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Show I - - - 1 A Faithful Representative. i The duly authorized telegraphic I press agent in this city for the San Francisco Chronicle, and Alia, and the Sacramento Record, is absent from the Territory, but he has left a sub who can lie by lightning equal to his master, as will be seen by the following dispatch, publUhei ia the journals above-named; Salt Lake, October 12th. This . "afternoon Deputy U. S. Marshal Pratt, son of Apostle Orson Pratt, attempted attempt-ed to serve a subpoena upon Brigham Young to appear before the grand jury, but was resisted. U. d. Marshal Mar-shal Maxwell then took the subpeena and started with Deputy Pratt to serve the process. Oa entering Brig-ham Brig-ham Young's private office, adjoining Young's room, the door-keeper assaulted as-saulted Marshal Maxwell, kicking him in the hack, unseen, knocking the officer prostrate; over one hundred hund-red armed .Mormons, headed by Mayor Wells, and other apostles, assisting as-sisting in the resistance Maxwell immediately summoned a posse, arrested ar-rested the door-keeper, and finally made service on Brigham Young. Great excitement prevails. On first hearing of Maxwell being resisted, , Governor Woods started to issue an I order for troops.. I Please take the trouble to count the falsehoods in this one dispatch, Iu the first place deputy Pratt wa not resisted when he attempted to serv i the subpasaa, as ha has testified under un-der oath. Secondly, Marshal Maxwell Max-well did not enter the private office of President Young, nor was he adjoining that gentleman's room. Concerning the kicking of Maxwell the charge remains to be proved; Mux well does not claim tbat be was kioked, and the evidence is mixed, one side asserting that he was and the other side as strenuously denying de-nying it. There were not "over one hundred men," nor a twentieth of one hundrei men assisting in the resistance. re-sistance. Maxwell and Pratt have both sworn in court that only two men took any. part whatever ,in the resistance, and they were not kealed by "Mayor Wells and other apostles," but acted on their own responsibility and without with-out instructions from any one. "Great excitement" did not prevail, for outside of a very limited oircle nothing was known of the occurrence till the Herald of i he next morning related the faots, when it was seen there was nothing to get excited over. Whether or not Governor Wooij started to issue an order for troops, the Herald is not advised, hut oau readily believe be did, as his Excellency Excel-lency is capable of jmt suuh a silly act. After pointing out this arr.iy of sensation lies we will dismiss the subject sub-ject with the remark that the absent agent need have no fears that his deputy de-puty will neglect satisfactorily falsify and misrepresent the facts. |