Jas. A Me Dona'd inding his Jewish descent Baron de Yet, in view of the irritation of the public John H. Baldwin.. ce. He at once entered into negotians with the Russian government to is effect and proposed to devote the m of 2,000,000 francs to that object, t certain stipulations imposed by the ron not being in accordance with e desire of Russia, Baron de Hirsch as obliged to withdraw his offer. Being baffled in his efforts to help em in this way, Baron de Hirsch termined to do so in another, and gan to encourage and help Russian ws to emigrate. Enormous sums ive been given by him for this pur se. to the present crowded condition of the The details of the proposition were of Education. 2. That the amount of bonds in gross be named at $300,000, in denominations of $1000 each. America was the first country ked to, and to provide funds for emiants and for education of their chilen was the prime object of his munient gift of 12,000,000 francs. The percution of Jews still continuing in 1. That the election be called as soon as issia, it became necessary to find practicable under the law, and that in ne other outlet than the Unite preparations therefor the president and ates, and a commission composed of clerk of the Board invite the counsel of ree competent men went to the Ar-M P. L. Williams, attorney of the Board ntine republic for the purpose of reorting on the agricultural prospects of at country. Their reports being vorable, a further important sum will › provided by Baron de Hirsch for the rpose of enabling Russian Jews to aigrate to that country. Baron de irsch also has just given 12,000,000 anes for Galician schools. This latter ft probably gives rise to the erroneous ports which have appeared in papers at he had given said sum a second me to the United States, whereas he mply handed it over to the American ustees of the capital of his former gift. THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. At a special meeting of the Board of Education held Feb. 24th, for the pur se of considering the advisibility of suing bonds for the purpose of purasing building sites and erecting chool houses, the following members vere present: William Nelson, H. ohnson. G. W. Snow, T. C. Armtrong, R. W. Young, W. J. Newman nd L. U. Colbath. „EPORT OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE. SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 19, 1891. o the Board of Education: Gentlemen: Your committee on nance, to which, in conjunction with e committee on building, sites, etc., being in effect a committee of the whole), was referred the matter of the needs of 3. That the interest thereon be 5 per cent per annum. 4. That half the issue be made redeem- WILLIAM NELSON, Chairman, E. B. Wicks, submitted a written Architect Kletting's bill for drawing the plans and specifications of a school building was referred to a committee to investigate the legality of the claim. The salary of Lucy Van Cott was increased from $65 to $75 per month. The sum of $50 was appropriated to purchase a microscope for the high school. The bill of the Grand Rapids School teacher to s ucceed Prof. Stephens, at a he schools for additional buildings and The joint committees as above had two meetings, and found that the needs of the chools are so great that to supply them Fully and allow for a reasonable expectaon of increase in the school population in The ensuing few years would require an exenditure of close upon a million dollars. APPROPRIATIONS. P. J. Moran.. M. G. Coney... W. W. Williams. E. M. Husbands.. liars (legal service) Hutchison Br. s... Tenth Word Lumber & Building Asso ciation.... 77 70 6.50 18 85 90.00 79.00 50 60 74.85 51.50 4.00 39.06 225.00 40.85 410 115.95 6 30 337 95 500 93 00 75.00 3.00 1000 00 75.00 57.00 9.25 $2604 80 33.25 8.30 59 30 4.00 27 70 150 25.50 $130 05 Adjourned until Thursday evening, March 5th. HORRRIBLE INSTANCE OF CANNIBAL- Rio Janeiro, Feb. 23.-A horrible instance of cannibalism has just leaked out from the bars of a dungeon. The Citadad de Lepoldinauf exposes the atrocities of which the imprisoned monster and his companions were guilty. The cannibal, who has become an epicure in human rareblts, is confined in a prison in Salinas. The story told by the reporter who visited the fiend in his cell literally translated, is this: "Learning that there had been confined in the jail of this town by the energetic police delegates an individual who for months had been living ou human flesh, a desire arose to see him, notwithstanding the horror that he inspired in every heart. His name is Clemete Viliza. He is a mulatto, about 28 years old, medium height and of slight body, a lat forehead, oblique eyes, with black pupils, deformed feet, with concave soles; a native of this district. "Without the slightest disturbance of manner he replied to my question as to whether it was true that he had been living on human flesh, that not only he, but Basiio Leandro and others for a long time had been living on this food." TASTING HUMAN FLESH. "What purpose led you to practice such acts, barbarous before God and mau?" To kill my hunger, master.” tim?" "How did you make your first vie I was at Leandro's house when he invited me to eat a piece of a boy that he had killed in a thicket where the lad was gathering fruit, and as I was very hungry and had no other resource, I accepted the invitation for the first time. On the next day returning home I found a woman asleep by the roadside, and was at once tempted $ 100 03 to kill her. I took a stone and made 61 00 225 ny first victim aud carried her hone 67 26 to satisfy my hunger.' The following appropriations were made: Georg M. Scott & Co... E. J, Smith..... "Some days after I killed Simplicio and invited Francisco and several who were dying of starvation, to help me eat him. When simplicio's flesh was finished, and I being without any means of satisfying any hunger, Francisco told me to kill her two children for us to eat, which I did. Two weeks after, in the same straits, Basilio killed Francisco for the same purpose. Afterward I found that Basilio had stolen a shirt from me, and I killed him when he was unsuspiciously gathering roots for supper. I only ate a little of him for I was arrested two days after killing him. This was the last one I killed." The police found a part of Basilio salted down, and the cannibal eating 'the calves of the victim's legs with a good appetite. "Does human flesh have an agreeable taste?” THE BEST PART OF IT. "No, it is rather sweetish. The best things I have found in those I killed were the brains tongue and marrow. I suffered slightly from diarrhoea while I was eating people's flesh." "Do you sleep well? "Pefrectly quiet." "Have you no remorse for having practiced such abominable and wicked crimes?" "I no longer remember having done such acts."-Denver News. EDMUNDS LAW PROSECUTIONS. Mr. Moyle informed his Honor that Judge Zane, to defendant-In view of Charles J. Lusty next came forward. Mr. Brown said that at the time th indictment was found Mr. Beck was i Germany. Hearing of the indictme he came home and gave himself u If the prosecution was unable to fi witnesses, it was not attributable to th defendant, and he demanded that t trial be proceeded with. Mr. Varian insisted on his moti for a continuance and the case W continued for the term. COAL MINE EXPLOSION. SPRING HILL, N. S., Feb. 21.-A explosion occurred in the East Sloj coal mine this afternoon. Alread five dead bodies have been taken ou The rescuing party is now putting u brattice for the purpose of restorit ventilation in the mine. It is fea:e many more were killed, but the res cuers will not be able to get near th imprisoned men until some of the pit of debris caused by the fall of the ro is cleared away. Thirty men and boy are still in the mine. Some men hav been taken out badly injured, and re port that many horses were killed. T add to the horror of the situation, the deadly black damp has made its ap pearance in the mine. Later. It is feared tonight tha seventy men and boys are dea Twenty-nine bodies have been tr covered. The work of recovering th bodies is being pushed forward. Many of the bodies taken out are almost un recognizable. The dead are bein identified by sorrowing friends and re latives, amid heartrending scenes. In answer to the Judge, defendant said he would adhere strictly to his promise. As to his means, he stated The injured are being cared for and that all the property he possessed was everything possible is being done for the house in which he lived at Coal-them. Doctors from Parrisboro', Am ville, Summit County, worth about herst and Oxford were telegraphed for $1000. He bad nine children depend- and arrived promptly to render the ent upon him for support, the youngest necessary aid for alleviation of suffer four years old. ing. Many of those wounded are bad A fine of $100 and costs was inflict-ly burned. Benjamin Franklin Knowlton pleaded. guilty to an indictment found by the Thomas Beard, of Coalville, promgrand jury charging him with unlawfulised to obey the law in the future. cohabitation. Mr. Moyle said the defendant would waive time for sentence. Mr. Varian intimated that there were three or four other cases of the same character if the Court thought fit to take the pleas now. Charles J. Lusty was then called and plead guilty to an indictment for unlawful cohabitation. Next came Thomas Beard, Thomas Copley and John W. Simister. In the case of Knowlton, Judge Zine asked the defendant as to his purpose in the future--whether he intended to obey the law, Defennant promptly replied that he did. Judge Zane-What is your belief now: Would it be right or wrong to enter into polygamy or practice unlawful cohabitation? Defendant-I think it is wrong for a man to break the law of the land. Judge Zane-Has that always been your conviction?. Defendant auswered not always. Judge Zane-When did you change your mind? Defendant-I made up my mind at the time of the action of the Church at the last October Conference that it was proper for me to conform to that msnifesto. said he had no money. He Mr. Moyle-The circumstances of the defendant are such that he would not be able to pay any fine without great hardship. I trust the Court will take that into consideration. The fiue imposed was $75 and costs. the In the Third District Court yesterday Only a partial list of the injured i obtainable. The death of most of those brought up is attributed to fire damp. Many are not disfigured. Many of the dead and those missing leave large families. side of Eastham. The cause is un The explosion occurred in the east known. After a thorough examina tion of all the pitts a few days ago the workmen's committee expressed them selves as satisfied with the excellen condition of the workings. The inspec tor yesterday found no indication o gas. Manager Swift is among the missing. All hope of saving the lives of those in the mine is abandoned. Inquirie are pouring in from all quarters from anxious relatives of those employed. SPRING HILL MINES, N. S., Feli 22.-Today the effect of yesterday disaster is felt more acutely. Grief i depicted on every face. A searching party entered the mine late last night, and a number of bodies were taken up and today the work has been going on steadily. It is expected the most at the dead will be out of the pits today except those who are buried beneath the falls of the roof. The total number of dead is now placed at 117. Two those injured died last night. To sev eral families the affliction is very great Reid Carter and two sons, Clarence and Willard, are all dead. Jessed Aronishaw went down and found his all day. The heavy stone bridge three sons and two adopted sons ALL LYING DEAD TOGETHER. The sight sickened and unnerved him so that he had to return to the surface caused the water to back up into the The railroads all about here are suf. without them. He is frautic with ELEVEN WERE SERIOUSLY INJURED. The scene of the explosion was in the immediate vicinity of No. 6 and 7 balances in the east slope. There the greatest number of deaths occurred. Dispatches from several points in this vicinity, report the rivers rapidly, rising, and FLOODS ARE FEARED. At Clearfield, some streets are inunto move. Several million feet of logs dated and many people were compelled have been washed out. At Tyrone the houses in the western part of the town are half submerged. At Tipton there is a foot of wa' er over the railroad tracts. At Mineral Point, the Conemaugh river is very high and many men are out working on the tracts. REPORTS FROM VARIOUS PLACES. WHEELING, W. Va., Feb. 17.-The SCHENECTADY, N. Y., Feb. 17.— ed here. Reports from all sections of near here. greatest flood in many years is expect. There is a gorge in the Mohawk river The river is rising ten the State indicate unusually heavy incaes per hour to-night, and naught rains and the streams are rising rapid- but the tree tops tell where the islands ly. All railroads entering the city areale. blocked by landslides. CLEVELAND, O., Feb. 17.-A disGREENRBURG, Pa., Feb. 17. The patch from Zanesville says the Musstreams continue to rise, and the people kingum river is rapidly rising. Two living on the low lands are making hundred people were driven from their preparations to move at any moment.homes today. Railroad traffic is alThe Susquehanna at West Lathrop is most entirely suspended. The rain half a mile wide, and much of the ceased to night, and colder weather town is submerged. The second and may cause a subsidence of the flood. third stories of buildings along the creek are flooded. The same condition This particular part of the mine was -per cent. Ninety-five bodies had been recov ered at midnight. UNDER WATER. PITTSBURG, Feb. 17.-The present Punexpected flood bids fair to rival that of 1884. The river has been rising all day and is still going up tonight. Alleghany City has suffered most. Several streets are under water. At least 1000 cellars are flooded. Great apprehension is felt there, as two natural gas explosions tonight have endangered life and ruined property. It is feared others may follow, as the meters and pipes are several feet under water and cannot be reached. Two mills along the river have shut down because of flooded fires and thousands of men are Juling about the river banks. WEST NEWTON, Pa., Feb. 17.-The JUNIATA RIVER IS A MILE WIDE. CURRENT EVENTS. For the Oppressed Jews. WASHINGTON, Feb. Call today introduced a resolution re14.-Senator questing the President to repeal to the Emperor of Russia to inquire into the alleged wrongs and cruelties to his Jewish subjects, and to place them in a condition of freedom and equal rights.. Released from Prison, Popelton, both of Millville, were reFebruary 20, Brothers F. Yates aucti they have been confined since January leased from the penitentiary, where 6th, for unlawful cohabitation. John Halgreen, of Richmond Was also liberated February 20th afc of serv? Workmen Demand P. Universal The citizens of Portstown and Smith-ing a like term. abandon their homes. war. For the Sam workmen and m the governog about a civil streams south of this State are badly The workmen's general ermmittee reMASSILLON, O., Feb. 17.-The passage of a universal suffrage law. On the Pittsburg side cellars and swollen by the heavy rains of the past gard this 28 a menace a ad have adhouses on the low ground are being lower part of the city are surrounded ing them to refuse to bey orders, to three days. All dwellings in the dressed a mr.nifesto to to militia, askflooded and the people are beginning to move out. Any further rise will do by water. The railroads are badly take sides with the great damage, as the high water limit the river is rising at the rate of one foot ment's attempt to hi delayed by washouts. AtSteubenville resist what they ter has been passed. Even now it is reported that the exposition and other per hour, and the railroads are forced large down-town buildings have been to suspend traffic in many places in greatly damaged. the vicinity on account of the high oan Islands. All the street car lines between Pits- water. burg and Alleghany have stopped run-vices from points up the river are that th inst. Anyone deWILLIAMSPORT, Pa., Feb. 17.-Adnumber of missionning, owing to the fact that the ap. it is still raining and all the streams are siting to send packages to their friends city for the Samoan proaches are several feet under water. Scores of drays and boats are engaged high. The lumber men are very unin hauling anxious people through the easy. Many merchants have com- without delay water to the bridges. menced to move their goods from the 45 West, Th The Pennsyl vania trains are behind time, owing to lower stories of their establishments. The they may be washouts near Conemaugh, and the levees of the city show that a twenty-ping. Fund Baltimore & Ohio had several bad six-foot flood will bring the water up to must accom landslides. the court house square. A food is now reported on the head waters of Pine name and It is Creek at Galeton. On that creek a the dreadful Stoney Creek and Cone-boom broke, letting between eight and Taugh rivers stood at the highest point ten million feet of logs escape. AT JOHNSTOWN, on those island s should forward them to J. W. Summerhays. ird South Street, so that properly packed for ship. s to pay for transportation pany each package. especially requested that the whom the addresses of the persons to articles are sent be plainly ly written, in order to avoid Death of Robert Salmon. One of the most sturdy and genuine men to be found in any community died at Coalville, Summit County, on the 9th inst. We refer to Bishop Robert Salmon, who reached the ripe age of nearly seventy-nine years, having been born in Dumbartonshire, Scotland, April 27th, 1812. He came to Utah in 1866, and from that time made Coalville his home, having been the first ordained Bishop of that town, holding the position until a few months ago, when he was ordained a Patriarch. He has also held the offices of Justice of the Peace and County Death of Geo ge Dunford. George Dunford, the pioneer bout and shoe merchant of this city, breathed his last at the family residence at 8:45 Feb. 17th His death was the immediate result of a fall from a step ladder in his store on Saturday evening. His head came in contact with a hammer which caused concussion of the brain. Two operations were performed by Drs. Beatty and Pinkerton as the only hope of saving his life. All efforts at resuscitation were futile, and he suc. cumbed without regaining sensibility. Mr. Dunford was born in Trowbridge, Wilts, England, December 15th, He came to Utah in 1852. In 1856 he went to Sacramento, where he was engaged in business for Francisco, where he remained for a two years; from there he went to San short time; he subsequently crossed the Isthmus of Panama. He was engaged in business in St. Louis during the war and at one time conducted three stores in that city. 1822. load of goods for this city, where he Choctaw Indians, though latterly he visited and made many warm friends among smaller tribes. The Indian, he says, has so often been made the victim, of misplaced confidence by the white man that he looks upon him with an eye of suspicion and as a rule is considered a rogue, until he proves himself otherwise. Brother Anderson says his labors were atttended with encouraging suecess, and he was generally treated with the utmost courtesy and consider ation. The prospects for doing good among the Indians are more encouraging now than at any time since the field was opened. Brother Anderson returns home in thankful for the experience he has City, Iron County, arrived today from Mr. Dunford has held many posi- The funeral services was held at Clerk. Deceased was an old member A Child's Heroism. This respected veteran was a man of A little boy's heroism was tested not unblemished reputation, being scrupulong ago through a mistake. The edi lously honest. He was truthful and tor of a contemporary relates that a frank almost to the verge of bluntness, gentleman in a New England town and was an uncompromising foe of proposed to drive with his wife to the everything in the shape of sham and beautiful cemetery beside the river be hypocrisy. At the funeral the people yond the town. Calling his son, a paid great respect to his memory. bright little boy some four years old,he told him to get ready to accompany them. The child's countenance fell, The Tabernacle Improvements.' Last October Professor E. Stephens was called upon to take charge of the Tabernacle choir. One of his first efforts was to augment the choir, adding about two hundred voices to the members previously enrolled. This rendered necessary a new chair platform and additional new music. Professor Stepheus at once went to work, published some suitable pieces of his own composition, and purchased others. He next conferred with the presidency with respect to a change of platform, and the importance of this improvement was soon recognized. Architect D. C. Young prepared plans, and & force of men was set at work. Chairs of the latest pattern were ordered, and are all now in their places. Twelve tiers of seats, rising one above the other, extend from the and the father said: Elder Alma M. Mathews of Provi dence, who has presided over the Welsh Conference since November, 1888 was among the returning mission aries. On the Atlantic the weather was un usually severe, and the ship, Wyoming, was nearly thirteen days in coming across. The brethren say that they have enjoyed their labors in the mis sion very much. Phenomenal Sleet Storm. CHICAGO, Feb. 19.-A phenomenal sleet storm plastered a great area of country with ice tonight from the "Don't you want to go, Willie?” Alleghanies to the Missouri River, The little lip quivered, but the child north of the Mason and Dixon's Line. auswered, Yes, papa, if you wish." It began about 6 p.m., and in half an The child was strangely silent dur-hour the telegraph lines began to show ing the drive, and when the carriage signs of demoralization. By 9 the life drove under the wide archway, he had been temporarily choked of a clung to his mother's side and looked large portion of the wires through a up in her face with pathetic wistful. wide section of the Middle States by ness. The party alighted and walked the constantly thickening coat of ice. among the graves and along the tree. Thousands of words of belated newsshadowed avenues, looking at the in- paper dispatches were piled up unsent scriptions on the last resting place of in offices on the edge of the affected the dwellers in the beautiful city of the district. Inquiry elicited the fact that dead. After an hour so spent they re- in the various railroad telegraph offices turned to the carriage and the father in Chicago the dispatchers were com lifted his little son to his seat. The pletely in the dark as to the running child looked surprised and drew a of trains. At a late hour tonight a breath of relief, and asked: rain is succeeding the sleet and the telegraph people are beginning to recover some of the wires. "Why, am I going back with you?" CHICAGO, Feb. 20.-This morning nearly all the train dispatchers in the railroad offices here were without comMany a man does not show the hero-manication from the outside, and traius ism in the face of death that the child evinced in what to him had evidently beeu a summons to leave the world. Boston Transcript. President's stand (which has been Returned Elders. ran as best they could without orders. Fortunately no accidents occurred. Great forces of linemen are out and communication with all points is being gradually restored. The Western Union Company suf fered more than at any time since the great sleet of 1883. Not only the wires but many poles are down. The Postal Company was in the same condition. The signal service predicts that the warm rain of today will be followed by colder weather tomorrow. A GOOD RECORD. fidence and esteem. L. G. BRAGG, Chairman, MEYER DESENBERG, A. J. HOLMES, ing to hear me. But instead of turn- committee, therefore, for these reasons The Salt Lake Tribune has been for montbs using its anti-Mormon columus to heap upon me unlimited an malign aut abuse. In every instance it has been without cause. I have never been the aggressor and have only answered after quietly waiting for months to find opportunity to enter the field. That paper has intimated that I had been engaged in some desperate thing "back east" in "Michigan." I have over and over challenged a publication of whatever it is they think they possess. Hollister has publicly admitted that he had been trying to discover Something against me. Still nothing That committee at once met and orcomes but insinuation. They seem to ganized and notified my defaucers that proceed upon the assumption that a it was ready to hear and investigate lie well stuck to becomes as potent as their charges against me. The comtruth. Personally, I do not bother mittee was given but three weeks by myself as to what these fellows may the people in which to make their inprint, but as they are trying to destroy vestigations, but it extended the time the good effect of my work in Utah, and spent four weeks on the work, in I desire, in the interest of that work, order to give my opponents all the to make known what it was I did in time they needed to obtain their eviMichigan that this paper is hinting at dence and make their case. At the as derogatory to me. end of one month the committee made its report to an audience that, as you can readily imagine, crowded the building in which I was lecturing to its utmost capacity. That I may not be accused of making a statement in my own favor I will quote the closing paragraphs of the committee's report: Readers of the NEWS may recail my letters concerning the Indians of the Isabella reservation, in Michigan. I said but little in those letters as to the persecutions I have suffered because of my work for those poor Indians. I stated that after long effort I secured the attention of the President and through him obtained an investigation. That done, I turned the work over to the agents of the government. I had spent four years on that work absolutely "without money and without price." I had held to it with a strange and stubborn tenacity that I cannot myself explain. I was a potr man and "getting on in years." The Indians could not appreciate what I was doing for them. There was not even "thank-you" in it for me, and yet I "stayed" with the "job" until I had induced the United States government to come my relief. Then I set out to reinforce my depleted purse by lecturing. evidence received from Mount Pleasant I. N. STEARNS, A. J. SHAKESPEARE, KALAMAZOO, Mich., Committee. If, now, the Tribune, or any others of the anti-Mormon" ring that has been trying for many months to force me out of Salt Lake because I would not join in the clamor against the Mormon" people, has any doubt as to the justice of this report, I make unto them the following proposition: Appoint for yourselves one, two or any number of your men (allowing me to appoint an equal number, both parties being instructed to unite in the appointment of a chairman not of either party) and I will procure and place before those men the evidence upon which the Kalamazoo min based their conclusion, and the only con dition I will impose is that the Salt Lake Tribune, daily and weekly, shall publish the finding of those men in Salt Lake. Having no faith that they will do anything so honorable I wish to infrom the "B. F. Underwood," who incorporate as a part of this article a letter troduced me here, to the chairman of that committee. Mr. Underwood, I wish to say, is a man of national ́reputation as a lecturer and writer. He was for years editor of The Index in "The committee begs to say further Boston; later he founded The Open has been that the documentary testimony put in Court in Chicago and on both sides is so voluminous as to editorial writer for other eminent this report, but gives the society (for of that class that places the emphasis make it impracticable to embody it in Chicago papers. He is a “Freethinker" which Mr. Ellis was lecturing at that on the "thinker," assuming that all time) full assurance that convincing and men are or ought to be in this country unquestionable proof was offered to con-free." Away back in the seventies vict Mr. Ellis' principal defamer; that is, one A. N. Brown, of having been for he was in Salt Lake and his Index is many years a vindictive, malicious and the only "Liberal" paper that I know believed under oath. untruthful man, whose word will not be of that has spoken editorially in favorable terms of the Mormon people. But now for Mr. Underwood's letter. "On the other hand, Mr. Ellis' charac- "For all these reasons your committee, "The committee would say further that 86 SOUTH PAGE STREET, CHICAGO, Dec. 17, 1887. L. G. Bragg, Kalamazoo, Mich.: Dear Sir-In reply to your letter of inquiry dated Dec. 15th, I have to say that I hope you will carry out your laudable purpose of keeping Mr. Ellis at work for your society. He is an carnest liberal thinker who has the courage of his convictions, and is able to present them with vigor and in a literary form that com I went to Kalamazoo, Michigan, where I had been years before, and obtained of the trustees of that institution, the Unitarian church, which had been shut up for several years, in which to give four lectures. Kalamazon is only about 150 miles from the Isabella reservation, and the ring-leader of the thieves whom I had exposed got his wife in K. Before I had given my four lectures that man had heard of my work in K., and hastened there to inaugurate a fight against me, the same fight which was begun on the mands the attention of men and women reservation where, as I have said in "Several years ago, that is, in the year of intelligence and culture. I hope you previous articles, the thieves started a 1883, Mr. Ellis began an investigation of will pay no attention to "vague and inpaper and hired a most disreputable frauds and wrongs perpetrated upon the definite" rumors. No man who opposes character to blackguard me, The lea- Indians of the Isabella County reserva- humbug and sham as Mr. Ellis has done der of the thieves, as I have said, tion. As a result of his work a number can hope to escape misrepresentation and came to Kalamazoo and employed a of Mt. Pleasant men, among whom are calumny. I have known him many several of the broken-down lawyer, and "the mean- Pleasant Tribune, owners of the Mt. years and I know nothing "derogatory to are now indicted his character." I believe his life will est man in town" to fight me. in United States courts with He came into one compare favorably with that of any of of my meet prospect of conviction. This fact the men who are attempting to prejudico ings and attempted to create a in the estimation of many reliable men you, and the Kalamazoo society, against rios by making charges against in Mt. Pleasant, is the chief cause of the him. I should call upon them to make me in the name of the men who had Tribune's attack, But in addition to this, their charges definite and to accompany fought me on the reservation. He it is clear to the committee that Mr. Ellis' them with proofs before allowing them to flooded the town with scurrilous publi- theological beliefs, while not in them-have any weight whatever. cations. He sneaked about the city among my friends, as persons whom I could name have done in Salt Lake, trying to create prejudice against me sufficient to deter the people from com a the Truly yours, [Signed] selves necessarily false or wrong, were. |