| Show THE CASS HITE CASE The Struggle for a Jury Is Still OnGeneral News Notes Ed Watts pleaded guilty to the charge of burglary in having broken into a Union Pscifio car at Juab The judge inquired how he came to get intu such a scrape to which he replied that he fell in with some drunken fellows who were the principals in the burglary He lives in Springville and was sentenced to one years confinement confine-ment in the penitentiary The following jurors were called to fill up the panel in the Hite murder case Charles W Brewerton J C Carter John H Holmes James Hawkins Ed W Mc Beth Hogan Neilsen Charles W Brewerton was excused because be-cause of being opposed to capital punishment punish-ment Hiles excused Holmes Zano chal lenged McBeth and Hoffman and Neilson were sworn There were now but two to be accepted J C Carter was examined During a lull waiting for jurors Joseph Carr of Spanish Fork was made a citizen citi-zen John J Hurst John Harracks and Phil lip Rank came in on the 1120 train from Ogden and were xamined in the case The defense challenged Mr Carter The motion to challenge a juror in behalf or one defendant over the objection of the othor two was again denied and exception taken The prosecution was satisfied with the jury Mr Horracks filling up the panel Hiles excused Mr Horracks and Hurst was next put to the test in the box Rank was then excused by the defense Adjournment was taken until 2 oclock AFTERNOON SESSION There were eleven jurors in the box in the Hite case one of whom was yet to be passed upon It appeared plainly that the defense was determined to test the right of each de fendant to fifteen challenges The court called attention to the fact that where tried together the defendants would be entitled en-titled to the same challenges as though there was but one defendant This is I thought to be laid as ground work for anew a-new trial by the defendants There being no jurors to fill up the panel those on the Hite case retired with their bailiffs until this morning a 10 oclock The grand jury came into court and reported re-ported eight indictments having been found all true bills Court adjourned until this morning at 10 oclock CHAMBER OF COMMERCE A meeting of the chamber of commerce was held yesterday at the office of the Provo Commercial and Savings bank The question of iron works came up for discussion and it was found unpracticable to accept the offer of certain men who propose pro-pose to put in iron works The matter will rest pending a better offer from the company com-pany owning the mills THE SLATE INDDSTKT It IS now established that the slate in dustry will prove to be something more than an ephemeral illusion Mr F W C Hathenbruck has completed negotiations with a company in San Francisco for eight carloads of slate to be used upon public buildings in that city The railroad comnanies are liberal in the rates anh it is thought there will be no trouble to compete with the foreign slate brought into the seaport towns The cars which will leave Provo as soon as tho slate can be split and loaded will be labeled slate from the quarries in Provo Utah The business of splitting slate prepara tory for shipping is of a nature which requires re-quires skilled men The company is ready to employ all who are skilled in the work GENERAL NOTES The Republican drum corps ball takes place tonight at the opera house H H Cluff started for Skull valley yesterday yes-terday to take charge of the Sandwich Islanders colonized there Loughnoys war scenes have been the attraction for children and soldiers at the opera house for two nights Joseph E Ray was in Provo yesterday He is a part owner of the lithographic stone quarries in Millard county over I which there is at present considerable excitement ex-citement He is confident that the discoveries dis-coveries west of Fillmore and at Deseret will send a wave of prosperity over that region |
