| Show AN ABSURD STORY EXPOSED THE denver deaver tribune tribunes which hab has published several fabrications about the Mormon sand the Ute ahab ahas an article in of the imbt containing a cock and buli bull story of a m packEr pack arain train aiu alu loaded with rifles and cartridge cartridges bald said to have been been seen on ion big spring creek between bear aad anake biver rivert and the inference is drawn without any reason or babis basia for such a can conclusion clu ciu cl that this war material was furnis furnished hid by the cormons mormons Mor mons for the ahe use of the ho hostile let us 03 look at the bory story before weady anything about tho deductions A reporter alleges that he ho interviewed a man named banker bankers from rawlins rawl ins who says ha wat wai wa told by some cattle men or prospectors he does not seem to be sure surp which that some time during the previous week they saw on big spring creek between gear bear and snake rivers and directly west of 0 the whito white river agency a pack train of seventy burros with drivers making their way duo due south As pack trains at thib this jeason reason geason reason are rather uncommon the men said they examined the loads and found them to bo be nothing but rifles and cartridges this is theiarn the yarn out of which all this new sensation about collusion ef of cormons mormons Mor mons with the utes la Is manufactured somebody says bays a man told him that he heard a number of persons persona bay eay that tuey they saw this pack tra inand that the attendants tend ten ants danta in charge of these seventy loads of war material being secretly conveyed allowed these cattle men or prospectors or whatever they thel were to xo examine all the loads so carefully that they were able to pronounce them in the words ot of the alleged narrator rifles and cartridges only this and nothing more JJ they were traveling I 1 dua qua due bouth donth and thia this AO ko saya soya this wonderful story would indicate thet that utah had been the starting point and grand river the objective point of the animals now let any one ex examine amineh a map of the territories and see if ii he can tind and any such place placa west of the white river agency then tell us how any one traveling from utah dua duo due EoLith couth ll would reach grand river biver then rive give a common sense reason for inferring that a pack train traveling due south from big between betwee ii bealand Be bear baar arand anand and anabee rivers rivera came cache from utah or that its objective point was grand river biver the reporter who spun that yarn la Is evidently ignorant of the geography of the country in which be he located hla hia pack fack train he is doubt less leas the paternal progenitor of those mules and any rne une one zno who can accept hlf story after investigating burely aurely be one of his near relatives from this stupid story the denver tribuna draws a lot of equally stupid deductions about the and the ho hostiles stiles mixing in its former un untruths truths ruthd about chief statements of mormon connection with th river Ute sand saud other papers copying the article help to spread the thu folly folli to prejudice pr judice jadice the people of utah before the country und add fuel to the flame of falsehood lit it up by the chrls christian pulpit and fanned tanned by the christian press of such a stuff tuff are nearly all the sensational about tho limor mor in ans one fashioned oi in the brain of some sectarian priest or a reporter hard pressed for a taking item they are picked up and hanot band ed round and copied without thought or care as to their genuine ne nesa neta desand band sand and the whole country is led to wonder wh why such buch things are allow ed to continue we warn respectable papers and persons against being deceived by lluch buch misrepresentations declare that the people of utah have at least as much interest in the protection of the whites from indian outbreaks as any other people la in the land and defy our bit bitterest bil terest enemies to bring forward anything but a malicious distortion of facts straight unscrupulous falsehood or the offspring of evil imagination to substantiate the absurd theory ot of mormon byl all collusion with hostile indians In dlane diane against the penca and wel aro aro arc of the whites |
