Show ELDER ARREST he Is Rd fasci on kail A A private letter from elder william spry to his parents in aliis city gives the particulars of lie formers arrest at tennessee on friday august 16 brother spry hid been in but a few hour having gone from this city when he was berged with a warrant for franklin on charges of polygamy and adultery the pipers lad been made out in provo and the officer who nerved them had a letter that the elder waa the man wanted and a as traveling under the name of william spry brother spry was placed in abe county jal and next mor uini his arrest was chronicled in abe papers several prominent gentlemen fan it and voluntarily came and secured his release on 1600 bail to report to the officers on august unless the marshal in utah rends word that will release him be will be brought on to utah marshal parsons was seen today to day and stated that he bad received word from alie officer who made the arrest in response he had sent a more explicit description of franklin ibay more and he thought that the tennessee officers wound be able to distinguish them and would release elder spry the day after the arrest was made the chattanooga times published an interview with alder spry atie headings were and misleading and there are some apparent errors on the part of the reporter in these will be easily distinguished by those familiar with utah affairs the article is as follows yesterday afternoon elder william spry alias franklin of the mormon was arrested at his residence west sixth street by deputy united states marshal robert S sharp on the barge of bigamy the arrest was made upon receipt of a telegram from united marhal W 8 lipton of cleveland tenn the charge is eliat spry lias wives at salt aake city utah and an indictment in the united states court there has beau found against him under the name of haymore the mormon elder wai surprised at the appearance of abe united states officers but tie made no resistance and went to the county jail peacefully with the officer where he occupied a cell last marshal tipton will arrive in the city today to day and the elder will be to salt lake city the authorities are absolutely certain that they have abe right man as he corresponds with the description given when seen by a times representative at the county jail last nigh spry looked the picture of perfect health 1 ie is a roan pel haan five feet eight inches tall wears a full light broan beard dresses neatly and converges with a command of that indicates a good education to a question af alie reporter he answered no I 1 am not the man the officers are alter but it will be difficult for me to establish my identity here and I 1 presume I 1 will have to go hack to utah 1 have heard of franklin but lie is in utah I 1 do not know tb it he is a bigamist if yon are not the man sought for what are you doing here As an elder of the mormon church I 1 am here to look after abe interests of our church iu the south I 1 have a postoffice post office box lera no where I 1 get mail pertaining to our church and when I 1 am absent my clerk named chirke does abe business for me yes some of my letters come addressed merely box then you are not a bigamist no sir and furthermore I 1 am not a married man I 1 have had my in chattanooga ever since and am known here by a number of men as elder spry for the past to months I 1 have been at salt like city walking the prominent but no intimation of arrest was given me I 1 only returned today to day and wa immediately arrested I 1 can establish my identity there but would like to avoid abe trip As to my birth I 1 am an englishman gl ishman but have been in this country since I 1 waa ten years of age what are abe articles of faith of the mormon church or of abe church of christ of latter day the elder handed the reporter a card upon which were the folloni cg condensed articles of faith of the church then follow the articles of faith then queried the reporter according the above articles of daib do you believe in bigamy or cloral marriage we most certainly do but we do not encourage it we are bound fi sustain the laars of the land which prohibit bigamy but it ia nevertheless abe essential foundation of mormon iam we believe that plural mariage will do away with adultery but until the laws of the country can be made to bigamy we do not eDCo arage our people to practice it do you regard you men who are convicted 0 bigamy as martyrs no we do not look at it in exactly hat light our people they believe in marriage biava no to practice it and any one who does BO the penally of the coun laa a upon hiis tiis own head during the past tour i ears only two mor mons in utah have been convicted of what if your method nnttie south anil where do you practice it our work is in the enral districts of alabama georgia and the caro lenaa we have no organization in this city but use chattanooga as our on account of its railroad facilities and connections with all portions of the country we 10 lo very little work in tennessee our object is to get the cormons mormons all together where they cannot be beree cuton and indiscriminately murdered as aliey have been in the ruuth we provide w ork for our converts and make a great of agriculture we do not guarantee to miko m iko a mau rah and do not giva him hanla the lands a alired bv the poorer clawes of the are government grants what 0 tha recent election at salt lake city why did you allow the Oen tilea to defeat you at the recent election 7 simply because aliey had fifty more votes we dai we have two tilleta there the peoples party and the liberal party ahe former consists of cormons mormons and alie latter gentilee Gen tilea the liberals defeated ua aud are now ej as they expect to carry the entire cily election this fall of course suggested alie reporter the victory of the liberal will have a great bearing upon haling the territory of utah admitted into alie union we have hopes that it will the rider replied the congress of the united will now doubtless be lieva that the territory will be safe as a state lint I 1 would remind vou that of the W voters in the territory of utah three fourths are mor naona lie was sot guilt aug 1889 THE STAND having read THE of the alti dinst I 1 bud an stating hat near nelson park I 1 was arrested or lavinn unlawfully wilfully ma viciously and designedly driven off a cow owned by sic birath which another man to the eskray round now sir you did not publish what occurred at the trial before justice ee what did occur was this I 1 was arrested arre sed for preventing what you call the other man from the cow olf sir pasture and jutting her in his corral for the pur oae of levying blackmail and sir his is not the first time that what ou call the other man has levied alack mail on mr mcgrath I 1 did appear before justice dee and lid prove my innocence and justice ee eaid that no more contradictory evidence ever appeared before him ban that of the other man was discharged and the other man was told to go home and for all aine to come to drink clear water lie other man had to pay the costs f court I 1 trust yon will give thee lines pub in your valuable columns in and the man for whom work JOHN near nelson alie dance at lake park the bail at ake park on the dinst given by the brotherhood of railroad liral cemen was not so well attended as was expected nho nere there were mostly from aden the valuable prize a gold lower daae for the befit lady H as carried off by miss S welch it conducted in this way the adies were to their partners ind a committe was appointed to select from dhosi on lie floor couples atho were to compete tor alie prize about iten couples began the waltz ant of which about tea coaplen wore hopen following are the names as near as could be learned liea 8 welch miss M greenwell miss II 11 soiling of salt like city mrs E el graham alias M graham maxs i cully and several others with their partners it was decided after three rials that miss welch was the lucky lady contract to lit contract to let to the lowest cespon ible bidder to furnish material aud do the carpenter work and plastering bind finish school house in view bids will be awarded on the carpenter work and plastering together or separately all work is to be first class bids to be in by saturday september at 1 oc loci for specifications and particulars ap ily to trustees CF WADK E L school trustees P 0 box ilder county butali sprained his ankle yesterday a man a stranger in the city while walking on tha street near the corner of grant avenue and twenty fifth street accidentally wrenched ha foot and sprained the left ankle lie was taken to the U P hospital where he gave hla name as john uain lib raid that became from spring hill montana and bid b id only been here a short while when he met with lie accident some parties th ight that his leg was broken but such on examination proved not to he the rase he waa resting at the hospital last evening quite comfortably and will doubtless soon recover from the effects of the peculiar accident the hotl an press association mr J W peck of the cahty ard farm wilcame in with the first arrivals of the mis couri river excursion informs us that the presa association andr the management of mr W P compbell of the keibler Ke iwler will leave topeka tonight to night en route to this city ake all the krestof the brotherhood these gentlemen are no doubt habituated to attentions corresponding to the exalted condition of the craft aud will expect a reception several grades above llie ordinary which under oar bond of fellowship we are in duty bound to insist upon in their behalf some time during wednesday night or thursday morning borne vandals find no better sport thau the destruction of other peoples property undertook to bilings in gerneral geri eral abound alio fruit and candy stand on the corner of grant avenue and twenty fifth street this they did in goud ti alie annoyance and loew of tha proprietor scattering the contents of the island around the street it is high time that eccli high liander blitch are becoming of rather too frequent occur ronce were looked after and it possible stopped by bringing alie offenders to punishment taic gamblers case continued Con tinned yesterday at 2 and 1 p m were the time pet for the bearing of alie charges against alie gamblers who had been arrested for houses to which people resorted for the purpose of gambI iLg but on certain presentation the case waa continued until today to day at am |