Show THE PLOT A chapter from the tha history some ilme atma to be ba written of the tha aull anil mor I 1 mon moa conspiracy the repealing of 0 tho the onti anti test oath by thu the arizona log legislature is fresh in the minds of nil all but the conditions that L lead u up to so ain insular gular a movement h havo not n 1 b boon perfectly understood save by ver very few mr john U resident I 1 de n of provo who has haa recently returned from the south to renew hi his siegal legal practice tico here ere has been living it in I 1 st bt john arizona for or several emeral years an and d having been engaged in journalism if during aring the exciting exe itin perl pen deemed tt to au us a the very person above all others to I 1 initiate nit ate usi in into the mysteries mB terica of arizona politics so bu with this thin purpose in view ft A represents tivo tit bof odthe the ENQUIRER approached the gentleman and by certain desultory ory queries set net him talking on the subject act upon which gewere we were specially craving rig information i and as he ha talked we caught on tho the II 11 fly as it were the follow gnp nir exceedingly interesting bits of history tile tho antil anti mormon lormon crusado crusade began in arizona while sumner simmer howard formerly U B K district attorney in utah was c hief chief justice of that territory and kempe were indict id ed fur or polygamy polygamy and unlawful co cohabitation ani and taina came before him film for trial tile the evidence Ti dence given in their cases would in iho he uth courts bave convicted them of unlawful cohabitation simply but lit b by dratz gling tin tile territorial statutes tilt into a case the judge in ill hi charite charge to tho the jury caused them to find defendants tho the guilty of polygamy the tha cases were ft era appealed to the supreme court of th the elern territory tory and tile tho decision of 0 the lower court was sustained unanimously it was wai not long when the three judges were unceremoniously emo retired to private life thoy chay had in the mean granted their victims a rehearing and A hen the case came up before the new judges they too with one axe exception P Ilo lion wards decision e the c chief I 1 is justice rendering tho S enate about this time adjourned ii without ith confirming the batters lat appointment and his place sot not haying having been filled arizona is ia today to day without a chief justies justice anil and liia ilia district without a judge A complete of the cases of Christo pherson and kempe was sent gent to the department of justice at washington lonc with st a petition asking for a X pardon rr d oll which h was wa gran granted red on the aroun grounds a as recited c it ed in the tha pardon that grave doubts to exist i at as is to the ali legality of the conviction sumner howard ilia lh author of tile the crime crime against the beneficiaries of the baird pardon is now the mayor of tho little in mining ai g town of prescott fitzgerald another other of the judges at th the 0 time the decision wits was rendered against ainest the morag mons became entangled in the labyrinths laba of personal interest our ex eaf P 0 ill II W 11 II D can in situation lie ile became be carile mixed up in the case of an attempted confiscation of a large drove of cattle that were driven across the line between arizona and mexico without the payment ot 0 duty the details of the transaction went to tho the department of justice the gov ornament did not seem scorn disposed jojn to involve v 0 lye itself in an em imbroglio broglio with a foreign nation to fill 1111 the pockets of a district jud judge I 1 and so BO fitzgerald dropped out of pinney eccentric but simple and anchon hen c hi lell fell into howards ariti mormon pit tall and was waa buried along with him the district distrct attorney J as who prosecuted the said cases and who was reputed to be one of the resplendent aig lights is of cf the bar was as investigated as it were ere by an agent from washington and the taint of fitzgeralds geralds em am broglio being discovered upon his ermine lie too was retired to make loom 30 om foore for a less brilliant but presumably a m more honest nest successor an abid is lost E 8 stover another of the zealous brothe brotherhood 0 an and another of test oath law was also retired to private life and a at t the last election was seen wiggling a bout about the polls endeavors endea endeavoring vorm to procure mormon votes for his can candidate di ate ile he is i now maimed mahmad crippled and just able to 10 drug drag himself about and groveling in I 1 n poverty Solo solomon ratin barth another of the ire reformers reformer and the wealthiest merchant in in lie ho county was last week taken to the penitentiary at yuma for a stay of 10 yeara to reflect upon the merits an and demerits afa of a professional re coin one charles kinnear who was vaa albo a 0 conspicuous tor for his an anti ti mormon labor a R fugitive in kl paso Il his lagaine game thith was the sequence to t the lie whole hole vile business w as somewhat in in this wise ile iio via mas the honest man whom tile the people trusted with the issuing of county warrants and nd methodically drew up the pape pipers ra in such a fashion fashio 11 that they aliey might afterward be easily enlarged to any desired having thus es ta fedili he dili he au supposed posed a accuro basis fur for a little dersom personal traffic in crime he then went ent about bargaining with the holders of his villainous paper to raia the figures on oil the same ia in his own hand iriving iri ting for a valuable considers tion con one of the beneficiaries of this unique proceeding was the said solomon boath this th is is the sort of thing that lay at tile the root of the anti mormon movement men t the dascall rascally gang had set out u upon pon a scheme of plunder and the poleg amy in racket ira ket was the most available topic a at t 1 hand itin d to divert the h public mind the pe leopla 1 I 1 in discourse h co rao of timo time became fully ant and painfully y aware of this fac tand then fol followed loed tin an interesting series of transact lions of which the removal of every even auti anti mormon official in apache county and the final repeal of the test oath I 1 form orm a conspicuous part we shall have tome some exciting times anne in utah perhaps as time moves on |