The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-16
0WEN SENDS Open
LETTER TO bORAH
Asks the Aspirant for Senator
From Idaho Some Pointed
Questions.
CITES SEVERAL PROBLEMS
TO HIM TO SOLVE
When He Has Answered Them
He Will Have Several
Others Propounded.

Charles Mostyu Owen On Monday af-
ternoon sent the following open letter
IN ", Z, Borah 1t speaks for itself.
The letter follows:
Salt Lake City, Utah. October Is. 1906.
Hon. W. E. Borah, Boise City, Ida.
Sir: Two years ago, In your political
tour Of Idaho, you challenged any and all
10 lay information charging. pplygamy or
had the honor TO submit some twenty iufor,
nations 10 you, with further proffer OF
oue hundred more when you had convicted
you would. At that time you lodged tho
Issue By declaring that your challenge did
no, apply to any other than Senator Du-
tOs hs TgeTh in ihH 5gnse and not vd 10
have taken the stump. and ,once, more the
voice OF Thompson OF Angels the Crested
Jay Hawk Of the Mountains, is heard haunt;,
once moro the Bald Headed Snipe OF the
Valley has the temerIty submit his little
list FOR your information, and requests your
Immediate action. assuring you Of the most
cordial support in your prosecutions when,
il ever, YOU shall initiate your criminal
action.
l, would be unfair 20 the polygamists of
Idaho and 10 yourself did | offer any other
name as the chief offender than he who
testified in Washington before the Senate
Committed on Privileges and Elections. that
he was the most prominent in Idaho. l
divides his conjugal attentions impartially
and not unsuccessfully between his three
wivce-Iulia, Lizzie and Ann. That his
matrimonial relations have recently taken on
the aspect OF interstate commerce is also
true; but. in spite OF that, his impnrhnlity
with regards TO the two remaining in Idaho
Judge is one of the best informed of the
Witnesses, being one of the many of
The most prominent Mormon in Idaho.
The next case which We will approach is
,nar nr olE n{
Lake county This sanity person is. like
his more prominent brother, blessed with
no less than three wives-Margucrite, Jane
and Clara Sport; The last OF whom he CON
iugated in the fall OF 1892 NIr. Stucki is
az present in Boise. serving on the Fedeyal
grand jury. Following the able example OF your
you might consult wirh Mr.. s,ucbi and learn
from him or his attorney whether he would
stand such action an your part without re-
sentiment.
Bishop Amos Wright OF Bennington IS an
excellent subject 10 test your adultery
law--and II may be that polyganiy would
he also applicable, II he was polygamist I
prior 10 January "a, 1905. The Church of
Jesus Christ OF Latter day Saints did not
know it, as would appear from the Official
list Of polygumous officers OF that institu-
lion filed with the Senate committee-see
page 4o4 vol. 3 OF the proceedings in the
Smoot hearing, and with which you, as Apos-
te Smoots counsel, must be thoroughly con
vcrsant. Bishop Wrght's plural wife gave
E. Lorenzo Burgoyne is promising subject
for your proposed rnid on polygamsts. He
lives az Montpelier. Bear Lake county, With
his two wives. who are sisters: and Binne,
yo. 2 has child born July. 1906.
Leaving Bear Lake county for Bingham,
cordially invite your attention 20 John
" Burton, manager Of the B!sckfoot Stock
eompany'S ranch, north of Soda Springs,
where he lives with his two wives, sisters,
Ella aud Florence. This man married his
inst wife in 1896. In a country of lonely
And IL Nat
Is al elder holding the MclchiscdeE priest
hood, with full power TO bind parties ON
sEih and elsewhere, the marriage OF Brother
John ", Burton aud Sister Florence Potter
might have happened anywhere between the
ranch aud Star Valley, Wyoming. Sho has
certainly two children. and his case as GER
tsinly merits your attention,
With stores at Chesterfield and Bancroft
and wife in every store, Ira Call invites
your legal attention lie left Utah some
Jears ago in order that nc might live his
going TO remain So brother Borahi
On Toms Fork in Bear Lake county lives
one Gottired Eschler. with his two Roses,
authorities, learning OF the practice OF his
iaiih, dismissed him as postmaster. and
sose kpnzler, his plural. now has a petition
ready for your colleague. the Hon. Barton
Lee French, NJ. c., who, by the way sus-
P1ets that there arc two polygamists in
ldaho-asking FOR the appointment recently
Ny nan OF :" uusuduu souCh
ambitions should surely invite your cour-
hgeous attentions.
Josiah Hawks, partly OF Franklin, Ida,
out mostly OF Rexburg, where his second and
more favored wife Sarah Short resides, is
Justly subject of prosecution, Cau you
not do something 10 protect the citizens
o. Rexburg from this contamination There
are others ther0 such Judge Hyrum
hicks, his brother, Joo Ricks. Victor Heg"
iied, LeGrande Robinson, Lorenzo Waldron,
me school teacher, DR.. o. c, Ormsby, and
Dave Sanders.
That you have good and sufficient law
spa'T which you can proceed. you can best
aeeide-your Republican Legislature OF 1905
was pledged 10 enact such. Should you de-
,He moro complete statement of facts III
sach case, ] shall be pleased TO furnish IL.
Du' The facts are we'll known in the first
99ase, tha, OF William Budge OF Paris. 1nat
mink you will have no trouble in cstab-
honihg tho facts, even though you cannot
enforce the law in Bear Lake And when you
are through with this brief list, desire 10
assure you that ] will Immediately furnish
Another, so that there shall be favored
criminals OF this character, but all shall have
,sr show before tho courts Of idaho.
- Presume that this time your challenge
% IN deadly earnest; that you are sincere il
your desire To rid the Stute IL necessary
snu Practices that which is stencil and
W W ohenSe In The nostrils OF civilization
our proposed line OF action is worthy
.ho IL you proceed with IT. but il your word:
rse ~, not IN earnest, merely intended TO deceiv,
vac puohc upon the eve o. an importan
ieuon then, indeed, you entitled to th'
iyoi igs OF IhcmpSon OF Angels, the Crested JaJ
nS"k OF the Mountains.
Always at your service.