Show MORMONS IN CANADA WE are in r receipt of two articles that have appeared in the Cana Canadian ian p preps Jp In p reference tAl the e Mormon j r rr r F settlement in Alberta Canada The first is from the Lethbridge Alber Alber- Alberta Alberta Alberta ta News New and is included in an ac- ac account account ac account count of a trip made by Hon Me- Me MeK McKenzie Mc-Kenzie Mc K Kenzie enzie Bowell Bowen Minister of Customs an and party the latter including sev sev- severa several several era eral gov government officials and prominent prominent prominent nent gent gentlemen men It reads as fol- fol follows follo fol follows lo lows Ws A nOTe nove experience of the trip was wasa wasa a visit to the Mormon settlement on onLee's onLee's onLee's Lees Lee's Creek about 45 miles south of Macleod and 2 21 miles from the Rocky Rock a Mountains The mu settlement which Mormons have named Can stone was found to have made mafie admirable progress progress progress ress The people were considered to have wrought wonders for the length of time they have been established There are 40 or 50 families and they have purchased to acres of very good land just juat south of the Blood Reserve They are getting in a great many cattle a fresh band of or had arrived a few d days ys ago They are supplying M Macleod and Lethbridge with dairy produce poultry and eggs gs They milk a couple of hundred cows and their butter finds a ready sale as y they know how to make the article They are talking of starting a cheese factory next year They are stated to tobe tobe tobe be acquiring for them themselves elves the reputation reputation tation of an industrious and a thrIfty people They state that they propose to observe the law laws of Canada and those who have been watching them closely have failed to discover any any- anything anything anything thing suspicious Tile The following is a press 88 dispatch sent out from Ottawa Hon McKenzie Bowell Minister of Customs returned from the Canadian Northwest really greatly pleased with his visit to the Mormon colony at Lees Lee's Creek where the settlement had been L augmented by the arrival of P Hund one of the faithful t 1 a few days before re rebe he be had pulled up his hii horses in front of Elder Cards Card's door Mr Bowell says sa sas s they are really not such bad folks after all and believes they will bea be a great acquisition toward the settlement t of the Northwest He says that his Y visit to Lees Lee's Creek was one of the thes s most interesting features of the North North- Northwest Northwest Northwest west trip He endeavored to find out w whether hettler polygamy was practiced but could discover no cases caseR where the men had more than one wife Mr Card isho is isI I ho ho head headman man of the settlement Mr Bowell fully fally the tenets of the Mormon faith and brought bl backwith back backwith backwith with him a copy of the Articles Articles of the Mormon faith which contains no reference to the marriage relation The colonists are pressing the Govern Govern- Government Government Government ment to be permitted to enter their agricultural and other machinery machinery free freet t of duty which comes under Mi Mr Bowell's department If if they can secure the required conces conces- concessions concessions concessions there will be a large influx of the Mormon population into the Canadian Northwest next spring and Mr Bowell comes home with the impression impression sion ion that a more d desirable class of settlers could not be encouraged to immigrate to the N Northwest ort h west Territories His changed opinion of the Mormons since visiting them has brought Mr Bowell In for a deal of chaffing from his colleagues in the cabinet since his return who hope the fascinating In- In influences in influences which surrounded him biro atLee's atLee's at Lees Lee's Creek will not prove prove sufficiently sufficient strong to induce him to resign n hrs his seat in parliament and join the Saints as was the case with Mr e Stenhouse of the British Columbia Legislature r T v |