Show MORE deceptions A NUMBER of influential papers have been misled by a dispatch from this city stating that a mormon bishop now in the penitentiary for violation of the edmunds act has written from jail in condemnation dem nation of mormonism and pronouncing the whole fabric a tissue of im postures and frauds it is stated that the bishop is still in prison and proceeds to give his alleged history and describe the sensation and apostasy which his open letter has occasioned we refer to this matter for the purpose of informing the editors who comment on this supposed item of mormon news that there is no such bishop and no such letter as described by the veracious manufacturer of press dispatches in this city also that the other other portion of his communication to the new york tribune copied into other journals such as the st louis globe demurat etc is equally false and deceptive it is not true that Pre president george Q Van cannons term of imprisonment was abridged several months by a pardon from the president the gentleman served his full terms and paid the full flues fines imposed upon him the rest of tb the e dispatch is equally misleading and the papers that have published and commented upon it have been deceived the dispatch not mormonism is a I tissue of of Im postures and frauds and those who invented them ought to be criminally prosecuted and made to learn behind prison bars ban that such work as theirs is just as vile as forgery thelt theft aud similar villainies villa inies another dispatch probably from the same hand informs the public that president cleveland cut short the official term of chief justice zane in ord ordeta to appoint judge sandford anicat an Phat the latter has made it a practice to punish mists with only nominal sentences this too is wilfully and ma untrue judge zane served out his mil full term of office and over his successor on the bench has not had a case of polygamy before him and in cases unlawful of cohabitation has inflicted such p penalties as for a simple misdemeanor would elsewhere be considered extraordinary and severe the clique who are endeavoring to revive here the scenes of sorrow and vengeance which a few years ago paralyzed business and blocked the progress of the territory are compelled to resort to the lowest tactics and the most shameful falsehood to effect their evil designs they will fall fail of their purpose and respectable journals ought to be cautious about publishing and corn com upon anything that comes to them over the wires as news from salt lake |