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Show THE CONTEMPT. Thu "Alta-California" and Judge Boreman's Order. An editorial writer in the Alta-California, Alta-California, takes up the Boreman contempt opinion, and treats it so intelligently, and with such a spirit of fairness, that we cannot refrain from produciugsomo extracts from his articlo: Jacob S. Boreman, au associate juBticeof Utah territory, lias decided that Brighatn Young shall pay to Ann Eliza Deo Webb, the nineteenth woman associated with him in his polygamic po-lygamic alliance, the mm of $9,500, being an allowance made to her by Judge Mctean of $500 per month as alimony, and which, as tho amount indicates, has not for a period of nineteen nine-teen months been paid. To bis decision, Judge Boreman adds that Brigham shall go to prison until it is paid, or until he is released by further order of the court. We have no personal friendship for Brigham Young, nnr any toleration for his marital crochets, and in many other things we think him reprehen sible; but our dislikes of the man, or disinclinations for bis religious faith should not disqualify us from pointing point-ing out tin- gross injustice which a woman and coterie of men are seeking seek-ing to impose upon him at the present pres-ent time in ottering him the choice of paying to Ann Eliza, who, in the sight of the law is but "a mistress," the legitimate and honorable claims of a pure ui d virtuous wife, or go to prison f..r di. bedience to " the order of the court," We shall not waste our space with a long story about the nineteenth polygamic woman of the pi'uphet, what she was when he "married" her, how one conducted herself in that 1 'married" relation, and huw I she has conducted heraell since she abandoned the roof of the Mormon uiujjneu Aii mat neeu oe saiu is: Ami Eliza was over twenty-five, j years of age, the mother of two children child-ren to a young man named Dec, lrom whom she had obtained a divorce div-orce several years before she became tho "nineteenth wife" of Brigham Young. She was the daughter of a j Mormon named Webb, who bad. i four or five "wives," and she hiid a ' brother who bad also two "wives" at the time that she linked her destinies with "tho head of the Mormon church." Ann Eliza was old enough U have a e,ood nii iisure of sense tor herself. She liad experience enough in her, hit her'a family, in her brother's fam-j ily, and i:i the I.imilies of polygamic. Mormons around her; she niiisl have' s-eeu enoun to know exactly what polyg:nny wn bf i'i.tu she joined Brig ham Youii'k lot of women; she wa. no "spring chicken" to he "cauyat with chad " From what nv learn, Hie "nine-teeth "nine-teeth bird" enjoyed hugely for a time her change ol life ;is gaily as any widow tic yracc had ever done and no one is said to have worn more an air of satisfaction and bliss at being linnnrpd with llio nomo nf "Mrs Y'oung" than did the latest elition of ! tho partriarchial household. All went merry as a marriage bell. In the course of time, as might have been expected by Ann Eliza, : the prophet showed that ho had jollier obligations, and she soon fully ; realized that a young and blooming bride and an old man of three-score years and ten were an ill-matched pair especially when that septuagenarian septuagen-arian had eighteen other alliances. What followed her discovery of polygamic isolation is not necessary to state here; but in the course of time Ann Eiiza became acquainted with "Gen'iles," among whom was a brilliant young lawyer from the I Pacific coast. He sympathized with the young "negketed wi e," and 'spoke of law to her wounded spirit. With his two tts-soeiiitf 8 distiu-guisht distiu-guisht d members of the Salt Lake : bar ho saw a cu.ti.-c edebre, Ann Eliza sent for an auctioneer, , had her furniture hurriedly taken, away from her domicile to a store j room and under the lolds of the red 1 flag the chattels ol the prophet and' his nineteenth wife were knocked ! A suit was next in order against ; Brigham not for bigamy, but for damages to tho amount of $200,000. The suit was brought in the district court, of which James B. McKean was then judge, by Ann Eliza, not as a polygamic alliance of Brigham, but as "his wife," his bona Jidc wife, and here lies the gist of the whole , trouble. i Had Ann Eliza began her suit against Brigham as the nineteenth .fraction of bis maritable wife, tho court could never have entertained it I for a moment, for to recognize her claims of wifehood in polygamy iwould j be to invest that institution with the sanction and protection of the law. , But this was not done, she enters into court with all the solemnity of an injured in-jured legitimate wife and demands red ress. Here follows a history o( the casef which is wi II known to our readers. After Judges Emcrsou and Lowe had set aside this alimony case, tho prophet anticipated no further trouble; but Judg Boreman has again hecrtt Hie lawyers and, us we are informed by telegvaph, lip ha; derided de-rided that tho nronhot shall no to jail until hg has handed ovor the money, and Brigham would have been there befarc this time bad not two physicians certified that he was unable to leave his sick room. iiuch ore tho facts of the trouble between Biigl.am Young and tho federal courts of Utah at the present time, and while there ;can probably be no censure heaped upon the judges for countenancing tfje suit of Ann Eliza for damages, under tho cover that "tho court can know nothing but what ia brought be fc re-it re-it on record," it must be clear to even the weakest of intellects that I there is running through all tm litigation liti-gation a streak of vulgar fraud an attempt to obtain money under false pretenses. Ann Eliza has no mere claim upon Brigham Young in a GOurp of law than she has upon any other man, and clip knows, her lawyers know, the judges know, aiul everybody of sense knows, that the moment such a trial came before a jury iu Utah, or anywhere else, she and her suit would be put out of court. |