Show STARTLING revelations some scribbler has been playing off a tall joke on the chicago yens news A correspondent of that paper purports to write from camp rio bonita ho ile tells of a bloodcurdling blood curdling t conspiracy between indians mexicans and cormons mormons Mor mons for the over throw annihilation and extirpation of the united states it is the biggest burlesque of the kind we lave seen in the papers for some time tho tile levs evidently does not swallow it whole for although the communication muni cation is topped with striking headings it passes it along without pro or con comments for the amusement of our readers we will quote A council dfwar of war lately held at camp apache ache in the sierra blanco moan mountains L ip lis represented not onla only the voice of fifteen or sixteen of the leading ead indian tribes but also mexican and mormon leaders met here for the purpose of aiding tho the red skins in their proposed attack upon tile whites of the country there arc warriors at present encamped in the mountains and soldiers are expected to be ready for forwar war before next february the indians are very reticent with regard to the outbreak but the mormons cormons speak out boldly on the subject and defy the authorities A few days ago prof froat frost a mormon bishop in a speech celi delivered at Irv ingston utah said we have had our necks long iong enough in the yoke and why should we remain loneer longer since we can with the aid of the indians whip all the soldiers that the united states ca can n send to our valley wo we can control miles of the colorado and with its natural fortifications wo we can hold the fort for the next forty years lettera letters of approval have lave been received by the assembled representatives of tho the cormons mormons ris of oregon washington territory california all nebraska cb kansas texas colorado nevada and idaho the correspondent is quite right with the exceptions that such a council never was held and such a ridiculous and impossible project t never entertained the mormons cormons Mor mons are well known to be far removed from being fools besides their having no desire to injure anybody let alone engage in insane undertakings in which they would be sure to get into the unpleasant position of the bear hunter bunter who was wm subsequently hunted by the bear and torn to shreds b by y bruin another small inaccuracy is exhibited by the fact that a imor mormon bishop by the name of prof frost never expressed himself in the way stated this is based on the logical ground that there is no such mormon formon bishop as prof r frost rost it may also be as well to bbate here that there is no such place as Irv ingston in utah assembled representatives of oregon IN washington ashington territory california nebraska kansas and texas is is unique seeing that if nil all the mort mons in those sections were gathered in a heap they make more than a very diminutive as sem blage they are remarkably scarce in those places the jocularity of the correspondent reaches its greatest altitude when he lie says W it is said that the colorado mountains alone contain mormons cormons Mor mons all anxious to express their indignation against the lawa laws of the united states the correctness orthis statement may be estimated at its proper value from the fact that the last census declared the population of butali including all classes to be less lem than the anxiety for abul by expression of indignation odthe of the mythical cormons mormons Mor mons in the colorado mountains must bo be immense there arc are strong evidences that the correspondent belongs to the asinine family and lias has been stuffed by some practical humorist listen to him the notorious porter rockwell who was driven from texas because of his being a josephita josephite Briglia Brig mite is now josephite Joeeph ite writes to the council that bill smith rocky thomas william hickman ickman II bill johnson and jimmy martin are engaged at present in drilling Bold boldien lers and entering recruits for the coming war on the united states government we surely may here be permitted to introduce as a circumstance that throws at least a shade of doubt upon this statement the fact that porter rockwell has been dead four years the tile allusion to hickman ickman II and those fellows who whose ae names seem to have been carefully compiled from froin some dha dime noyel named wind river war whoop or some other similar soul stirring title is doll doubtless Uless equally true this windy corm correspondents a bluster about the coming war on the united states government reminds ug us of tho the fa furore that was written and worked up a few yeara years ago about an alleged proposed indian and mormon P uprising to bo be initiated in the nei neighborhood of corinne Cori nue general crook caino came out to investigate the matter and find in a straightforward soldierly way soon burst the bub ble which was thinner than air A certain gentleman well known in this territory enlightened the general on the subject and we leave always though di differing frering from him on oil many matters had bad an all increased kindly respect for him ever since the chicago nells which is it very lively cleverly edited journal might be in better business than printing such rascally rubbish as the frail trail fabrications of a semi luna tic it ought to see the falsity of such fulminations at a glance by the fact alone of the ing been recently raided by tho the hostile apaches |