Show A CAUTION TO THE charitable WE have already cautioned the public about a subscription which is being n taken up from house to house ostensibly for the relief of mormons cormons Mor mons said to be dufferin suffering C in colorado advantage no doubt has been taken by some designing person of a report which has been circulated in this city that a num ber her of persons who had been lured from the southern states by imor mor igor andrad seceded from the church on their arrival in colorado were in indigent circumstances and exposed to severe cold and semi star the story itself is untrue and the peripatetic contribution taker is working on the susceptibilities of the benevolent for his own private emolument let him alone IV we othin think kit it advisable to state the facts in regard to the colorado apostates that charitably disposed people may baynot not be deceive dby plausible tuii es invented for the purpose of working upon their sympathies tor por fife nive years past the principal part of mormon immigration ration from filin the southern states state s has been located in conejos county colorado where the flourishing settlements manassa and mid ephraim havel hava been established with excellent excellent prospects land has been purchasable at from eighty cents to a dollar and a quarter per e acie in easy instalments installments live years being allowed for the full fa purchase A good many of U the people ano nave bave settled there have obtained a start in the world which they never could have secured in the places from whence they came carte crops have been good during the past season deaso n and provisions abundant no industrious person need be lacking for the necessaries and many of the comforts of life ilvo when we say th that atthe the full organisation organization of mormon settlements exists there including ladies relief so societies clettes it will be understood that na no suffering for food foud and shelter can prevail there whether among mormons cormons Mor mons I 1 gentiles Gentil esl esi or A apostates estates os tates another company from the southern bouthern states who have haye receive ed cheering accounts from the settlers are expected to reach there tomorrow to morrow during darlng that five years lof gradual settlement in which about fifteen huh hundred people have gathered there of course there has been some dissatisfaction among those who have not fully received the spirit of this work and some transgress sors these were borne with in adl adi alt ait patience and forbearance until it became necessary to take extreme measures ten or eleven were tried for various of fences and excommunicated munica ted among them was wag IV L ball once pretty well known in this city we are ini int ormea that having been placed in a responsible position there because of his experience and residence in utah he misused his position to appropriate church funds to his conw use including the tithing donations for the poor and the relie reile relief belief 61 society money in in charge of bla hia frile wilc this Is the person who is ig now atom attempting t in to raise i noney money from cha charitable people in utah under the pretense that there are needy and suffering people in colorado rhe uhe statement that he has made that there are hundreds in conejos county about to go over to the josephite I 1 movement is untrue there was an apostate of old whose name was judas iscariot and who wa was svery very anxious about the pour the reason was he carried the bag this man inan bal bai ball bali is in ili great distress for the colorado poor poo r for the same reason I 1 we caution those who hive have been deceived byais by his misrepresentations sufficient TO tb interest themselves in a movement to assist the Color adans not to entrust iund funds to that man yf it they still think there is need ton lon their assistance wt let their contributions b be placed alere where they will be likely to benefit the needy E experience ermence has proven that ball is not ate to be trusted with fu fund belon belonging grin to other people we say to the latter day saints there is no need to be alarmed abort about the settlers in colorado some of those her abersons I 1 ber arons sons who vrho became grumblers grumbl ers and aua have ave turned agai agal against nat their friends were hel hei helped ed from the south and in far better circumstances so far as food raiment and property are concerned than they were werd or had hope hobe to be in the places whence they came daule it there was any need for a call for assiAd assistance nce it would come through the pr proper oper ober channel beware of frauds who wish to m make ake merchandise of your benevolence 1 and we sax say to those not of our faith whose souls have been drawn out in sympathy for the supposed sufferings ings of southerners in iii an inclement climate the movement is a fraud but if you think otherwise take care that your contri contributions butiong are not squandered upon an embezzler aad a cheat I 1 |