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Show I GETTING EVEN WITH WILIS He Testified Against Apostle Smoot. Detailed the Endowment Ceremony and Oaths to Committee. By Orders of Hierarchy Boycott Waa Begun nnd Saints Withdraw With-draw Trade. J, H. Walli.', Sr., a former member of tho Mormon church and one of the witnesses wit-nesses for tho prosecution In the Smoot investigation before the Sen;ite Commit' tee on Privileges and Elections. Is learning learn-ing by rather dear experience what It means fcr a mnn encaged In business h ro to say aught against I he Mormon church leaders ard retain the patronage) which was his before he made bold to apeak his mind concerning certain practices prac-tices of these name leaders. Was Faithful Worker. Away back in 18M Mr. Wallls Joined Uie Mormon church In his native country. Eftlgland Fur n number of years, tie was one of lh faithful workers In th church lit EDngland but later. In accordance with the teachings of lllo Pe.-t, decided t" reiniu ti the valleys f the mountains. Here h: had made hln home for many yeare, but learning u ht nyi, thai the practiced ol the latter-day Sainta In Utah axe Mdlj :it variance with their teachings abroad, he decided l . i withdraw I rum tin- church. Shoemaker by Trade. Mr. Wiillls Is shoemaker, and during nil the yeau of his residence here, until the lust three months, has made a com-(crtabfe com-(crtabfe u ig t..r tilmsell :rd family bj ldylng his tr-e.L- Fur the past three years he hu- conducted a shop at 417 Fifth FxiM client, and among his patrons have been the bishop of the ward, the members. of his family, mnin of the Mormon families and h goodly number of the Qetitllea who reside In the neighborhood, Summoned to Washington. In December last when subpoenas for witnesses hi th- Smoot Investigation wore sent to Utah, the name of Mr. Wallls was Included In the number, and he was one of the first to co to Washington it was ho who testified concerning the ceremonies cere-monies In he endowment house and who made public for the first time some of the VOWS taken by the Mormons who pass through that house Whitecappers Foiled. The testimony given by Mr. Wallls created the greatest indignation among the Mormon people, .mJ it w.is learned on gcod authority at the time that a movement move-ment etas on foot here to make the old man Buffer for what In had done; that Fi . r:il .if I h- s I j-jliits of hi- ward hud formed themselves into n son er white- c.ip (otnmlttie and Intended to make things warm for Wallls upon his arrival irem Washington These plans, however, YTi re fruetr.ii .-.1 hy The- Tribune, which published a special dispatch from Washington, Wash-ington, giving the sei ret away, t Began a Boycott. Prom later developments the Saints Were evidently not dl.-couraged by their failure to accomplish the above purpose, nnd set about to Injure Mr Wallls In another an-other way, Hardly had ho returnee! rrtm Washington when a new shoe shop was opened up, within i -' 's throw of his door and In 11 building which Mr. W'allis had !-'-.ra! times tried to secure for a shoe Shop but which the owner emphatically declined to real for the purpose pur-pose The building 1 ) situated at O Lm.-I fourth South street, directly north of the Ninth ward meetlng-housi while the shop owned by Mr wallls is dlrectlj s1 Another Shop Opened. Nor Is this the only shop of the kind that nAi been opened since the return of Mr. Wallls from Washington. One has recently been started at the corner of Second Cms I ur.d Fourth South ni.its i" I Christiansen being the proprietor (,f tin former end John L. Wnittaker ..i the lattei it is said, also that a new shop lias been opi tied "i- aboul t'j be op ned on sixth East street no! a rreai distance from where Mr Wnllls reside-. Willis Loses His Trade, But the opening of the shops would not be so surprising If It were nor for the facl that the trade which hnd so long been given tej Mr. Wallls has now been entirely withdrawn. The bishop and members of his family no lunger patronize patro-nize tho cobbler, who fot- years gave them entire satisfaction, nor do tho other Saints who were wont to visit him frequently in search ol new nnd better volets In short, business has been decided de-cided 1 dull it the shot, of Mr Wallli since his return from the Nation's capital, capi-tal, and were it no! for tie Gentiles who hayc heard ru" this movement on the part of the Saints to. so to speak, '"freest" tho old man OUt, and who havi pone out Of their way to patronize him. times would be anything but prosperous with him r.ow As It Is he Is having a hard time to make l . t h nds meet n a place where until recently he i,;is never known whst It meant to M without work |