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Show MORMONS VS. SALOONS. j . How a Southern Utah Colony Made Pro- hibition Prohibit. j An oflkvr in tlie Academy of 1 Sciences of California sends the I following item to the Washington, D. C, Woman's Tr'tfiune and which appeared in the issue of March IS: You have heard of the excitement excite-ment on the San Juan River in Utah where men came from every direction hoping to become rich washing the sands, of the river for gold. The people who live there are chiefly Mormons and Indian? from neither of whom we expect much as civilized beings. Three saloons were intending to .start and $1000 dollars worth of whiskey, whis-key, etc., was freighted to Blull' City, a Mormon town. The Mor- nions bought them out, preferring not to have the wickedness that accompanies tlie saloon in a mining min-ing boom. The Mormon women were especially earnest and threatened threat-ened to burn any saloon or whiskey shop that might be set up. They did not want the temptation to assail their boys and it would have been a disgrace to the name and teaching of their people andchurch. There was $1000 worth of whiskey in a place of from 20 to 25 families, an increasing mining population of transitory inhabitants; but though they could have sold it several times orer and at a good price :t remained unsold. |