| Show THE TITHING OFFICE Groundless Rumors to the Effect That I Had Been Closed It is However no More The Church Association of the Salt Lake Stake of Zion Springs Suddenly from the Ashes Angus M Cannon President and A W Carlsen Secretary of the New Concern The air last evening was full of rumors to the effect that Marshal Dyer had closed the doors of the Mormon tithing offices with a view to the confiscation of the property under the new law The Saints told the news to each other with tearful eyes and wondered among themselves what the dd Gentiles would do next Their worry was however unnecessary as the whole thing turned out to be a fake and those who spilled tears over the affair may now go around and pick them up to keep in reserve re-serve for another occasion I turns out today however upon in vistigation that THE TITHING OFFICE IS NO MORE And that out of its ashes there springs an institution with no less presumptuous a title than The Church Association of the Salt Lake Stake of Zion Just what the nature of this concern is cannot be learned a everyone connected con-nected with it is either strictly mum or totally ignorant A thorough inquiry into the arrangement develops the facts that Angus M Cannon is the president and A W Carlsen of the big Coop the secretary I is evident that it is not an incorporation and the presumption that the place I has been sold to private parties par-ties is quite as ridiculous At an rate the sign which used to read General Gen-eral Tithing Office now bears the words THE CHURCH ASSOCIATION OF TIE SALT LAKE STAKE OF ZION And the different departments are as busy a ever When the sign was changed cannot be learned but a clerk at the office informed a DEMOCRAT DEMO-CRAT reporter that the new in titution had been hi opeation since the first of the present month As that was before the Tucker bill became a law the statement can be taken for what it is worth worh I is said that many of the Mormons are refusing to pay their tithing on the ground that there is no longer a Tithing Office I is hard though to see the philosophy of this inasmuch a they never knew where their tithing went to any more than they do now |
