Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-13
PunCturing the Bubbles of Sen
Sa'iOnal Writers.
The Invasion Of Adjacent Ter
ritories by Mighty Hordes.
The Southern Settlement of the
Saints Few and Far Be-
tween.
Trial of tho Murderer OF Young
Turner

becoming popular to magnify Nor.
monism; to enlarge upon what 1t is
doing, aud more particularly what 1t
Is Ding to do. Some of the sensa-
lional writer's who make up In sgony
what they miss in facts, r just at
present dilating upon the injury that
must inevitably accrue to Arizona ard
New Mexico by a threatened Mormon
invasion. 1t 10 confidently stated that
800 families have been ordered by the
church leaders to at once leave for
those southern regions, to be followed
by others az policy shall dictate. This
report has little foundation In truth.
Your correspondent has taken pains
to inquire into the matter and can
only tiud two families whom the church
authorities have directed to settle In
Arizona, and that because they wished
to 60 there. NJ doubt others will
follow of their own volition, as some
parts of that territory are regarded by
the farmers of Utah as
BRY DESIRABLE GRAZING LANDS.
There Is no doubt, On the other
hand, but that the Mormons are grad.
uAlly increasing In all the surrounding
territories, but nothing like to the ex.
tent generally supposed. Tn Northern
Arizona there Is little chance for 9
foothold; 1t 10 either included In the
Navajo Indian reservation or forms
part of that most undesirable and un.
cultivated region, the high Colorado
plateau, than which no more sterile
and %forbidding region exists south of
the Arctic ocean. In this region the
Mormons have two way stations,
at each of which may proba.
bly, be found q dozen souls,
and then all Is desert, sand and rock,
until the neighborhood of the Little
Colorado Is reached. Here the frat
Mormon settlements founded in that
district were established, but appear
to be gradually growing smaller. The
country II to hard o one even for
Mormons, whom some think IAN live
where o "whitesman" would perish.
Higher up the river, that IL further
up the coast, are several new settle
ments, al small, and t.sss continue
dotting the mountains here and there,
until the borders of the Apache reser'
walton are reached. These all lie In
the range of the mountains or In the
valleys contiguous thereto, that run
parallel with the dividing line Of. Ar
IONA and New Mexico. Bssides these
the "saints" have two
J, SETTLEMENTS ON sAlr RIVER,
two on the GilA, and one on the Sar
Pedro, the latter the most southern o.
ell their colonies 1t beirg about forty
miles north of the Mexican line. AL
. these little villages, hsmlets and
ranches put together would not make
. 20 far a. I can learn An aggregate o.
, more than 5000 to $500 souls, no
, much to be feared in "a rapid,
3 growing . territory - Arizona
Besides 1t Is altogether probable tina
. majority Of these places would nevel
have been settled had not the Mo
mons done so.
In this city We are In the throes Of
r murder trial. A young man Nance
Turner, son OF the sheriff Of Utal
county was brutally murdered nea
Park Oily, without cause Of provocs
tion, he having his head
. CRUSHED IN WITH AN AXE.
a Two men have been tried aud con
a victed, one to death and the other I
q imprisonment for life. The one ser
fenced to death, named Hope or We
come, through some informally In th
proceedings of the former trial, has b
the decision Of the supreme court
Washington obtained q new tria
which Is now going hardly sgainl
him. A very romantic incident too
place with regard TO his arrest. III
n man who arrested him was the mu,
10 dered boys father, and the same trai
D. that brought the dead body to tn
n city also brought the murderer and b
ID keeper. At one station along the Lin
" Of the Union Pacific 30 intense n.
K the feeling of the people against Il
"A prisoner that loud threats of lXpchh
,e were made, and Sheriff Turner hsd
stand revolver In hand In front Of d
prisoner to protect, az an Cfhcsps VI
murderer of his eldest son, at q tM,
when to make the feelings of Il
father get more agonized the del
body Of that son was lying O. few fe
be- away. But
OF TURNER DID HIS D1TX
~ regardless of his paternal feelings al
brought the prisoner safe to- town al
r lodged him In the penitentiany, a
then attended to the funeral of ]
child.
We have very few natives Of la be
France amongst us, yet we are gro
lie ing q community of frog eaters. o
Ith restaurant keeper claims 10 have coo
to. cd and sold two hundred dozen. I
90 creatures are caught near the city a
/. as the price of this luxury Is going
as the demand increases, It Is becomi
q profitable occupation 10 hunt the
II "hunt' Is the correct expression
.S Virgins Notwithstanding, we
having the most delightful wealth
But for all Of present appeasan
hue there are many who think we sho
ext not crow until we arc ont OF
ori. woods. Last month we had such
DDS furious Atorm q day or two after
the time he predicted, and az storms 9
uro orally reach Us two or three days q
ook they dslugs California, such pera
think he IVES pretty near rAght,