The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-05-17
THE CRUSADE.
Excitement at Bear Lake Last
Week.
ARREST OF Mr.. HUMPHREYS.
Movements of the Deputy Marshals in
Making Arrests In the North
ern Country.

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arresting Samuel Humphreys and his
being taken to Blackfoot:
! The "anti- Mormon crusade" tidal
wave which hasbeen sweeping overUtah,
/ Arizona. Wyoming and Idaho. struck
Bear Lake last Saturday. The people
have long been expecting it, and conse-
quently were not surprised when they
felt its foul atmospheric presence APP
preaching.
On Saturday morning. while Confer
ence in Paris was being opened with
prayer certain person, known as
Chris Nelson, who, by the way is under
heavy bonds for cattle stealing i'll this
| county, and who has a very unsavory
and disreputable character BESIDES
/ forced his way to the stand and there
t served summOnses on MessrS. Samuel
Matthews and John A. Hunt, to appear
at Blackfoot and have the reasons ex-
planned as to why they did not take the
! test oath, prescribed for the County
| Commissioners. This Chris. Nelson
was undisturbed in discharging this.
| portion of his duty, Notwithstanding
Blackfoot that he had been resisted and
ran out of town by shot guns.
This Chris. Nelson, and another of his
! ilk called John Kink-whO has himself
repeatedly boasting of having killed
man in California, around Paris
till late in the afternoon, when they
went to NOunan, and there arrested
Samuel Humphreys, on the charge of
unlawful cohabitation; Nelson, during
the arrest, nearly shooting his foot of
with a revolver he had been playing
with in his hands. not knowing the
difference between the handle and the
barrel. Mr.. Humphreys was milking at
the time of his arrest, it being about
6 o'clock. On realizing his position.
be started with Nelson and King for
BlackfOot.
On arriving at Montpelier Mr. Hum
phreys was seen by DR.. Hoover, who,
on learning that none of his relatives or
friends were with him, went at once to
the telephone Office to acquaint them
of the fact. But this had been antici-
pated, for deputy something
Chris Nelson cut the wire. DR..
Hoover then kindly drove over to
Paris to let them know. when George
and Hyrum, brothers of Mr.. S. Hum
phreYs. went to Montpelier. arriving
there after the freight train had come
in. Under pretense ofspeaking to Mr..
Humphreys, Chris. Nelson said to him
y, L
you" On reaching the caboose, Mr..
H. was ordered to get on the train,
which he did very reluctantly. In this
shameful way he was taken from his
relatives, without being able to say one
word.
On arriving at Blackfoot, Sunday
night, he was at once lodged in jail, and
Monday morning at 10 o'clock, was
taken before United States Commas
sioner ]. c. House, and waved an ex-
animation. He was bound over in
81 500 bonds for his appearance. Unless
Mr.. Humphreys gets dispatch to
the contrary, he will not leave Paris for
Blackfoot until next Monday.
These same individuals next made
raid upon Montpelier, as will be seen
by our correspondent. whose letter APP
pears in another place, and arrested c.
w. Simpson, on the same charge.
There is a good deal of speculation in
dulged in, as to the object of this arrest.
Macintosh, the saloon keeper in Mont
pelier, remarked that he will head a
list himself to pay Simpsons fine, if
that is the extent of his punishment,
which many expect will be, and the
conclusions are that this is only another
way of buying from him information
that might possibly convict others. Be
that as it may, we can await the re-
suits.
On Monday, Marshal Fred Dubois,
accompanied by Sheriff William Jones,
of Oneida County, Deputy Marshals
Green and Greerly, of Boise, and an
individual, arrived in
Paris and commenced attacking little
boysion the streets and questioning them
as to where $50 and so'' lived.
1t was a curious fact that every
little boy knew nothing, which corn
pleteiy knocked the socks off the inter
rogators. Deputy Marshal Green, how
ever. bent upon doing something to
keep his iaurels green, approached Aunt
Sally Passey. a lady over 20 years of
age, and did his best to enter into CON-
yersation with her, which she seemed re-
luctant to do. He kept walking with
her however. when she pushed him to
one side. Resolved not to give the race
up, he again approached her, when she
turned into Stephen Kelsey's house,
where he subpnnaed her to attend court
at Blackfoot. The best OF the whole joke
is that Green mistook her tor Mrs. Cliff
ton, the mother of the alleged second
wife of Samuel Humphreys. Judge his
remorse, therefore, when he found out
the mistake. and of his CALLING position
when he had to go and humbly apollo
gize for the blunder. This was the only
act officially committed while sojourn-
ing among US, and what an act for five
marshals.
We are informed that the anti
Mormon feeling in Blackfoot is intense.
Although there are two murder cases
on the docket, the people do not con-
slider them half as important as the
polygamy cases.
Marshal Dubois has expressed him
self as being determined to do all in his
powes to have the county officers
ousted. simply because on inquiring
OF little boy he met on the street in
Paris where the sheriff lived the. boy
replied, az don't know, sir. "
1t is understood that this Macintosh,
in the absence of Marshal Dubois, mas
the entire management of the crusade
in Bear Lake County, directing the
movements of the deputies, and putting
up money necessary to keep things
going. And we have also received in
controyertible information from reliable
persons who heard 1t with their own
ears, that certain painter in Paris is
keeping these Montpelier parties
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