Show AS SEEN AFAR OFF I I How the Late Proceedings Strike i a Former Resident iI i I THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF GORE The Secret of the Bloody YcllCaptan Evans Bravery The BaslilBazonk of Salt Lake Tror N CY Nov 25 lSS9fSpecial Correspondence of THE HEUALU The Salt Lakedispatchoa during1 the past week or two have had such a decided flavor of 1871 that one could almost imagine Judge McKean I had returned to earth and that the terrible Mormons tho Danites and the Destroying Angels were after him again roughshod The familiar names of McBrido WHO SOAKED HIS MOCCASINS in tho dews of Salt Lake valley somo seventyfive years ago and of Baskia another an-other of tho ancient crusaders appear in the daily news and to people generally it would seem from tho dispatches that your streets must bo almost running with gore if they didnt know better But many soulstirring names are missing miss-ing from the accounts such as Woods Maxwell Strickland and oven the heroic Maxwel tillson of later suspenderbuckle fame and u a whole the dispatches sent east to day lack tho artistic touch of Gould or the rotund Oscar Sawyer and are tame and insipid ccmpared with the dory specials of those experienced and veteran Mormoneaters Evidently there is a novice at the business now else he would not rehash the stale and threadbare ales of a quarter of a century ago or endeavor en-deavor to excite interest by describing TUB UNDERCLOTHES OP TiE SAINTS of which wo have so often heard that the story has become tiresome When Porter Rockwell with braided cue and tory charger and Bill Hickman whiskysoaked and ugly used to dash down Main street with yells unearthly as those and Saw of an Apache savage and Gould yer caught Inspiration therefrom the news from Zion was well worth reading I recollect vividly the eventful fall of 1S71 when Brigham Young was under arrest ar-rest and fourteen thousand blood thirsty Dauitos armed to the teeth patrolled Main street and > escorted Judge McKean to and from court How my blood curdled in those days as fresh from tho states I listened to tho terrible accounts of lstenc r I MURDER IN ZION with which tho country was daily deluged all of which passed through my hands as the sole night press dispatcher at Salt Lake city and as I walked home from my oflice at midnight every night it was with fear and trembling a revolver in each hip pocket and a bowieknife in my bootleg my eyes protruding like hatpegs as I peered through the darkness for the ex jpcted Dinito who was to raise my scalp The only I villain I ever encountered during years of night duty in Salt Lake city was the doughty Captain Evans who might be met at almost any hour squinting around 1 I amp post but never daring to shoot And luring six years residence in the very I jaws of death and gatos of Halifax I learned I THE SECRET OF TUB BLOODY TELL and know as the oast is gradually learning to know that it merely means when sounded loudest a fresh crusade plunder itiitist the Mormon people which Congress Con-gress is expected to inaugurate For my part it is difficult to understand why tho army of the United States was not long since turned loose in Utah with Jat ing guns and orders to shoot down every Mormon man woman and child What wonderful for lojranco iU the part ot me American people that they have not slaughtered the entire mob of perfidious Mormons say ono hundred andflfty thousand more or less put the Liberals God save tho mark incomplete complete control and admitted Utah into the Union With Pat Lannan as governor Parley Williams and JungeZaueas as United States Senators McBride and Baskin as Congress men and the state offices apportioned out TO THE REMAINING FANATICS I there would be just about enough to make each an official and the country at large might then have peace and quiet in regard to the twin relic while these zealous gentlemen gen-tlemen and model reformers could acquire wealth and Influence to their hearts content con-tent What do a few hundred thousand Mormons Mor-mons amount to anyway compared with the handful of bluebloods who aro burning burn-ing so much sulphur and Greek tire What matter though this truth be self evident that all men aro endowed by their Creator with the inalienable right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness What matter that the genius of our government gov-ernment is founded in the rule of the majority It is easy to reduce the majority and increase the minority to the majority in Utah by adopting thu tactics of Charles IX of Francejiud Catherine de Medicis who at rue MASSACnr OF ST BARTHOLOMEW very readily got rid of a hundred thousand obstinate Hugonots or by following tho notorious examples of Phillip I of Spain and the Duko of Alva in tho Netherlands Why arC the Mormons Mor-mons treated so leniently in the face of tho terrible tales ot treason and s cret oaths that have deluged the country for the past twenty years 1 Because the people of the United States are not quite ready to adopt or endorse an evident scheme to reduce the majority in Utah to the rule of the minority and because they believe the predominant press reports from Salt Lake city to be elaborate lies The Chicago Herald knows something of the situation in Utah when it advises ua FANATICAL NEWSPAPER IS SALT LAKE the Tribune by name that the American people are not yet prepared to put the antiMormon tactics of that paper into general use and assures it that Chicago Chi-cago never bad even an Anarchist more unmindful of the rights of others than thisjoumalistic bashi bazonkof Salt Lake has proved itself to bo Evidently too though Edmunds has secured the passage of some iniquitous legislative acts the people peo-ple of the country generally are no moro interested in the periodical antiMormon howl than they arc in the waving of the bloody shirt by Forakcr of Ohio or the war cries of OchMabone of Virginia Tales murders by Mormons and Endowment Endow-ment bouse baths produco much the same effect as the story of The Battle of Limerick Lim-erick Tho two might bo combined in very pleasant fashion by TOUR ASSOCIATED guess REPORTER Did he know enough videlicet Ye genii of the nation Who hear with much vexation And Utahs botheration onsaysingly deplore Ye sons of Glneral Jackson Who thramplcd on the Saxon Attend to the transaction In Mormon gore Cut down the Mormon hordo Veils OPowers of the sword Twould do your Bowl KOod To hear tte old man roar In his glory he arose And he rushed upon his foes But they hit him on the nose And ho said nothing moro Pat Lannan ho harangued He bothered and he banged I Tim Doolans doors nnd windics down he tore He smashed the lovely windlea Hung with muslin from the Indies Pursuing of his shindies around the back door Oh the girls began to scrame eri ods And upset the milk and cratno And the honorable glntlemen they Cured and swore Ould McBride of Belfast And BasUIn looked aghast As they bolted with quick pace Al bespattered with mud and sone Then the futt and tho dthragoons In squadthrons and platoons With their music playing chunes Down upon us bore And they fate the rattatoo tad the peelers came i view I And ended the shaoo on the Mormon shore I Now n dispatch like the above twice a week from Salt Lake would be much more inspiring and interesting than all the rot wo are getting about the linen of the Mormons Mor-mons with slits across the bowels and cuts on tho Knees or the valiant Five Hundred who went to the Mexican war two or three generations ago I notice Charley Penroso has been locked up for contempt of court ant this is tho I only item of consequence in the Utah news for a month but as few here know this genial wholesouled and warm hearted I gentleman theres not much of interest oven in this fact to people generally save I for tho curiosity excited t know whethi he has six or a dozen wives and whetUe they have scalped him baldheaded yet as one cal do in this section I Yours parenthetically W Hl I |