Show correspondence lelio lelli NOTES noten LEHI october 1885 editor deseret news I 1 thought I 1 would send you a few n notes otes concerning our little town to begin with I 1 would say that our farmers have raised A BOUNTEOUS CROP CHOP this season grain is very cheap here also vegetables potatoes can not be gotten rid of at 25 cents per bushel business has been very lively this fall con considering the dull times our cooperative store has shipped several car loads of grain and potatoes east and put up a very fine warehouse which is now fl lied with furniture stoves etc besides this w we expect that early next nest week the store will vill declare a good dividend several new buildings have been erected lately by private parties those of W E backer rucker and V P evans being among the finest loutensock Lauten sock and lewis our ur enterprising town townsmen are arc doing a rushing business in the building g line ilni we are cursed with plenty of tramps lust just no vv v and have to put ii up with the loss of a few quilts an and blankets from our clothes lines iines and a saddle or two from our stable THE Y M ai I 1 IA A of this place have organized reorganized re for the season with P Lanten sock as president the L 31 hall which by the way has been quite a source of revenue to the association during the past year has been rented by it for another year A fund of over one hundred dollars Is now in the treasurers treasur ers hands and by the advice of our authorities one of the members henry anderson has been sent as a normal student to the B Y academy at provo his big tuition and expenses beier being paid by the association A f free ree reading room and circulating circulation library are also supported by the asZa asma association tion besides a dramatic society and a monthly paper the star both of which are managed by B J anderson the diphtheria has been very bad here ere cre t this b is summer carrying off eight or nine vic victims tirus titus but at present I 1 believe we are free from it our day school will soon start and our sunday school which e h is in a very good condition will will hol hoi hold hoid d its anniversary on the and ve we expect a visit from the salt lake cricket club who will play the alerts of lehi with the usual usual result FLOWING WELLS ar are cail call all ail the rage here seven already having been obtained our bishop Is also up to the times and has had some improvements made in and about our tithing office and yards which make things look a great deai deal better and when our city fathers fix ax up our streets a little in the neighborhood of the tithing g office lehi will not be behind other places in appearance police business here is very bulland du lland the court has gone to farming in order to keep body and soul alive at the J beck saratoga farm on the lake shore business busl buhl nesya nesia Is n very brisk the hotel Is nearing completion mine acres of new land is being plowed up and put into fall grain and and many other improvements are going on in order to in make ake it attractive next season with well wishes for the NEWS I 1 am respectfully ully ally LOOKER ON A suggestion FOR THE consideration OF THE POWERS THAT BE AND THE protection OF THE POLYGAMIST 8 WHO HAVE SERVED THEIR SENTENCES SALT LAKE CITY october 16 1885 editor deseret meus news in view of the embarrassing position the mormon ex convicts must be in respecting business and the fraternal obligations they justly owe to their families would it be unreasonable to ask judge zane or the edmunds commissioners to issue annual not transferable permits or tickets of admission authorizing the holder bolder to visit each family say once a week for considerations the tickets might be graded in color size and word wording I 1 ng so as to meet exi exl exigencies enci e s as the they would naturally arise F edi fri the f family a m ally po polity litty one color for one family and another for another one size might admit the holder bolder to meet his family in the kitchen and another in the dining room or parlor one kind could be made to authorize an hours interview with tile tiie children aud another an hours lete a tete with his wife on business if sickness entered either household the tickets could easily be made to express the will of zane co as to the husbands and fathers duties in the premises should the ailments be malignant li gnant permission to remain half a day or half ani ant a night ht might be printed or written on one kind of ticket another sort could be made to state what distance apart the husband and wife must remain remain while up town or elsewhere and define the nature of the salutation or recognition they might with impunity indulge in and still another kind might admit him to his hi stable and corral corrai to attend to his stock etc this adjustment of the matter might keep the pluralist out of future trouble troubie and yet be liberal enough to answer every utilitarian end I 1 that judge zane or the commissioners sio ners or even governor murray has ant authority hority and power to issue such admission tickets no one will have the presumption to question byall by all ail means let the persecuted men have them so that if an apostate I 1 mormon or U S spotter should spy out an ex on his own premises he can show his ad admission ticket and the apostate and spot spotter terean ean xan pass pasa onto watch for and entrap some onel onet else eise in the light of judge zanes tr rulings about the repute of marriage 11 etc such tickets or some such protection seems absolutely necessary otherwise the poor men will be again again liable to fine and imprisonment without even the shadow of evidence of guiltiness wulin guild n ess S PA tm MUST THE CHINESE GO I 1 HONEST john johy johnhow HOW HE PROVES IT lepur NEPHI oct j 1883 1885 0 editor deseret wems nevus on monday last a granger grange from arizona called at the salt lake post ottice and inquired for his mill mail lie he was kindly informed by the clerk nothing this answer although R disappointing was for the time being accepted but our friend whose given name by the way was john was not satisfied and returning a few minutes after 4 p m told olathe the clerk ther emust be a letter ietter for tor him on makin another search the mhd clerk I 1 slightly 0 confused acknowledged h he e had lound found a registered re Ms letter but that it could not be delivered eli ell vered until 9 a am in next day this postponement john objected to stating that he designed taking the 26 26 utah central tram train tor for Nephi and could not wait however a consultation with some one in the office brought permission sion to deliver at an unseasonable hour when an opened registered letter was produced containing 2000 with an accompanied com compa nied regret that by mistake it hauteen had been delivered to a chinaman probably by the name of john who had 11 ad opened it but being as yet free f from rom the civilizing influences of christianity ti and governed solely by celestial law and tradition had returned it and our friend john was thus made happy y fhe the the question now in order is should J john ohn be compelled to go the knights of labor by this showing may be influenced to change their edict and john thus suddenly conVerted into a missionary may be permitted to stay and continue the goo woodwork good dwork work of spread in ing an influence in favor of honesty yours HOMEWARD EWARD BOUND 1 elie TIIE WORK IN THE SWISS AND german GEHMAN MISSION kf t BERNE switzerland 1 september 1893 iby editor deseret news neus As occasion permits it I 1 may briefly state that we are well and in the discharge of our missionary duties among the german and swiss nations the storm which has swept over zion has caused also here a pausing of the people and while we are not doing much in converting yet a great many especially pec lally ally of the reading and reflecting class are being informed they begin to have their attention called to that peculiar people the latter day saints even the ridiculous lies of some corresponding individuals who live among you in salt lake which are published in n the german papers have a good effect for not one of those red hot articles appears in print but brt what contradicts itself in regard to our people cople copie cople and leaves in the minds of the fair jair minded a good impression towards the latter day saints but not so favor for tor those individual scribblers scribble rs who thus relieve themselves of their thein venom and feed their countrymen with lies not wishing to be lengthy I 1 conclude by asking gods blessin blessing upon all israel and her institutions yours truly FREDERICK W schoenfeld end ELD john ruskin buskin replying to an appeal in favor of t the he use and study of f nude female models says saya than an artict can do much better without them than with them A stockton cal dispatch says A ilk petition was numerously signed today to tp day in which the signers pledged themselves to drive out the chinese by all lawful means within their power |