The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-07
TAYLOR, VILE TRANSGREssoR,

Apparently Apostle John w. TavIor
had not already done enough to bring
the Mormon church into disgrace on ac-
count of his adulterous practices. He
must do more to heap contumelv unon
ms own people by still further induIg
Ing his immoral bent Mt their expense
of repute
Our information is TO the effect that
John w. Is in the land-sellng business
lie IS interested with Apostle Matthias
r. Cowley-(the two were ALWAYS as
two peas in a pod)-in several Cana
dian, Mexican and Utah land schemes.
AS to how these affairs are conducted
Is to be no part of this recital. The
Tribune at this time desiring to pay
more particular attention to some of the
incldcntals connected with the office of
Taylor and his land and colonization
schemes, and which have led TO orc Of
the most dastardly polygamous crimes
that has ever been perpetratcd in the
history of the Mormon church.
1T seems that little over n wear ago
Apostle John w. Taylor, of the land
schemes, employed young woman as
stenographer in his Office in thus city.
She WAS of his religious faith, and n
daughter Of one of the old and we'll
known families here, Whether or not
the fact That she was "A child of one of
the polygamus cult had any effect in the
outcome as described in this story must
be left to the reader 3 Judgment We are
told that John W., although havinp al.
ready blessed himself with more than
the ordinary quota of wives, even for
a Mormon polygamist, became smitten
of his stenographer. He began to show
evidences of his distinguished apostolic
by gradually increasing
the pay of his buxom employee. each
week adding small sum to her check.
1t is SAID that the young woman soon
found herself drawing pay at the rate
Of about one hundred dollars a month.
But love seems to have smitten Taylor
with an exceptionally infectious dart In
this particular case, for he augmented
his benefactions with a section of land in
Millard county, which he had made over
IN the young woman S name. This sten.
ographcr lived out an what is known as
Superior addition, out in the northwest
ern portion of Salt Lake. Her family
also lived there, her father having died,
however, something over year ago.
Soon the young woman disappeared
from her home and the land office Of
Apostle Taylor. Later her mother and
brothers and sisters left North Salt
Lake, They are all now living down
in the southeastern portion Of the city,
in one Of John w Taylor s. places, so
we are informed. There is baby boy
in the arms of the young woman and
to the credit Of Apostle John w. Tay-
10 RS Celestial kingdom. -
This particular new polygamous out
rage was perpetrated by Apostle John |
w. Taylor in one of the many novel |
ways attaching to that crime nowadays |
He did not dare to go to the Salt Lake |
temple to marry the girl He sent her
there By herself, though, and there she
was given her 'endowments - with one
Of the "temple workers. acting as
proxy, Out of the temple she went to
,ohabiting with Apostle John w. Tay"
or And the beginning Of this was just
after the exposure Of the case of Alpha
]. Higgs, close associate OF Joseph L,
Smith, and Miss Bessie Badger-iust a
little more than q year ago. The young
IS name is, or was, Ellen Sand
berg. and she was a daughter Of the
ate J. G.. Sandoerg, the old time furni-
.ure dealer of this city,
Now, and notwithstanding the fnct
hat Apostle John w Taylor has taken
upon himself added and Legitimate
'amily burdens, paying fine salaries to