Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-07-22
INVITED TO DINE
AND THEN M0DBED
Novel and Thrilling Experience Of
Two Mormon Elders In
Tennessee
INDICTMENTS MAY FOLLOW,
Leaders Of the Mob Known and Their
Acts Publicly Dlsapproyed--Aw
lborltles Take Matter Up
snc.lAl corrtsnondence.

Special Correspondence,
Chattanooga, Tom July li,--Word
comes 20 tho mission ONCE here OF an
other outrage committed on two Of our
Elders In the state Of Tennessee, near
the same place whore our other Elders
were mobbd writing from Fail Branch,
rcnnp Elder JOS II Walton says
Leaving j, Il Scalfs IN tho early
morning Of July 10, We entered our
county with fasting and prayer Upon
reaching the home Of friend, ], n.
'oN, we procured some dinner after
which We started work, az we were
very DESTROYS Of obtaining schools
house 20 hold meeting In that night II
was not long before we could plainly
Geo mat II was with decided aver.
sion that people met ~. Tho first
school trustee we consulted was q Mr.,
John Mcllalloy, who Immediately re-
fused w permission 10 preach IN any
schoolhouao IN the neghborhood, We
soon detected that tho people had
been taught against us tur tho reason
principally ~ the old, old story u the
Mountain Meadows massacre, and We
also found q number NJ books written
by some woman seven Years Among
mo Mormons SIX times IN success.
Sion No Ncro rolnsod entertainment,
and W n was getting quite late and
NO tkN Whh very heavy We were try.
INK pretty hard ~ nnd some Kind friend
Who would Jake ~ IN, Finally a IN,
man nond, for such he showed himself
lo be- came along lhe road and whom
! recognized at man who pad refused
. tract nj a. store u abort time before,
~ Kindly ~ usked us home with
him, ana upon our accepting tho inyl.
mtlon hc explained tho way 10 reach
ME- house, and sud Ne had 10 No back
ana SEQ 10 man be- Was working for but
that Nc would soon follow us We went
to his home but his wife would not
admit ny, and wo Wero IN the act NJ
leaving whom the man came up nnd
made some explanation 10 her where.
upon she took us IN, md we were
foon seated IN comfortable parlor
while supper was being prepared for
w. But ! soon detected that our friend
had disappeared, and did not feel
AZ an good, After supper went ont
ana looked around the barn, thinking
| possibly Ne Was there but ! could find
| no one. ! soon afterwards heard some
one WhIHlle, and I became moro mls.
rlcloue soon n man came In, and
| also tho llltlo boy " the house, with
| lhc nows that an army was coming
| THIS man became frightened and he
told ~ to 80 NJ once. for
me armed mob was nftcr us.
| ana hld sworn 10 have us n lhey
had io XIII U.s. We were lust preparing
| lo 20 10 bed when this nowa came, hut
! instead We had ~ throw ON our things
! hastily ana 20 ont into the dark night,
1 into the rain ana the mud, Thoro was
a rtecp side hill not lar from the house,
| planted 20 corl As Wo started up this
| hill they opened IRE, and soon about ~
| or 100 shots were fred, when about
| hair way up tho hllh I called 10 Dro,
Miller my companion, who was pos.
| Nbly 10 rods ahead Of me, 10 como
| back to whore ! was, ~ soon M they
| heard THIS they began shooting al.
loclly towards us, IN second, corn.
stalks were being shattered an nroun |
U.s. but we foll perfectly safe IN the
cnrc ~ the Lord, My back being lame
| from my recent Illness | could not
~ M fast M tho hill as one would Ike
10 ~ under the circumstances, We
| concluded we were lust as safe citing
down ne running Mp the MIL 80 wo
rested and tried 10 locate tho dIrcc ION
the mob had taken We spent tho night
ont IN the mln with no shelter nhou,
n mile from the plncc We were driven
| from, Tho next morning We wont
through the same place, and all was
| peace and quictudc
| DR. MoQuarry who attended Inc dur
| INK my recent sickness passed through
the place, ana told mo that the mob
| llng h not approved NY the majorltS
| N the citizens Tho man who invited
| Ms To 20 10 his home was tho orglnlgOl
" the mob, and while we were oatInt
supper nl hiS table he was out gather
lng them together | think II win b,
| the means of making many friends fol
| the Elders, ana | look for u good WORK
the DOCTORS Unro Tor II week past, ant
am very weak ana ahnlty,
| Elder Joseph II Walton, Jr, Ia from
Auburn Wyo, ana Elder lIeber &
Miller hls travelling companion, IN from
Provo, Utah, Tennessee, II must III
remembered N the state whore Elder
Gibbs and Berry were martyrcd
Tho cases brought against the LEADER
OF the mob which assaulted Elder
Sorcnscn, Dotty ana Jensen, provlousl,
reported IN these columns, are progress
sing satisfactorily, Tho state
ollorney.goncral has decided Il
have the grand jury indlct then
at the coming term Of court
and rays no VIII prosecute then
| VIGOROUSLY Tie II Outsp0kcn Agiing
OIL kinds of mob violence Hon. Wil
u, Wrlgh, United states district atIor
ncy NJ Knoxville, has charge of IN
damage suits against these same poo
PIE Az soon As both courts conyon
Wis fWl the cases VIII DO tried