Show old mormon newspaper editions are found in new york in a recent issue of the publishers auxiliary an article appears telli ag ot of the finding in a new york shop of the only known copies of the A mormon lormon paper the evening and morning star 11 now in existence this paper the article says saya was the first to be published in jackson county comaty mo alo and was printed in independence then the headquarters of the mor mons these copies were held tor for sale at a price of 1000 the article says further this thia now virtually unknown mordou paper exerted a tremendous influence on the history of the country the evening Evenin gand and morning star made its first appearance lib ini inde pen deice in 1832 and was printed e d monthly until its plant was destroyed by infuriated citizens in 1833 the residents of independence pen dence had bad begun to fear that because se ot of their rapidly increasing lumbers the carmons mormons would soon control the city an editorial that appeared in the evening and morning star ripened this feeling into a growing hatred it was wag e el ea a titled free people of color inviting free negroes and mulattoes from other states to become mor alor mons and to move to independence and settle in the immediately about CHI ze rs held a mass meeting and sent a committee to the mormon leaders to demand suspension of the evening and morning star the immediate removal from independence of the leaders and the checki checking ig of further mormon immigration into the county the cormons mormons Alor mons asked ached 30 days to move their effects this was waa refused they were told that 15 minutes was long iong enough tor for them to start compliance with these terms being refused the crowd razed the printing plant wild and scattered the type in the street ithe Mor Alor mois mons efforts to return to jackson county were not abated for some time but in 1846 after being expelled from missouri missour sour and illinois they made their final settlement in salt lake city it if it had not been for the evening and morning star the history of kansas city and independence pen dence might be quite a different story la in all probability independence pen dence would bo the great mormon center that salt lake city is today |