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Show I IKU I CAPON IS President Liberty .Stake. Mormon Mor-mon Church, Has Hven "Living "Liv-ing His Religion." MISS YIL4TEPEARTWAS THE WOMAN IN THE CASE Her Dentil, as Result of Childbirth, Child-birth, Occurred In October of Last Year. It has boon with no intent ion wbnt-icr wbnt-icr of slighting i lutrli !. Cannon, president nf tho Liberty stake of the Mormon church, that The Tribune has fail ihI np to llio present time to in- hide him as a mouther ot' the valiant ami rapidly-growing baud r,f now polyg-:11111st polyg-:11111st s. which is openly and brnzenh Molatiug the, law of the church anil the state by in kin? new wives. Neither litis The Tribune, by its failure to. include in-clude President. Cannon in the list, s-ouglil. by its act of omission, to intimate inti-mate that he is no( living his religiou along tho good old lines. The fact is, and The Tribune does not hesitate so to state, that until the past few davs this paper did not have what is generally termed '-tho oods" or the "dead wood" on President Cannon, Can-non, in other words. In view of all this. The Tribune feels that President ('a 11 11011 should not have any feeling of resentment toward this newspaper, because the farts in his ease have not been made public at an earlier date. However, thev will be given at this time. According to testimony secured bv The Tribune, and which it deems liiithworthv to the fullest decree, President Pres-ident Cannon entered into a polygamous marriage with Vila to Peart in the year J'.iOo Mihu Peart was widely known in nlt Lake Citv and environs. Sho was a lovely vountr woman. Her death occurred oc-curred last October, after she had borne two children, the fruit15 of her polygamous polyg-amous marriage to President t'nunon. The first child is still alive, but the siec'iid. whoso birth was (he cause of the unfortunate woman's death, preceded pre-ceded its mother to the grave. I Gives Birth to Boy. Miv Vilate Peart was the. sister of the plural wife of John M. Cannon. .1 cousin of President Hush .1. Cannon., 'some time after the marriage of President Presi-dent Cannon to Miss Peart, it was found that she was in a delicate condition. con-dition. Fearing that the secret of his plural marriage might leak out if Miss I (.-ii t remained in Porent Dale, where she was living at the time, it was given uin that she was going to Karniington to teach school. 'The unfortunate woman wom-an went to Fanningtun and lived with lur sister, the plural wife of John M. ( annon. where she gave birth to a boy. ftcr the clrse of the school term. Misd Peart relumed and again took up her residence' "in Forest Dale. She lolt her child, however, with her sister at Far-IlllllgtOU. Far-IlllllgtOU. As t i mo passed. Miss Peart again found herself in a delicate condition.' .nd last October gave birth to a econd i hild. Dr. W. T. Cannon, a half-brother of President Hugh J. Cannon, is said to have at leaded .Miss Peart. The child died shortly after its birth and (lie mother followed it to the grave within a brief period. Cannon la Present. The funeral services nf "Miss Peart will be well remembered. They took place at Forest Dale, and F.ishop Or-oii Or-oii F. Whitney preached tho funeral discourse. There was a large gathering gather-ing present ami President Hugh .1. Cannon was conspicuous among 'the mourners. There is another, side to tho slorv that The Tribune dees not care to go into. If the alleged treatment accorded accord-ed .Miss Peart by Cannon brought on melancholia, which, it has been claimed, was largely responsible for the unfortunate unfor-tunate yong woman's death, that is a matter to bo settled between .Miss Peart s family and President Hugh ,1. ( 'annon. The illegitimate child which survived Hu mother is said In be living with its unit, the plural wife of .lohn .M. Cannon, Can-non, in northern Utah oi suit hern Idaho. |