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Show I ETTE BORAH IS Asks tho Aspirant for Senator j 9 From Idaho Some Pointed m Questions. Sf CITES SEVERAL PROBLEMS TO HIM TO SOLVE H When He Has Answered Them ml He Will Have Several II f Others Propounded. ij Charles Moslyn Owen on Monday af-M af-M ternoon scni tlie following open letter W to W. E. Borah. It speaks for itself. m Tho letter follows: fs Salt' Lake City, Utah, October 15, 10UG. y'91 Hon. "V. E. Borah. Boise OUy, Ida. 91 Sir: Two years ago. in your, political Vml tour Jua'10' vou challenged any and all tfj to lay information charging polygamy or A ' . polygnmous cohabitation. At that tinia I Jm hftd tho honor to submit some twonty infor-BStinns infor-BStinns to you, with n farther proffer of SB one hundred" more when you had convicted tho fir1 twenty, as you so boldly declared 8 von would. At that time you dodged tho HI itsnc by declaring that your chnllongo did HI ' not apply to any oilier than Senator Du-Hi Du-Hi bois, the""Tincr jn tho Jungle," and not to. HI ' tho "Ships of tho Valley." Once raoro you HI t hv taken tho stump, a-nd onco more the HI I voice of Thompson of Angels, the Crested H ( Jay Hawk of the Mountains, is heard flaunt Hi I ',,s challenge to the whole world, and Hi j once moro the Bald-Headed Snipe of tho I Valley has the temerity to submit his little Hi lift for your information, and requests your Hi immediate action, assuring you of tho most Hj . cordial support in your prosecutions when, Hi if over, you shall iniliato your criminal Hi sc.'ion. Hj It Avould be unfair to the polygamists of 91 Idaho and to yourself did I offer any other Hj r"rae 3S the chief offender than he who Hj testified iu Washington before" the Senate Hj Committed on Privileges nnd Elections, that H lie was tho most prominent in Idaho. I HJ refer, of conrsc, to William Budge, who H divides his conjugal attentions impartially H sud not unsuccessfully between Ins three H trirrc Julia, Lizzie and Ann. That his uati'itnonial relations havo recently taken on S , the aspect of interstate commerce is also tmc; hut, in spite of thai, his impartiality 9 v.ith regards to the two remaining in Idaho M is rusceptiblo of proof. Even the district M judge is ono of the best informed of tho H witnesses, being ono of tho many sons of H the most prominent Jforrnon in Idaho. H Tho next case which wo will approach is that of J. U. Stucki, also of Paris, Bear HJ Like county. This saintly person is, like H his more prominent brother, blessed with Hj ao less than three wives Marguerite, Jano 5 ind Clara Spori; tho Inst of whom lie con-KM con-KM jugated jn the fall of 1892. J.Ir. Stucki is SB it present in Boise, serving on the Fedcyal m rrnnd jnry. Po'loirin: tlfo able example of your jf fyother 1ft' flic" law,- Parley P. Curiatenscn, 9 jori might consult with Mr. Stucki and learn -, from him or his attorney whether ho would i itsnu such action on your part without reft re-ft scntment. I- JM'hop Amos Wright of Bennington is an 9 ' excellent subject to test your now adultery lave - and it may be. that polygamy would B be also applicable. If ho was a polygamist prior to" January 21, -1905, thu Church of H Jems Christ of Latter-day Saints did not H know it, as would appear from the official M ' list of polygamous officers of that institu-H institu-H , lion filed with the Senato committee seo H ' page 404, vol. 3 of the proceedings in the H '-- Snoot hearing, and with which you, . as Apob-fi Apob-fi " Tic Sraoot's counsel, must be thoroughly conga con-ga Tprs.int. Bishop Wright's plural wifo gave fit , tirth to a child in January, 1906- A . Lorenzo Burgoyne is a promising subject !H for your proposed raid on polygamists.- He iW lives at Montpclier, Bear Lake county. 'with r-M kiswo wives, who aro sisters ; ' and Binnie, Xo. 2.. has a child born July, J90G. ft ' Leaving Bear Luke county for Bingham, I 1 cordially invito your attention to John ,V. Burton, manager of the Biackfoot Slock company's ranch, north of Soda Springs, htro ho lives with his two wive, sisters, itlli and Florence. This man married his flw wife in 189G. In a country of lonely lad dusty roads, whero every man you meet liu older holding tho Melchisedol: priesthood, priest-hood, with full power to bind ptrties on rih and elsewhere, the marriage of Brother John V. Burton nnd Sister Florence Potter might have happened anywhere between tho rtuch and Star Volley, Wyoming. Sho has certainly two children, and his case as ccr-tiln ccr-tiln v merits your 'attention. With stores tt Chesterfield and Bancroft mil a .wife in every store, Irn Call invites oar legal attention. He left Utah somo Tears ago in order that ho might live his . religion moro freely nnd undisturbed. IIo thoso Idaho nn u "piuco of safety. Is it toing to remain so, Brother Borah '. i"' On Tom's Fork in Bear Lake county Uvea ',-1 Mi Gottfried Eschlisr, with his two Roses, '- Kunz and Kunzlor. The United States postal JQthoritips, learning of tho practice of his filth, dismissed him as postmaster, and , Host. Kunzler, his plural, now ha6 a petition itady for your collc-aguo, tho Hon. Burton t French, M. C, who, by the way, sus-Pcts sus-Pcts that there are two polygamists in . ' Idaho asking for the appointment recontly ( ' Tictt'ed by her half of a husband. Such ambitions should suroly .invito your cour-;I cour-;I K6ou6 attentions. J Josiih Hawks, partly of Franklin, Ida., cat mostly of Itcsburg, "where his Second and ?rt favored wifo, Sarah Short, resides, is laitly a subject of prosecution. Cnu you tM do something to protect the cilizons j) utxburg from this contamination? There oihers lhcr; such us Judge Hyrum C '"cs His brother, Joo Ricks, Victor Heg' . 'led, LeGrnnde Itobinson, Loronro Waldron, g the school teacher, Dr. 0. 0. Ormsby, and v.! Dave Sandors. That you have n good nnd sufficient law i, Under which vou can proceed, you can best 5 - doc-.de your Republican Legislature of 3 90S j . wss pledged to onnet such. Should you do-r do-r lire a moro complcto statement of facts iu rttch csRe, T shall be pleased to furnish it, J. hut the fact! are so well known in the that so, that of William Budgo of Parts, that II l'n vou will have no trouble in ostab-f ostab-f llJung tlio fncts, even though you cannot 4 enforce the law in Bear Lake. And when you - re through with this -brief list. I dosiro to F- Qhum you that I will immediately furnish "other, so that there shall bu no favored to. "Iinin!dH of this character, but all shall have a fsir show before Iho courts of Jdaho. Wg . presume that this tlinu your challenge ,n deadly earnest; that vou are sincoro in M our dcilro to rid the Sure, if nbcessury, - I that element that boldly defies its laws 11 nl practices that which is a stench and It offea6o. In the nostrils of civilization. 1 ou' proposed lino of action is a worthy Jl ono if you proceed with It: bnt if your words mU Dot jn. earnest, merely intended to doceive 9t "e public upon the eve of an important HE ln.n- lcn, indeed, aro vou entitled to tho ;?,R of Thompoon of Angels, the Crested Jay mt "awk of ihi) Monntains. H' Always at your service. OIIAItLKS MOSTYN OWEN'. |