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Show SENT TO THE PEN. BICAMIST JACKSON AND HIS APPETITE CO OVER THE HILL. Tha l.at Marriage Annulled by Hla Owa Confcstlon. and Another Uraae Widow Thrown oathe Charities af Sncdety A Mormon' Vlawa of tha Matter. Alfred Jackson the self-confessed bigamist is the latest arrival at the peniteniiary, where in default of bond in the sum of $JO0O he will await the action of the grand juiy. His latest matrimonial escapade having been annulled an-nulled and the alliance set aside by the prisoner's confession the grass widow has sought her home whilo his wife, the respondent in the divorce suit of Jackson Jack-son vs. Jackson, probably relishes tbe turn that things have taken and chuckles over the discomfiture of the bride and groom. The arrest has brought all the conflicting elements in the only war that has ever been fought in the territory together, At the arraignment ar-raignment there was a sprinkling of God-fearing devotees of the church, a number of revolutionists who have given up their pews and their practices and a scattering of gentiles who, in the absence of any perceptible percep-tible account of Christianity themselves them-selves are willing to cant upon the Christianity of his neighbors. It was the anticipation of some very salacious evidence that some of them came, for Jackson had swallowed his own pride, compromised his wife and placca ner under the eternal shade of calumny that he might justify his offense. Others Oth-ers went there to give him the lie and to vindicate tne young woman he is said to have betrayed, while others were there to egg on the fight between tho elements. "It makes very littie difference to us." remarked a member of the church, "whether Jackson is a mormon or not. It is cjuitc evident that he is seeking to weave a mask of the prejudice that the ring has aroused against the church, and that by striking an attitude in keeping with them he hopes to secure some immunity. What has his religion to do with the act, anyway? The clause that once recognized a plural wife as chaste as the virgin bride of a man's first choice was long ago expunged. The president settled its fate and it has no more to do w ith the revised teachings teach-ings of that institution than you with the uprisings in Hawaii. The trouble is that the snarlers are desperate and any opportunity to attack a religion that is not in conformity with their views is seized upon with savage avidity. avid-ity. The church is not trying Jackson Judge Zane will do that when the grand jury is through with him." |