Show A TERRIBLE CRIME OUR readers will most likely rebern her ber an item of so called news that went the rounds to the effect that a pi P eminent mormon had bad been interviewed ter viewed by a topeka kansas reporter and that he was on his way to mexico with several of his wives whither he was to be followed by a large larae number of I 1 mormon cormons Mor mons aie 0 only n ly a few days alter after this the geist gentleman ma n s said aid to have been interviewed at topeka and who had not been within several hundred hund reki miles of the place surrendered himself to the federal officials in this city and went to the penitent jhb topeka capital now admits that the ru rumors mors which it has so materially helped to circulate of of a 91 wholesale eFale hegira of mormons cormons Mor mons into mexico is entirely incorrect the capital says we fear the report that the mor mons of utah are preparing to move in large nu tobera a to mexico is not anthen authentic then tic bathey bac they have been guilty of beung baing land and in northern chihuahua and are exi expecting Acting to buy more probably large numbers of the polygamous Mor who have found it unpleasant trying to evade or defy the law in utah will go to mexico I 1 the capital does not inform us as to the penalty that will or should be imposed upon the mormons cormons Mor mons for the crime of buying land in mexico nor under what statute or provision of law they can be declared guilty of this heinous offense probably there is no need for any trial or charge or law on which to base a co complaint since the capital has settled the matter by declaring the mormons cormons Mor mons guilty 11 the penalty we suppose considering tap source of the verdict will be capital punishment what with bo bogus af interviews editorial expectations and newspaper probabilities it is very easy eagy to start a sensational antiL mormon story and tile the journals of this country seem tar more mori inclined to publish and help spread a falsehood about the mor mons than to present the truth or correct their own errors error nearly every prominent paper in the country nas repeated the stupid story of immense purchases of land aud ad a systematic plan of exodus to mexico of 0 which the mormons cormons Mor mons are not guilty but a very few have had bad the grace to present preheat the facts since ance the canard has baa been exploded |