Show 3ioit3ioNV IN cnvin WI are in receipt of two articles that have apjicared in the Canadian press in reference to the Mormon settlement in Alberta Canada The first is from the tliliridgc Albtr La Acir and is included In an account ac-count of a trip rondo by Hon Sic Kcnzlo ISowtllMIuIstercf Customs I anll party the latter including F oral government ofllciaisand protni ntut geatlcmon I reads as follows fol-lows sA iiA novel oxperiemicoo the tril was a visit to tho Mormon Ecttlcment on Leos Creek abut 45 miles south of Msclood and JO miles from the Itocky Mountains Tim settlement which Mormons have named CanUtone was found to han made admirable progress prog-ress This people were considered to I hare wrought L wonders u for tho length I cu uuiu iuey iiavo uecn csaiiisueu There art 40 or 50 millicsnnd they have purchased 1SWM to 20 W0 acres of cry good hind Ju t south of tho Blood Hescrve They are getting in a great many cattle a fresh baud of 500 or WO bait arrh ed a few days ag They arc supplying MaclcoJ and tbbridsc with dairy produce poultry and pruc poull eggs They milk a couple of hundred cows and their butler finds a rcncH sale as they knon how to make Iho article They are talking of starting a cheese factory next year They arc stated to lie acquiring for themselves the reputation repu-tation of an industrious and a thrifty people They state that they propose Irop observe the las of Canada and those who hare been watching them closely han filled to discover any thing suspicious The followIng N I a pns dipatcli sent out from Ottawa U Hon McKenzie Howell AlmM rof Customs returned from the Canadian Northwest greatly pleased with his Isitto the Mormon colony v at Lees Creek where the settlement had been nnginemed bv the arrival oIl Hund onoof the faithful a few days before be had pulled up his horses in front of Elder Cards door Mr Howell says they are icallj not such bad folks after all and believes they will h a 1mt aCubiion tOtr1hncn nn of the Xorthwo He says that his k rich to Lees Creek mono of the most interesting features of the Northwest North-west trip Ito endeavored to lin Ic endcTor find out whether polygamy was practiced but could dUeovcrno eases where the men had more thaiTone wife Mr Card is Iho bead man of the tel nt 11 Bowcll fully looked into the tenets of the Mormon faith suit brought back with him a copy of tho Articles of the Mormon faith which contains no reference to the marriage relation The coloamsare ar pressing the Govern mcnt to be permitted to cntnr their ngricnltural and 1 other machinery freer r > f duly which tomcs leh me immediate1 under Mr Bowcll dejiartinenL 1 they can secure tho reouired conceit Mons there esitt be a large influx of the Mormon population into the Canadian Vorthwe next spnni and Mr Howell comes homo with the Imprcs Mon that a more desirable class of settlers could not b encouraged to Immlgrato to the Xorthwcvt Territories Ills changed opinion of the Mormons sinm NltfnR them has lnl brought Mr Rowell In for a deal of chaffing from his colleagues in tho cabinet since his return who hope the fascinating influences in-fluences which surrounded him at Leos Creek will not prove sufficiently strong to induce him to resign his Foatin pirlltmcnt and join the iatnts us was tho case with Mr fetonhoutp mo wih of the llritish Columbia I egi biturc |