. History of Utah: comprising preliminary chapters on the previous history of her founders, accounts of early Spanish and American explorations in the Rocky Mountain region, the advent of the Mormon pioneers, the establishment and dissolution of the provisional government of the State of Deseret, and the subsequent creation and development of the territory . y would then be displayed all along the Anti-Mormon line. These alone could vie with the polygamy prosecu-tions in enlisting attention. Even legal actions not involving crime,—civil cases of merely local interest and significance, were ben
. History of Utah: comprising preliminary chapters on the previous history of her founders, accounts of early Spanish and American explorations in the Rocky Mountain region, the advent of the Mormon pioneers, the establishment and dissolution of the provisional government of the State of Deseret, and the subsequent creation and development of the territory . y would then be displayed all along the Anti-Mormon line. These alone could vie with the polygamy prosecu-tions in enlisting attention. Even legal actions not involving crime,—civil cases of merely local interest and significance, were bent fromtheir purpose and used as hooks upon which to hang the whole burn-ing issue of Gentilism vs. Mormonism, and hold it up to the gaze ofthe civilized world; the evident purpose being to keep alive the Anti-Mormon sentiment upon which the crusaders depended for encour-agement and support. Such a case was that involving the assessment and collection ofa special school tax in the Seventh School district of Salt Lake City,and which came before Judge Zane for adjudication early in January,1885. The facts are briefly these: On the 5th of September, 1884,the tax-payers of the district—or the Mormon majority of them—had met and voted for the assessment of a tax of one per cent, toraise funds—14,500—for the erection of a new school house; the old.
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