Show TUB A litter ly elder in 1 paper the letter by elder samuel whittaker aker in refutation of the stories was published afi tho evening biatch and appears Q alio atar of january for some time past there leavo been m scot fisli very jalcs of crime alleged ti leavo lccy commit loil by a sect in who at the present aro very low the decalo of popularity the articles referred to are those pub lilied in avith state nicols it ODO airs a li ields woman tho whole tiuis ii i i which ahey are written has a ta lead tha public iua lie belief that people in utah are mormon aud that aliey arc compelled to bow in humble babini aou to every whim and fancy of the religious leaders of that party bod to be anything but a member ordia metrically opposed to them ij sufficient cause to place jeopardy either by starvation or more sudden by alio assassin 1 I am persuaded sir that the community at large especially in great britain do bot alic make up of alio population of utah or the laws by which they arc governed if they did so they might readily eee how wa for such things to occur in the first place all the federal officio are filled by appointees of the president of the stated and are exclusively non mormon thebe include tho governor tho judges of the supreme and district courts the prosecuting attorneys and assistants tho marshal of tho territory and his deputies who hold tha power of peace officers arc appointed by tha governor and all are anti cormons mormons the united stales commissioners who ibid authority as justices of the peace and receive their tho and district conits are also nou mormon now to publish to the world that murder and gross inhumanity have bateu committed in utah without investigation or prosecution is to eay tho least casting a cruel reflection upon the united states officers who aro placed there to vindicate the law secondly alie union pacific and central pacific one reaching from the atlantic and the other rom the pacific oceans have their junction in ogden utah and are manipulated entirely by mor moca also the denver and diio grande and utah and northern railways which join there and are manipulated in ibo same and place all the hotels in ogilee city where the late grievances are baid to have occurred are owned and run by those not of the mor ruin faith also all poat offices tele garph and telephone companies oakes positions of authority are held by non cormons mormons Mor mons if people have emigrated to that western country and been unsuccessful in obtaining obia ining employ ment why in alie name of common sense try to sail responsibility of failure that unpopular edict when nearly all places where people naturally would solicit labor are nod ander their jurisdiction or controlled in the least degree by them furthermore are in utah at present especially in ogdan and salt like cilins churches of nearly every and they arc freena in any part of the earth to worship gaid according to the dictates of their own conscience not being curtailed tn any manner what ever cut which of the conflicting stories in relation to this woman of north thielda Bh ielda are we to believe in chicago she baked the that her pon waa taken away the of his parents that alie father follow ing in search in option but being a could ob binm no employment but upon protruding to join alio church were mailo ca lie obtained money mailed it to hir wife for her sustenance hut hc received it from eldera who told her it was for the purpose of taking her to utah soon after joining him ha was brought in drad drowned the cormons mormons said accidentally but marks of violence were plainly been and blood wai oozing from the mouth and nose she nan told that if she would accept ehe might at once have a young husband but alio refused and fled and was pick ed up in the streets of chicago in a starving condition bince arriving in england gho has made an other statement to a representative of the newcastle chronicle at her fathers house in haddock street Corst ophine town south shields and published on the alth buat in which she bays the son went out by consent of all parties and that they were cormons mormons Mor mons and her husbands letters were not intercepted she does not positively say that her husband was murdered hut it was supposed ho was drowned I 1 dont know she says but some one might have helped him to his death was not blemish on his body by the chicago papers in reference to her alleged suffering in chicago she complains that the accounts published are greatly exaggerated that her fatigue and excitement were due chiefly to the heat and delay she having been sent by the wrong route she sat upon her luggage but was not in want of food or in a fainting condition when asked if she was proffered a husband she baij such a thing never occurred and she believes that a gentleman who questioned her while in chicago diio for the article published in the american sir 1 trust that for the interest you have in fair play and justice you will give space fur chis communication muni cation from an Ameti cau who has resided in ogden utah and become acquainted with ils people their surroundings and laws governing them 8 T elder |