Show THE MORMONS IN CANADA THE following appears in the new york sun as a dispatch from ottawa canada september 20 and gives the true inwardness of the attempt to create a furbie against the quiet little colony of latter day saints in alberta A gentleman who ho has been visiting recently the mormon colony at lees creek in the canadian northwest says the mormons cormons there do not practice polygamy and are thrifty and enterprising enterprising Jp settlers one of the main main charges preferred against th m by the leaders of gentile society is that they never spend a cent over a bar another is that they have reduced the price of hay to 20 a ton butter from 40 cents to 20 cents a pound and potatoes from 6 cents a pound to 75 cents a bushel furthermore when they come to town they bring crackers and cheese with them instead of buying a meal at the hotels he is very positive polygamy does not exist among them rhey themselves say that while they regard polygamy as scriptural they do not practice it in this country and do not intend to do so 11 |