Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-03-30

readily permits a change or venue on
short notice. or indeed without any
to the other side.
There is no warrant out for George
nothing more serious than a sub.
poena. The committe is dot after
Georges scalp, 1t only wants infor.
nation, and George is supposed to be
loaded with the kind they want. Still
he losses his name at the fodder Of.
fered him, p%referring the scant pick
ing on the gramma-grass hills of San
Pete, along with freedom-to the as
ISOLATION with the mighty of the land,
followed possibly. by the luxurious
and home comforts Of the penitentiary.
Lots OF the Mormons have that trait
largely developed. In fact It was full
grown way back in the SOS, when the
United States courts undertook TO
punish the red-handed murderers who
gained everlasting infamy at the
Mountain Meadows. BY the way there
was a Teasdale there. They took to
the sagebrush then, and found safety
II not comfort in the wick-e-ups Of the
Piutes, until Afford Cummings, then
governor OF the territory came to
their relief.
George is nov 75 years old, and he
has lived s%trenuously. In the early
sixties he first slipped his head into
the matrimonial moose, marrying
Emily Emma Brown. She died in
1874 and the glad light of Georges
life went out, but Lilies Hook
breathed on apparently dead ashes,
and, the fire of love was again kind
led in Georges kitchen stove: Lilies,
however, failed to all her Georges
heart to overlooking. and from soul
communing and close introspection
his spirit became so etheralized that
he had a revelation and a double
barreled one at that. The revelation
arrived the same time two pretty girls
did. The elder Mary Loretta Plxton
crowded into Georges gizzard but still
there was room and he married Mary
Loretta, he also married Mary Lor-
eta's sister, and to save expenses and
show utter impartiality and to cut
out the problem Of marrying a de-
ceased wife's sister he married them
both at the same time. This was in
1876. George knew a bad thing as
well as a good one. and he realized
that the prosecutions for polygamy
which became popular about that time
were decidedly mad. He crossed over
into Mexico.
George was patriotic-He left his
country for his country's good, as
well as his own, taking his wives
and other stock along.
In 1888 the amnesty manifesto was
passed and George returned to the
verdant alfalfa fields of his native
San Pete, his wives, the Pixton sis
ters came with him, but fortunately
for them, they both died in 1892. and
he became a twin widower so TO
speak.
Lilies Hook tried to comfort him.
but she vas no longer comely In his
sight, George mourned for those who
came after her.
In 1896, George who was then 60
had asecond revelation, which came
to him when Marion Scales, an Eng
fish girl struck the camp. She was
20, a school ma'am, and comely. She
dropped the Scales and became Mrs
Teasdale, and the next year Marion
left Utah, for that place where there
is neither marrying o giving in
marriage,
George was down and out again,
and again Lilies Hook as bottle
holder and second, soothed with ten
der and wifely love, the bleeding
heart of him.
While she was doing this her spouse
caused TO be erected a four foot mar
BILE column in which was inscribed:
Marion Scales, beloved wife OF
George Teasdale," Emily Emma Mary
loretta, and Mary Loretta's sister.
first, third and fourth wives we're
the beloved" one-neither was
Hook, she was the least be.
loved Of all but she remained. tough.
wrlnkled and healthy not even at
tracing the grim reaper,
In 1900, George had another reve-
this time il was Letlta
Thomas fair, freekled and fancy free.
The hws were bolng enfnrcad