SUNDAY, JUL I, 1905. TH
THE LORNING ASTORIAN ASTORJ A,(OREGON.
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ANSWERS
PROTEST
Orandion of Prophet Joseph
Smith Speaks Plain.
SENDS LETTER TO VERMONT
Saya Piophst Cannot b Connected With
"Disgusting and Rtvoltlni AUtiri" or
"Polygamous Relations" Foiteted by
Mormsas Under Young'. Btgtm.
Halt Lak City, Juljrl. FrJrUik M.
Kmith, grsndon of Joseph Smith, so
cslled prophet and founder of the Mor
mon church, ban created a atlr here by
the publication of an open totter ad
drewd to "The people of Royallon and
Hhafoa, Vermont, and to the people of
the t'nlted Mate," in which he Joint
tn the protest rained by cltlsen of the
Vermont town against the erection
there by the Utah Mormon of a mon
unirnt to Joseph hmlth, on the farm
where the prophet wea tarn.
Frederick M. Kmlth, who U In Utah
conducting a campaign for the I-amonl,
Iowa, branch of the church, of which
hi father, Joseph Smith, eon of the
prophet, l the head, bases hi proteeU
on hi allegation thet the erection of a
monument by the leaders of the Utah
Mormon, "many of whom," be ay,
"ere acknowledged lawbreakers and In
tend to remain auch," would discredit
the memory of Joseph Smith in the
eyea of the world.
The writer Insist that the name of
Joseph Smith shall not be connected
with what he term "the dlgutlog and
revolting etate of affairs,' which ha
t n reveab-d In I' tali and most posl
tlvely a welt that Joseph the prophet,
polygamous relations folered by the
Mormon who came to Utah under the
leadership of Hrlgham Young.
To lack up hi assertions he quotes
from a decision of Judge John T. Phil
lip of the Federal Court for the West
ern IHstrirt of Missouri in which
Judge Phillip declared that there wa
no proof that "Joaeph Smith had ever
tstijjht, nor rerognlaed, a a doctrine
l the church, prior to the assumption
if Itrigbam Young,"
To back up bl assertions he quotes
from a decision of Judge John V. Philip
-of the Federal Court fur the Western
Iif trit-t of Missouri In which Judge
Philip declared that there wa no proof
that "Joseph Smith had ever tau(ht,
nor recognised, a a doctrine of the
hurch, prior to the aumptun of Rrig
bam Young."
ST. LOUIS MUSEUM OF FINE
ARTS FORMALLY OPENED
Contain Marvellous Collection Valued
At Half a Million,
St. Louie, Mo., July 1. The weet
1avillion of the atone building, known
at the Ixmlslaii purchase exposition
the Palace of ArU, wa formally
opened to the public a the St. Louis
mueum, rtmbraelng In the thirty-six
room collection of exhibit from forty
different countriea, valued collectively
t $.100,000.
It I the expressed purpose of the
director to make the muneurn a public
educational center. It i tated that
the collection of exhibit shown could
not have been made in less than ten
year had it not been for the World'
fair and the lavhdi gift of the repre
sentative of foreign countries.
COMPLEXION OF STOCK EXCHANGE
Failure to Increase Louisville & Nash
ville Dividend A Disappointment.
New York, July 1. Price have leen
libber thi week on the atock exchange
In continuation of last week' specula-
tive operation, but the hardening of
the call money rate late In the week
luo to the preparation for July set
tlement prompted some to realize.
The failure to increase the Louisville
& Nashville dividend wa disappoint
mont to an important element In the
peculation as great stress had been laid
on prospects of such increase. Foreign
development and the dully fluctuations
in the commodities market have been
little regretted.
The export of gold seems to be Inter
rupted, but the future course of the
movement is studied with attention.
Farm Sinks in Hungary.
Hilda Test, July l.-A eerlous strike
of farm laborers has broken out in Hun
gary. In some sections little work is
being clone and as a result the crop
are suffering. There hava been riot
in many places, and a number of stri
kers have been killed by gendarmes
Military assistance has been called for.
le ?o 00 oooioo tttttttttti
&he Gentleman
From Indiana
fly VOOTH TA TUtJffG TOf
fc . VmmhiUmr 3l MtCImn C.
CrriU t90. eCm TMltp Ok, C
rHif
im j'ttyH
" "What uaaf Tby are out of It, and
they can thank Ood tbey are."
"They r not!" aba cried, very much
agitata. 'Tbey did It It waa tba
WhUa Cap. We saw them, Helen
nd I."
Tba Judg got upon but foot with as
oath. Ua bad not sworn for yrs un
til that morning. "What's tnur h
aid aharply.
"I ought to bare told yon before, but
wa watt so frightened, and-and you
want off In each rush after Mr. Wiley
waa bar. I never dreamed everybody
wouldn't know it waa the Crossroads;
that they would think of any 00 else.
And 1 looked for the scarecrow as noon
aa tt waa light, and It waa away off
from where we aaw them and waen't
Mown down at ail; and Uaiea aaw
thorn in the field bealdea; aaw all of
then"
He Interrupted her. "What do yon
mean? Try to tall me about it quietly,
child." 0 laid bla band on her shoul
der. She told blm breathlessly what aha
and Helen had Been, and he grew mora
and more visibly perturbed and un
eaay, biting bla etgar to piece and
groaning at Intervale. When abe had
ftnlahed he took a few quick tuna
about the room, with bla banda thrust
deep in bla coat pockets, and then,
charging her to repeat the story to no
one, left the bonae and, forgetting bla
fsttgo. rapidly crossed the flelda to
the point where the blaarre figure of
the night bad shown theroselve to the
Jwo girl at the window.
The eoft ground bad been trampled
by many feet Tba boot print pointed
to the northeast. He traced tbem back
ward to tba aoutbwest through tba
field and saw where they bad come
from near tbe road, going northeast;
then, returnlua:, be climbed tb fence
and followed tbem northward through
tbe next field. From there the next field
to tbe north, lying beyond tbe road that
waa a continuation of Main street,
stretched to tbe railroad embankment.
The track, ruggedly defined in tram
pled loam and muddy furrow, bent tn
a direction which indicated that Ma
terminus might be the switch where
the empty rare bad stood last night
waiting for the I o'clock freight. Though
the fields bad been trampled in many
place by tbe searching parties, he felt
sure of tbe direction tuten by tb
Croaeroads men, and be perceived that
tbe searchers bad mistaken the tracks
be followed for thorn of earlkir parties
In the bunt. On tb embankment be
law a number of men walking weat
and examining the ground on each aide
and a long line of people following
them out from town. Ua stopped. He
held the fate of Six Crossroad In bis
band, and be knew it
Tbe men on tbe embankment were
walking alowty, bending far over, their
eye fixed on the ground. Suddenly
one of tbem stood erect and toaaed bis
amis In the air and shouted loudly.
Other men ran to blm, and another far
down the track repeated tbe shout and
the geature to another far In hi rear.
Tbla man took It up and shouted and
waved to a fourth man, and eo they
passed the signal back to town. There
came almost Immediately three long,
loud whistle from a mill near tbe ela
tion, and the embankment grew black
with people pouring out from town,
while the searchers came runulng from
tbe flelda and wooda and underbrush
on both sides of the railway.
Brbtcoe began to walk on toward the
embankment.
The track lay level and straight not
dimming In tbe mlddte distance, tb
ralla converging to polnta both north
weat and aouthcaat In the clean washed
air like example of perspective in a
child's drawing book. About aeventy
miles to the weet and north lay Rouen.
In the same direction, nearly ail mile
front where tbe signal waa given, the
track waa crossed by a road lending
directly south to Six Crossroads.
Tbe embankment bad been newly
ballasted with sand. What bad been
discovered waa a broad brown at sin in
tbe aand on the aouth slope near tbe
top. There were entailer stain above
and below, none beyond it to loft or
right and there were many deop foot
prints In tbe sand. Men were exam
ining tbe place excitedly, talking and
gesticulating. It waa Lige Wllletts
who bad found It Hla horse waa
tethered to a fence near by at the end
f a lane through cornfield. Jared
YTIU-y, the deputy abertff, waa talking
to a group near the stain, explaining.
"You aee. them two must have
knowed about the 1 o'clock freight and
that It was to atop here to take on the
emptjt lumber car. I don't know how
they knowed It but they did. It was
Utla way: When they got out the win
dow they beat through the atoriu
atratght for thla aide track. At tbe
eame time Mr. Harklesa leaves Bris
coe's, goln' weet It begins to rain.
He cuta acroae to the railroad to bare
sure footln' and attikln' for the
decpo for shelter-near place aa any,
except Briacoe'a, where be'a aaid good
night already, and prob'ly don't wish
to go back, fear of glvln' trouble or
keepln' 'em up. Anybody enn under
stand that He cornea along and gets
to where we are precisely at the time
tbey do, them cojuln'. front town, blm
)
o 0 0 00 000 0 o o 0 0 0 0 ttt t
stfis4uTrlL luuy run ngui iaw
each other. Thar what happened.
Tbey re-cog nlzed blm and ralaed up
00 him and let blm bar It What they
don It with I don't know. We took
everything in that Ua off of 'em.
Prob'ly oaed railroad Iron, and what
they don with blm afterward w don't
know, but w will by alghL Theyn
rwsat It out of 'am op at Booea when
tbey get 'em."
"I reckon mayb some of ua might
help." remarked Mr. Watt reflectively.
jtm Bardlock swore a violent oath.
That the talk!" he (booted. "Ef I
ain't the first man of thl crowd to et
my foot In Roowun and first to beat In
that Jail door I'm not town marshal
of PtattvUJe, county of Carlow, state
of Indiana, and tb Lord have mercy
on our aoolar
Tom Martin looked at tb brown
stein and quickly turned away. Than
be went back elowly to tb village.
On tb way be passed Warren Smith.
-I It eof asked tb lawyer.
Martin answered with a dry throat
Ha looked out over tb aunllt field
and swallowed one or twlca. "Its,
Ifsao. There's a good deal of it tbera.
Little mora than a boy be waa." Tb
old fallow paaaed hi aeamy hand over
hla eye without concealment "Peter
ain't very bright sometime. It seem
to m," h added brokenly; "overlook
Bodeffer and Flsbee and me, and all
of ua old hosts, and-and"-he gulp
ed Bttddealy, then flnlshed-"and act
the fool and take a boy that's tb beat
w bad. I wish tb Almighty would
take Peter off tbe gate. He ain't fit
fer It"
When the attorney reached the spot
where the crowd was thickest way
waa made for him. Tbe old colored
man. Xenaliboll. sDDroachrd at the
aame time, leaning on a hickory stick
and bent ery far over, one hand reat
log on hla blp aa If to ease a rusty
Joint The negro's age waa an Incentive
to fable. From hie appearance ne
might have known tbe prophets, and be
wore that hoary look of unearthly wis
dom which many decades of super-
atltlous experience sometimes give to
member of his rac. Hi face, so tor
tured with wrinkle that It might have
been made of Innumerable black
thread woven together, was a living
mask of tbe mystery of hla blood.
Uarkleea bad one said that Unci
Xenophoo bad visited heaven before
Rwedenborg and bell before Dante. To
day aa be slowly limped over the tie
hi eye were bright and dry under
tbe aolemn lids, and, though hla heavy
nostril were unusually distended in
tbe effort for regular breathing, tbe
deeply puckered llpa beneath them
were set firmly. He stopped and look
ed at tb face before him. When h
SDok his vole waa gentle, and, though
the tremulous ness of age harped 00 the
vocal strings, It waa rigidly controlled.
"Kin soma ktne gelmun," be asked.
please f be so good e r show de oU
mala whuh de W'lte Calpe 1 don
shoot Mane Uawkllaar
"Here was where It happened. Unci
Zen," answered tl'lley, leading him for
ward. "Here la tbe stain."
Xenopbon bent over tbe spot on the
sand, making little odd noises In his
throat Then be painfully resumed
hla former position. "Daaa hla blood,"
he aaid in tbe aame gentle, quavering
tone. "Das my be' Men' whut lay
on de groun' wbay yo' staind, gelmun.
Daaa whuh dey laid '1m, an' daaa whuh
be lie," the old negro continued. "Dey
shot 'lm In de flei's. Dey ain't shot 'lm
heah. Yondeb dey druggen 'lm, but
lis whuh he lie." He beat over again,
then knelt groanlngty and placed bis
band on tbe stain, one would have
aaid, aa a man might place bla band
over a heart to aee If It atill beat He
waa motionless, with the air of heark
enlng.
"Marac, boney, Is you goner He
raised bla voice aa if calling. "Ia yo'
gone, suh marseT
He looked up at the circle about him,
and then, atlll kneeling, not taking his
band from the aand, seeming to wait
for a sign to listen for a voice, b aaid
"Wbafo yo' gelmun think de good
Lawd aummon Marse HawkltaaT Kaae
be de moa' fittea'T You know, dat man
he ketch me In de cole night wlntuh
'fo' lata,' stealln' 'la wood. You know
whut he done f do ole thief? Tek an'
bull' up big flah een ole Zen' ahalnty.
Say: 'Ue'p yp'se'f, an' welcome. Reck
on you hongry, too, aln' you, Xeno
phonT Tek an' feed me, tek an' tek
keer 0' roe ev' since. Ah pump de baltb
full In do mawo', mek 'la bed, pull de
weed oufn de front walk; dasa all.
II tek me In. When Ah alsk 'lm aln'
be Traid keep ole thief he say, Jesso:
'Daaa all my fault Xenophon; ought
look you up long 'go; ought know long
'go you be cole dm bald nights. Beck
on Ah'm de thlevenest one 'us two,
Xenophon, keepla' all dla wood atock'
up when you got none,' he aay, Jesso.
Tek me In; aay be lahk a thief; pay me
aala'y; feed me. Daaa de main wbut
de Capa gone shot lata' night" He
raised bis bead sharply, and tbe mys
tery in hla gloomy eyea intensified as
they opened wide and stared at tbe
sky uneclngly.
"Ah'a bawn wld a cawl!" be exclaim
ed Joudly. Hla. twisted frame jvjs
17a 3 to a 0 ei treroe Tension, ""it's
bawn wld a cawl! De blood anssubr
"It wasn't the White Cap, Uncle
Xenopbon," aaid Warren Smith, laying
bla band on the old man's shoulder.
Xenopbon rose to bis feet lis
stretched a long, bony 'srm straight to
tb weat where the Crossroad lay;
stood rigid aad silent Ilk a seer; then
spoke:
"De men wbut snot Mars nawk
Ua Ilea yondeb, hldln' fum de light o
day. An' hlm"-b swerved hla whole
rigid body till tbe arm pointed north
wet "be He yondeh. You won' On
'lm bean. Dey fought 'lm In de flei's.
an' dey druggen 'lm beah. Dls whuh
dey lay 'lm down. Ab's bswn wld a
cawl!"
There were exclamation from tb
listeners, for Xenophon spoke a on
having authority. Suddenly b turned
nd pointed hi outstretched band full
at Jodg Briscoe.
"An' daaa de main." he cried; "das
de main kin tell yo Ah speak de
trufst"
Before Briscoe answered, Epb Watt
looks$ at blm keenly and then turned
to Lige Wllletu and whispered: "Get
on your horse, ride In and ring the
courthouse bell like fury.' Do aa I
ay."
Tears stood In tbe Judge's eye. "It
Is ao," be said solemnly. "He speak
tb truth. I didn't mean to tell It to
day, hut somehow" He paused.
"Tb bounda!" be cried. "Tbey de
serve it My daughter w tbem cross
ing tb flelda In the night saw them
climb the fence, big crowd of tbem.
Bh and the lady who 1 visiting us
saw them-eaw tbem plainly. Tbe
lady aaw them several times clear as
day by the flaabe of lightning. Tb
seous4reki were coming this way. Tbey
moat have been dragging him with
"4n's bawn via a cawl!"
them then. H couldn't bv bad
ahow for hla life among them. Do
what you like.. Maybe they've got him
at the Crossroads. If there's chance
of It dead or alive, bring him back."
A voice rang out above the clamor
that followed the Judge's speech.
- 'Bring him back! Ood could, may
be, but be won't Who' travelin' my
way? I g weat!" Hartley Bowlder
had ridden hla sorrel right up tbe em
bankment nd tbe bora stood between
tb rails.
There was an angry roar from the
crowd. The prosecutor pleaded and
threatened unheeded, and, a for the
deputy aheftff, he declared hla Intention
of taking with him all who wished to
go as his posse. Eph Watt succeeded
b making himself heard abov tb
tumult
The square!" be shouted. "Start
from the square. We want everybody.
We'll need them. And we want every
one In Carlow to be Implicated in this
poaae."
"They will her shouted a farmer.
"Don't you worry about that"
"W want to get Into some sort of
shape T' cried Epb.
Shape r repeated Hartley Bowlder
scornfully.
There was a hiss and clang and rat
tle behind blm, and a ateam whistle
shrieked. The crowd divided, and
Hartley's sorrel scrambled down Just
1 time aa the westbound accommoda
tion rushed by on it way to Rouen.
From the rear platform leaned the
sheriff, Horner, waving hla hands fran
tically aa be flew by, but no one un
derstood or cared what he said or In
the general excitement even wondered
why be waa going away. When the
train had dwindled to a dot and dis
appeared and the noise of It rush
grew faint the courthouse bell was
beard ringing, and tbe mob waa tusb
Ing pellmell into the village to form on
the aquare. Tbe Judge stood alone on
the embankment '
"That settle if he said aloud,
gloomily watching the last figures. He
took off hla bat and pushed back the
thick white hair from hi forehead.
"Nothing to do but wait Might aa well
go borne for that Blast it!" he ex
claimed Impatiently. "I don't want to
go there. It'a too hard "on tb little
girl If she hadn't come till next week
ahe'd never have known John Harklesa."
CHAPTER IX.
LL morning horsemen bad
been galloping through 81x
Crossroads, sometimes sin
gly, oftener in company. At
I o'clock the laat poaae pasaed through
on Ita return to the county seat and
after that there waa a long, complete
silence, while the miry corners were
undisturbed by a alngle boof beat No
unkempt colt nickered from hla musty
stall The sparse young corn that used
to nod andcbuckle greenly stood rigid
uTTEe lleTu.- Tp UsTiaUville pike
despairingly cackled one old ben, with
ber wabbling, Bailor run, amlt with a
superstitious horror of nothing. She
hid herself in tb shadow underneath
a rickety barn and waa stllL
Only on the Wlmby farm were there
signs of life. The old lady who had
seot Hark lea roses sat by the window
all morning and wiped ber eyes, watch
ing tbe horsemen ride by. Sometime
tbey would ball her and tell her there
waa nothing yet About 2 o'clock ber
husband rattled up In bockboard and
got out the shotgun of th 1st and
mors authentic Mr. Wlmby. This be
carefully cleaned and oiled in spite of
its bammerles and quite useless con
dition, sitting meanwhile by th win
dow opposite hi wif and often look
ing up from hla work to abak bla
weak list at hla neighbors' domicile
and creak decrepit curse and denun
ciation. But th Cross roads waa ready. It
knew wbat wa coming now. Fright
ened, desperate, BoJlen. it wa ready.
Tbe afternoon wore on, and lengthen
ing ahadowa fell upon peaceful on
would have aaid a sleeping country.
Te sun dried pike, already dusty,
stretched Its serene length between
green borders flecked with purple and
yellow and white weed flowers, and
tbe tree shadows were not (bade, but
warm blue and lavender glowa hi tb
general pervasion of still, bright light;
the sky curving its deep, uoburnlsbed,
penetrable blue over all, with no sin
gle drift of fleece upon it to be reflect
ed In tbe creek that wound along paat
willow and aycamore, dimpled but on
murmuring. A woodpecker telegra
phy broke tbe quiet Ilk a volley of
pistol shots. ,
But far eastward on the pike there
slowly developed soft, white haze.
It grew denser end larger and grad
ually rolled nearer. Dimly behind It
could be discerned a darker, moving
nucleus that extended far back upon
tb road.
A heavy tremor began to stir the air;
faint manifold sounds, a waxing, In
creasing, multitudinous rumor.
Tbe pike ascended a long, alight slop
leading west up to tbe Crossroads.
From a thicket of Iron weed at tba
foot of thla alope waa thrust the visage
of an undersized girl of fourteen. Her
fierce eye examined the approaching
cloud of dust intently. A redness rose
under the burnt yellow skin and col
vedjhewixenedjteeka. (Continued Stit Sunday.)
Don't bang thy head In fear ana
shame,
But marry the girl that you love best;
Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea will
do the rest.
Frank Hart'a drug store.
Real Estate Transfer.
E. Z. Ferguson et at to Asmus Brix,
lot 4, block 62, MoClure; $150.
Mary Morgan to Loto B. Pilkington,
iot 12, block 64, Shiveley's; $1,200.
Mary Morgan to Mlria Hammerstrom,
iot 8, block 64, Shiveley's; $1,100.
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cushion; and Buffered from dreadful
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and by them was restored to perfect
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druggist Price, 60 cents
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O. L PETuRSON'.. Vice-President
Astoria Savings Bank
Capital Paid In 100,SOO. 8urplns and Undivided Profits J35.000.
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3ears
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The use of Pears'
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transcontinental lines, passenger art
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east "
Prospective traveler desiring Infor
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routes are invited to correspond with
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142 Third St, Portland. Ore.
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Coleman Building, Seattle, Wash.
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J. W. UAK.NKR, Aswlstant Cashier
ASTORIA, OREGON.
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