The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-17
BY G. F. ARNEY =.
Special TO rne Tribune.

| Special TO rne Tribune
ST. ANTHONY, Ida. Feb. 16-In the
| district court OF the sixth judicial dis
| trict In and for Fremont county is Il case
| hled lor hearing against a polygamst
and two of ms plural wives.
The Sugar CITY hardware * Lumber
| company, a corporation is plaintin and
the defendants are David a. Sanders
and ms, wife, Lucy, and his other wife.
| Mary Alice.
The complaint alleges that in June OF
| 1906 David a Sanders and his wife,
Lucy. executed 20 the Western Loan ~
Savings company "a note secured by
mortgage in the sum of $1,000, which
evidence OF Indebtedness was assigned
py the mortSagce To the plaintiff last
June,
The second cause of action alleges
that in July. 1907. David a. Sanders and
his wife, Mary Alice, executed 4 note
secured by mortgage TO the plaintiff In
y specification in the plaintiffs COM
plaiut is as follows;
THAT the defendant, Mary Alice Sand
ers, claims TO be and holds herself as
being the wife OF the defendant David
y. Sanders, but plaintiff, on information
and belief alleges that she is not and
has never been the wife OF David y.
Sanders
Another specification Of the complaint
OF the plalntin is very similar TO TINS
one. but alleges that Lucy Is the wife
OF David a. Sanders and has been since
prior to the date of the execution OF the
ilrst mortgage TO the Salt Lake Loan
company.
Here is polygamy In Fremont county,
at Sugar City, the same place where
service was made by the deputy United
States marshal on a new polygamist
ing committee at Washington, but who
failed to obey the summons,
This Is near the place In Fremont
county where live the heirs of Frans
G. Jansen who are protesting against
the polygamous Bishop Hyrum Kicks
executing the last VIII and testament of
their deceased father, based upon sec
tion 5 OF article vi of the Idaho state con-
stitution. This constitution prohibits
polygamists from voting or holding any
Office OF honor, trust or profit Hyrum
Kicks is charged by the heirs OF Frans
c. Jansen with being polygamist.
This community should purge itself OF
this abominable practice The heirs of
Jansen are Mormons, but they are talk
ing a step toward patriotism. IL may
be that they maintain a righteous tear
and IL may be they are guided by
pure quality of patriotic devotion to the
state constitution, In either event their
course is admirable
In Rexburg close TO Sugar City, and
the home of Bishop Hyrum Ricks. whom
the Jansen heirs charge with polygamy,
is a lodge OF Woodmen of the World.
1t Is a splendid order, fratcrnal and ben
ehciary in It's scope, The head ruler
OF this organization visited this camp
new members and gave new impetus
TO the growth Of the order until now
It is an organization of quite 800 mem
bers,
The fore part of January last Bishop
Cook OF the Second ward, at Rexburg.
OF the Mormon church, asked for and
received permission TO use the hall OF
the Commercial club, which was used
by and In charge OF the Woodmen OF the
World as meeting place for the re-
union OF the ReXburg Second ward an
annual event which they celebrate.
| on the walls of this lodge room and
| about the alters of same were charters.
lodge pictures and, lastly, decorations
which the members had prepared in re-
| spect TO the head ruler of the order,
vino was honoring them with an ofiicial
visit.
On the day OF the reunion OF his ward
this Bishop Cook came into the hall,
| tore the decorations from their fasten-
mgs and In rage Of insolent defiance
turned to the wall all the pictures: in
sizing his dlsrespect for anything and
everything not purely Mormon This in
suit was not TO Gentiles, for there are
not so many as 300 Gentiles In all Of the
Rexburg country The great majority oi
them are Mormons. Young men who
have Joined the W. o, w. through a be-
ing It's teachings. But Bishop Cook of
| the Rexburg Second wants none of 1t!
To him patriotism is an abhorrent term.
| He is a narrow and simple Mormon.
Here is what a committee of the
Woodmen of the World OF Rexburg camp
No.. 5G6 think OF this insolent, arrogant.
unchristianlike and ungentlemanly
bishop, as evidenced by their resolution
spread on their records by unanimous
vote OF their lodge:
"Rexburg. Jan. %. 1910
BE II resolved, by ReXburg camp No,
566 OF the Woodmen of the World in
camp session in Rexburg this Goth day
Of January 1910, that we resent the act
Rexburg Second ward held in the hall of
the Commercial Club rooms OF ReXburg,
January II, 1910. at which time the pic
| Woodnen OF the World and the Women
| OF Woodcraft were turned to the wall In
expression OF contempt for our order
Resolved That such an act at such
| a time and under such circumstances.
was entirely unbecomipg. unchristian-
| like and unneighborly on the part of
those responsible for the same; and that
we believe that It was intended for an
| insult upon our order. and that We here
| OF the act and that we will maintain
the dignity of our beloved order against
| such insults.
ROBERT FISHER.
.'R. J, COMsToCK,
III. c. DUFFIN.
''P. O. THOMPSON
JOSEPH w, BUTTE,
Committee"
| over in Sugar City lives David a San
ders with his two wives: Lucy and Mary
Alice. according to the file OF the clerks
office OF this county. Down In Rex
| burg lives Hvrum Kicks with his two
wives. according to the flles of the same
| office: and in the same town Bishop Cook
| is arrogantly ranting In disrespect of a
| fraternal society whose aim in lifo Is to
draw men closer together in the strength
| Of bond Of frnternity and neighborly
| relief In time of need.
Down In Preston, II you please, two OF
| the plural wives OF polygamous Mormons
| are standing as exemplars of virtue C?
| before young maturing childhood and
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