Show Loba in a The Jean Congregational Pulpit in California The Jean who pretends to be a Congregationalist delivered on March 13 a characteristic anti-Mormon lecture in the Congregational church where he regularly in Ontario is a very beautiful little and it is inhabited by a very select and cultured a people who have undoubtedly read Bancroft's and other reliable histories of Utah and the and all who heard the Jean Loba pour forth his own manufactured anti-Mormonism knew that almost every word he uttered was a deliberate According to the Ontario Record of March reported a small portion of the Loba's tirade the Loba said in his Ontario lecture the terrible vengeance practiced by the Mormons upon those who displeased Loba consulted His and they finally decided to try to escape from the This was anything but an easy and the couple underwent untold hardships in carrying out their In leaving the Loba and his wife left their of which the speaker was one of in the care of his wife's who was not a The couple left at night and avoided the roads till at after many untold they reached In the Jean not being allowed to speak in the Congregational churches in Salt as the pastors of those churches knew him too he lectured in the Presbyterian church He said on that occasion that the year 1857 his father was driven out of Utah and his cattle In Ontario he said his father Loba's story is a very old and stale A Utah-hater living on the Canyon tells the same story of and the same yarn was published about a whose widow now keeps a store in Cor- Lorrimer said the story was an absolute On one occasion the Jean Loba stated that the date of his father's departure from was in and when he was asked why he did appeal to General who was then stationed near Salt Lake with his the Loba saw he was caught in a and he was When the Loba lectured here he said his father was driven out in If that is true he must have passed Johnson's army about miles east of Salt Why did not Loba appeal to General Johnson for succor and and go back and get his instead of dragging his wife miles farther over the desert to The Loba said his father came to Utah from Switzerland when he was six years of That according to the was in The Loba said that when his father was driven out of Utah he was 12 years That would make the date Since the beginning of 1858 a United States army been stationed in or near Salt Lake Why did not the elder Loba apply to the army for protection if he was as badly persecuted as he claims Wicked Flee When No Man If the elder Loba left Salt Lake as he said he he certainly avoided Johnson's and the inference is that he had committed some crime in and he was afraid the United States army would find him No man but a criminal would desert his little children as the elder Loba and leave them in such an awful community as he claimed Utah was at that Even the cowardly coyote or the common dunghill hen will not desert their own offspring in the face of The Jean Loba is a sensational egotist and Beware of the man who publicly boasts of what his family Beware of the man who will state on one occasion that he was driven out of and on another that he stole a 1 in the night Beware man who will not be stand in a Salt Lake 1 pulpit to vent his 3 Mormon because J Congregationalists of Salt if know the Jean LoDa m The Jean in ing his anti-Mormon falsehood disgraced the Congregation pulpit of Ontario and shame upon all those who him to vent forth so much a highly intelligent V would advise the people of to read Bancroft's or any other authentic and see what a sensationalist the Jean Lof I |