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Show LAW VLK EI-tHOl I Teots his Horn About the) .11 urinous. Oucol J 'hose 14 uotv H All 1-1 Ioivm IV lio ! loo Mintrt i l or Any l lilu if . H.in Francisco, 13. The Virginia City Chronicle publishes an interview on the Mormon question with W. W. Bishop, who defended John D. Lee. He states, from intimate personal knowledge of Mormon church ailairs, that if Briirharu Young thinks bo can stand trial aud get clear, there will be uo resistence. If ho apprehends a conviction ho will undoubtedly fight. His followers will stand by him to the Lint man. Hiiibbee (?. Hiebce aud Stewart can ouly be taken by a superior su-perior force of United Stales troops. Under the present jury system it is simply impossible to convict any of the oiher assassins iu Utah. Leo waB convicted only because District Attorney At-torney Howard succeeded in making Young believe that by the conviction ot Leo Utah would be admitted into the Union as a state, whereupon Young ordered his conviction for tho good of the church. District Attorney Howard, he says.isan honest, efficient man in every respect. The stories about his ke(!)iug back a portion of Lee's coules-ioa are ialse, except as to some parts left out to further the ends of justice by agreement between Howard and Bisliup. Stillaon's (?) alndavit ho brands as false in every particular, gotten up in tho interests of the church. The feeling amongst the Gentiles in Utah is very bitter. Those in S.ilL Lake fuol secure, but in small interior towns much apprehension appre-hension is felt. Should hostilities commence most of the fighting would tie in those small towns. Vroung has given orders to his peoplo to cease all commercial intercourse with the Gentiles of southern Utah and eastern Novada, but the order has not been strictly obeyed. |