Topics.--1. Making settlements. 2. Trouble with the Indians. 3.
Organizing Utah Territory. 4. Famine of 1855-6. 5. The handcart companies.

Questions and Review.--1. Where was the second settlement in Utah made?
2. When and by whom was Ogden settled? 3. Tell about the settlement of
Provo. 4. What trouble did the Provo settlers have? 5. What was President
Young's Indian policy? 6. Who was Chief Walker? 7. What was done March 4,
1849? 8. What did the people wish to name the state? 9. When was Utah
Territory organized? 10. Who was the first governor? 11. Name the first
missionaries to France; to Denmark; to Sweden; to Italy; to the Society
Islands. 12. Tell something about these missions. 13. Tell about the work
of the Church leaders in making settlements, etc. 14. What was the cause of
the famine in 1855-6? 15. What were the handcart companies?




CHAPTER XXXII.

THE "UTAH WAR."


The president of the United States appoints the leading officers of a
territory. Many of the officers sent to Utah by the president were good men
and did justice to "Mormon" and Gentile alike; but some were men who could
see no good in the Saints, and were therefore always trying to oppress
them. Such men were Judges Stiles and Drummond, and Secretary Ferris, who
were in Utah in 1856. At last they left the territory and sent in a report
to the president. In it Judge Drummond said that the "Mormons" were
traitors to the United States, and would not obey its laws; that they had a