| Show THE TIIE SITUATION IN ME THE SAN sas LUIS buls VALLEY BALL DISCARDED BY HIS OW OWN ai r PARTY panty FOR eor embezzlement OF charliy charley CHARITY J FUNDS anis mornin morning we received a visit from elder asa hawley of 0 Inver ury sevier county who returned yesterday from a mission the first part of which was spent in alabama where he labored for nineteen months ile he met with a good deal of opposition but also with considerable success having personally baptized thirteen persons and assisted in the administration of that ordinance to eighteen others although many threats of violence were made against himself and other elders they escaped without receiving any personal lal lai injury at the close of the nineteen months he was transferred to colorado where he has been laboring nearly nive five months we at this point put some laterro interrogations a to brother hawley in relation to the situation of affairs in the san luis valley i how illow are the people prospering ro finely Fl finely nely the spring as s open erin larm ing operations were begun two weeks awo ago ago and there are excellent prospects of a fruitful season what is the general feeling amon among the people I 1 tho general sentiment is one of peace and contentment those feelings are universal among all the good citizens there what is the situation with the few malcontents of whom prominent mention has been made in the newspapers A split has occurred in their ranks what is the nature of the disagree disagreement W 14 I 1 ball who was the ringleader of the clique was sent by them to kansas son some te time ago for the purpose of selecting and purchasing lands hands in that state towi to which ilch lich they proposed to migrate for settlement fia fla lu going goin on this mission ball kyas was entrusted rith with a cons considerable id erable sum of money belon belong ing in to the entire party in common they discovered that he embezzled quite an amount of thi this money and appropriated it to his own use they soon raised a hornets horn honn ts nest about ills his ears cars deposed him from the leaders leadership lp ana and placed a man named moyers in his stead they denounce ball as a scoundrel a thief and a hypocrite in consequence of his mercenary mean contemptible and hypocritical conduct he is despised by all classes of the community |
