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Show i PROF. W.M. WOLFE IGOES FROM B.YX. Has Apostatized From The Mormon Faith Immediate' Rurture Due to Other Causes. y, .Prof. W. M. Wolfe, head of tliol dc- " partment of Geology and Mineralogy at the Brlgham Young CoIIckc. was released from his duties thereon Mon- day. Ho left a day ur two later and is now In Salt Lake city. ' Newspaper accounts of his dismissal' t Jb ' 11lTcr Th0 Salt Lake Trlt)Une of Wednesday contained an article writ ten by the Logan correspondent, who r has been Prof. Wolfo's confidante for ' some time, and In that It Is represent ed ttiat his refusal to pay tithing and n his Inability to subscribe to the "Mor- n ' mon" faith 'was at the base of the ffl rupt'uro. 3 A statement in the Logan Journal, . purporting to come from President Llnford of the B. Y. C attributes m the immediate departure, of Prof. B Wolfe to his violation of an agreement K to never 'appear In the class room un- der the lnllucncc of, Iluuor. B' ' That Prof. Wolfe has apostatized is H certain, that hu drank is probably H' equally certain. However, ho ha not B gone to Washington nor .has he (jeen B called. Thk Bjcpuiimcan is Informed Bj' that only Marshal Heywood is in pqs- 'BCV session of the names of peoplo wuq ''' will be summoned from Utah. 'Bl Prof. Wolfe Is a son of a Presbyter- 'M, Ian clergyman, and came to Utah B from New York about ten years ago, fl having accepted the Mormon faith. B Some time later he met a woman B whom he made his wife four years after coming to Utah. Ills wife and onljchlld died a few years ago. Prof. m f Wolfe"-was' a member1 of tiK4li...Y;tr. m faculty at Provo'for several years and 9 came to Logan about one and a half M fl. years ago. He is a rather quiet, rc- 're , served man. The Rkpuiilican knows E little of the man except that In recent R months at least he has kept company K not calculated to Increase his faith In n Mormonlsm. I M Some who claim to know the extent f& of Prof. Wolfe's observations and ln- w formation, his writings and general 9 records, have Intimated to the writer within the past few months that if B this Is made public It will piovc B rather startling even In these days of B surprises. Tub Km-uhlican can not B vouch for the correctness of tills or B' other statements In regard to the B . Intricacies of this particular case. |