THE MORMON CONFERENCE.
INTERESTING STATISTICS REGARDING THE LATTER DAY SAINTS.
By Telegraph to the RECORD.
SALT LAKE, Utah, Oct. 7.—The attendance at the Mormon Conference yesterday was much larger than on Friday, fully 6,000 per-sons being in the tabernacle. The audience was addressed by apostles Richards, Car-rington, Lyman and Cannon, all of whom impressed on the hearers the necessity of living up to their religion, going into poly-gamy and paying tithing.
Apostle Cannon presented the statistics of the church which showed a membership in Utah of 127,297, number of families 23,000 births in the past six months 1,200 males and 1,100 females, number of children under eight years 37,000, number of marriages in the past six months 339, new members 2,304 and deaths 781. The church organization embraces 12 apostles, 58 patriarchs, 3,885 seventies, 3,153 high priests; 11,000 elders, 1,500 bishops and 4,400 deacons. Arizona reports a membership of 2,264. Idaho is not reported, but has double that of Arizona. Eighty-one missionaries have been appointed to go on missions to Europe and the United States. Eighteen of this number were set apart for missions in the Southern States where the church is meeting with con-siderable success in increasing its member-ship. The Southern converts are being col-onized mainly in Colorado.
