Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-04-08

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company, the First National bank of
Logan, the Home Fire Insurance conf
pany Of Utah, The Consolidated Wagon
and Machine company the ogden
Woolen Milis, the Provo Wooden mills,
the Cache Knitting works. me Logan
Knitting tactory the provo knitting
factory, The Rocky Mountain Bell Tel
ephone company the ownership and
renting OF improved real estate and the
purchase of large tracts Of land IN Can
ada and Mexico, TO establish estates
and residences for the Church leaders
and their fayorites,
VI.
That said Joseph +. Smith stll con-
tinues said investments; that plaintiffs
are not able to name the exact amounts
OF said tithing fund so invested in said
corporations or companies, and there
fore prays the court to require said de-
PENDANTS to state the respective
amounts.
Plaintiffs further aver that they are
Informed and believe and upon such in
formation and belief allege: That a
large fund which has arisen from tith-
ing as aforesaid, to-wit. More than one
million dollars ~ 100000 was at the
time said Joseph f. Smith became pres
ident as aforesaid, Invested or has since
been invested by him In various tempo
raj and secular enterprises and UNDER
takings, among which are the follow
ing, to-wit: lions Cooperative Mer-
camille institution, the State sank Of
Utah, lions Savings Bank end Trust
company, the Utah Sugar company, the
Salt Lake & Los Angeles Railway COM
pany, the Saltair Beach company, the
Inland Crystal salt Company, the salt
Lake Dramatic association. the Union
Pacific Railway company the Bullion
Beck & Champion Mining company, the
Deeeret News book store; that said Jo-
seph f. Smith, president as aforesaid,
and trustee trust thereof, has from
November, 1901. and from thence hith-
erto continued the unlawful invest
ments aforesaid, and will SO continue to
invest said tthing funds. and continue
the said investments unless he is re-
strained from so doing by the Injunc-
ton of this court. Plaintiffs are not
able to tell the exact amounts invested
in said stocks and business Of said cor
porations and companies, and asks
that defendants may be requested spe-
officially to do so under oath.
VIII.
That said plaintiffs are Informed and
believe and upon such information al
lege that various persons from time to
time, by their last will ana testaments
and otherwise, have devised, be-
queathed and donated, and will donate
and will continue to give and nonate to
said Church real and personal property
which said deyises, requests and dona-
tons were and will be given for Church
purposes, and said Church or It's presl-
dent and trustee In trust had, nor have
they, any lawful right to divert said
property or money go held to any other
use or purpose or TO invest II In any
secular business, but plaintiffs allege
on information and belief, as aforesaid,
that said Joseph l.. Smith as president,
MS aforesaid, and trustee IN trust, has
from time TO time, in violation OF the
trust, pursuant to which said property,
donations and gifts were made and held
invested a large part thereof, In the
stocks and business OF various COM
panles as alleged as aforesaid.
TX.
That plaintiffs are informed ana be-
lieve and allege that defendants, unless
restrained by the lnjunctions Of this
court, will continue to risk and invest
the said fittings and other contribu-
tons and donations In its hands for
Church purposes. unawfully and with
out authority, In various enterprises
aud, various classes OF business, purely
Of n secular and temporal nature. IN
asmuch as plaintiffs are without any
adequate remedy for the wrongs aforc-
said except In court OF equity the
plaintiffs therefore pray that said de-
PENDANTS shall specifically answer all
aud singular each and all OF the allega-
tlons, matters and things In the fore
going complaint, as accurately and
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