Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-31
Cases of Eighteen Detained and
Ia Due for Deportation Taken
BY Col. A. B. Hayes.
BOSTON PAPERS GET EXCITED
Dcyoting Considerable Space 10 Incl
dent of the Republic Passenger
List Last Week.


and "A debarred from entering Amer
lea. COL A. b. Hayes has been en-
gagged to look after the interests of
the company of saints bound for Titan,
with the result that I'm the cases of the IL
detained. the matter has been referred
10 and will be taken up by the United
States immigration service in salt
Lake
Among the IA detained are the Misses
Margaret and Catherine Roe VINO
Joined the Church in England over a
year ago and according to statements
received i'm this city We're compelled to
leave home by their father because
they had joined the Latter-day Saints
They sought employment and saved
their money and eventually paid their
passage on the Republic. When their
father learned that they had sailed
for the United States he promptly ca
bled the authorities in Washington
asking TINT the girls be detained and
sent back to England. Nine members
debarred comprise a family by the
name of Roth consisting of parents
and seven children The reason given
for their being debarred il that they
are liable to become public charge.
An appeal In these cases has been
taken TO Washington by Col. A, b.
Hayes
BOSTON PAPERS TELL STORY.
The Boston papers are deVotlng col
umns to the incident and some pic
lures of handsome girls adorn the stor-
les While some OF The papers indulge
i'm sensational stories unwarranted by
fact most of the accounts are fair, see
ing how misinformed the eastern press
is generally on the subject of Mormon
ism
Saws the Boston Journal, in u two
| column story:
Never before have the Mormons ex-
| perienced such i rigid investigation,
| and it came as the greatest surprise Of
| all their conVat-winning activities.
| For more than II hours, or from the
| time the Republic was drawing into
| her Charleston berth yesterday MORN
ing until late In the evening, the hear
| ing wac continued.
" Where hey got the money TO come
over with III they believed in poly
! gamy II hey came Willingly and
scores of otter very pointed questions
were asked. All this was through di-
rect. urgent and explicit orders from
| Washington.
The Journl then goes on TO state
| that the off1ials secured information
of somewht startling nature and
| more revelations" were expected, All
! of which WILDE read with amused in
terest by thoe who are in touch with
the situation nd the people who come
| to Utah TO make new homes under
better auspices than Europe affords
| them.
MISS HE INDIGNANT.
The Journl devotes considerable
space to the ISe girls who claim 10 be
| 20 and "A respectively. They claim, ac-
cording to the paper that they came
with their faner's consent.
" i can't Understand why we are be-
ing held SAT- Miss Margaret Roe
everybody toll us that we would not
have any trouble here. We paid our
own passage, aid | can't see why they
| don't let us g.
In this fashbn all received mention,
| the following hing a sample:
THE lmpuence OF asking me where
got the monS to buy my ticket with
passionately declared Mrs. Elizabeth
Bradshaw, a hlxom widow of Noting
| ham, Eng, shortly after she case
| through the rdeal of facing the gov
| eminent inqusitors.' as more than one
! called the immigration men. i have
| never been talked to in my life as
| these men talked 10 me. You would
think | stos the money, from what
they said.
not pleased But the immigration men
were not there for their health. They
were carrying out their orders. And
the Journal reporter can bear witness
that hey made the best of an UNI
pleasant Job They weren't unneces-
sarlly harsh either.
More thon one official In and out
.,I.H .YNa, agf
| more than anxious TO discover what
was the one thing above all others that
caused the government to issue the re-
| markable ordeds. 1t was recalled that
on the Republics last trip here there
wer about 80 Mornons In the second
cabin But everything went through
In steam roller fashion with never a
sembanGe of block anywhere so
| they were mare than curious. But II is
taken for granted that there isn't a
man In Boston who could shed any
| light on the matter, One thing Is
| piain; Mormon elders and Mormon
converts have got 10 snow Uncle sam
from now on
ELDER BARKER INTERVIEWED,
The Bolton Transcript hints at the
colored gtntlaman IN the wood Pile IN
the following interview with Elder j.
f. Barker
"The missionaries version of the de-
tentlon Of Mormon converts who arriN-
ed on the Republic from Liverpool yes
terday was given by Elder j, H. Bark =
en-, who called TO interview Colonel
Billings. the local immigration com
missioner this forenoon with regard Ia
the release OF the converts,
II have talked with the commission
en-" said Elder Barker, and he as
sures me that IL Is nothing unusual for
large numbers OF immigrants To he
detained for examination l called tn
zee how soon they would be released
and he assured me hat as fast as
POSSIBLE aud that the delay was oc-
easloned by the number Of questions
which had TO be asked OF each de-
tanned person.
"As to the objections NJ the rather ~
the Roe girls. ! Wish 20 say that va
knew nothing about the matter. ! have
been Informed that they were obliged I,
leave their home a year ago ana have
been supporting themselves, ! think I
IA possible that this Is how the trouble
arose.
MINISTER GETS BUSY
.rhe only dfhculty we had ON boar'
the vessel came from Christian min
ister who spread reports that NE Wer
immoral we went 10 him and said tina
ne we're willing 60 enighten him o
IN. subject OF our beliefs We offera
10 let him preach 10 our gathering, bh
he declined, saying that he was on III