Show THE WAY IT IS DONE we clip tile thy following extract from the tile missouri republican in which it is credited to ta the ie council bluffs nonpareil and present it to our readers as a s specimen p of the manner in which reports concerning tile the mormons cormons Mor mons are produced and circulated to the world we give it without altering a single word A private letter ietter just received by a gentleman of our acquaintance from a reliable party in utah gives the details of a wholesale murder of a camuy ly of six persons by a gang canites Da or destroying angels 11 our I 1 informant was intimately acquainted with unfortunate victims and says they had been the objects of relentless persecution by the brethren for some time past they had all been members of the church in high standing and familiar with the inside workings of BrI gIlain ism latterly they lind been seriously erious ly cloned of disloyalty to the church and were supposed to be making preparations milons theo to get betout out ont or of the territory an event which the angels were instructed to prevent as the people knew and would probably say after leaving zion many manx a things which the good name odthe of the church to would u nothings not permit to be made public the parties knew they were watched and took every precaution to elude the vigilance of the dan ites 11 they started ostensibly for the purpose 0 of f changing their residence to the eastern side of the territory but really intending to come on to the states and were accompanied by two yo young un mela men who who were not members of the church hu r when they had been out several days and were encamped in a kanyon about fifty miles from salt lake one of youngs bishops c came m e to the camp and told them they must m move ov e immediately or they would all ail be murdered by the indians they were loth to start at first but the bishop insisted and they finally constructed to follow him he led them to a secure cam camping ng place several miles distant from the public it road croad and there lett left them the following night a 1 company of men disguised as indians came upon the thel camp and murdered every member of the party except the two young men who returned to the settlements gette and informed the friends of the family what had happened these statements may be relied upon as true w we a are in possession of the names of all the parties but not at liberty to make theams public as the informers if known to the dan ites would sha rathe same bame fate tile the inhabitants of this territory will ivill no doubt be astonished that such a thing could occur here without tiie tipe their ir ever hearing a word of it or ever dreaming that such a tragedy 0 was playe played d the friends of the family will birl biri be in a similar state of mind notwithstanding that the two young men informed them of what had happened the thi e statement is a tissue of the most malignant falsehoods from beginning to end having evidently for its foundation va a melancholy occurrence occur ence the detail details W which are well known and have been vun widely circulated the only thing to which it could be made to applys the massacre of the given fail family y at thistle valley in spanish fork kanyon by the indians on the of may the full statement of which inthis is this moment lying before us in the te testimony iki of charles W leah leab one of the two young men given before col 0 H irish superintendent of indian affairs ann airs oil on friday june otil at at t i ilg lip spanish fork indian reservation farm and reported in phonographic 0 raphia raphie shorthand short Shor tand hand at the time by our assistant t the only thin tiling 0 in the statement that is tile the ghost of a truth is that six persons were murdered the statements that I 1 may be relied relie ld upon as true I 1 NA wh pi en correctly put give the following direct manifest well known and plain false hoods they had not been member of the church in high standing they were not imaging making preparations to get jet out of the territory dinst instead ead of starting ostensibly for the purpose tf r changing their residence to the eastern side ide of the territory they resided reside d lii lil an fn je the eastern side of the territory and simply moved six miles up the kanyon a short distance from the mouth of which spanish fork is situated there to locate themselves them selve seive for the th e summer S the two young men were not fiat ci young men particularly and T di e members of the church they were not out several days and encamped in a kanyon about fifty miles from salt lake but had ere erected C ted a little shanty of willows in which they were residing and intended to reside it was known krown that blackhawk blaek black hawk and ills his band of ma indians were in the mounta mountains iiii lill for only a day or two previous there thare had been some massacres a little further south of the same place in sanpete valley but they were not warned by the bishop forthe for the bishop was then on his way across the plains to fill a mission to europe instead of being alloth loth to start at first but the bishop insisted and they finally const ru ere cre W li az to follo follow him when lle ile lie he led them to a secure campi camping ng place several miles from the road they were not asked to M moye move 0 te did not move but remained where e a they were the two young men escaped through t being lin a wagon box at ohie ofie one end of the shanty the first intimation they kad had of the indians indiana was by the cattle cattie herd running down from thistle creek about daybreak on tile the morning of the of may followed by his cattle eattle trying to escape cape fro from bothem them leaff thought latwas li navi ogi only y wile alie tile attle attie cattle cattie running and went to sleep again but was awakened by the indians firing into the I 1 shanty through the willows the T he T two vv men leah and brown slept in a wagon box at the north end of the shanty and were not seen by the in they killed the tile family that occupied it ae lwe have furnished the tile information I 1 gratis to wit the names of the parties which the nonpareil is afraid to give lest the informers should share the same ame ls fate but what can be said 1 of the perpetrator of such unblushing in 0 falsehoods infamous in his own eyes whoever he may be he wisely hides from the tile light that would reveal his deep and damning moral turpitude to the eyes of his fellow beings and hidden in the dark seeks to add to the long catalogue of black and fiendish lies lids by which we have been traduced traducer trad and enmity stirred up against us yet it is of just such materials that the bi country is flooded with tales about the 4 11 mormons cormons Mor armons mons as and baseless as this one but many of them not so mali mall malignant fiant biant we give further publicity to this clipping with our comments and add that government officials civil and military and citizens of all classes I 1 mormon and gentile know indubitably that the statements state menta made in it ar aretas arenas e as false as the writer knew how to invent the nonpareil and other papers would do well to have positive a assurance s of the reliability of parties furn furnishing ashing information concerning ie reported occurrences in utah or they are likely to tobe be as grossly deceived in the future as in the past where the bior mor mons monsa form subject matter for the writers for strong prejudice and im 1 M corruption can descend terribly bowl aud and lie like a book when it suits their 0 purpose pose to do so |