Show AuRim MORMONS WIDOW acres of land oi 01 our insist In inside pocket and A plural wife ln in the reporters mind the following thrilling little story was pu published blushed in the atchison weekly globe atchison kansas august 2 th tina ta morning t two 0 pi pica bachers chers of tho the church of jesus jesua chi of latter da day saints called at the residence of A sears the hailway mail agent rind and said they desired to talk to him about his hia spiritual condition mr sears prom aly ordered them out of the house 1 I am a minister of the gospel said one of tho the men and am not accustomed to 10 being treated in this ienner to which mr beats lep iop liPil you are big hi nough bough to earn an I 1 oneil li living ini I 1 I 1 am earning an living liking the preacher replied you aie a liar retorted nir mr sears seara and taking the ibe man by the throat lie he b icken him off the boich these men aro are sent out by the the utah church and have been in atchison Atchi aon several weeks they certainly are not accomplishing any good certainly they are not making any conaci ts of course some one pi pis s their expenses some iriani member ber of the church is robbing his cami family y to pay the of these men A mr r togy sears rs d dislikes sh es the utah church because he lately received a call from dan hillman who worked under him years ago in a pr office at beloit hillman illman ll went to vernal utah where he barned a cormons mormons Mor mons widow the widow had a good printing office and seven hundred acres of land fiill min says the mormons cormons in that section practice polygamy on the sly and claim I 1 to have a ren re elation showing that polygamy is necessary to s salvation al now what do you think of that jar you that drive a man to strong dunk chink to discover several eais eai a afeei lie he is married th it he got some mormons mor cormons mons plural wife and aci es of land now it here is thirland thit land gentle if you I rave ave any knowledge of that acres please lome come around and give us a tip of coumbe courbe the story having been publish ed in a kansas newspaper must be true we got the moemon girl all right although if she was as a NN jidov idon or plural wife things were awfully mierei resented to us at the time but we are not w Norr worrying ying oner 0 er that where is that acres of land what we would like mighty well to find we have the good printing office abo and have had to work like a sucker 18 hours a d daiy diy ty for the last s six ix years to pay for it too another amusing statement of this truthful little story is 13 that sears took the man by the throat and backed him off the porch holy smoke think of a featherweight feather weight printer seizing anyone by the throat if al ever imbibed but then in punters enters inters do not and rans ivansik is is a prohibition state any how als sand must have increased with his age but theres no tell ng what a printer will do after putting in an eighteen years run on a mail cai the writer worked in the same punt shop withal ithal sears for three ears and although we me cant cantie ie member of him showing any inclination to fight lie he usually hewed pi etty close to the line of truth and square dealing as all good printers do if al told the yam yain about the acres of land and the INlo maimon s adow he must lim ha f been misinformed through some source ahat is 13 some satisfaction though to know that the prints rs ra in bansak especially former acquaintances acquaintance i are la labeling boling under the impression that dan hillman has struck a pay streak and is iii living ing in luaui luxury y out m west est we would not be at all ed to hear of some kansas hansas pi inters enters corn coin ing to utah right an away ay to find a rich mormon widow during the past eighteen bears cars the writer met al sears orice once that was A as bout about six years ago Us as the tram train passed through beloit duling the three or four minutes stop while the mail sacks were being thi 01 0 own 1 n off and on we shook hands with A al and must have been something said along the line of polygamy bung out here if he says so we e for the tion of the gluba G lube NN we c say now that polygamy is 15 being pi ac heie in utah and its ita not on the sly either we can call to mind a few cases case 9 here in the valley less than li hiffa alf a dozen doen in these few cases the panties are old gray haired men N ho antei cd into pole polygamy gamy years ears ago possibly before the writer was born and they are still living with nith and supporting both families and so far as the lapress is concerned we N e can see no good 1 leason eason why by one family of children chil ebil dien is not en titled to the same advantages and re cognition as the other these crises are few and art am grow gronn ing fedei and we venture to say that wit in tn bears eara all these old pio pioneers pione neets eis NN ill be dead and polygamy at an end we cannot say whether normon mormon peo people believe that polygamy is necessary to salvation or not but we ne do know that many of them faill believe in polygamy but ref lain from practicing it because it is contrary to the lays laws a of the land NN hile w A e realize that 0 are taking a stand directly opposite to the salt lake tribune and many of the loading leading anti mormon auchoi i W 1 v ve e d du not belien e tl ti at the 3 o ingeb members bembe of the mormon church a ae ac c contracting plural marriages we do nu celiene le lieNe alere has been a pluvial or polygamous poly abnous marriage consummated of lito bears since the manifesto mini festo IP in the stati of utah it is foible po ible that thi us bon b on but NL c can call not it believe ile il 11 N 0 hai luo a been fie hero re t tw I 1 e i n I 1 nine h v e seen no evidence of tiny any thing of the thea I 1 kind in conclusion we N e want x ant to say that ne lir li cr r the writer or his wife are members of the mormon chuich neither is 13 the writer a member of any other church which perhaps we ought to be ashamed of so far as a e are able to see ce the moemon people will average up with any other sect or class as good citizens we have found a few dead beats drones and liars among them the same as we A e have in other places |