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Show I THREE MORMON lSSSONAR!ES IN CHARGE OF ONE FULL-BLOODED SAMOAN GiRL In a recent issue, the San Francisco Call contained the following article: Throe. Mormon missionaries broupht Into tills rtountry yesterday afternoon a fiill-bloodocf Siimoiui girl, whom they professed pro-fessed to bo taking Ut Utah lo crlurate In tho Mormon school at SnJt Lako City. They said thai. Ihy hnd obtained permission per-mission to do this unique proselyting from the German authorities fit Kamoa, and claimed to have a contract wllh the Gorman Vice-Govrnor. Dr. Schullz, whereby they should havo tho guardianship guardian-ship of the girl for six years. Should tho German authorities doslro to hnvo tho damsel returned to the Island.; before tho expiration or that time, they said that, under tho terms of tho contract, con-tract, thoy would bo forced lo send her nac-k. Allco Alpata Is the namr of the girl. Bhe is n handpomo. voll-divploped native na-tive Sumoiin, and her "guardians" say that she la 18 years of age, maturo enough to know her own mind and decide lu i own problems. Captain Downiw of the steamer Aeon, who picked up thl: missionary party at Samoa, doubts that thi young girl Is na old as 18. and declares de-clares flutly that alu iff not more than HI yearn of age. Tho Mormon apostles, with whom she i.s traveling, arc all mn. Tho party Is lrd by Uov. Thomas H. fJort, nnd the othr two inlHsdonarles witji him xiro Robert K. Dlmond and Wilfred Porter Por-ter Rov. T. S. Cort fihowcd reluctance about, discussing his work yesterday afternoon aft-ernoon wlillo, tho steamer wan coming Into the harbor, nnd ho wont to , somo lengths to keep the girl from being interviewed, in-terviewed, although, prior to warning her lo Keep still and avoid photographci h, iio hnd said that ho had no objections to hor giving hor own story In lvr own way. Thus, it runic about that tin; only account ac-count or tho girl's trip to thin country had to rorno through the mouth of the man who 1b sponsor for hor safe -keeping. "Allco Alpata is ono of tho .100 converts which wo havo made In Samoa," Raid' Mr. Cort yesterday. "Sho is on hor way to Utah, whore wo shall educate hoi" during dur-ing the nexl six years In our mission school. Whether sho will stay longer In this country i.s problematical. That depends. de-pends. "In order to bring hor from Samoa I hnd to make a contrail with tho German Ger-man authorities guaranteeing her return at any time that tho Gorman Governor, Dr. Solf. sees fit to stipulate. No, I gave no bonds to satisfy the fc'amonn author-Itlua author-Itlua that I would ilvo up to tho terms of that contract. "It was expressly stipulated that tho girl would be nobody's plural wlfa. In facl, II was understood that sho would bo nobody's wife. She Is. however, of nge. nnd oho can do as sho wants. T suppose." Rov. Mr. Cort then became taciturn and showed a. disposition to chango tho subject. |