The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-05-22

SALT LAKE, May 20.-The Mormon
dispatch sent from here to-day, denying
Mormon resistance to officers in Idaho
is a falsehood throughout. The fact
as previously telegraphed are thor
Oughly substantiated by letter, telegraph
and accounts in Idaho newspapers.
1t will be seen that it is dated 'Sal
Lake, May 90" and was in answer tt
the following. which appeared as al
Associated Press telegram in TIL
HERALD and Tribune of yesterday morn
ing:
SALT LAKE. May 2O.-The report of
the resistance by Mormons in Paris,
Idaho, to the deputy marshals making
polygamy arrests, recently telegraphed,
was an entire fabrication throughout.
The authoritative facts are, the depu-
ties visited the place and were even per-
mitted to enter place of public worship
during divine services, to make some
arrests, without theSlightest opposition,
their authority as government officers
being submitted to, although the Paris
people knew one of the deputies as
thief cut on bail, and another as con-
fessed murderer. The story was circu-
lated for entirely malicious purposes.
A few DAYS ago the Associated Press
agent in this city sent telegram, stat
ing that deputy United States marshals
had gone to Paris, Idaho, for the pur-
pose of arresting Mormons, but were
resisted by the people, and obliged to
retire. whereupon Marshal Dubois, in
hot haste, had gone to the town men,
toned by special train, and accom-
panied by posse had made unsuccess-
full search for the parties wanted. The
news" it may well be imagined, was
somewhat startling. 1t seemed strange
enough that while newspapers here
have correspondents in Paris, and there
is direct communication between the
two cities by telegraph, nothing should
be heard of the trouble until it was an
nounced in an Associated Press tele-
gram fron Salt Lake, the ASS. Press
having no agent at Paris. The |
wires were freely used to learn what
there was in the case, and the informa-
ton came that the people of Paris were
greatly astonished to learn that they or
any of them had been resisting the au-
thority of government. The story sent
out TO the press from Salt Lake was
denied; it was related that
when the deputies appeared, religious
services were being held in the taber-
nacle, that the officers entered unop-
posed, and one of them proceeding to
the stand served writs on two county
commissioners who were commanded
10 appear before the Chief Justice of
Idaho, and answer the charge of usurp-
ing Office; that afterwards being unable
to find other persons in town for
whom they held warrants, the
deputies left the place and arrested
one Humphreys and another, con-
veying their prisoners to Montepelier.
We do not know the nature the dis
patch that the deputies sent to Marshal
Dubois, bat the following day the Mar
shall with four or five deputies. appeared
in Paris, and meeting with no more op-
position than their predecessors had
encountered, searched the town
and left. We doubt if any letter or tele-
gram came from Paris to this CITY saw
ing there had beens resistance to the
but tits absolutely certain that
if any such letter or telegram were sent
and received, its author was lar, for
the facts were exactly as stated
in TIE HERALD and other papers,
among them the Democrat, published
at Paris. The Associated Press agent
in this city sent the story of the alleged
and many of the papers of
the country published it under sensa-
tional head lines and accompanied bv
editorial comments. bitterly assailing
the Mormons. Some of the eastern
however, knowing how ut
terly unreliable were the Associated
Press reports from this city, and be-
ieving it was impossible that the Nor
mons could be SO silly as to attempt to
defeat arrest by show of fighting sent
here for "a correct account of the affair, :
lisregarding the Associated Press. 1
On Wednesday the second dispatch {
published above was sent to the Asso- |
hated Press, and coming back in the /
regular. report that night. the Asso- c
lated Pre- agentreplied with the dis |
'atch printed atthe beginning of this
rtiele.L V
1t the Associated Press had any idea
f fairness, if it were managed as
ews-gathering and Notwithstanding a
nstitution, and net as the organ of c
malice. it would long since have "fired' b
IS Salt Lake agent, and employed G.
nan who could be relied upon to state s.
My facts. The falsehoods that have ID
cen sent from this city have been ex- 81
osed scores of times, and the matter O
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