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Show II RAISE QUESTION OF II JOiSOf S HE I Hearing: on Writ Secured by II Protestants Against Rein Re-in publican Nominee. I COMPLICATED ISSUES 1 Man Who Claims to Be Half- II Brother Will Testify to Iff Support Objectors. II IS e w"t ' P1"010011 against 0. II 91 ' 'a"ey secretary of Btatc, prevent-IIH prevent-IIH ing him from certifying tho name of DH Jacob Johnson, Republican nomiuoe for HfS congress, to tho various county clerks, Han 3S rc,urnaM n Judge 0. W. Morse's Uul court Monday morning at 10 o'clock. III T7r vraa jssue on petition of Jlar-II Jlar-II Sju ry S.-.Josoph and Joseph Siakow, who Ho I allege that Judge Johnson is not a ('it HI izeii of the United States, not entitled If B a soa conicss elected, and IIm therefore it' he remains on the ticket 191 those who vote for him will in effect IM '0 dinfrnnihised. IS The petitioners will bo represented I at tho hearing on Monday by Attorneys IB "W. T. Gunter aud Soren X. Christen- B sen. Secretary ol.' State Tiugey will R9I ho represented by Attorney General KM A. 11. Barnos and assistants. J. M. KH Cherry of Mt. Pleasant will likely ap- B pear as special counsel for Judge John- mm Procedure Uncertain. HH .lust what will he the pvocednrc Mon- HID day mornning has not yet been dcter- Hffi mined. The princi)al grounds for the H9n attack on tho right of Judge Johnson If ft to a place on the official ballot is that BH he is not a citizon. Judge Johnson Hjlf makes the claim that he is a citizen HB and exhibits a naturalization certilicate HB soeured in California in 186S. I It is likely that the petitioners will I attack tho certificate on the. ground that tho true namo of tho -Republican I nominee for congress is not Jacob HB Johnson, but Jacob Jensen, and that WtvM the certificate to bo valid must havo Bfl been issued to Jacob Jensen. Judge M Johnson in an affidavit filed with the Mljl secretary of state declares that his H jl name has always been Johnson, that his If HI father's name was Johnson. IS 'le Petitioners, it is tmaerstood, aro Hi prepared to introduce records of the B9 Mormon church showing that when I christened his name was Jacob Jensen, HI that his father's namo was Jons Jen- Mfl son. and that the record of his arrival IB in the church historian's office when M he reached here from Donmark shows DJIf his namo to havo been Jacob Jensen. l 9 Tho Danish consul in this city will l M likely be brought to court to testify HII that there is no such name as Johnson li Mi among the Mormon people and that it H9 would be crtromoly unlikelv for a na- iFiH VY enniaT "t0 uavo ueeu horn HB 4 Relative" on Hand. ID Jens Christian Jensen of Mt. Fleas-HjHj Fleas-HjHj ant. who claims to bo the half-brother mtm Jacb Johnson, is hero to testify II MR a,t the hearing. Mr. Jensen eamo iu H&9 Jrom Mt. Pleasant Friday evening for Him the first time in iiffy-one yoars. Mr. Hm Jensen declares that Jacob Johnson's HH true name is Jacob Jensen and that his W&M J'athor's name was Jens Jensen. Hn Mr. Jensen said that he and his broth-HM broth-HM ers, Jacob and Christian, came to Utah HB in 1856 with the mother of Jacob and Hil Christian Jensen, then Mrs. Mario So-Wbmu So-Wbmu Jensen, from Denmark, in company HflBU with a number of Mormon converts. Hsi Canute Petersen, he said, was in charge Hil e comPnnv- Shortly after coming H in to Utah Jens Christian Jensen went H ii 10 Sanpete county; and did not see the J M others of the family for ten or twelve Hi years. Then Jacob Johnson or Jonseu Kj! came to his homo afc. 2It. Pleasant and Hj thereafter went by tho namo of John-Ill John-Ill Judge Jacob Johnson denies that his Jiff name ever was Jensen, and denies any HJi relationship with Jens Christian Jen-Hsu Jen-Hsu sen of Mt. Pleasant, |