Show MORONI DEPARTMENT S The following petition n is being generally signed by citizens of this city S To th the honorable county court of Sanpete county Utah Gentleman We your petitioners claimants and users in 01 of school lands embraced in section 16 township 15 55 south of range 3 east Salt Lake take meridian lying and situated in Sanpete county aforesaid respectfully represent to lo your honorable hon honorable hon court that on o or about the 1St day of August said court leased eased the aforesaid land to Andrew L. L Jensen Lars Johnson and Mrs Enger S. S Arnoldus for lor their several use and the use of your petitioners for or the term of three y years ars pursuant to o the provisions of an act to provide provide pro provide pro pro- vide for leasing school lands and prescribing Describing rules and regulations governing the same approved Mar so 10 o 1892 and that your your petitioners have lave in good faith observed the I terms erms of said leases by paying to said aid court the rents required there thereby thereby by y believing that said law would be uniformly observed in all the the counes counties counties coun- coun ties es containing school lands for the benefit of our schools i Your petitioners are informed i and nd believe that the aforesaid act is willfully ignored and its requirements requirements requirements require require- ments unobserved by all the people and nd county courts of the territory with ith two exceptions wit to-wit Sanpete ana nd Utah counties thus d defeating the ic object of the law and making your our petitioners and the people of these hese counties named the victims of the he good intentions of the county courts aforesaid in exacting a r rental for or the use of the lands under said aid cond condition tion V VWe We further represent that we are informed and believe t that at the said school chool lands in Sanpete county have lave been appraised and arid leased by bys its s county court at at much higher rates ates than their their fair value alue and than the school lands of Utah county while it is well known that tha land and in said Utah county is worth from rora 50 o to per cent more than the ic school lands of Sanpete county We therefore petition this court courto to o annul the aforesaid leases teases granted to o your petitioners if it may be bedone bedone done one without prejudice to our sev- sev eral ral claims to said lands by us or that hat lat you allow us exemption from further payments or OT make the rental merely nominal say not ot to exceed five cents per acre and nd as in duty found your petitioners petition petition- ers rs will ever pray John Eliason jr and his intended Miss Minnie linnie Powel of Salt Lake county are in town visiting friends during holidays Thursday morning December 26 1893 was the most exciting time that lat has ever been known in the history of ot the Eliason house when I it t was made known to the proprietress tress ress and servants of ot the house that Bright Eye the wife wite of ot White Eagle members members- of the Kickapoo company company com- com pany jany had given birth to a son White Eagle was so overjoyed that the be babe was scarcely one and a half hours old when he took him and ran an down own stairs show showing ng him to all the he household Ma May Mayjoy joy an and hapness hap- hap mess iness ness be in the family of the Kick Kick- S a oos |