Show THE CHURCH SPITS are brought up again ia the supreme court last saturday in the territorial supreme court the church suits came up before chief justice sandford and associates judd henderson and district attorney peters nd mr dark and district attorney hobson appeared for the plaintiff and col J ames 0 broadhead F S diehards Eie hards ben sheets and lie grande ayoung for the defendants and P ij williams for the receiver i mr peters stated to the court that it had been the intention to bring up the church cases but mr hobson had arrived from colorado but a few before having been on the delayed tenion pacific train which was due friday night As there were some papers of importance to examine counsel for the plaintiff desired a little time to consult he therefore asked till afternoon and said that the case would probably take the whole of the session PL williams said he expected that a final decree would be entered in thesa cases and a disposition made of the property so tar as this court was concerned he therefore wanted to lay before the court the matter of the compensation of the he also wanted to take some testimony and to have hia compensation as attorney fortha receiver adjudicated by the court the court took a till pm at the afternoon sension three petitions were filed by the attorneys for the church on behalf of wm B preston robert T burton and john B winder setting forth that petition ers had been duly and according to law appointed trustees by the probate couric of salt lake county to hold real estate belonging to the church and asling that the temple block the buildings on which were used for religious services only the tithing office which was owned and occupied for church business purposes prior to 1862 and the gardo house and office which could be considered as a parsonage be set apart and transferred to the petitioners petition ers as trustless tru stess P aj williams called up the question of compensation to receiver dyer and his attorney chief justice sandford said the court could not entertain the matter and said it should bo referred in the manner usual in such cases A referee would be appointed to take testimony judge judd suggested that perhaps counsels for both sides could agree upon a suitable referee the counsel conferred for a short time and upon judge E T sprague who was appointed col broadhead inquired the scope of the order and mr williams re plied that it was for services for the receivers attorney up to date and a rate of compensation for the future judge sandford the order will be submitted to both sides before approval the referee will take testimony as to the value of the service rendered to date and examine the accounts of the receiver there was some further discussion on the subject but the order of the court remained unchanged the referee was instructed to report by the first day of january 1889 term mr hobson said the counsel on both side were endeavoring to come to an agreement as to the terms of the final decree there was considerable real estate that the government claimed would be forfeited and inasmuch as it was in the hands of a ee beiver he asked the government be permitted to commence suits for the forfeiture of that part of the church property col broadhead aard they could make no opposition to the motion but would contest the cases when suits were filed the order asked for was granted mr peters asked thai francis armstrong and jesse W fox be made parties defendant to the suit granted col broadhead said the counsel on both sides had agreed upon all the facts except as to the escheat of the personal property that had been submitted to the solicitor gen eral at washington Washing toa this had been done to avoid taking a vast amount of testimony no answer bad yet been received from the solicitor general but it was expected daily if no reply came by monday morning some agreement would be reached here and tho case submitted the court adjourned till monday at 11 a m |