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Show MAT "fEMALE DETZCTirE." Oun readers will remember the Tain attempts of a person named Jennie Coultre, or Coulter, in liew York, to hlnJer the passage of a number of "Mormon" immigrants on their way to Utah. This person represented herself to be a Presbyterian Presby-terian missionary who had spent two j ears In Utah, and pretended to know a great deal of Urn ".Mormons," ".Mor-mons," tbclr customs and their doctrines. It was subsequently announced an-nounced In the Sear York papers that the had b:en sent to Utah as a female detective. It an;iears that she has retched her destination, and has already taken up the thread of her former fictions, and is attempting to construct con-struct a tksue of lies, which vill psrliaps bring her a few dollars, but will not redound tc her credit nor add to her self respect The foIlowIngappearalutbePhila-delphla foIlowIngappearalutbePhila-delphla J'rea, as a special dispatch from Salt InkeCitj, dated October 30th ''Miss Jennie- Coulter, the Presbyterian Presby-terian school teacher, who furnished the press of the country wl Ja trus accounts ac-counts of the life ot the Mormon laity, has returned to Utah and has already al-ready folt the first effect ot Mormon persecution. " TlieSaints' were particularly angry an-gry becauso Miss Coulter said they lived on dried fish and burned sagebrush, sage-brush, Juitas tboydo in the. rural communities, and demanded a retraction retrac-tion n hlch has not been mado by the vonns; woman, although a frail little body has plenty of spunk and spirit Her most unpleatant oxperlenco sinco her return,was at the villi zo of American Ameri-can Fork, about 33 miles south of this city. "When the intrepid school teacher arrived at the town where she formerly kept school to visit her successor. Mrs. Brush, tbe Mormons became very much excited and demanded that she tako back all she had said abDQt them or it would go hard with her. It is claimed that Dr. Brush, the husband of Mrs. Brush, was the instigator of the attack, as he claims Miss Coulter's remarks have ruined his practice Mrs. lSrush succeeded, howover, in getting her friend out of town safely. The Doctor and Mrs. Brush were established In the town through Hiss Coulter's good ofSees, and his friends cannot understand his reont action It Is hardly probahle the latter-day Stints would havd dared to rosort to open violence, as American Fork is on two lines of railway and only tnlrty-tbrce tnlrty-tbrce miles south ot this city and Fort Douglas. The cntlrn United Stas garrison could be thrown into ths town in two hours, and they would be only too glad to make short work of a mob who would attack a woman. Mnreovor, the Saints have a wholesome whole-some dread of matial law, and they know Utah has an executlvoln Goer-nor Goer-nor Thomas who has not tho fear of the Mormon Cbun.li before bis eyos. "Miss Coulter's friends in bait take haTo presented her with a bandsomo tlx shooter, which eho is learning to bo handy with. There Is, of courec, no danger in this, bat the young missionary mis-sionary proposes to returns her teaching, teach-ing, this time at Fillmore City, Uio county scat of Millard County, and a veritable hot bed ol M rmonIsm. So it is just as well lha sho takes bor six-shootsr six-shootsr with her and goes p-epared to ue It If the latter-day Saints attempt to make life a burden to her. "Miss Coulter travels by rail from this city to Juab on the Union Pacific, and from thence goes by stage fifty miles to Fillmore Sams of her friends advice that an arnil United states deputy marshal should quietly a-company the stae, ready for business busi-ness if the brethren assail her. Sho will be subjected more or less to in suits. Bnt the plucky ll'tle woman says she is ready for them Sbe will goon with her work undeterred by anything tbe Saints may say. Tho saints have at times very original ways of showing their dislike to the Philistines. It is ody a few years ago that a noble band of them ont in Tailla County frescoed tho entire en-tire front of a Methodist minister's house with the contents of a cattle pen. This they called using the weapons of the spirit, pouring out tho vials of God's nrath upon the enemies of his chosen people. Up in Kays-vllle Kays-vllle a gany of the 'chocn' tried to blow op a Presbyterian scboolbouse on finding inside after school tbe young woman who was teaching there. Thee and similar incidents can o the Gentiles to smlls when they hear tho Mormon leaders talking about the law-abiding qualities of their flock." It will be seen that whoevtr sent tills special Is a liar of the most devout de-vout stripe. We can give a good gue?sathisname, which doubtless commonly bears the title "Rev." at its front We have no doubt he will obtain bis full reward in the day when justice claims tbe penalty for the breaking of that law which says: "Thou Shalt not bear .false witness against thy neighbor." We have heard notbinc of the arrival of this "fern lie detective" here, and the whole story may have been invented in this citi. But every Preabytcrian as well as "Mjrmon" here, knows that tlie entire dispatch is a shameful misrepresentation mis-representation of the people of this Territory. It I not likely, however, how-ever, that one of them, preachers Included, In-cluded, will attempt to say anything in refutation of these vile slanders against tht who have always treated them with kiudms or at the n orst with silent disregard. If the folks at American Fork or at Fillmore know anything of this un truthful and ambitious female wc would be glad to receive information. informa-tion. Facts and not comments or opinions are what we desire. It Is to be hoped that no one will give thl-female thl-female romancer and pistol plagiarist the slightest reason for any of the stories of persecution she may design to fabricate. She should be let severely alone. |
