Show local and other matters r BOM 1 box wednesdays DAILY dally APRIL 7 it olty I 1 olty city council the regular meet jn of the council was held last evening mayor wells presiding petition of william dickinsn asking for the privilege of hauling water to the people of the 20 til ward north bench free of licence referred to the committee on license the cily city assessor and und collector was allowed further time in which to furnish the assessment roll for the current year 1 petition of thomas jenkins and six others asking that sixth south i street between east and west temple tempie street be repaired and ma making kingan an offer to hand over SIM siu 1 to assist in the expense referred to committee on streets and alleys bill of expenses of superintendent of insane asylum for march was wag allowed alderman laiderman presented his i report rep of police court business in march mareb which showed cases had been tried collected in 16 cash fines and labor fines city marshal and tend chief engineer of fire department presented bill of expenses for larch march referred reu red to committee on claims A report of the committee to whom was referred the petition of or Abrah abraham abi abl taylor asking for the repairing of the streets near his premises ward showed that me the and supervisor had had bad been instructed to make the repairs accordingly the committee to whom was wag re ferit fers 1 I 1 the petition of james mars dui dlin asking for the opening to the pubic of eighth I 1 south street between wust west wt temple and fifth west s street streel ff e t lepor reported tad favorably and recommended that the marshal be instructed to notify parties who fenced up the street to remove the fences within thirty days adopted palice police palice bill for Fer services vices during march 1023 allowed I 1 abill of W V hyde for boarding prisoners in march al dowed bill till of salt lake gas company for lighting street la cabilis bilis gas burned at city hall engine house and city jail referred to committee on claims 11 I 1 outrageous proceedings roce edings brom F prom rom a gentleman from tooele thoele we learn some facts concerning some very peculiar official proceedings in that part of the territory in conformity with adjournment the county court of tooele thoele county should have met at 11 last monday but only selectmen atkin and bates put in an appearance the others delaying to await further ad vices from certain quarters at 2 p m of ot the same day a quorum got together probate judge footo foote ald aud selectmen select me n bites atkin and chase b being eing I 1 present the last being one of the parties m andam audam used into ollice office by the sometime somo gomo time since chief Ju justice stice itice now attorney mckean it appears that the bonds of mr nal Bal bates batea eshad had been accepted and acknowledged by the court but it was subsequently discovered that an omission in them had been made in their not tot being personally signed by himself on discovering ithe technical error he at once filed another the sureties on which ivere acknowledged by judg judge foote to be good but they foote and chase reused refused to accept and approve them and andian andean ba this ground ousted him out of emmice office although he may be consistently considered to be legally in office still the approval of the first bond being a mat te ngor record behind which they have no righetto right to go selectman atkin protested against those proceedings dings as outrageous and illegal and left thi the court in dis disgust in his absence foote and chase constituted themselves the county courton court of thoele tooele and went through the farce of transacting business the one mal mai making ing motions the other seconding and arid both carrying them two items thus thiis attended to by them were the d deposing 0 of W H lee 1 assessor and collector and the ahe appointment of W djudd B judd to fill that position iol lol and the appointing of one spangler of dry canyon to fill the office of selectman in place of bates the jones eleccion case the T trial of nathaniel V jones indicted for assaulting and beating with intent to kill B F 0 on thead the ad of august last atthe at the election j riot was commenced today to day dav the following were sworn a jury lo 10 to to try the case barles charles charies E eils ells iia lla jesse west george E bourne daniel dsniel cra cram m B K F nuckolls samuel bringhurst wm win naylor al B callahan albert davis geo M Ottin ottingen rottingen Ot geir wm J hooper de witt 0 thompson homp sorl and joseph seigel U 8 district Attorn attorney eV carey catey and mr nir mcbride conducted the prosecution and sutherland and snow the defense benjamin F whittemore Whitte moie mole was sworn and testified for the prosecution witness witless received an injury upon his head about six in the evening at the city hall on the third of last august at the election he did riot not know who inflicted the blows the blows were given from behind while he was facing the street and while his back was to the building the injuries were vereon gereon on the right side of the head and one upon the shoulder after he was struck some persons lifted him from the ground on which he had fallen and conveyed him away after about two hours he was considered sufficiently recovered to be taken home where he was wag confined to bed by his injuries for sixteen days he had no quarrel with any body that day george roberts was next sworn for the prosecution witness saw dir mr whittemore at the city hall on election day and saw sav him struck by the defea defendant dant over the head three or four times whitte more moro was knocked cocked down but was not struck aften after be he fell feu he fell about six ox feet eart east of the front entrance to the city hall whittemore was standing still when he was first struck did not see jones till lie he struck Whitter whittemore dore jones struck with a billy about eight or ten tea inches long and light colored cross examined by the defense never had seen such a club before as thai used by jones sones it was called a billy had not heard any one call it a billy who had seen it did not know whether it was properly called a billy or not did not know whether it was the same kind of a club as carried by the police george shill was sworn for the prosecution witness was ac ae quainter quain ted tea with mr jones he was at it the city hall on the eve evening ninee ninke of august 3rd ard 1874 saw defendant strike stride a man whom he did not k know now over the back of the head he SAW three or four blows given the weapon used was oak colored and about eighteen inches long cross examined by the defense did not see the defendant and whittemore when they finst first came together hyrum T shurtliff was the next witness for the prosecution witness was at the city hall on the 3rd ard of august 1874 saw whittemore struck by bv the defendant the former wat wa standing glanding facing east and the latter was west ef of him when the striking comai commenced encee about four er or nive five blows W were ere struck witness assisted to pick whittemore up tip and take him away cap capt charles B westcott was sworn for the prosecution witness was at the 06 city hall and saw sav defendant come out of the building and strike two or three persons did not know whether it was jones that struck whittemore jones had a club about sixteen inches long iong supposed it was a billy saw defendant strike a man named belding cross examined by the defense the occurrence happened between five and six in lia the evening defendant came out of the mag main front entrance of the city hall just before the striking captain burt and sheriff S W taylor came out at the same time captain burt came out first there was a large crowd several hundred people in front of or the build building ing inc on the sidewalks sidewalk do walk walks and on the street at the time tim e understood captain burt t to 0 be chief of the city police A emans club was wag to witness who stated that it was such a one as used by jones all those who came out had similar clubs did not see the others strike his big atte attention antion being bocc occupied uple d I 1 in ii wat watering shing ebing 0 jones belding and whittemore fell about the same time dr alien allen fowler was vas next sworn and placed on the stand for the prosecution the Witness who attended Whitt whittemore emory ot or and after the 3rd ard of last au described the injuries received I 1 by him the brain received a severe bevere shock an and d the scalp was lacerated had to be confined to a dark roam room for about a week cross examined by the defense there was no fracture or indentation of the skull A case of that kind skillfully skill rully treated would generally be expected to result as this did should the result be different in another similar case the inference would be that the injury was more serious by the prosecution there were no symptoms of congestion of the brain the symptoms being merely premonitory of that malady dr white was sworn forthe prosecution rose cution witness was called fu in on the uth of august last to treat whittemore Whitte moro found him suffering severely from what he consi considered dred to be congestion 0 of the brain the prosecution rested here mr sutherland for the de defense rense stated the defendants side of the case to th the ejury jury in the defense it would not be denied that whittemore received a blow nor that defendant inflicted it but it would be shown that he had a right to act as he be did it would be shown that the crowd assembled outside the city hall of which whittemore was a member and concerning which the witness westcott had bad spoken on election day was tumultuous ad and in A state of riot it would be shown that captain burt bart chief of police consulted the mayor of or the city about what it was advisable to do the latter as the head of the municipality went to the scene seene of the riot and with kind words advised the disturb disturber ers erb of peace to disperse advising those who had voted to retiro retire reaud roand and aud let those who had not done so come up and deposit their votes peaceably and quietly cui cul etly instead of heeding those judicious admonitions the mayor was jeered and hooted at and finally was seized and those riotous persons who took hold of or him lihn endeavored to drag him into the crowd while shouts of lra dra drag him out kill hil I 1 ill lil him m and other similar expressions were uttered the mayor was rescued from his perilous position by the pollee police he immediately med fately lately went up stairs and out upon the balcony from which position as chief magistrate of the city he again addressed the crowd calling upon them ta to disperse an and while thus engaged the effects of the brutal usage he had received at the hands of the rioters could be seen his coat having been torn into shreds instead of his second admonition being heeded he was hailed balled with footings hoo tings jeers jeer and derision the mayor theli theu as the next and aud apparently only alternative ordered the chief of police to take men with him to eo go down to the front of the building and disperse the crowd which order was obeyed the defendant mr jones being ene eue of those called upon by the chief of police to aid him captain burt from the front step of the city hall repeated the command of the mayor and instead of or the rioters acting upon it they advanced menacingly toward the policemen and when jones struck whittemore the latter was abo about to i strike captain burt with a cane and the defendant in acting a aa he did prevented whittemore from committing a crime and acting in the capacity he did he was J justified list about twelve the court took a recess till half past one FROM THURSDAYS DAILY APRIL 8 interred yesterday the mor mortal tal tai remains of the wife wire of elder arthur stayner were brought from farmington to this city for interment and placed in in their last resting pl place ace in the cemetery elder st stayner er has the tiie sympathy of a wide circle ef of friends in his bereavement rea varied yesterday farmers were busy b ausy pl plowing owin up the soil at pleasant grove utan county there being no snow there then and fine weather overhead at springville Spring ville in the same county the snow was six inches deep anh auh and more falling and the wind was wai blowing and whistling 0 like fury as if old boreas was trying to burst his jaws two hours late yesterday the utah southern iraln train irain from the tho south was delayed about two hours by snow drifts near the point of the clio mountain it did not reach the eity city till half past seven last evenin ovenin evening 9 A gang of the railroad section diction ba hands rids d did id splendid work in shoveling out the snow which in bome some some bome places place was waist deep r robbed hotbed last night a vian vinn from cache got his intellect mixed by indulging his bibula tive proclivities and taking advantage of his obfuscated condition sone some party robbed him of his pocket book 17 in cash and a return railroad ticket to cache the police pollee got hold of a clue which by investigation ti they found terminated in a young fellow named A swenson who was arrested and placed in jail pending a trial before justice justlee on a charge of committing the robbery today to day man of farmington appeared before justice erand made affidavit that while he was walking in the ninth ward last night he be saw three men lying across the sidewalk in that undesirable condition super induced by imbibing strong liquids they were whooping yelling and making night hideous on general principles he said boys dont you think this is disturbing the peace whereupon one of the three disturb ed his peace by seizing him and giving him a most unmerciful pounding the effects of which are strongly strong lv visible upon mr work manal m a us face c e tho perfection of impudence last night edgart edgar J bain who nag liag stopping at a lodging house hoube on ou east enst temple street was wa robbed of a hat vest a small sum of money and some private papers today to day lie visited the overland house where he saw peter stockfish alias anerson gerson sitting hy by the stove with the stolen hat on ou his head he immediately nedla nedia tely charged him with stealing it and on further investigation found that An angeron germon also had on the stolen vest under his shirt As there was no policeman handy mr bain took the thief in charge himself an and d when lie he got him to the city hall the rascal tried to run off round the back of thel the building but did not succeed tho case vw wai brought before the judicial cognizance of justice who sent A angerson agerson up for days the latter is a notorious thief the jones election case the trial triai of this case was resumed in the district court yesterday afternoon at half past nast one after recess captain Captai rk burt bart chief of police was sworn and te testified stifled for the dc defense witness was chief of police pollee on the ard 3rd of august and was then on duty at the election polls when whittemore was injured witness struck whittemore himself when that individual approached him ja h if to attack him witness described the riotous proceedings at the polls immediately before the aln Ala mayors proclamation witness bitne was up stairs and in coming coining down met mete the mayor with his clothes torn the th mayor nayor 11 went upon the balcony the witness and others accompanying him the mayor there repeated his proclamation stating staling that if the crowd did not disperse force would have to be used but there were shouts of snut shut up and many opprobrious epithets were uttered by the crowd the mayor then ordered witness to take men roen and disperse the crowd he took with hinl him W G phillips alex burt samuel russell hussell and 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