Show SALT isalt lame LAKE CITY C nov IT I 1 I 1 i I 1 i r k i edit L ir mews news dear sir although ii a gentile yeul yeti hialit must inform you that I 1 do not belong to any party that persecute any religious people or sect seat because they do not happen to agree with me and sir sirs I 1 wish swish through the medium of your columns not only to speak out my own sentiments but the honest opinions 0 of many other gentiles as you please to callus call cail na not only in utah but also on the atlantic and pacific slope I 1 came to utah some bome six months since under the impression that the mormons cormons Mor mons were one of the coret religious religions sects in the world but asi have through daily dally intercourse with them both in business ahdout and out of business been compelled thus from personal observations to change my opinion concerning them and would not ap any sooner before this knowledge hav have e been een found identified with this federal ring than I 1 would now that I 1 know and have seen what I 1 have talk about religious freedom this crusade of these federals in utah looks like it cosent it no honest man iu in utah or anywhere else can if he has common mother wit endorse their present course and und they are but reckoning without a due knowledge know lege of a prest preat number of the gentiles in utah when they think to flatter themselves that they bre are acting according to the wishes of thousands of us in this territory I 1 sir air am a lineal descendant of men who fought buff bumm buffered suffered eru bled and some of them died to gain that liberty that all men hold sacred liberty of conscience that we might worship god to suit our own views this sir air is the chief corner stone in the constitution religious liberty and such a course as this ring is pursuing should at once be pu put pui down as something to be abhorred in this boasted land of liberty it is aiso also retarding the general wealth growth and prosperity of the country by keeping in out capital from the mines and let all ail ig peak speak out their minds I 1 for one will Is it not an injury to all of ua us now having mines or other property in this Territory you know that this is the truth we have all of us been injured more or less by this unwarrantable fuss fass but sir in my own opinion I 1 do nob not think that polygamy is what this growl is all about but simply is made use of by them to get at the few surplus dollars now in the little treasury box for sir we as gentiles must admit the fact that you are the only people in all ail of uncle samuels broad domains that have ever been honest enough to keep your Teril terii territory tor out of debt now sir in conclusion allow me to say that I 1 am in hopes if this thil does no good by publishing it it will at least as the doctors say by their medicines do no harm barm it is not at least in intended tendel for the latter yours truly with respect I 1 K E HOWELL i bean river bixer CITY box elder co 10 f nov 26 wai edi editor or Z aseret news idear dear ser sir the rhe the above named place having now flow fifty families with W neeley keeley as president is situated on the banks of bear river biver and one and a half miles fron froin the mouth of the malad thi the settlement bas has a sunday and aid a day bechdol a hoo cooperative coo boo jp 0 store and a poat offlie bro erb J hansen is postmaster and store keeper beeper the place was settled five years ago aben when a dam was built in the mala maia which gave way about one year ago no doubt because heavy freight trains bound for the northern mines weri were always permitted to pass oyer oyen it the regular visits of af life locusts has been hard an on the settlers in the past but now no the people are aid vigorously constructing ing a it new 4 dam and a canal to be in working working wording order next season after which they will no doubt be well paid for their buffer suffer sufferings inks and perseverance naturally the coil is productive here the first two years ic it was not I 1 infrequent n to realize 40 bushels of wheat to one acre of land here hene ere Is good range for stock the hay land a littly bittie way off from the farming land laud good su supplies p uirl 1 les lea of fish can be caught daily and ha hourly y in the rivers while wild game la is very abundant brethren who desire to secure plenty of farming arming land and good ranges for their stock are invited to make their homes here respectfully A C q |