The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-01

Miss Julia Rogers In 1897 he married
Miss Sylyania Rowley as his seGordd ah;rd
wife. In 1901 he married as nus thilu "a
wife Miss Bessie Butler OF Monroe'
Utah.
Elder William Young resides at Gray
son. Utah. In 1902 he married US No
second wife Miss Laura Haws OF Pacn-
eco, Mex
Elder Helaman Pratt, who is presltc
dent Of the quorum of high prieS1S "
the Juarez stake, Mexico, in 1901, at
Dublan, married as his third wife Miss
Bertha Wilkins, by whom he has loui
children.
Elder Orson P. Brown of Dnbian,
Mex, married as his legal vile eo Miss Fse
Matte Romncy in 1887. In 1897 ne
married Miss Jane Galbralth as ms
second wife. and in 1902 he marrleu
Mrs. Bessie Webb, a young widow w9o
was formerly Miss Bessie McDonald, he
married a daughter of Peter SkonSeh
in 1901 as his fourth wife.
Elder Willard Cali Of Dnblan, Mex,
Is 1900 married as a plural wife MISS
Leah Pratt, n daughter of Helamah
Pratt, and they have several children.
Elder Abraham Done of Dublan, Mex,
married in polygamy in 1897, wldo"
named Dobeg, moving with her lromi
Utah to Mexico soon after the mar,
lldGts III Une year lDtZ uc bOoh q
wife. Miss Ellen Mofit, who was but
II years old. He is over 60
Elder Carl Nielsen of Garcia, Me-.
IS possessed of many wives. In 1897
he polygamously married Mrs. Emma
Burnham, plural wife of George Burn
ham of Mancos, Colo. This was merely
p change of polygamous husbands made
by a polyGamous woman who happened
TO be absent from her first polygamous
love and fondled by her second. 1t IS
said that the illicit relation between the
woman and Nielsen was maintained for
three years before church divorce
freed her from Burn ham to marry Neil
sen.
Elder Guy Taylor, Sunday school su-
perintendcnt of the JuareZ, Mex, ward,
in 1900 married as his second wife
Miss Gertrude Martineau; and In l9Oe
he married as his third wife Miss Lean
Martineau, sister of his second Ihe
man and his three wives live together
in one house at Juarez.
Elder Arthur Clark of Dublan. Mex.
has FIVE wives. four of whom he has
married since 1892. Two Of his plural
wives. however, left him on May IL,
1910. and came to Utah to live
The foregoing are cases in which we
have received new details, or are alto
Gether new. having never before been
published. They are not half the stories
that could be told, even with our present
list; but space will not permit us to
repeat details as they have been printed
by The Tribune heretofore with refer
ence TO the other cases.
The entire recital is one of shame
upon the officials of the Mormon church,
who permit these crimes to be com
mitted by elders who are under their
control, and whom they could punish
for their misdoings if they chose so to
do. Not one excommunicatiop has been
had in the church upon a charge of new
on the contrary, the offend
ers have been favored and advanced &C.
and helped materially. The
church chiefs have established two for
eign colonies as refugees for such of
the lawbreakers as deem themselves to
be safer through flight beyond the linn
It's of the United States. Millions of
dollars of the tithe moneys have been
expended in the founding and develop
ment of these colonies; and in fact the
principal outlay made from these tlthe
funds, when all is considered, is in be-
half Of the polygamous cult, which Is
now perpetuating the practice which the
church solemnly promised the Nation
should be abandoned on and after Oc-
tober 6, 1890.
The condition is one demanding seri.
ons attention from the whole people OF
this great Union of States. 1t is
menace to the home and destroyer of
the morals Of young men and young
women and a prolific breeder of illegiti-
mates. 1t has been demonstrated that
the church officials will make no move
toward wiping out the evil. and it is
time for the Nation TO awaken and
10 its bounden duty. even if only as a
matter OF self-preservation.