Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-07
GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY.
Several Companies of Troops Sent to
Salt Lake.

GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY.
Several Companies of Troops Sent to
Salt Lake.
IBy Telegraph
OMAHA, December 5th-At an early hour
this morning General Howard, command
ing the Department of the Platte, received
orders to send troops from Fort Omaha
and other posts to some point which he
! refuses to make public. Batteries and c,
of the First Artillery, were accordingly
first ordered out and left this afternoon on
special train fer the West over the Union
! Pacific. 1t is understood that all the re-
manning troops at Fort Omaha, consisting
of ten companies of infantry and one of
cavalry, have been put under orders to be
ready to move al moments notice.
Inquiry at the Union Pacific headquar-
tiers reveals the fact that the company have
received instructions to have in immediate
readiness additional special trains for the
movement of these troops westward.
General Howard has persistently refused
to answer questions regarding the destiua-
ton of these troops. MY orders are
strictly confidential in this case" said Gen
eral Howard to your correspondent, and |
cannot possibly even intimate where these
troops are going. 1t is of the utmost i'm
portance that the people of the community
to which they are destined shall not be
apprised i'll advance of their coming"
1t is evident that serious troubles antici
pated somewhere, and General Howard in
timated that much. The general conclu-
sion is that the troops of the department
are all to be rapidly concentrated at Salt
Lake in anticipation of an attack on the
| Gentiles by the Mormons. Trouble of a
| serious nature has been brewing there for
| the last few days. The arrest conviction
and imprisonment of the Mormon leaders
| for polygamy have not only aroused the
| Mormons to great Indignation and revenge,
but to bitterness that has caused them to
retaliate by importing prostitutes from Sar
| Francisco and Denver and using these
women to entrap Federal officials and
prominent Gentiles. In this they have
| succeeded partly and have caused few
arrests of officials and Gentiles. One
| Deputy United States Marshal was arrested
! for fornication with one of these women,
under the city charter. He was taken from
| the custody of the city authorities by
writ of habeas corpus by the United States
authorities, who declared the city ordinance
invalid because it exceeded the authority
granted by the Legislature.
The other night another Deputy Marshal
was assaulted by four Mormons, who lay
in wait for him, one of whom he danger
ously shot. The Mormons and their papers
| denounce this shooting as the act of an
assassin, who made the first assault, and
the Mormon press is calling for blood atone
| ment.
These are the causes that make Salt Lake
a volcano to-day, liable to break forth at any
moment Threats have been made that the
! entire Gentle population will be cleaned
out and the excitement and fear are in
creasing from day to day.
A dispatch received in Omaha this after
noon from Salt Lake, in response to a tele-
gram of inquiry, says; The inhamed
condition of the public mind here is caus-
ing most serious apprehensions, and the
movement of the military is designed to
prevent the possibility of an outbreak and
secure in advance the preservation of life
and property. The troops cannot be con-
centrated here any too quickly to allay the
alarm and excitement"
Owing to General Towards reticence re-
garding the destination of the troops, there
| is considerable speculation as to where
they are really going, but the great maiori-
ty believe that Salt Lake is the place with
out doubt. Their destination is alleged by
| the officers to be Fort Fred Steele in
Wyoming, on the Union Pacific. Others
intimate that it is Fort Lewis. in Southern
| Colorado, where there have been some
disturbances among the Indians, and also
among the Apaches some distance from
| that post General Sheridan, il is claimed,
desires 10 concentrate 4 large number of
troops at that point to handle any serious
uprising which might take place i'll the
southwestern country. Another guess is
that the troops are headed for the labor
troubles at Rawlins, Rock Springs and
| Evanston, on the Union Pacific Railroad,
but the ra lroad officials deny anything of
| the kind. 1t is also limited that the troops
are to 80 to the Pacific coast on account of
the Chinese troubles.
So far as Indian troubles are concerned,
! it is not at all likely that artillery would
b. forwarded. The sending out OF artillery
confirms the general belief that Salt Lake
is the destination and place of concentra-
| ton. The troops at Fort Robinson, Neb,
have been ordered to move for the West,
and orders of a similar character have
been issued TO other posts in this depart
ment.
LATER.-It is a sure thing now that the
! troops from this department are going to
Salt Lake and it is understood from good
authority that trouble is looked for there
EXCITEMENT IN SALT LAKE.
| SALT LAKE, December 5th.-Among the
rumors in circulation to-day: are that the
Mormons are massing and arming them
selves secretly; that the Secretary of War
is on his way to Utah TO declare martial
| law, and hundred others even more i'm
probable. The facts as Sifted out tonight
are that the Quartermaster at Fort Douglas
has rented quarters in the middle of the
city for a company of troops to be constant
ly stationed as a preventive of riotous
outbreaks. A battery of artillery is also
on the way from Nebraska and is expected
here tomorrow night. Excitement and
public feeling still run high. The Nor
mon crusade against the Gentiles for lewd
and lascivious conduct has begun again in
a new form. This time complaints are
sworn out before Mormon Justices of the
Peace and served by the Sheriff. The
same arrests have been made as previously