passim.
For further references to authorities consulted in the last chanters of this
volume, see 34th Cong. 1st Sess., 77. Ex. Doc, 1, pt 2, 504-7; pt 3, 375, 431;
Doc, 10, 235; 77. Rept, 185; S. Doc, 96, vol. xviii., 559; Id., 3d Sess., 8.
Doc, 5,837,877; 35th Cong. 1st Sess., 77. Ex. Doc, 2, pt 2, 1053, 1096;
Id., 2d Sess., 1, pt 2, 12, 149-51, 202-6; pt 3, 1300-3; pt 4, 757, 7S3, 819,
833; 8. Ex. Doc, 39, 1-73; 40, passim; 36th Cong. 1st Sess., Mess, and Doc,
pt2, 13-15, 121, 131-2, 194-5, 200-4, 207-20, 221-44, 589; pt 3, 1432, 72;
Id., S. Ex. Doc, 1, vol. iii., pt 1, 490-2, 556; 52, 417-98; Id., 2d Sess., II.
Misc. Doc, 34; 77. Ex. Doc, 63, vol. ix.; 37th Cong. 2d Sess., 8. Doc, 1,
vol. iii., 585-6, 601-3, 621, 644; Acts and Res., 209; Id., 3d Sess., 77. Ex.
Doc, 1, vol. iv., 152-5, 170, 214; 38th Cong. 1st Sess., 77. Ex. Doc, 1, vol.
v., pt 2, 73; Id., 45, vol. ix.; Id., 2d Sess., 802, 822, 829-30, 861; 39th Cong.
1st Sess., Mess, and Doc, 48-53; 77. Com. Rept, 96; Id., 2d Sess., Mess, and
Doc, 18-19, 24, 50, 87; 77". Jour., 523, 733-5, 765; S. Jour., 024; Acts and
7,'e.s., 303; 40th Cong. 1st Sess., 8. Jour., 307; II. Jour., 365; 77. Misc. Doc,
26; Id., 2d Sess., Mess, and Doc Abridg., 772-6; 77. Misc. Doc, 35;
Doc, 153, 25-8; 77. Com. Rept, 8, 79; 77. Jour., 1407; S. Jour., 1240-1;
Cong. Direc, 41; Id., 3d Sess., 77. Jour., 671; Mess, and Doc. Abridg.,