Show CURRENT EVENTS edmunds law prosecutions peb feb bishop G L farrell of smithfield cache county was arrested on a charge of unlawful cohabitation february J H van natta was brought to the U J 8 marshals marshall office having been arrested on a charge of unlawful cohabitation he was indicted on the of april apryl 1885 in the third district court mr van natta and wife were arrested at pratts aidin siding emery county on the B R 0 W he M gave ball bail to await trial february deputy mclellan ogden of arrested john dunn on a charge of unlawful cohabitation the officer met mr dunn in the street and took him into custody they will go to ogden this evening when the accused will give bail mr dunn is a resident of three mile creek box elder county and the indictment against him was found last april he be is an aged man released fr from am prison feb 24 brothers john of scipio millard county and thomas johnson John sou of glenwood sevier county were released from the penitentiary where they have been imprisoned for unlawful cohabitation their terms were six mouths months and they were required to pay the cost of the prosecution i sat u aday feb 22 brother jena jorgensen of mt pleasant san pete county was also liberated he was sentenced sen to one year for living with his bis plural wife and was held unlawfully 26 25 days for the costs imposed by judge judd under the ruling of f judge zane on friday he was released chough he was held heid one day longer nineteenth ward bishopric the bishopric of the nineteenth ward was wa s re organized on sunday sunda y feb 16 by the presidency of the th e stake brother isaac barton was ordained bishop and brothers alexander edward and joseph der counselors bishops counselor feb brother james R miller was appointed and set apart as aa first counselor to bishop james C hamilton of mill creek ward to till the vacancy caused by b y the recent death of elder john F those conspiracy cases february 24 in the third district court the conspiracy cases against francis armstrong and add thirty five others and E A smith and three others othea were called up the attorneys for the defendants had pleas of not guilty entered for all those indicted stake conference the conference of the salt lake stake of zion will be held in the TalAr tabernacle nacle salt lake city ou on sunday and monday march 2nd and and 3rd ard 1890 the first meeting will commence at 10 a in on sunday officers and members of the various quork quorums nis and other organizations of the church will please take due notice and govern themselves accordingly cordingly the regular stake priesthood meeting will convene march let at 11 a m CANNON JOSEPH E taylor CHARLES W PENROSE presidency of the stake after the college farm A suit has been instituted against moses and gerge ge rge W thatcher Tb atcher as trustees of the brigham young college logan at for the college farm the plaintiff is the central pacific railway company which claims that the farm Is within the twenty mile grant made by congress to the road the farm lies within this district but was taken up prior to the making of the land grant it was transferred to the college as a means of aid when the institution comprises about acres in the bottoms southwest of logan the railway company asserts that its value is returned elder elder john dunn returned from a mission to the north western states mission on february 10 0 he left salt lake city on april 1888 aud labored in south dakota for six months with brother joseph denis sk A local priest elder dunn atan i n traveled in the south western part of wisconsin during the next winter and spring with elder A W lund of parowan carowan Pa rowan he returned to dakota and then labored with elder herman groetker Groet Gr cether ber of salt lake city during the summer months of 1889 he was next assigned to the states of missouri and nebraska where his bis companions conal anions were elders E mace of fillmore isaac wall of walls burg and joseph banks of miners ville the people of these places were all hospitable and kind to the elders but were indifferent to religious matters not accurately stated A short time since there was published in the st louis globe democrat Dono crat what purported purport pur porte eJ I 1 to be au an interview with hon george Q cannon had by a representative of that PS paper r in the man main the correspondent caught correctly the views expressed by president cannon in iii a conversation with a party of gentlemen of which he be was one though some of the ideas and expressions pres are not as stated by mr cannon these will be of themselves apparent to all familiar with local aftin affairs they are errors however ahia which a stranger no matter how kindly disposed might easily make and be readily excused for it is evident that the biographical sketch which concludes the article was obtained from some historical work rather than from president cannon himself logan notes the following lowing fal are clipped from the logan journal jour no of the chas johnson of providence has been arrested on the charge of unlawful cohabitation his bonds were signed signe I 1 by edwin and thos jessup bisop bishop G L Fr farrel rell 1 of sinith smithfield returned from ogden feb whither lie he had been taken by bj deputy marshal bowman to answer to the charge of unlawful cohabitation ris his bonds were fixed at 1000 aud were signed by edwin and arhos jessup the gentleman feels well weil after his absence and is glad to be among his old acquaintances and friends again it is settled with reasonable niceness nite nit eness thata that a term of the district court will be here whether a fourth district be created by congress or not whether this term will be held in the spring or the fall is not known but governor thomas a committed to giving a term for logan it is understood that the matter is left with judge henderson Hender sou t to determine which of the sessions of his court will be held in logan not play jurors A number of whisky cases appealed from the justices court were set for trial in the third district court fob feb 24 but the witnesses were not on n hand band and they were continued till feb while attachments were issued for the default ers in the discussion pending the consideration of these cases judge mckay remarked that he believed every one of the defendants fend ants was guilty and he did not like the idea that by securing a deay through appeal they could have their cases dismissed an attorney for the whisky wh isky men called attention to the fact that at the former term of the court these witnesses testified and the jurors acquitted judge mckay replied that it WHO was only odly because the jurors u bors had determined not to convict in that claws class of cases though the evidence had been direct and u neon trad isted judge zane then gave the jurors a good rounding up he told them he be wanted no convictions where the evidence did not j justify it nor did he want illicit whisky vendors met et at liberty and the law trifled with jurors were under oath to follow the law regardless of their prejudices or sentiments and it was perjury to do otherwise if they did not do this they would be discharged and other jurors summoned rhe judge wanted no play jurors but citizens who would respect the law and conform to their oaths in the liquor jury ury box the law against selling liquor on sunday was in force and should be enforced with a vigor and fairness equal to that of other prosecutions the siberian outrages further details of the outrages at the political prison at kara reached the russian exiles in london february 22 it if appeals that the trouble originated in a hunger strike in august when the women political prisoners tried to starve themselves vesto to death to escape the cruelty of their jailers all the women imprisoned abstained from food for fourteen days at first the jailers jeered at the women then tempted them with food and then finding this of no do avail threatened them when several women at the point of death from voluntary v abstinence from food the prison officials resorted to artificial me ns DO to compel them to take nourishment the methods adopted were violent and licentious and the women were compelled to abandon the strike the abominable outrages out rags a that followed follone d this state of affairs led madame lebida whose death by flogging has been already announced noun ced to ask for an interview with the director of the prison in the hope of securing au an tion of the condition of the prison erg era the request was granted but she found him so abusive that in her exasperation she called him a villain and slapped his bib face madame lebida was then taken from the directors office and conveyed to the prison in which common offenders were confined three of her companions from among tile political lotical prison prisoners erp were permitted a to join her borne bome time later baron korff sent a special order directing that madame se hida bida be punished according to the regulations and the order was t executed xe buted to the fullest extent the punishment was so severe that death ensued from rupture of the heart her three companions committed suicide within an ali hour after the time of hearing of Se bidas death many hearing of the flogging and suicides carried out their threats of suicide they met together aud and thirty of them shared what poison they could obtain that evening two died their convulsions and the dead silence which reigned in the other cells roused the attention of the guards who immediately summoned physicians who administered emedice emetics to the survivors and endeavored deavo red by every means to counteract the effects of the polson poison an arizona dam bursts A dispatch from prescott Ari zonas february says no definite news has yet reached here of the loss of life or damage caused by the breaking yesterday of 01 walnut grove dam there alit re can be no estimate as yet of the loss lose of life or property but the latter will reach into milli millions ors while the loss of life will without doubt be great as many families are living near the stream in the narrow canyon later laier arthur allen alien formerly interested te I 1 in n the enterprise a and nd J john oh n mcdonald an ow owner tier of the blue dick mine have just returned from the divide fourteen miles south of the town from where a view of the dam could be had bad and report that it has gone without doubt the wash waterway could be plainly seen with their powerful glasses high up on the aide side of the cliff while the breaking of the stonework of the dam was also plainly visible the break in the dam stopped to the eastward east ward leaving the impression that the main break was on the eastside east side the confirmation of the news of the loss of the wg big dam has heightened the excitement cit ement and more definite intelligence isnow is now anxiously awaited A prescott special I 1 to the associated press pread dated february A general feeling of excitement and suspense se has prevailed here today over the news of the disaster at walnut grove received last night the courier who brought the telegrams for the owners of the property notifying them of their great loss lose arrived about 8 jast last night As he be left Imme immediately diatel y after daylight he could give but little particulars further than to report the number missing five bodies had been recovered and identified when he left the distance V to the storage dam from prescott by the shortest trall trail is forty miles while the service dam where the employed emp loyes were located locate d was fifteen miles further down the stream immediately on receipt af the news here tint t mi general oneill started to the scene of the disaster with two surgeons burgeons to assist the wants of tile the sufferers and superintend the burial of the dead and a representative of the journal mner miner a local paper accompanied compa nied the party who will send a special courier with particulars but it will take twenty four hours longer to make the round trip yesterdays yesterday ter days s courier coirier came from the lower dam and as the road does not come by the upper tipper dam it was only suc our that it had bad given way on account of the immense quantity of water amore A more hopeful feeling ex abts this evening on account of the news received direct that the upper dam and reservoir ve are still intact and that the flood was caused by the ithe opening of the gate to relieve it from threatening danger A san francisco dispatch of february twenty third says engineer luther wagner tod y talked about the construction of the arizona dam and claimed that the disaster was due to the carelessness of the new york corporation which built it he inspected tho the dam a year and a half hal fago ago it was to have been faced with stone fourteen feet fed I 1 thick at the base four feet at the top a and dd tilled filled with loose rock and made water 4 ater proof with wooden sheeting it was about half done when mr wagner inspected it he found the stone filled in carelessly and the structure unstable the junction of thesbe alie sheeting eting and bed rock was intended to be secured by a thick layer of portland cement but this thia was not well done because of the cost of getting cement to the works thus a dangerous crevice was formed at the base and the leakage was wa heavy sheavy in addition the lumber used was full of knotholes knot holes wagner advised the discharge of the contractors and engineers but this has not been done the company strengthened some of the weak plo alices ices but his warning that the dam would be unsafe dunles some of the work ans rectified was dabre carded |