Show THE BOGUS BAKER FAMILY this imposture appears ini in a new kew york dime museum NE w YORI C july 2nd and 1887 editor deseret deser et news 4 the borning J journal of the made the announcement that on sunday last elder joshua baker accompanied by three ex e wives and eight children arrived in this bit city y that joshua was a mormon who ba had d served a term of imprisonment in the boise penitentiary tor for a violation Mo lation of the edmunds law that after serving his bis time he refused fused ie ref used to return to his polygamous practices which incurred the hatiej of the mormon community to such an extent that lie he was forced to leave he now seeks refuge in ID the globe museum no broadway Bro adwa where he and his kivee legal borrowed and otherwise are on exhibition and may be seen for only one dime A bill which is extensively circulated reads leads as follows A stupendous SENSATION joshua baker and ins his big Alor mormon nion family the only opportunity opportunity to see an entire famil family y ot odieal rea genuine cormons mormons Mor Moy mons just from salt lake uly city utah elder baker now out on bail lie he escapes irom from utah persecution and the mod ern cm land ot of bondage see h his i s 4 ewie win es and 24 ch children ildron hear th the wen d secrets of mormonism big mormons cormons Mor mons little cormons mormons moi Mor mons boy mor moi mons girl Mori in ill all 20 29 it in one bol i annily amily the ah st chance in america to see the mormons cormons as ab they really are aie then there is a large painting on canvass of baker his hib lour four wives and 24 children chil dien just leaving salt bait lake city another is a representation 0 of f th the e I 1 four 0 ur wives occupying occupy m one bed and d as a an evidence of then their love aria ana unity they are pulling each others hair while joshua safely views the fight from the top of a cupboard then t there here is 11 a long bed which contains all the children other smaller paintings are haug near the large ones one is that of joseph smith and bill hickman putting an old udy lady out of the way for foi knowing too much they are in a boat together and in the act of drowning the old lady who appears to be supplicating tor for mercy then there are arc huge knives from which alood is dripping they say these are aie knives used by the cormons mormons Moir for blood atonement 77 the blood is spilled to form a smoking incense altogether it is a blood and thunder outfit and appears to draw a considerable number of people who never spent their dimes and received so little in return I 1 plead guilty of being so reckless as to spend ten tea cents out I 1 certainly should have seen seea the show at any price out of curiosity when fil 61 entered the hall where the great mogul was to be s seen en 1 the ques tion aroe will he recognize 11 1 1 me if not I 1 could question him upon certain subjects after he had concluded his task of 46 watering his hib numerous family which he did from a tin bucket I 1 ap preached pro ached the stand or elevated plat form 01 m upon which himself wives and several children sat and ask asked ed him if he be was elder baker the mormon polygamist from broili utah 1 11 I am sir said he be well mr baker said 1 I you have quite a family are these all your w wives iv all of them but the one sitting near bear the piano said joshus joshu she blip had bad evidently been borrowed for the occasion do you still live with these women E elder ider baker oh no not now said joshua assuming a meekness meeknes ot of expression that would defy any long faced minister is do bolf you believe in the principles as taught by the latter day saints or mormons Me Mor imons mons well not all of them I 1 consider that they teach false falge doctrines as other sects do what is your belief as to the principle of polygamy taught and practiced iced among the cormons mormons Mor mons 1 I believed IQ in that principle whee I 1 was a methodist years before I 1 joined the mormon church 1 I 1 think to ask him if he be brae practiced it then do you think the edmunds law will eventually accomplish the desired effect of stamping out the practice of the principle of polygamy in the th mormon church not by any means for when a people believe in a certain principle of religion nu no amount of persecution can or will change that belief I 1 on the platform where he sat and before him were some pamphlets entitled mormonism its birth development and maturity with an account of polygamy as taught and practiced by the mormons cormons Mor mons of utah by karl N ranhof now I 1 had bad an I 1 idea j ea who karl was but being of an inquisitive turn of mind concluded to know A few questions to baker and I 1 found my m supposition to be a correct one he informed me that 11 ansof had lived among the mormons cormons since tie he was 14 years of age had traveled among them a great deal in the capacity of a sewing machine agent that he is a Da and his bis home is bear lake county in observing the name closely karl N ranhof I 1 find and in it the exact number of letters and the correct ones to spell the name of the bear lake dewia sewing machine agent frank larsen alias eldr nelson alias karl N ranhof I 1 am of the opinion that larsen is the advance agent of the show I 1 met jam him here on the he informed me that ber baker co were on tion at detroit that they were not making out of ibe business budine it it being tile the wrong season of tile the year I 1 sus to frank the propriety of ferill feeding n joshua aud and the women pretty we well 11 taut they might be in good condition for the coming winter wis wishing ing mr baker good lay I 1 told him hoped he would we uld pardon the many questions I 1 had asked him bim but it was alie first time we ever had a mormon vol 11 9 amous family on exhibition and k having g heard so much concerning that reo people pie I 1 was anxious to learn something concerning them he was very cautious throughout aud and thanking him for the information which lie he had given me I 1 left the scene this is another of the schemes to make money and down mormonism t but I 1 can say truthfully that from ti the ie tone of the press in relation to the show 11 the great majority of ithe veople are disgusted with it A yours truly J E HART |