The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-12-11
THE EXPLANATION.

that there was some excitement in Il
country concerning U tab. It was IL
first intimation that anyone here ha
received that matters were not moYin
along as usual, the chickering's and qua
Tels being largely confined to the news
papers and the courts. That ther
was enough in these quarrels to excit
anybody at home, much less to agitat
the nation, no one here ever dreamed
and that anybody felt the least alarm
for his personal safety seemed ridicu
lous. There was much wonder as t.
what the government and the people O
the east could have heard to excite
them so much. Sunday evening tele
grams from eastern editors and from
wholesale merchants having trade con-
nections with Utah began coming in
asking for particulars of the
trouble. These only further puzzled
people here. for the dispatches referred
to matters of which the recipients were
entirely ignorant.
On Monday the kilograms indicated
much commotion throughout the east
and in military circles; few soldiers
and battery of Gatlings were brought
here by special, and people here became
excited, but about what they knew not
as We were all as yet ignorant of the
matters which had created all this stir.
Now, however, the eastern newspapers
are arriving and from them we learn
something of the cause for the sensa-
ton. Some monstrous lying has been
done, and we expect not a little of it
viii be traced home to officials and pri-
vate citizens in Utah. The New York
World contains an Omaha dispatch tell
ing how the troops were quietly gotten
out OF Omaha so as to arouse no suspi-
eion as to their movements; how
the government took possession |
OF the Union Pacific telegraph
lines, 1.-The object being to keep the
Mormons in ignorance, so that they
viii not commit violence in the fury of
their anticipated defeat" and so on.
The Worlds special gives as the cause
Of the trouble trouble" has
not existed-the killing of McMurrin''
who was not killed. 1t repeats the
story that McMurrin and
others plotted for the assassination of
Deputy Marshal Collin, and how. after !
he shooting, ga great crowd at once
collected, and knowing it would mean
teath to be taken by the city officers.
5ho are Mormons Collin hastened to
to the Federal authorities.
lie was placed in the Penitentiarv for :
afe keeping. When this became |
-nown the fury Of the Mormons at !
aimed desperation. The SALT LAKE c
HERALD at once issued extra editions. '
alllng upon the church to avenge the 1
nurder of Saint, and used every a
neans of melting mob violence" T
Were more malicious lies ever ut :
1rad2 THE HERALD issued no extra a
ditions on the occasion, and not one r
the twenty-five thousand readers of a
his journal ever saw a single sentence Il
the paper calling on the church or b
any power or person to avenge the Il
lurder, Or suggesting that any other o.
IAN strictly legal course be pursued: Il
he man who says THE HERALD, on the e.
ccasion mentioned, or at at any other cs
me, used its influence to incite a mob IL
es UNANIMOUSLY, and we regret that we &C
not know his name that we might
enounce him personally as the villain
lat he is. Fl,
Other extracts from the Rorlds teIe- W
am appear elsewhere IN this issue of tb
He HERALD. The reader will under tt
and from their perusal how malici- ia
lsly the people of this city have been to
"a about, in order. to further areusa tL
g feeling against the Mormons. The tn
Dry is base fabrication from begin be
ng to end, as the bitterest anti 81
Ormons here will declare. We nre. SD
me the Worlds dispatch is only &c
mPle OF many that were published ST.
roughout the country on Sunday and SCI
0nday, hence it is easy to under of
md how the excitement was started SCI
iese kilograms explain to the peace be
people of this Territory what wa on
-oreso much ola mystery-why there itu
ould have been any sensation, and las
y there was SO much activity in sic
itary circles. The officials or the Th
ton were deceived and lied to bv bu
nobody; who that somebody is will Fee
come out, and the country will thi
oW the wretch, though, he may to
ape the punishment which he so n
lly deserves. nm.
here has never been a time in the sec
tory Of Utah when there was less mo
ger of an outbreak on the part of ing
people than exists today; life and trio