Show I 1 NEWS FROM I l 1 NEARBY TOWNS I L Utah County Stake Conference at Iii V Provo i J I GENERAL COURT CULLINGS t 2 A LADY APPLIES FOR CITIZENSHIP 1L 1 g PAPERS Bates of Tooelc Sentenced to Ten Years For the Killing of JXord quist Probabilities of sm Appeal V Oilier State Topics I V V PROVO April lSThe Utah county V stake conference is being held here today I to-day dayThis This morning President Partridge talked to the Saints for a short time and the balance of the forenoon was taken up with the reports of bishops from the various wards of the county V This afternoon was devoted to hearing bishops reports and reports of the B Y academy and Young Mens Mutual after which President John addressed the congregation on the principles of the gospel V E A Tulian manager of the United States fish hatchery at Leadville is in 4 Provo for the purpose of looking over the country with a view to establishing I establish-ing a hatchery at some point in Utah i county Fish Commissioner A M Musser is I also in Provo today in consultation V with Mr Tulian and County Commissioner Commis-sioner Newell They visited and examined ex-amined the site for the proposed I t hatchery Spring Creek a small stream just north of Springvllle Mr Tulian I expressed himself as well pleased with I the situation the place being a most desirable one for the purpose hatchery Spring creek a Email stream I day gave a chattel mortgage on their stock to Swazey Martin to cover a V il debt df 500 i Orson Rogers the commercial man I from Salt Lake is rustling around Provo today V Judge McCarty came up from Rich I held today for the purpose of hearing i the arguments on motion for a new i tiial in the Hayes case on Monday I morning V I Hon Samuel R Thurman returned home last evening from Richfield t where he has been for several days on legal business i 1 Attorney Sam A King returned to j Provo this morning after a weeks absence in Salt Lake j 11 Mrs Harriet A Jacobs declared her I intention of becoming a citizen of the United States today She was form j J erly a subject of Victoria queen of Great Britain and is the first woman to make the declaration of citizenship j in Utah county and very likely In the state of Utah Hon Joseph Monson member of the Ii first state legislature ifrom Cache f county is in Provo today the guest of Hon A O Smoot jr i A marriage license was today granted f i grant-ed to James Peterson and Pirene I Christiansen both of Goshen i Notice of appeal has been filed in It the district court in the case of Straw I It bery Land and Cattle company vs I it i John L Chipman This is a case in iF i which the plaintiff brought suit tot to-t Ii prevent defendant from grazing stock and sheep on land leased from the Tailroad by the plaintiffs Judgment j was rendered in favor of the plaintiffs fr 1 and now the defendant has appealed 111 + to the supreme court I The Nineteenth Century club met f fri with Mrs F F Reed yesterday afternoon Hr after-noon Each member responded to roll I call with a quotation from some well krown author A very interesting paper was given by Miss Josephine i I Kellogg Mrs Etta Reed gave the I news of the day and an interesting i It essay was read by Mrs E E Dudley The club adjourned for one week to I J r meet again with Mrs Reed The Polysophical society of the B T academy gave a grand ball last 1 evening in the opera house for the benefit df the Athletic club t Tooele Topic i TOOELE CITY April 18on Thursday j Thurs-day night Sheriff McKellar returned from Mercur with Perry Turpin the man who terrorized the town of Mer i cur this week and lodged him in the = J county jail The man was crazy and j the sheriff confined him in the iron I cage allowing McKimmins who was confined therein the liberty of the jail room When everything and everybody was quiet Me took his final leave by Iii V boring through the stone building He < was no doubt assisted by confederates from without Me has not been seen t or heard from since I Yesterday the man Turpin while under 4 un-der one of his spells tried to shuffle off J by cutting himself severely across the abdomen with a razor The wound V which is nearly five inches in length was immediately dressed by Dr Envis and the man Is now resting quietly at If the poor house Today the district court convened and V I 2 the application for a new trial of the Bates murder case was argued and the L I application was denied p The judge then ordered the defendant II to stand up after reciting the history of the indictment and the verdict of the I jury Bates was asked have you any J legal cause why judgment should not r be pronounced 1 The answer I believe not was returned re-turned and the court then sentenced r Bates to hard labor in the state prison for a term of ten years l The court was visibly affected and during the passing of sentence a deathlike J death-like stillness prevailed broken only by V the sobs of the defendants wife The defense then requested to be released I re-leased upon sufficient bonds pending appeal to the supreme court and I J served notice of same upon the prosecution f prose-cution I The defendant was admitted to bail rt in the sum of 10000 r J The case of Davis vs Davis for divorce was called and upon the showIng I show-Ing of the doctor a decree was granted Rhich decree also gave the two young I children to the doctor k j Wyoming University I Special to The Herald V j CHEYENNE Wyo April 18The trustees of the Wyoming university have accepted the resignation of President J Johnson and two members of the faculty Important changes will be made in the I I manner of conducting the institution |