Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1857-06-23
VOL. X, NO. %.
More Mormon Outrages.

Surveyor General Burr, who recently
arrived from Utah, accompanied by Judge
Stiles and others, has made sola further
communications in relation to Mormon
Qotrages, : p9rden Qf which we give bc-
low:
Fhe party leaving embrsced Judge
Styles, the only Federal Judge who re-
manned in the Territory: Peter X. Dods-
ton. nlted States Marshal, Mr.. MorreI,
the Postmaster at Great Salt Lake Cry,
/ aud L. ;. Williams, Esq, together with a
number OF others, swelling the party to
atoat hundred persons The obstacles
winch were encountered in the beginning
OF The journey, were very great. the SHOW
/ lying TO the depth OF many feet in the
mouAtaln passes, on the crust Of which
women and children were compelled 70
trudge many miles, and thrQRqh wh;ch
me .nen wtlh great labor and toll sue
ceeded N dragging the wagons Under
9,her circumstances the Obstacles would
nave been considered insurmounlable. but
Tie dangers of their situation rendered
the undertaking unavoidable.
This, one wogtd suppose, Will Le suf-
hclent TO ccnYlnce the most incredulous of
the lamentabe state OF affairs in Utah
Territory. DIR. Hunt, the United Stet
Indian Agent, had some two weeks be-
lore me party left, taken refuge among
The Indians OF his agency, 10 avoid tLs
violence and excitement at Salt Lake
lhe parry were followed by BODY of
/" Danlles' as far as the Devils Gate.
$50 miles from Salt Lake Civ, who were
u hy, IL,
doubleday with the intention of cutting off
any stragglers, and seizing the first OF
portunIty to stampede their animals,
thereby leaving them On the open praires,
destituie OF the means of continuing their
Journey. The $ Dunites" were driven
back by the report that five hundred Un.-
ted States troops were marching from
laramie = Salt Lake, followed by an
army of 5000 from the States.
At rort Bridger, Ito miles from Salt
La se, the party were astonished ~ the
arrival Of two men, Messrs Bowler and
Hoops, who had been compelled TO fee
from Provo to save their lives. These
men had refused to consecrate their prop
erty and yield to the heavy e4acuqns of
Brigham Dung consequently it was
voted III the Iabernicle at Provo to :'shed
thelr blood" aud to call for volunteers TO
do the deed, fifty men responded. Some
friends Informed Bowler and Hoops of
these proceedings, and they, leaving their
wives and children, fed to the fields,
caught their horses, and escaped to the
aoun,ains- They are now at Independ-
ence, Missouri.
At Green River, the party received
another addition of two persons-Mr.
SQba and his wife, who had been conceal
cd some days in a camp of mountaineers
IN g pile Of buffalo robes. They had es
capped from Salt Lake City a short time
before, making their way across The
mountains on foot, and through deep
SHOWS, distance Of l53 miles He had
been o. lIged 70 flee to save himself from
the penalty consequent upon overhea ing
Drlnghams order given to Robert Burton
for the massacre of Tobin Pcltro and his
party.
A few days before the party left Salt
Lake City, the daughter of Thomas S.
Williams, Esq, was abducted from his
house, aud be was arrested the next day
for threatening to be revenged.
He vas thrown into prison and chained
to the floor, and was only released by the
interference of Howard Egan and the
father Of Williams, who confronted Brig
ham Young, and iQld hiIn unless Williams
was Immediately set fsee they should all
three die together, whereupon Young
accompanied them to prison and restored
hm to liberty.
The Office Of the surveyor General
would have been burned down, but, fcar-
Ing desperate resistance from The in
mates, none of the 6 Danites" were found
sufficiently courageous TO do the deed,
Bill Hickman the most terrible of the
q destroying angels" positively refusing
to have anything 10 do with the affair
The ie'rbte and frequent exactions Of
among this faithful band of his subjects.