Show THE MILE rh 0 M GE 0 M ani mormon missionaries taken beyond frontier 1 J RIVER A RTH ARE OBJECTED TO enforcement of decree Decre cof of several year Ye t ago when ore of the cannons of zion was laboring in that field church officials know little of trouble DRESDEN oct ott 4 three amer can cavi mormons have liae been expelled 6 horn om germany as the result of per ei oi sting despite final warning arning prohibiting hi them from bp leading their propaganda in conducting nver river baptisms and making converts they w were er e arrested arrested and summarily taken under gutsy d to the frontier the imperial authorities decided in 1903 that it ss was as noc noe desirable to allow mormon agents to continue their activity in germany but owing to the representations of the american embassy in berlin and chief mi missionary aon cannon whose field of activity was central europe with headquarters at berlin the oe foreign office allowed the mormons a month in which to settle their affairs and leave the country there were nt at that time fifty or more missi missionaries odaries in the various states in germany and the grounds for their expulsions were teachings 11 98 contrary to public morality it was also agreed with cannon that all the mormons who were american citizens should discontinue presenting their doctrine in germany gormany the german geman converts of whom there were thousands and who iio continued to follow their faith under native pastors were subjected to various vatious police hindrances hindrance s cannon moved his central Lur european headquarters to switzerland and it is understood has since returned to st salt lake city it is now nov presumed his successor is entering reentering re the german field for mormon misAo missionary nary work nork from which formerly many women converts were N ere sent to utah the chief missionary cannon referred to in the dispatch is hugh J cannon son of the late george Q cannon he returned to salt lake cit city y a short time after the central I 1 european offices of the church were N ere removed to switzerland he lie is now president of liberty stake the successor to cannon is 13 serge P F ballif he bt ul i not moved his hi s headquarters back to germany according fo 0 o information criven ivan out at the president presidents dofice of ice of the mormon church it was said there that if ballif had go gone ie to germany to do any missionary vork ork it was not known by officials of the ch church virch neither either had the church officials heard eard of the arrest of the three mormon in germany passenger trains continue to run westward n two and three sect section daily over the ni grande western wester thousand are tire taking advantage of the tho low colon colonist rates and by the end of the pre present e nt month when hen tho the colonist rates expire the west and northwestern pacify states will have hav inc increased reused their population 6 bt t ten tens of thousands while white there la Is no longer aft to come to the country is inviting virile and undeveloped ve loped and is rapidly being battled by an enterprising clam of eastern people |