Show JAlIi AT iAKTlLVGE WtlEnE JOSEPH AND IIVRUM SMITH WEnn KILLUD nfiy tiiitr twr Ac lh Trusty iTl f nrtnt Tlttt M 1f < tf th 1 lfllli MrlM ttt ttia Nat taxllnrt 1 oljpi imiai 1ul lit T WAS FIFTY ane < nr ago thnt Joepu nnd IIrum Hnillh the Mormon pro p li c t wero I lain In the old Jail thnt Mill itand In Carthage III The I if tragedy 81 the fl culminating ecno of turmoil and I bloodshed that had prevailed In the country to a greater or leiscr degree alncc the Mormon cl tied In Nauvoo In 18JIMO Of course the Mormon war vvhlch occurred In 1815 and which resulted one or two death only wai also n historic Incident or these trouble but the murder ot ISmlth the leader and king ot the Mormons Mor-mons forever Immortalized him In tho ec of all Mormoni and made Mormon 11m l a peculiar yet unwritten history The writer who has ttudleil the ub ject for car claims that no true history his-tory of Mormonlsm In Illinois baa ever teen written ami never will be from tho II that those who were once competent com-petent to perform the work nro dead and while they lived they made no effort ef-fort to gather the data ncceMry for n Irno nnd Impartial history Joseph Smith ramo with his him ilreJs ae thousands of people to Illinois Illi-nois In UI940 They had been driven out ot Missouri nnd Ohio and hero Inn I In-n demoralized and almost Man Inn condition con-dition llut the pioneers of Hancock county I received Iho outcasti kindly nnd the Mormons located n city on tno bank of the MlHlMlppI river and oiled I thoipot Niuv oo pleasant land Hero a city grew to the unusual ulie In those days ot 15000 Inhabitant In near n-ear or two Smith had little trouble In getting several Illegal charltri grnnt ed him by the itale legislature and It wna through the rascal act of this body largely that led to most ot the trouble In Hancock county with the Mormons Whenever Smith or any of his follower would evade or break tho law and were threatened with arrestor arrest-or ft ore arrested they would resort to the protection of the hiibeaa corpus act and by this method escaped the clutches of the law I Tho lato Judge Hlbee nnd hla brother I Francis were llvlnn In Nauvoo during the reign of Joseph and became very weary of the method employed by Smith and his follower So about Juno 10 they Isiucd the first number of the Nauvoo KxpoiUcr which fairly creamed with denunciations of Mormon Mor-mon methods This was tho first nnd last liisue ot that paper lly order of Joseph Smith mayor and president of Nauvoo the Uxposllor alike was demolished I de-molished and the PlNa and tpo I thrown Into the MlMilsalppI rhcr Joseph Smith his brother II rum and Dr Tn > lor who va the late head of the Utah church were arrested for thin act and were placed In Jail nt Cnrthogo In tho debtors room Cov Ford and the local authorities of Carthago hid promised Smith protection from mob violence as the feeling In tho county ogalntt Smith wa ery strong llut the local mllltla placed nrotiml the jail to guard It pta > ed Into tho hand of the mob which came out of the timber near Carthage on the afternoon ot June 17 UU and hot Joseph nnd Hrum Smith to death and badly wounded Dr Taylor Tho citizen of Carthage fled after the murder wae committed fearing engcance from the Mormoni but the Mormoni did not attempt any retaliation retalia-tion After Smith death llrlgham Young tried to run affair at Nauvoo and troublo ensued Po1gamy was then oa allegid Introduced Into the church At an rate Hancock county people rcsohed to drle the Mormons out of tho state The Mormon war oc ciirreJ In 1815 and In the spring of 1846 the Mormon left Nauvoo In 181 the beautiful temple costing about 11000000 wa burned by vandal There are few Mormoni In Hancock county now Ire Catherine Salisbury residing Fountain Orccn east of Carthage Car-thage Is a sitter of Joseph Smith She I Si year old and In good health |