Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-04-26
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Life in a Tcwn Of the Religious
q Polygamlsts
As Seen By a Minister Of the Gospel En-
plOyed BY the Home Mission
AIRY Society.

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pay our beautiful Utah village a visit and
study Rocky Mountain pOlygamy, offspring
OF . fsRkee Nohsmmsd's fertile brain, 10
Its final stronghold. The balmy airs Of an
early spring, the green carpeted earth, the
!. truit trees JUS; ol0ssomiug into q wealth ct
beauty togsiher with the deep blue OF lax
and shy, "a the gisteuiny witnesses OF ID
tnow-csd peaks OF the Wassteh and Oquirrh
zADgts, which shut US in, all join With Us in
Eising you welcome as you step from the
tEsin. Naturally YOU are curious to soc
What 3 Mormon town is Ike, and how
rolygamy looks ss close quarters The un.
lnyiting streets, the barren looking abode
houses with groves OF fruit trees, fOrlorn
fences, and general air OF sbifLlessness, tell
nothing except the fact that this peculiar
people, while indubitaoly industrious, Is
careless Of appearances and has no eye for
beauty. A few words of explanation here
The two stores near the station are keps
By polygsmisrs. Let us pass down the
street TO the east The first house. cheer
Restocking abode, is the home of woman
who was formerly No. 2 to q farmer in
flown. RscOmIng ensmored with another
man. she secured q divorce that she might
Join her sfiuig, Meantime, however, the
latter gave her the slip aud departed
with another woman, so that for the
present The dropping vine has no oak on
which 10 cling Passing the adjoining
adobe dwelling, yet more desolate, where a
\ 6tntile supplies youthful saints with whisky
on the sig (the rising generation in Zion is
prone TO seek more for the spirit which flows
RON The k,g than for that which is claimed
20 descend through the laying on
of the hands Of the elders of
Israel J. We come next to the
house Of the former Bishop, man who
+ passed from this earth TO bis reward while
4 agofuH Of years and, ifthe testimony OF
apostste Mormons is 10 be received, full OF
crimes Certain it is that be was the father
!. of fortv-one children aud had SIX women as
bis wives, including a mother aud her
daughter. Certain II is that nothing but
runaway match in the night deferred him
nom laying ubhOly hands on q second
daughter OF the same woman.
One block to the right, down the next
street, past the houses of Two more pOlyg-
amis,s is the Vreyched howell Of MOuu-
i tain Meadow murderer, while At hike dis
S lance 10 the lett lives Polygamtst who Is
said. on good authority, to have been 8
b partner in the same horrible crime. A
block fur,he- on We reach our little msu-
B sion, whose hospitality is cordially extended
/, 10 sou ana whose history, after you have
settled yourselves comfortably within, of.rs
some i,ems Of interest. It was built by
burly Dane, famous for an enor,
nous appetite, who few years
ago emigraled TO Arizona. became
Bishop in the Latter Day kingdom, and,
Is usual in such cases took to himselFs
second woman The benighted people Of
n that Territory, however, not quite educated
ND 10 that sort Of religion, have recently be-
trsyed the mahguiry OF their unregeuerate
hearts by conyicyng the Bishop Of Oigamy,
and by senCing him 10 the House OF COerec-
ton at Detroit Mich there to learn an
homes, trade at the expense Of that com
mopwealth. The next occupant of the house
WAS a woman, who while second wife TO q
polygamist in another town, fell IN love
with a married man here in Lehi
ard wanted TO marry him. Brother y the
object Of her affections, was not deslrous oil
going into q marriage business by the
81 Wholesale, but she was not to be reouted
n She induced the Patriarch OF the Church 10
grant her q divorce (lhe divorce system IN
\ Zion Is more deuoraizing than in any part
of the East and persuaded him to use his
\ influence with her y. 70 induce han to
accede TO hsr wishes. The iatercessiou OF
Z the Patriarch IVES successful Brother y.
made the loveswiueu sister his seCond wife
q and she lived With hlm here for several years,
bearing him four children. In course OF
time. however. the muCh.margied aud very
religious sister again became restless A
q Bishop living 10 the south of here had only
two wives, and Mrs y pinned TO become No
81 3 10 this officer in the Lords kingdom.
81 Once more the divorce machinery was put
B in motion. and she departed to her new
bridegroom. She nov is quite equal, 1t
would seem. 10 her husband, he having
\ three wives living and she three husbands,
This is no strange aad exceptional case. II
exciies no commotiOn in Mormon society.
/ have heard Of one woman who has seven
husbands nov hvng.
Glsuc ng actOSs the street, your eye Is
greeted by the neat little cottage OF neg
led frsy wife, wife whose husband lives IN
the upper part Of the town with another
woms n. and who has never crossed her
doorsin since the house was built,
y yeszs ago. He boasted some time
II since that he had never been closer to her
y dwelling than within sight Of its chimneJs
4 Just opposite this poor woman lives Nor
mon wife who has had the rare ability TO
a bold her husband in check when
"A bis mind vas set on polygam7
#For thirty years and more she has
fought plural marriage, even going so tar as
Il 10 inform her husband that If he took an
+. other wife she would kill him. This argu
ment, sustained by her flashing black eyes
!. prevailed, and the lifelong battle was de
n cided in her favor. Probably not halt q
B dozen women in Utah have had similar
successes in Sighting the relic OF barOsr-
\ ism The great mass OF them have sue
"A cumbed 10 the pressure brought to bear up
81 on them. and a sadd ned life, home hIied
4 with discussion and strife, and fastened
4 grave have commonly marked the trluhpa
n Of the man or the beast. ,
Won will note that every house referred
N inns far has been within the range OF your
vision as you walked the three blocks nom
81 the station to this corner. The houses OF
s. some half dozen more pOlygam'sts m'SaI
X have been pointed out on the way nsq II
II been necessary. Do need to 60 TURNER
u and tell the status Of the town at large! 10
need 10 tell Of brutah,ies, disgrseetuI De
,,;ons. and living; Of men tyrann1zing
loo tbsir FIRST wives; OF two sisters married
,ka ssme man; Of our Bishop who, IN
~ SsS;epce 10 the priSthSod, secretly tooS
a = roman servant foIhis second vile, and
-, alter Joined with Der in denying the
her even allowing heryto pass as q CON
s,oD strnmpet before he acknowledged her
Tsss sbameful things sf so common II
,,;s 1r-scious Zion" thstNpu are doubles;
FAMILIAR With them.
Non capno. pierce the suSce anywhere
IN Utah without finding 10 HE below
yrester or less amount Of essSess, Cruelty
And suffering. The cry when NouId natu