Show cutet EVENTS ezra hale liberated the verdict of the jury at oga den may 20 finding ezra haw guilty of manslaughter for shooting his sisters seducer was set aside by judge henderson the statute of limitations hav having i ng barred it prosecution for manslaughter mr R hale ale was accordingly set at liberty edmunds law prosecutions at ogden on the of may mav severn N lee convicted by his s plea of guilty of unlawful cohabitation was sentenced to three months imprisonment and to pay a fine of and costs business at ogden may 24 A G slater was arraigned on a charge of adultery plea not guilty the case of the united states vs james hansey unlawful cohabit al tion was placed on trial J N kimball appeared for the defense the case having baving been submitted to the jury it was but a short time before they returned with a verdict of not guilty prank frank whitehead of richmond was placed on trial on the charge of unlawful cohabitation the testimony showed that he had been seen by a number of witnesses associating openly with the alleged plural al wife out riding and going to public 4 gatherings the jury brought in ft 4 verdict of guilty sentence diw set A or june the case of the united states vs A E hyde had been set in the third district court for the day of may mr peters pears asked that it be continued for the term owing to the absence of the allowed plural ural wl wife f e ella wilcox edell bedell neither of who whom by the officers we further rz know j not ib awit astl 4 I 1 Wf pilo bark w WW t ry oh an a indictment indict I 1 bat t meni 0 d 1 ria eiffe ta abir sigr qa ampf e gip ze tt aas 1001 kah ba IV VV c 0 w vats or a fa 10 es pod t bw 4 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 re 1 that jil till f A djou C ourt ef alj euw MIN att 1 IV landa irei ix yo 0 ce nj ca nada DON vima uh ja er e 0 to ut eo r 13 j e 1 I co c au u id not ra feared because witnesses had gone b yond the possibility of being serea carea by the government the case ais set for hearing on the dinst fat which time both parties are to b be e ady to proceed the application of peter barton for or release from the penitentiary was as set for argument before judge handford andvord and ford may 28 when it was called up however the judge declined to hear bear it as he was to retire florn tom the bench in a few days judge powers then informed the eburt urt that on monday he would ap MY to the supreme court for the is jt tance of a writ of habeas corpus mr barton would present a liew application then and would ask to be discharged from agal custody mr peters skid adhe he would oppose the ranting granting ef i the writ as he considered consider that by 9 pleading leading guilty mr barton waived to Is right to claim a dascha discharge r from prison on the ground that th the indict against him was illegally found in the ogden branch of the first bistrica bi strict court before judge hend xay 27 the following busin ile was transacted palmus jepperson convicted of polygamy Ply gamy was adjudged to pay a ulle ne of 50 and costs which will ill ma 1 11 40 the amount 85 jepperson is the man whom dr carrington mar aed eato to a plural wife under milsap We Pre hension bension as to the facts of jepper W wedded life the court stated that y he be believed the defendant had acted d ignorantly in marrying and living with a plural lural wife when he had ad a legal ane wife living and arced and for that reason and be muse of the defend defendant antIs promise to live ye within the law the sentence of was suspended t bilut 11 said the court in conclusion lr if you come here again you will bot get off so easy achard wham jessop convicted of un cohabitation upon his plea of nu ity was sentenced to two ao b s in hii prison Hejmar ried his h s plural wife sixteen years ago and ch the birth of her youngest bild who Is now between three and draur four years old he has not lived with her ber n the trial of samuel holt for un cohabitation a verdict of not sauty was rendered by th ejury I 1 temple notice it st george temple will close for renovation novation on friday june aai will reopen re open for ordinances ordinance s aday edday september ad 1889 JOHN D T mcallister t george utah may 1889 released from prison on may 23 jens P hansen of niza ft pam I 1 was allowed to de depart pa A the penitentiary where he has g p saed a 50 days sentence on a chorge of unlawful cohabitation he amed served 30 80 days for the costs im erwim elder win mM M palmer was waa are rested at nephi on may 28 but atre t 98 pleased leased without bonds to lec at payson that evening he speared before the commissioner next day to answer to a charge of oeun un laiful cohabitation on may 28 jens Morten aen was released from the penitentiary he has served a term of four months for unlawful cohabitation having been sentenced in the first district court returned elders elder homer woolf of ri river aver dale oneida county idalio idaho called at this office may 28 lie he had just returned from a mission to the southern states he left this city on may 15 1887 and on arr arriving vi ng at chattanooga was assi assigned gnei to the virginia conference in which he labored during the whole of his bis mission principally in the counties of greene ani and bedford his labors were mostly in old fields he met with fair success and greatly enjoyed himself having had bad during his stay seven different elders as companions he was threatened upon one or two occasions but was not subjected to any violence elder woolf stated that the prospects in that conference were only fair at present but it was the intention of some of the brethren laboring there to branch out into new fields the company of saints that have lately arrived from the south num bred between thirty and forty among whom were also six returned elders the most of them went to colorado and arizona president wm win spry who had charge of them was expected home in a day clay or two elder colf woolf enjoyed the best of health while away and feels for his experience he left for his home may 29 elder alonzo J J another missionary arrived at the same time he left immediately for his home in st johns thoele tooele county owing to the recent sudden demise of his father with which our readers are familiar elder labored first in the carolina conference and later in the office 0 of f the mission at chattanooga tenn elder james G duffin dufal ii of boquer ville washington county returned on may 29 from a mission of nearly two years duration in the southern states he left utah on june 1887 and first went to carroll county virginia where he labored for some five months in conjunction with elders stephen chipman and oliver belnap his next sphere s hereof of work was davis da vis county N IT 0 in company with elder G M and joseph cameron and they there opened a new field their efforts being attended with encouraging success the meetings generally were well attended and the people e ev evinced n a disposition is to investigate vest vesti gate te the gospel in september last I 1 until which time E elder I 1 der duffin continued to remain in davie county he was appointed president of t the he north carolina conference and acted in that capacity until his rb release lease on the ath of the ahe present M month anth during his mission elder du duffan ddn was several times threatened with violence but nothing came of the threats and for the most part he was well treated by the people in each of the places which he visited A few persons were baptized and a number of children blessed elder duffin informs us that he believes the future prospects for mission work in the section of country in which he has been engaged are quite satisfactory 1 ward organizations A organization reorganization re of the providence ward cache county took place lace on sunday may 1889 af of the stake presidency there were present president georgeo george 0 pitkin and counselor orson smith also bishop Bisho thomas H smith and counselor morgan of the logan fifth ward brother frederick theurer was presented before the people for bishop and charles 8 crabtree for first and godfrey fuhremann for second counselor these brethren ethren bt were unanimously sustained and set apart as the bishopric of the ward all other organizations of the ward except the sabbath school were perfected H A CAMPBELL CAMPBE Uj clerk on sunday the th lath day of may president angus anglis M cannon cannoa visited draper this county the occasion being a ward conference and the placing of the local authorities before the people to be sustained by their votes among the fhe business transacted was a change in the bishopric by the selection of W C allen alien as counselor to bishop stewart in place of A W smith the latter being away on a protracted absence the members of the twenty second ward the new ward organized out of the nineteenth Nineteen tb assembled in the meeting house on on may for the bixl purpose ur of chasing a counselor to bishop alfred solomon ider andrew S kimball who was first selected but not ordained to that position was waa released from acting as he is one of the presidents of the thirtieth quorum of seventies and is still in charge of the indian territory mission elder alexander garrick was unanimously sustained as first counselor to bishop solomon and was ordained a high priest and set apart for this position by president angus an M cannon assisted by several BI elders instructions were kiven given by the stake presidency and ani a good spirit prevailed A site has been selected for a meeting house for the new ward and it is expected that steps will be taken shortly for the erection of a suitable building |