Show IN MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN AMONG AND RITES elder uder I 1 chas 31 nielson of spring ville utah tah county returned last thursday thu aday from a mis mission 10 n to the north western states upon which he started april loth 1883 while away he la ia bored in minnesota and wisconsin alternately but mostly in the latter state he baptized fourteen persons confirmed fifteen and assisted inthe in the baptism of six others besides blessing eight children durl duri during his travels in minnesota ho he paid a visit lt to the Cutler ites followers of alpheus cutler an early mormon apostate who have now dwindled to twenty or thirty families and are dwelling in and about ClIt clithero hero heru and girard ginard erard otter tail county they ther have long iong on since ceased to exist as a religious body boey but still have a hallwhich they let iet eldr nielson and his companion elder H W buchanan Buc hanan banan have twice to preach in besides two of their schoolhouses and otherwise treated them kindly these people still retain faith in mormonism to an extent and revere joseph smith as a prophet but they think the they ther are all right as they lurther further are without further change of location or pinion opinion when asked why they ha had ceased to hold meetings they replied that they had determined to stand still and see the salvation of god they realize they have been deceived or some of them do but also seem to think the mormons cormons Mor mons of utah are in the same or a much worse condition polygamy polygamy they repudiate though cutler himself aimse had three wives before he lef left t the church two of whom he abandoned on leaving and also had given two of his daughters in marriage to the late president heber C kimball kimbail his followers however deny that joseph smith ever taught or practised practiced plural marriage the remnant of sidney Rig dons adherents he rents in that region at least consist of about seven families and are located about 0 miles from the Cutler ites in the dominion of canada they also have lave ceased to be actively religious not ot long since one of them finding those hose about him had become spiritually y dead came over into minnesota to see whether the Cutler ites were any etter better off in that respect he found that hat both parties were suffering from the he same complaint and were gradually withering as religious societies I 1 rom tom the earth elder nielson next traveled with elder HM H M payne pres present enli bishop of aurora sevier county for about one month and held eight meetings in anoka isanti bisanti and mill lacs counties though often turned away from doors where they applied for gor lor food and shel erans erand berand having houses refused them for reaching preaching purposes pur poses they were not vio violently antly assailed in any way at la crosse chosse wisconsin a city of inhabitants elder nielson then alone held twenty six meetings among his converts was a young girl who has since emigrated to utah and is married and living in this city her husband being a clerk in Z C M Y I 1 this conversion raised quite an excitement as it was reported that elder nielson had wooed and won her for himself the la crosse chronicle instigated it is believed by a methodist minister to whose nock the young lady had belonged came out very bitterly recommending I 1 tar and feathers I 1 as the best means of ridding the city of the elders presence and telling where he was in the habit of preaching and could be found the republican and Ledger two other papers took up on the other side and counseled toleration and noninterference interference non A paper was circulated to obtain signatures of those willing to engage in the proposed mobbing n f but it finally fell through and the excitement went down the young lady and the young man she afterwards ter wards married mr bir C A Lund who also joined the church subsequently called upon the chronicle editor and got him to promise to make matters right proving to him that he had slandered both her and elder nielson in his former article which was a commentary on a published communication probably written by the methodist preacher referred to who had before that proclaimed elder eider nielson I 1 from rom his pulpit as a wolf in cheeps clothing I 1 the chronicle man agreed to make reparation but did so in much the same manner as governor murray in his telegram to governor bate ol 01 of tennessee shed his crocodile tears over the murder of the elders on cane C creek re k professing of e s s in t to 0 regret et what had taken place tc and a n d then tt en covertly excusing it b by t the e insinuation of something similar to the original slander the leader and republican publican itt ite both said they had received letters as bitterly hostile to the mormon elders as the one published by the chronicle but could not condescend to place them before their readers as it had done elder nielson continued in wisconsin up to the time of his release about the first of October his last companion being elder harry A young son of father eather lorenzo Z D young of this city nothing further of an exciting nature occurred they held twelve ur or fifteen meetings which were well attended as a re rule ruie and baptized six persons elder Nl Ni elsons health has been poor during the last summer but has improved unproved some since his r return tum to utah assistant gP lP resident john E booth he ays says Is s on his bis way home elder eider neilson nellson speaks very highly of his services and ability in managing the at fairs of the mission miss on in the absence ol 01 of president lV palmer almer |