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Show X KLI I At.AiV j As t-: e fcr-.rndn.ari-e.f the diu n j suit of Ann F..cv Voting f- m the j I'ropoct 1-Cjin to devd..,p !h :n-elve-. ! it is an;a:-L..t.th a Ann K.:.-a ia ve-.-y tickle Woi. ,;o.i. and tii.v: l.i: -'. :nl'.it.." np'.'U a ve:y u-o, :! -y t. 1: n- " he-rowu rnuii..;. ,1U it.e,an. imule to the ee.rre-i-.n.hmof .. w York '. autiaal ity, ih.a liie dlVoieeiiil w.u- ; urigmailv one - t' :e p' ia-s in a e, ,n- t-l lt twi en Morn:i-iii- :i mid M-n . e-iism. T:.e U-v. Mr. Str.uu-n. :; -r- j mei iy of I'm land. 'i- uuii. i. a M- In-edi.-t ininit. r m ..h Like C:iy. Ann I Liiia tiiink-a gre:it de.u of Stration. 1 and, taking auvam.mo of tins faet. Mr. Strait, .ii deieni lined to ei mvert her and pluek her hke a brind flou; the burning. He i on:iiu ncetl operations opera-tions by urging her to bring thi. suit, and. after k-ng deiuunhig, he pre-vaihd pre-vaihd upon :i law firm in tiiat ciiy te undertake the ca.-e. Ann Lhza finally consent ed to leave her fractional section of Mr-Young, Mr-Young, and the lawyers began iu earne.-t. It was uece'-ssary that the suit should L-e brought in the name of her next friend, ;is the law does not j recognize the right of the wife to sue her husband in chaiuvrv. The lawyers, law-yers, therefore. ugge.-Ul that the Pew Mr. Strattou '.diem Id put his name on the bill, but, after getting Ann Lliza into the scrape, ho hadn't pluck ene'Ugh to he lp her out. Accordingly, Ac-cordingly, the name of General Maxwell, Max-well, who is in liie Land Olliev, wa.- inserted. As soon as this was done, however, tiie lawyers lost track oi Ann Eliza, nor did Strattou drop in, as was his wont, to confer with them. Her counsel then began to leok about them, and they found that Ann Eliza, instead of coming to them, was visiting visit-ing the llev. Mr. Strattou, and not only Ann Eliza, but Ann Eliza's father and mother, and 11. Ii. Claw-son, Claw-son, who is married to two or three of Bingham's daughters, and is. therefore, there-fore, two or three sons-in-law of Ann Eliza. The lawyers began to scent a compromise, but Ann Eliza denim there was anything of the kind going on. The lawyers, however, could not understand this sudden intimacy of Ann Eliza, her father and mother, Clawson, and other Mormons, if Strattou was really trying to convert her over to Methi.disiii. So the lawyers law-yers put their heads together and determined de-termined to find out what was in the wind. One day they met her and informed her that they thought they would withdraw from the case, inasmuch inas-much as the retaining fee was a very shadowy one, and it was a great vexation vex-ation at the best. This exactly suit eel Ann Eliza, and away she went to see Strattou iu llie best of spirits. The lawyers then knew that she had compromised com-promised with Brigham, and that night informed her and St rat tun that they had not withdrawn from the suit and didn't intend to. Ann Eliza's spirits fell forty degrees at once, but Strattou consoled her as best he could and went to see the lawyers. Meanwhile, the latter received re-ceived authentic information that she had compromised with the Prophet, through Stnitlon,for So,000 down and SIO.OOO in ninety days. Maxwell was very blunt with Mr. Strattou, and said: "She can settle tlie case, so far as she is concerned, for two bits, if she wants to, but she can't settle it for me, I'll be d d if she can. I am a party to the suit, and the law makes her counsel parties to it, and I don't propose Uflgo back on them." The matter stands. Ann Eliza has compromised the suit, and don't want to get divorced, and the lawyei-s haven't compromised, and are going to divorce her anyway, if they can. Ann Eliza has made a beautiful muddle mud-dle of it, and deserves to lese the Slo.000 for which she has bargained to stay in polygamy, as she probably will. If the court should grant a decree of divorce, then the Prophet will get mad, and won't pay her, of course. If it should refuse to grant a decree, then there is no necessity for the Prophet to pay it, for she will still be Ann Eliza Y'oung, No. 17. The romance of the case of Ann Eliza begins be-gins to dissipatein view of thcf?lo,00C compromise. The public will dismiss at once the sympathy which it has heretofore expended upon her, and will be inclined to reganl Ann Eliza as a hard ticket. The most inscrutable inscru-table thing n the whole case, how-ce'er, how-ce'er, is why the Prophet should be willing to pay Slo,000 to keep Ann Eliza when he has got a house full ol wives, especially after discovering Ann Eliza's little game in bringing the suit. One would naturally suppose he would jump at the chance of getting get-ting rid of her, and would never mis; her. considering the amount of wife he has got on hand, and his own venerable ven-erable condition. Chicago Tribune. |