Show SENATOR CANNONS BABY senator martha hughes cannons baby dr martha hughes cannon is gaining as much notoriety over giving birth to a baby girl as Is accorded an empress or queen when an heir to the throne Is born the arrival of the little stranger at the cannon home in salt lake has been telegraphed far and wide the denver news contains this telegraphic story ot the occurrence salt lake utah april 20 dr martha hughes cannon state senator of utah and the only woman who has ever been voted for as candidate for united states senator Is living in polygamy proof of this in the way of an addition to the cannon family has just arrived president angus M cannon her husband one ot the most prominent ecclesiastics of the mormon church Is receiving the congratulations ot abts friends on the arrival ot a daughter senator cannon Is the most prominent woman in the emancipated colony she enjoys all alone the distinction 0 having her name placed before the legislative isla tive body as a candidate for the united states senate she has served tho state lawmaking law making body for two terms and all the time has been living her religion when first elected she defeated her husband who was a candidate on the republican ticket and she herself Is an ardent democrat dr cannon Is as prominent professionally sio nally and socially as in the political world she Is a physician of some prominence and has always been considered rather ra ther independent of the rule of the church she was in great disfavor at one time because she supported moses thatcher tor the united states senate while the church opposed him president angus M cannon Is a brother of counsellor goorge Q cannon who has several times represented utah in the lower house in washington he has six wives dr marohn hughes cannon being the fourth he married her in when the crusade against polygamy was at its height in 1885 he served a term in tho state penitentiary for unlawful cohabitation at this time dr hughes cannon was wanted tor a witness hot she had die appeared in the underground after mr cannon went to jail she reappeared with her little daughter elizabeth |