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Show Lock ley Still 1'erst-cutiue Poor Axtell. New York, 13. The Sun'a Washington Wash-ington special says: Axtell's conversion conver-sion to Mormonism is likely lo cost nim his place a governor of New Mexico aud break the ring the Sun illaclted two years ago. Frederick Lockley, editor of the Salt Lake Tribune, writes as follows on this sub lect: When he (Axtell) arrived at ddlt Lake aa governor of Utah, leading lead-ing priests received him and carried nim to a Mormon hotel, where his hoard aud whisky hill, amounting to iJOO, was paid by the city couucil. tie took a disgraceinl part in the ludian uprising, and is believed to nave conspired with the Mormon priesthood agamat Ihe lives of the Gentile Beitlers. |