Show MASSACRE WRE the bloody story of persecution and carmen THE FLIMSY LEGAL COVER FOR IT II A rf bang A of atry at ry tu ta it a ivia mho A rat t adly or of the ho norb nlrb of AT cl ce the WH W H nulla nod bow ila it cgue C lo 10 IoOr lar echon rayon Titi I 1 wag in asit Z site atud ing up ull Mornion lini out I 1 otien tor for information touch lol tin t he movement but found form flint it IC had became only a memory anever 1 never could get hollot hol hold lot of the iho of it but recently I 1 struck a which i led toa man who was w wilh I 1 lh morris god aud raw him shot by on an out emissary abary of tile the mormon charch Tt thinking inkin that there may be many people in salt lake today taday to ta day who like myself a year ago donld like to know something about that affairs I 1 send fiend you this article artt clo jos joseph win wag an Rog liall coal rn miner 1 ho to became a mormon when a youth anil and went to utah in ifa isil 1 ho very soon discovered that tho the mormon church la in utah tan wed not tho the mormon church ILI it represented to him in england gland lie he become became so much lunch tits dl that hint in its ho he openly ilo claird that the mormon church had bail apostatized at the sarria time ho be avowed himself a prophet beer seer and revelator and aad set about the work ot of briefing brin fing the people toCh riat through a reformed to 0 armed churell church this drew draw upon him alio tie hostility of at brigham lie be was denounced and in the three one enc beeding years ho he was driven from no less lees than i different places by mormons cormons acting under the direction priesthood allot this time ho he w nas as trying to obtain an alln interview with brigham but the only leader who received him win wag orson orion pratt and it is ia said aal pratt never wed waa his enemy possibly sir air pratt secretly wished that he might succeed in reforming zion in ia february isol 1841 morris morna and sixteen others were cut off from the church and delivered over to the the brimstone and the Dani teg prom from that time the new see sect A grew until as Is IH averred morris hd had ft a following of 7 TOO 00 people they were more nod and moro more vigorously is P c U led until in juno issa brigham sent against the leads luciler r ana ilia hill gir gairrison rison an ail army of about a thousand men ormed armed to the bo teeth anil and having in their train civo nieces ot of artillery and one mortar lord now how those plena pious pool tie love on one un otherl thin march upon the Morr imite camp took place on the 0 of june the army was composed ot of Latt erday balkits and co fuma by one R T burton aber lff I 1 lie ie carried with him as aa a pretense ot of authority a writ issued limbed by the united states district court ordering the he arrest of 0 tour four persons vera ons two isa ot of whom aero era josoph morris and jolla john bacilli bailli baucm TUB THI CHARGE AGAINST doing that they kept people in ens cos tody without wll lioni due process ot of law 1 ft flat bat that means precisely I 1 do not dot know but whatever it was there was no crime charged against morris anti and banki bank slid and they wern entitled to respectful ful treatment from au all officer acting under the united states court coart tho the battle bal tle occurred fit at south W 0 t 0 r thirty miles north of stilt salt L lake ake i I 1 believe there were HO men in ili tits Morris Morri sits lt kanip caknip eighty a ot these vien men only were ere or wed tho the ammunition was choit off oa the th a side aide 0 at tile the lord aud and brigham young oung 1000 ir ta or cum go on locore to 1110 luched 5 howitzers howit bowL I 1 mortar total TOCO 7 pieces piece 1 on oa the side ot of tile the lord and joseph corrip 60 muskets or guns gunc UI iii parity ot of forces arces 12 men to one disparity of avus 67 11 to one L ln der tile the it was oat not necessary cesar t to a etke tak eaul any unfair edvan lage of I 1 i morri ates or to rabanal nate data them alier they hoisted a alae of 0 truce commandant barton sher III 11 halted ill lis 9 forces in a aront bt ar 0 t the jhb op baloca ta loca so A my oy w with a demaud to surrender 9 Is lug tho the isalt an hour ibo boy consumed most of 0 the time to in getting to cutup cump morris horridly it his io follo towers flera to geaber to consult while tile they y were ivero and before they had bad returned ail button burton opened upon them with his bis the Thell first rat shot killed two women nomen anil and a child clile the Morr Ulta concluded to 0 o light they had out oot three daiy diy diya 9 against Brig brigham itam and the lord of brigham r ithem ailbe when ii their am mont if on was all a it gone g one they the thol hoisted eted a alag ag 0 of truce ance curlon burto nand and his Is angels clime cime in the commander called for or joseph the latter stopped to the front and asked isha was wanted then he turned to hla his people anil and said the lord has commanded roe me to dlallo d lle this camp ad who oro or me und rind death step this way it Is ei ident from this remark that morris had been in favor ot of holdin holding out ont and dying in ia tun the trench A all 1 I who are for or me and death step this way that was wag the ot of a 9 man ho he did not fear to die and who be therefore ther etore believed himself to be il in the tight light lint but that was wag his last speech e 1 e h tor for as an he ha uttered it burton burlon 2 a eiliot t avo alvo ballets bolli ils lota into bibi nod and ho he ml fell dead A mrs bowman with a bube babe in her arms rashed forward deno donovang unc in inz the murderers and he shot and killed fa I 1 d her banks was shot I 1 in a t the he back by in an angel named brown A mrs begg was also killed after the surrender total killed RI eight ht the number of 0 Brigho kellil I 1 have bave not been able to learn tho the prisoners were talento taken to salt lake kept in durance Iii rance ond and tried those who recanted were forgiven the others were driven out ol of the territory this brutal murder of eight men it aud ad women whose only offense was the wor shipping ol of god recording according to the dictates ot of conscience and their eon consequent sequent apos tacy from church should be anador to the claim of tho the mormon leaders to day that ch church never killed for to q unbelief ri ballot t e ae mar fordem it eta also eland athna as ai a prop proof I 1 0 f soul tiling well the constitution aud and government of the united states guarantee religious freedom to all in conr domain in murdering these MordI teg at the dictation of 0 tho the priesthood tho the mormon morman church put pot tacit on record da as I 1 in il opan ocoa and armed against abo h e united states stated every bou eni engaged la ili that hint infamous e calmo r IWO rod fiery men inculcated of bated in it tion llon of 0 it woo wag a traitor to the ifie U litt ed states slates aud and defier dc norred ved recording to in the law ot of the laud land the latter halter it I 1 any of them lire are eivind today todo do the they deperio stiff tsi I 1 bo be tiling hung find emt coi 1 to aho first resurrection with brolien becket it would he interesting to know who wag filling 1110 pal lion of jango 0 I 1 the lulled lot court cour at the time in salt lake who it was waa dragged the in ia the blood at 0 innocent me nien n end aud women it rod ad helpless hel pleas bribes tot to the august murderer murd frer who ruled III tur mormon people la in the iho nguia of 0 god tile the recollection of at that U 13 eacho should mak 0 on an OPO of evry every mormon man woman and C hild child who has a head to and a heart to feel TALE OF 01 A 1 knoot the wm was in the tiu ton its it r yea tot or r 1 T W ables aion erratic MOT on product tills mail Is wor worthy b ol of notice ua a baj wai awdish a vilh man a n never ever be surprised at a weigh bellr I 1 nad D lie ile is iff deer always alf fao dsola win wag born la in I 1 1633 and a mar men la in llo ile an ayed la 14 utah iliili in 1853 18 und land lit tit mallow creek I 1 wallard Wll lard alt cili tha th mountain Mount liin meadow maso acro in him a turn torn it hook tits lils bih la in tile he church which shows that iduas uell oil andr r wood int among tile the 0 too that thu mabb acre had lad bien ordered 1 by I 1 tio 0 churell 0 other ther fout minda dori occurred abc is I 1 were hillid unit aud burr n 0 le to or I 1 tie bated ly iho b 0 C church fir urel lp in a noih ol of tile billowed alo H blahman da linian could get cc stand it lie I 1 the mormon ahn charah rill het hal onil and le lait 19 it II 11 bon driven out cuttit of dristas I 1 about idylle anil and woo llon tua taua in 1860 ho he to ro ceidell a tail I 1 tion arolla rura tile lord mci to lo go west miu and ho he would be directed to a P fruit t where bo be was to start hart a roach ranch anno aad i that would lip lift teat zion on earth lie went ar thing in walla walla county IV it ington territory ho he was waa rip wua by a roan yoe yes it was a aroa man an who he wanted ted to stul film a quarter section on too nil toot loot little bills of tile lne blue morn monn islas hi went to soo the place still anil while examining atthe it the lord tipped jim him the alio wink so HO to 0 o speak flint t I 1 woo the tight spot 11 it bought i ilia land anil anti at once starlei zion jo ile had it following lowing ful ot it front rom thirty hilly to forty souls and bodet boil lir so it WM van a community moro lloro mho owned property turned it t in dortho tor tho lord fro hovi for ill the lord on the touch with a or r something la ia chri way at 0 donri iWalla vi was a batted fatted in ia wa mi la in 1863 tho the lord to bo nullo lagod with the prospect pro feet and nil clr r davies was full ot at lanona and prophecies abron V lilia him and lila fits wed seed lie earth will was to M right away quick firack as E it were in isca it a son BOU was born bora to mr davies the lord matto known to at alm autly that this son eon was h ibo son of 0 david find and that Is what the won named tho TI he child was always called rho mos blah but the tha young fellow kick kicked eXI against assuming ouch sublimity and called himself arthur tho the child seemed to have had bad more noose than tile hla fattor which Is la in accordance accor danco with evolution la in another son was aa barn to mr la in this caw case the lord let it bo be known in ad vanes that something quite unusual woo waa coming bothin nothing tos JOES la in fact than tho the incarnation 0 ot 11 himself this bon BOB mr davies humbly annotated and albod our our father that to ir ho he was waa god I 1 the eternal father ot of spirits but the boy did not caro cam to atom so much responsibility and called ailed himself Da dabid iid on the zion ranch however he was wag bell bel evoil Lavod to bo be the supreme sir davies told old by rey revelation elit what wonderful wonder fol things tho the uee 1 tab and our father were to do and the lame of these celestial vigilante tants went vent abroad among the leather faced ex ix rebels ot of oregon and W ait hington and even the the Urna tilles find and nez ft ico declined to steal horses bwl nil cattle from tho the ranch of the ho divine aliona but just juat whoa when title till new ajon woi beginning I 1 to bc the hi and our father I 1 laid down n and died la in IM of 0 diphtheria is just think of 0 lit 11 viell it was said or of josap that although lio be was waa the he coald not save himself from froin crucifixion it was an unfair tiling than to do mr aft davies had embarked finned finnea it 1 y on the ark of his revolution revelation the ia lord ard had bad led him bin oil and on and till ot of a sudden scuttled thu the navy as it were slid and let it go to abo bottom the followers declared themselves cored and elili cared anred ot of their fanaticism left ot of to revelation it mr r Dav was as sued by men mea legow who tied had worked I 1 in the community to collect and he bo bad to pay other oilier sued sned for property they led had blown to la unto tho the lord god and till the court sold eold out oat tile ranch that bugled bUBl cd tho lie walla walla wall a zino and the ho town and county has boo led imil no to rc glon 0 lace but thoro there in tile yard ot at the old of it ill place acs anio es the do dust ol of tho the mess lall oar tr rather and t their alair mother nature broko broke tho the mould when sho aho produced those infalt agles es and claimed th tho mother before co the children A word OF reflection might to be added bere to th 0 effect that sir mr davits and ur mr were honis bonis eat cat men there H I 1 eilden otilde co 0 of knavery in their bechom ahey had been attracted to marues by tho the er promises ot in atey had como n s to itah tah la in full ull f alth that they were acro there to find heaven on earth 1 hat bat they did find was so BO much like the other place that they pullard out rod nod started little zions long tit ot OHO nod collapse coll apao ot of their should touch teach no that the lord had bad nothing to it do with till elthor il thor while the or of tho the mormon church chord can be 19 traced w holly to la tile fact act tit aliat lit it had abroad sire atron n fr mm men to lend no DO to 0 M is ta is vict Imil tied had Br Bri leliam glinto young been its as honest and if as fienk enk H man illan as W W davies tho ili mormon church would lie have gone to pieces fit at konica but tits lord had no more to da with kith him blin than with the other to man an it if the cormons mormons of to today day will only do ly think tills this out thoy they will apty pty no ito moro tithing ELLIS |