Excerpt from Improvement Era, Vol. 4: May, 1901 ON the 14th of February, 1874, a Washington dispatch announced that W. H. Clagett, delegate in Congress from Montana, and a bitter enemy to the Mormons, had been nominated governor of Utah. This proved inaccurate; it was based on a promise that he would be nominated if certain pending Congressional legislation were enacted. The nomination was never made, and Governor Woods, as we have seen, remained until December 28, of that year. Governor Samuel B. Axtell succeeded, arriving 'in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, February 2, 1875; he immediately took charge, becoming the tenth governor of Utah Territory. On his arrival, he was met in Ogden by a number of prominent citizens, who went that far in a special car to greet him. His term of office was very brief, lasting only until Tuesday, June 8, of the same year, when he' was deposed, or rather transferred, to become governor of Arizona, to give place to George W. Emery, who became the eleventh governor of the territory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.