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Show Hitting His Honor. When such broad insinuations and direct attacks are made on our Chief Justice, the" Herald is sorry that it cannot defend him: that is, the Herald Her-ald regrets that Utah has a Chief Justice who is indefensible when such attacks are made. The annexed gouge stil toga is from the Virginia (Xev.j- Independent i In his recent charge- to Die grand jury of Third District of Utah, Chief Justice McKean directed them to inquire in-quire into tho disposal made by the Territorial Legislature "of vast tracts qf public lands, of many streams of water," and of ''vast forests of timber." tim-ber." What will be done with them alter they havfl been "inquired" into" we do not know; unless, indaed, with the accommodating spirit for which the Chief Justice of Utah is eo remarkable, re-markable, he appropriate them to his own use and profit, as he did the Silver Shield and a couple other mines. While we rejoice that a day of atonement has at last come for the extra legal and semi-barbarous practices prac-tices of the Mormons, we cannot help wishing that tho instrument cm ployed to bring jt about were worthier the work than McKean. |