Show NOT 11 missionaries an associated press dispatch received to in this city dureg I alst niba rea a 6 as ae foll follows lol luwi owl chicago oct IS 18 A special to the journal from perry 0 T says two mormon Eldera named swan and burch were dragged from their homes at esbaner twenty miles west ot here by a band of citizens and beaten with switches they were then run out of the neighborhood the cormons mormons had been locadd at shaner for some time prose lating and had been repeatedly warned to leave 1 I 1 he be missionaries referred to are not cormons mormons Mor Mori mons or latter day saints it is quite possible wat that the whole story Is a canard at any aej rate no mormon narles have hare been disturbed in oklahoma there are none at shaner nor have there boons been or anywhere iu in fabe the strip it if the missionaries go of any religious denomination have been treated as aa the abe dispatch stated the action is ia a disgrace to oklahoma which can be wiped out only by the he obnere purlah meat of the dobben mob bers A community which sympathizes with or endorses endo raea crate in the he interference of the be latter with people because became of their re illious views Is IB un american and unworthy the of an enlightened public go 80 far as aa oklahoma in ia concerned the experience there of the mormon missionaries has baa not been of a kind to bring the okla bobans under such severe alvere criticism As A a rule they have hare treated the elders eldera with kindness aud and courtesy pursuing wat course wb cb marks marka them generally as aa a civilized people |