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Show THE "SPORADIC" JUMP. . There havo come to Tho Tribune three additional names of Mormon elders that arc entitled to enrollment among the others of our new polyga-mists. polyga-mists. Elder Frank Cheney is of Colonia Diaz, Mexico, and it was as late as 1903 that he took a second wife, a Miss Robinson of the same place, and of tho same family as a plural wife of Elder Peter Slcouscn. Elder Walter Hurst of Dublan, Mexico, Mexi-co, is nnother of tho celestializers, who married a second wife in the yenr 1005. He has been a little moro careful than most of the cult in Mexico, and has managed to keep tho name of tho woman to himself and his immediate friends; but that he is living iu polygamy po-lygamy is well known to his community, com-munity, as well as the fact that the marriage occurred about, fivo years ago. Elder Joseph James lived at Pnchcco, Mexico, when he took a third wife. Before tho manifesto he had two wives, two sisters named Bloomficld, and after the manifesto he married a Miss Richards as his third conjugal partner. Although this happened very soon after the issuance of the Woodruff Wood-ruff document in fact, in 1891 tho case belongs in tho new polygamous class. For "a few sporadic cases," as the first presidency has officially called them, they arc piling up to formidable number, there being now ono hundred and seventy-five in tho list. And for a practico that is "dying out," as the church organ declares, polygamy is exhibiting ex-hibiting surprising strength. Tho only vruy in which it will "die out" is to be killed out by just and proper enforcement en-forcement of the law tho last thing that tho Mormon hierarchs think of. |