"slaves," and calling them and their method. In the one case assess- territorial revenue for one year is friends "thieves, liars and mur-ments have been made at more than less than $120,000, while the "Libderers," may be very gratifying to a hundred per cent advance. In erals have put it at a million dol hearts surcharged with anti-"Mor- the other the treasury was plunder- lars a year for twenty years! mon" bitterness and lips accustomed ed, the county plunged into debt, It has also been stated by "Libto foul profanity, but it will not and the "Liberal" officials feather-eral" speakers and published in help the "Liberal” cause nor weak-ed their own nests and left the their organ, that out of the twenty en the forces of the People's Party. "Tooele Republic" utterly bare and millions thus collected only about What they can expect to accom- bankrupt. $50,000 has been expended for plish by insulting and angering the "Liberal" epithet orators may take public purposes. Or to use the voters whom they wish to win over, all the hard names they exact language published, "all it is difficult to imagine. utter to themselves and the but about $50,000 has gone It must be for the lack of crowd they fittingly speak for. into Temples and other Church argument that this abuse 1s And if members of the People's institutions." From the figures we resorted to, and SO with the Party have any selfrespect, they have presented it will be seen that attempt to make it appear will not waste their time in hear- for public institutions-of the kind that there have been no public bene- kening to ribaldry and insult, but, too that has been urged by "Libfits from public taxation. One of if they wish to hear "the other side," erals" as well as other people-at a the speakers, according to the report will listen only to speakers who re- single session of the Legislature no of his remarks in the "Liberal" or-frain from personalities and billings- less than about $400,000 was approgan, went so far last night as to say gate. priated. And yet these impudent that, "In twenty years $20,000,000 "Liberal" stump orators and reckhave been paid into the Territorial less perverters of the truth announce Treasury and all but about $50,000 that for twenty years all but about has gone into temples and various $50,000 of the public revenue has gone into "Temples and Church buildings." We challenge proof that a single dollar of public money has been diverted from the Territorial Treasury into any Church building in Utah. other Church institutions." FIGURES FOR "LIBERALS." On this basis the following appropriations were made: " First General Appropriation Bill $155,772 62 66 In the Legislature of 1888 provision was made for the expenditure of the public revenue in hand and Now there could not have been expected. Basing their calculation any person present when these reon the income for 1887, our legismarks were made but knew they lators reckoned the revenue for 1888 were utterly and entirely false. No and 1889 at not less than the same living being can prove that one dol-figures; that is, $113,680.74, each lar of public money, territorial, county year. This, with the amount in the or municipal, has ever been used treasury and collectible, and the for a Temple or other Church pur- $150,000 to be raised by territorial pose. The public funds have been bonds, made the total anticipated used for the purposes for which they $651,294.10. have been assessed and collected, and full reports have been rendered of their receipt and expenditure. What the members of any Church have contributed for church purposes is nobody's business but those who belong to that church. They are no part of the public revenue. The Territorial Treasury has not been tapped for any purpose but public uses, and each one of them has been legitimate and according to law. The person who uttered the falsehood we have copied above, as reported by the organ of his party, must be but one degree removed from an idiot if he believes what he is said to have uttered, and if he knew better, as no doubt he did, his moral status we will leave to every rational person to determine. Third 64 64 66 66 • Deaf Mute Institution Offices..... Territorial Board of Equali- Total....... 25,000 00 20,000 00 75,000 00 25,000 00 20,000 00 10,000 00 $676,148 00 other Every cent of public money has been duly and regularly accounted for and published under the officials elected by the People's Party. The only defalcations in the history of this Territory have been those of the "Liberals" in Tooele County, where bare-faced robbery of the public funds was perpetrated during their four years' misrule, the proofs of which are upon the public records and cannot be refuted. "Liberal" falsifiers make a big 20,00 00 mistake in attempting to cite facts and figures. When they confine themselves to pompous phrases, 4,000 00 spread eagle verbiage, and glittering promises without any warrant 5,000 00 of fulfillment, they appear in better 17,525 37 feather, and can fly to heights of mendacity in which they are comThe general appropriation bills paratively safe. But figures, which above mentioned, included the fol- do not lie," but which can be used lowing amounts: For witnesses and for lying purposes, are likely to jurors' fees: deficiencies, $90, 485.92; hamper them down where their current, $60,000.00; total, $150;485.- untruthfulness can be made plain to The figures of receipts and ex- 92. For the Insane Asylum: $93, the simplest observer. penditures of the territorial revenue 398.94. Deseret University, $85,are matters of public record. 451.00. Roads and bridges, $41,"Twenty millions of dollars in 200.00. twenty years" is a million dollars We have produced these figures a year! The revenue has never from the appropriation bills, as pubreached anything approaching lished in the session laws of 1888, such a ratio, and is not that our readers may form some likely to do 80, unless we idea of the magnitude and recklesshave "Liberal" rule, when tax ness of the falsehoods told by "Libation will no doubt be regulated on eral" orators in regard to the public the present Ogden plan, and ex- funds. It will be seen that the pended the former Tooele highest figure ever reached by the on AN UNENVIABLE STEP. DON C. ROBBINS, a resident of Emery County, was a candidate for the Legislature at the Ninth Council Convention. It appears he was anxious to obtain the nomination. In this he failed, and as a result he has felt great disappointment. He has issued a circular, to which he has given wide distribution, an nouncing that he has been advised by "friends" to be a candidate for election. Who the friends are that have induced him to take that step, does not appear on any part of his campaign document. The gentleman attributes his defeat in the convention to the influence of an "unseen hand." The fact is simply that he was not esteemed by that body as the most suitable person to represent the people in the Legislative Council, and his subsequent course justifies the judgment. Of course he differs from those who were his colleagues upon the point of fitness, but that cannot be helped. He is evidently in error and they are undoubtedly correct. Had he obtained the nomination it is more than probable that Mr. Robbins would have been in high feather. But such was not the case and "the fat is all in the fire." tion and came here for that purpose, We regret very much that Mr. the were Can it be possible that Mr. Robbins is so blinded by narrowness of political vision as not to see that, so far as his influence extends, he is striking a blow at the liberties of the people with whom he professes During the interval the writer, identification, by giving aid and from conversations with several of comfort to the unscrupulous enemy the delegates, and others who whose intention is, should they sucwere acquainted with him, was fully convinced in his own mind, as ceed in their designs, to disfranthe sequel has since shown that he chise those who comprise the maOn this subject we are pleased to was not the proper man to represent jority of the people of Utah, includbe enabled to give place to the follow-the People's Party. However, to ing himself, unless he shall prove fulfil my agreement I gave him ing lucid explanation from the pen my vote on first recreant to his religion. By seekballot, of one of who was a member of the Now I want Mr. R. to know that ing to split his own party in a time Ninth Council convention: this was not the result of "church of peril he seeks to enslave his peodictatiou" but from gleamings into SPRINGVILLE, Utah, ple and himself or pave the way for the true inwardness of the mar. We July 29, 1889. all recognized that Emery was the entire relinquishment of his re without representation in the Legis-ligious faith. The party to whom he lature and worked hard, and as long gives assistance have repeatedly deas we thought it advisable to the clared that no "Mormon” is best interests of our party, to secure it to them, and it was not until we saw the dangers of division threatened that we consented to give our votes to Mr. Hatch, and this, mind you, was after we had held out for over seven hours. This ought to satisfy Mr. R. and would, had the interests of party been greater than the interests of self, and entered more largely into his mental make up. Editor Deseret News: A paper is being circulated throughout the Ninth Council district purporting to be an independent ticket, on which D. C. Robbins of Emery County has named himselt as a candidate for the next Leg islature. His reasons for doing so are, that failing to receive the nomination of the convention he readily concludes that "an unseen hand was thrust forward to force him out," or that "the delegates were advised to drop him and sustain Mr. Hatch." This he lays upon the shoulders of the Church which he charges with priestly dictation. "The time has come, "he says, "when some man should set an example to our people" and suddenly discovers that "there has been too much dictation in the politics of Utah," and he proposes to correct this abuse, sink or swim. The people of Emery ought to be wise and not permit our enemies, through the aid or instrumentality of false friends, to sow the seeds of disunion among us. Our districts are so arranged that it is impossible for all parts to be properly represented. We ought to realize this fully; put aside strifes and bring ourselves to feel that our interests are one and the same, and look forward to a time, in the order of events, when by our mutual efforts and the blessings of heaven, the obstacles against which we now contend will be removed. fit to wield the ballot and all of them ought to be deprived of the franchise. Their intention in that regard has been amply exhibited by the numerous efforts they have made to induce Congress to perpetrate the outrage, having repeatedly sent their delegates to Washington to work for its consumnation. Yet Mr. Robbins assumes his attitude in the sacred name of liberty! We do not know whether the hol low applause of the enemies of Utah will have any influence with him. Their praise is a questionable compliment, especially when it comes in the shape of burlesque expressions about his circular going "sounding down the ages!" If he is so constituted so as to be caught by hyperbolic clap-trap he is pretty far gone. We have too much confidence in the good sense and patriotism of the Lest there might be some that may be deceived by the statements of Mr. Robbins and injustice to the members of the convention, I thought it advisable to present the facts as they occurred. In the first place, before the meeting of the district convention, the delegates of Emery met at Huntington to adopt a course of procedure at the conven- who love peace and union. "It people of Emery County to believe tion. At this meeting Huntington tends to render alien to each other represented that its population those who ought to be friends, and that they will to any extent support entitled it to one more dele- in fact his whole letter expresses Mr. Robbins in the roles of convengate than had been apportioned sentiments drawn from the same tion bolter, self-seeker and enemy to to them, and asked the other dele-source from which the Tribune draws the liberties of Utah, should he congates to allow them one more, which its inspiration. Further than this The course Mr. Robbins is pursuing does not commend itself to those they did. A ballot was then taken the Liberal party is the medium clude to follow a career of that kind. for representative and Robbins se- through which he distributes his cured a majority of one over his opponent, that one being the man irregularly admitted. The delegates then pledged themselves to support him at the conven circulars, and on which he leans Yours, etc., A DELEGATE. To insure long life, recreation must be a part of our daily life. It makes the busy man thoughtful and the thoughtful man busy. RELIGIOUS. Sunday Services. Religious services were held in the Tabernacle onSunday July 28 President Angus M. Cannon presiding. Elder John Morgan was the speaker. He treated, by way of introduction, upon the religious nature of man, and held that, as a rule, the expressions of that sentiment in the human breast were sincere, notwithstanding that they might be crude and unpolished. It was exceedingly difficult for the people of the world generally to believe that the "Mormons" are sincere in their religious faith. This arose largely from a misunderstanding of the character of their religion. There were large numbers who understood that the Saints do not believe in Jesus Christ, but had accepted it as a fact that they look to Joseph Smith as standing in the same relation to them as the Savior does to the balance of Christians. These errors, grounded in the minds of the people at large, were very discouraging to the Elders who are sent out as missionaries. They were compelled to labor to uproot these false conceptions that had gained ground and grown up before room could be found on which to plant the seed of the Gospel. istered by a few men holding the Box Elder Stake. The quarterly conference of the Box Elder Stake was held in Brigham City Tabernacle on Sunday and Monday, July 28th and 29th, President Rudger Clawson presiding. The speakers on Sunday forenoon were Elder Samuel Smith and Apostle Lorenzo Snow, whose good counsel and instructions were listened to with marked attention by all present. In the afternoon Councilor Charles Kelly presented the general authorities of the Church, also the officers of the various wards in Box Elder Stake, all of whom were unanimously sustained. President Rudger Clawson spoke of the power of the priesthood, which is the power of God; also of the impossibility of separating spiritual and temporal things. SOUTHEASTERN UTAH. On Grand River, Utah, July 12. Mr. Johnson, the assessor of this county, who has for years held that office, a Mormon gentleman very much liked and respected, has favored me with his opinions on the Ute treaty, and with some facts in regard to his co-religionists in the Blue Mountains. He is good authority on the subject, having been all over the ground in question, being personally acquainted with the settlers and having talked with the commissioners on their visit to Utah, when they were referred to him for information. "I saw," said he, "a copy of the News' article on the treaty in Moab, and I thought I knew where it came from." "Yes," said I. "Have you any objection, Mr. Johnson, to give me a statement of the facts as known to you for publication in that paper?" "Not at all," he replied. "Well, we have been told on what appeared to be good authority that the Mormon Bishop at the Blue Mountains was a warm friend of the proposed scheme; that he proposes to use his personal influence Is that the case?" for its success. THE BISHOP'S MOTIVE. "It is true," was the answer, ing to Washington in the interests "that the Bishop has spoken of goof the treaty. But there appears to be a mistake as to his motive. His people under the proposed arrangement do not receive a fair compentheir The commissioners, who promised sation for improvements. down the estimates of the value of their to do them justice, cut improvements. They did not do at all as they agreed to do. And it is upon this matter that the Bishop now is to give pay only for such imwishes to be heard. The proposition provements as are of value to the and power of God. Do unto others Indians. You can see at once that as you wish others to do unto you, that is an injustice. These people and love God above all things. Let have made a canal at great expense us be united and be one as Jesus and in labor, which is not yet successful His Father are one; also let us be as in carrying water. They have set humble and obedient as He was. out orchards and planted alfalfa, and In the afternoon President Claw-made many beginnings in the work son presented Samuel Smith to be of forming homes, which are not The speaker had heard a stranger who had paid a three days' visit to On Monday afternoon the first this city remark, on a railroad train, speaker was Barnard White, who that the Mormons"exhibited foolish-referred to the power of God which ness in building so costly a structure was with this people, as the prophets as the Temple. The means thus ex- had predicted should be the case. pended could, in his view, have Apostle Lorenzo Snow quoted the been used for far better and more saying of the Savior, "Except ye practical purposes. He expressed are one, ye are not Mine." He the opinion that the government dwelt upon the necessity of unity, would some time seize the structure and said we should be united in temand put it to some public use. He poral as well as in spiritual things. did not explain by what right or Listen to the counsel of the Priest authority this could be done. This hood, for it is not the man who did not seem to occur to him. On holds the Priesthood that we honor; being asked if he knew the but the Priesthood is the Priesthood purposes of a Temple, he confessed his ignorance upon that point. On it being explained to him that ordinances for the benefit of the dead, that their spirits might be liberated through the far-reaching power of the Gospel, were performed there, it modified his views and feeling on the subject. to make the general public believe It was, as already said, difficult that the "Mormons" are sincere in what they profess, yet their entire history vouched for their sincerity as a people. So in reference to their loyalty to the government of the United States. They had shown throughout a checkered and trying career that their loyalty to American institutions was second to that of no other people. a Patriarch in the Church of Jesus John D. Peters and Jeppa Jeppson matter is must important. I can say taken the least note of by the commission. But to poor people this decidedly that there is some mistake in representing the Bishop as friendly to the treaty." We are Councilors John Kelly and A. "How about the settlers? Madson and Elder C. Dunn ad- told that they are anxious to remove vised the Saints to be united and to new homes in Colorado as soon keep the commandments of God. as the old reservation is opened." Apostle Lorenzo Snow related some of his experiences when he Elder Morgan then elucidated the first embraced the Gospel, and how first principles of the "Mormon" he obtained a knowledge of the religion: Faith in the Eternal truth of this work. All Latter-day Father and in His Son Jesus Saints should have a knowledge for Christ, repentance of sin, baptism themselves that this is the work of by immersion in water at the hands of one holding divine authority for the remission of sins, and the laying on of hands for impart- the conference. ing the Holy Ghost. He characterized as a fallacy the popular idea that the Saints were held in thraldom by a tyrannical process admin-1889. God. The meetings were well attended O. PETERSEN, "I do not know one who is in favor of the change. They wish to remain where they are. But they feel themselves powerless in the matter, and have no choice but to submit. Some of them do not own a team to move with. At the time the commissioners were there a proposition was made to them to give the Utah settlers a first choice of lands in the old reservation, but they replied that they could not treat with white people-their business was exclusively with the In dians," "That is so," said I, "they could do nothing." "Well," said Mr. Johnson, "it seems to me they should have been empowered to do something for the white people who were being turned out to make room for the savages." THE INDIAN POLICY. "In fact, Mr. Johnson, you expect, like the News, that the time has come to infuse a grain of common sense into the Indian policy of the government?" "It looks that way to me, certainly. The country is a good fruit country and the settlers bear privations hoping to be rewarded in the future. Then there is another thing. The settlers have no valid title, being only squatters under the law, for San Juan County was with drawn from the public entry when the treaty was planned. But three parties have claims patented, right in the heart of the new reserva ment's policy. He gave the im- nothing more pathetic than the fate EASTERN YARNS earn our wages." The New York Sun is stirring up very pitiful reminiscences of the way Utes are killed in cold blood in Southern Colorado. Perhaps so. The man who pushes in on an unIndian facts are made up in the and knows what he risks, but he But I can tell the general public that opened reservation takes his chances tion. Now, what are they to do publication offices of these high- who is driven out to accommodate a with their land? You would natur-toned Eastern organs, and can prove ring of real estate speculators in ally think that in buying governit, too. another State, what has he done to ment land the purchase gave you make trouble they'll get a "wel- before the name of Colorado beI know, too, that if those Utes be so treated? It is time to stop a right to the grazing around it, come" they will remember. Where comes a reproach to decency. Let according to the Western cusIndians are located in a thickly- some means be devised for the imtom. These people I speak of wil be actually forbidden to go outside settled country there is compara-provement of the southwest which their own fence, and will be enclos- tively small danger, but in lonely will not brand the beautiful Centened on every hand by savages. Yet places, even where there is no out- nial State with eternal shame. they have paid for their land and break, there is a perpetual anxiety There are those who have advocated are lawfully entitled to the protec-the other day in Fisher valley a its deep disgrace, but it begins to that wears people out. For instance, this scheme in honest ignorance of tion of the United States governyoung man who was engaged in look as if there were others conment." "That's news to me," I said. "I farm work turned around to see nected with it who merit a wholedon't quite see the right anywhere four Indians, who had approached sale dose of permanent perdition. in the scheme. As I understand it, and one of the bucks, laughing, the fastidious? without notice. He turned pale, Are my words too strong to suit this is a government for the people, Then I tell you not for the Indians. I oppose the commenced pulling the cartridges there are still stronger arguments treaty, not because I have the least out of his gun and putting them back than words, those of Miles Standish, fear of that tribe, but because I want again, showing his delight at the "carrying conviction straight to the to live in a civilized country. I white man's fears. These are hearts of the heathen," Yet there pleasant incidents, if you are evils inseparable from the latter first cabin in method of reasoning, wrongs that this come to the innocent and helpless. The cowboys gave I believe in giving even an Indian them a lesson in Castle valley that a fair show, and it seems to me that several poor fellows lie there now, many for Colorado to take care of,in but years, a thousand of the Utes are not too deaf to the noise of the present agi- some way. The new reservation tation, and one boy, who is marked joins the Nanajo reservation, which for life by them, has frequently been is considered to be rather unwise, in my house. He was scalped and and it is near enough to the great left for dead on the field, but recov- Uintah reservation to afford endered with the loss of one eye. The less pretexts for going back and forth La Salle has been the Canada of the through the white settlements. Ute tribe, and its settlement deprives them of an agreeable place of refuge. Whenever one of them committed a crime he was sheltered among the renegades till the storm want neighbors and improvements. As for the Colorado reservationI've been all over that. It is well not the made them behave for watered; part of it is a paradise very tribe. "I don't know it," was the reply. "I have never seen it, but I told the commission I opposed the removal. I said, however, if it must be, if there is no other help for us, if we are compelled to give way to the Indians, let the government make the Colorado line, take in Moab and buy us all out. Situated as we are, a few settlers in a lonely region, the major part of which is occupied by Indians, it will be cheaper for the government to buy us all out than to protect us, and better for us. The Indians want it that way. Did you see the treaty? They want the crossing at Moab. It is the only crossing for a long distance. That's what I told them: If it is to be done to suit the Indians, pay us and let us go."" blew over. From all I can learn af Buckskin Charlie, he deserves the rope as well him. THOSE ROBBERS. The cowboys who robbed the bank of Telluride passed through Moab recently; their capture was not made because the news did not reach there in time. Twenty-three men and six boats left Green River some time ago to survey the Colorado canyon. The Rio Grande Western men are very busy grading at Cisco. Railroad rumors are plenty, but what is told one day as a fact is denied the next. The weather of the first week in Hatch. He was the duck who Blue Mountains, the best house in wanted to see Carlisle's house in the the country, to see if it would suit As for Hatch, says Uncle Doby, "I would have gone out and "You were quite right, Mr. John- his share in the Meeker massacre, killed him myself last summer for son, that was the original Bowen but I was afraid it might bring July ranged from 102 degrees to 116, bill. But that bill was introduced trouble on the settlers. If you catch but the rains have at last comwhen the country was almost a him alone,' said an Indian who menced. This deep red soil does wilderness, when it was unknown camped with me, 'kill him, for he's not take like the "doby" around and unsettled. Now we propose to see if we have any rights in the a heap thief and killed a heap of Grand Junction, which is like a people."" white plate in dry weather, and matter." "would mire a shadow." as the saying is, when it is wet through. The For my part I can conceive of first two weeks in July are not de Mr. Johnson was careful to say nothing disrespectful of the govern A WORD FOR THE SETTLER. Senator Stewart, when in Salt Lake City in November last, after hearing the just complaints of the lead miners in Utah in consequence of the admission of lead ores from Mexico into the United States free of duty, being in fact smuggled under guise of silver ores, instructed your correspondent to proceed to Mexico and report to him the resalt of the investigation. lightful in the Grand Valley, even and the buildings are often wrecked a year ago. That letter was subthough you can see the glimmering to supply their immediate needs. mitted to Mr. Cleveland and no nosmowdrifts of the La Sal. But the There are wild potatoes in the tice was taken of it for a year. proportion of insect life is small, the Montezuma valley; did they come common house fly being the worst from Aztec gardens? Wonder? annoyance. In the swampy mea- Strange, strange are the stories of dows near Moab mosquitoes abound, the Far West, Lut who shall tell but it is said they never rise above them to the world? Some patient ten feet from the ground. Ants student of nature, doubtless, who, are plenty, but our house is encir- all careless of fame, is faithful to his cled with water, thus keeping them inspiration, will follow it steadily as off. When pa first fenced the house men followed duty in the wild lot he made a large circle, and then carnival of license that once was the stuck in twigs of Lombardy poplar life of the border, at least in some That was two years ago, now it is places. an enclosure with green walls twelve or fifteen feet high, where there is always shade and coolness. Poplars cool and freshen the air wonderfully; in four years they tower up some forty feet high, delicious lines of balsam breathing verdure. A mistake in my last should be corrected here. Instead of "Utah taxes are light," the letter read in print, "Utah taxes are not light," which is a matter of importance. On property, for example, which in Colorado would pay $30 to $35 taxes, we pay only $2 or $3, and last year they were unusually heavy, as a new schoolhouse had to be built. It is not the first settlers who fill a new land with violence, not the brave men who go ahead and look it up, and pronounce it good. It is the rabble, who, once the way is made easy, crowd upon their footsteps, hungering for that impossibility, a world wherein the worthless and depraved can escape the doom of labor and the restraint of righteousness. CONSOLATION. negro majorities in the Forum, uses On my return I submitted my report charging the custom house authorities on the frontier with neglect of duty. On page 2 of my report I state the case thus: "I met with great difficulty in endeavoring to obtain any information in regard to the importation of these lead ores. I saw car-load after car-load cross the frontier. It was apparent that there was hardly any silver ores in the different lots. Yet the whole came into the United struggle between them. I trust be collectors of customs and asked But good comes, at last, from the States free of duty. I went to the fore I die I shall see the settlement them if any duty was paid on the of that ever recurring Indian prob- lead ores. The reply was that the lem that overshadowed my child-lead ores were admitted free of duty The whole country has a strange, hood with memories of horrors. as silver ores." weird beauty-a ghostly charm un-Senator Morgan, in an article on der which another Haggard might dream of another "She"-so stav are the traces of the earth's former convulsions. Down that yawning gap to the east Pluto might have fled with his stolen bride; in that who are in no immediate danger "Outside pressure from people high fort, whose arched doorways and have nothing at stake but their catch the rising sun, might be an- sentiments of justice or philanthroother Sleeping Beauty, and who can py cannot change the conduct or tell us what people dug the salt wells modify the opinions of those who that we see? Were they fugitives have at risk and in charge, as a hiding here for a time, or in the trust imposed upon them by the days when the mesas were tree-cov-blood of kindred, all that is sacred ered did they have their colonies in society and in family.” through all the southwest? they of the multitude who moulder my hastily written letters by the The great interest manifested in in the tombs of the cliff-dwellers?-public shows that now is a fitting those laborious people whose houses time to turn light upon the dark are seen as high as four stories and ways of Indian diplomacy. number as many as 7000 rooms, in at least one instance. A re The Mormons tell us the explanation is simple: they were Nephites, the primitive Mormons who are de scribed in the Book of Mormon. It is a good thing to have some kind of tradition to fall back upon, for the . mind wearies of speculation. Will ever living man solve the mystery of the lost people of the rocks, the dwellers in Aztec Canyon, Largo and the Mancos, whose northern limit seems to be here? It is the American Arabia Petra, w hose records are written only in stone. art's persistent efforts, having at In consequence of Senator StewTreasury Department, urging an inleast fifteen times called at the vestigation into the statements made pointed the 15th day of May last to in my report, the department' apgive a hearing to all parties. The Ore Producers' Association was represented by three attorneys. The president and secretary of the association made lengthy statements, but, strange to relate, most strenuously avoided to say one word as to the smuggling of lead ores under guise of silver ores. far as to emphasize most positively Mr. James, the president, went so that he disclaimed any and all allusions of charging the smelters who import these ores with smuggling of the same. When Colorado first planned the removal of the Southern Utes, this part of Utah might have been given Mr. Van Horne, the secretary, to them as it was considered worth-stated that no smuggling of the less. Now the settlements claim a lead ores uuder guise of silver ores voice in the matter. The Bowen could be charged to the smelters bill gave the Utes all they wanted. and importers of these ores. The present treaty leaves them in a position full of dangers for both races.-M. M. R. in Denver News. SENATOR STEWART'S VICTORY. On the 6th day of May last you kindly surrendered a large space in your valued journal to my Mr. Matt Martin told me of a fine letter calling the attention of the pitcher which he found grown lead miners in Utah to the meeting around by the limbs of a cedar tree, which was held here on May 15 last. so that it was impossible to remove This meeting was called in conseit without breaking it; the cow-quence of a report submitted by boys can tell you of the remains of your correspondent to the Hon. Sendwellings stumbled upon by them ator Stewart, of Nevada, on March in the course of their riding, but 19th last, and which was presented more than this no man knows. by the senator in person to the SecOne thing is evident, the people retary of the Treasury a few days were very numerous in their day, later. This explanation, I believe, and I have a theory as to the cause is necessary, for the Ore Producers' of their disappearance. But the Association,through their secretary, waterlesa deserts that surround so claims in the brief submitted that many ruins keep explorers at a safe the hearing given them was in condistance. Only in the winter the sequence of a letter written by them wandering. herdsmen draw near, to President Cleveland in May, 1888, This all happened on the 15th of May, and your correspondent, who directly charged smuggling, insisted to be heard and allowed to testify the next day. I was told to call the next morning at the Arlington Hotel at a quarter to ten. I was punctual to a minute, and to my astonishment was asked if I would swear to a statement prepared by Mr. Van Horne, the secretary, and which will be found on page 110 of the brief submitted. I told Mr. Van Horne that the statement contained hardly one-fiftieth part of what my report to Senator Stewart contained, and I was then assured that I would be allowed to make a full statement to the Secretary of the Treasury that day. Emboldened by the meekness of Mr. James and Mr. Van Horne, and the total disclaimer on their part of any intent of smuggling by the smelters and importers of these Mexican ores, Mr. McCammon of |