The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1890-12-10
NEdyY MISS COULTER.
'racticing With II Shooter iu Or.

/ fraci;cing With Six Shooter In Or.
derfo Hold Her 0Un with Tormans.
Miss Jennie Coulter, the Presbyterian
school teacher who furnished The press
ofthe country with true accounts of the
miserable life of the Mormon laity. has
returned to Utah, and has already felt
the FIRST effect of Mormon persecution.
The saints were particularly angry be-
cause Miss Coulter said they lived on
dried fish aud burned sage brush, just as
they do in the rural communities, and
demanded a retraction, which has not
been made.
Her most unpleasant experience since
her return was At the village of Ameri-
can Forks, about thirty-three miles south
OF this city. When the intrepid teacher
arrived at this town, whore she formerly
kept school, to visit her successor Mrs.
Brush, the Mormons became very much
excited and demanded that she take back
all she had said about them, saying that
it would go hard with her unless she did.
1t is claimed that DR.. Brush, the
husband of Mrs. Brush, was the in
stigator of the attack, as he claims Miss
Coultcr's remarks have ruined his prac-
tice. Mrs. Brush succeeded, however,
in getting her friend out of town safely.
The DR.. and Mrs Brush were establish
ed in the town through Miss Coulter's
good offices, and her friends cannot I'M
deIStand his recent action. 1t is hardly
probable the Latter-Day Saints would
have dared to resort to open violence, as
American Forks Is on two lines of rail
road, and only thirty miles south of this
city and Fort Douglas. The entire
United States garrison could be thrown
into the town in two hours, and they
would be only too glad to make short
work of a mob who would attack wo-
man. Moreover, the saints have dread
of martial law, and they know Utah has
an executive in Governor Thomas who
docs not fear the Mormon Church.
Miss Conlter's friends in Salt Lake
have presented her with handsome six
shooter, which She is learning to be han
dy with There is, of course, no dan
ger in this, but the young missionary
proposes to resume her teaching this
time in Fillmore City, a vertable hotbed
of Mormonism. So it is just as well that
she takes her siX-shooter with her and
goes prepared to use it if the Latter-Day
Saints attempt TO make her life a bur
den to her. Miss Coulter Will travel by
rail from the city to Jua on the Union
Pacific, and from thence goes by stage
fifty miles to fillmore. Some of her
friends advise that an armed United
States deputy marshal should quietly ac-
company the stage, ready Tor business if
the brethren asslil her. She win be
subject more or less to insults, but the
pluclSy little woman says she is ready
Cor them.
The SAINTS have at times very original
ways Of showing their dislike to the Phil
istines. 1t is only few years ago that
& noble band of them frescoed the entire
front Of a Methodist minister's house
with the contents of cattle pen. THIS
they called using the weapons of the
Spirit, pouring out the vials of Gods
wrath upon the enemies of his chosen
people. Up in Kaysvillc gang of the
chosen tried TO blow up the Presbyte-
rian school house on finding inside the .
young woman who WAS teaching there.
These incidents cause the gentiles to
smile when they hear Mormon leaders
talking aboAt the law-abiding qualities
of their -Globe-Democrat