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Show The Baby Press Agent- That juvenile tool of the circular combination in this city, Charles A. Gould, continues to uso his power as press agent to grossly mi "represent affair and wilfully mis-state tacts, as will be seen by one of his late telegrams tele-grams which we append : Salt Lake, March 23. The trial of Elder Tiios. 0. Kicks lor tlie murder of Elifiha 1). Skeen, was finished in the Third district court to-day, the jury returning a verdict of not guilty. This case has attracted great attention, atten-tion, as putting to test tlie value of the Poland bill for executing the laws in Utah. The evidence showed that Skeen was murdered in 1S60, while held a prisoner in a lou school-honee. school-honee. Hicks, as sheriff, had Skeen in custody, and whilo the latter lay lisleep, Kicks and another man enteral enter-al tlie building and discharged their revolvers at him. One or both balls took tiled. Skeen cither jumped up or was picked up and carried outside, aud was dispatched by a general fusilade. It was set up by the defence that the prisoner attempted to escape, and was shot down by the sheriff in tho performance of his duty. One witness wit-ness testified that on the night of the murder, he carried ft message to Kicks for Bishop Maughan, to warn him of the attempted rescue. Skeen had belonged be-longed (o the Danite band, but had grown di-atlected to t. o church. The evideuco was very convincing, but tlie jury was composed of Mormons, and tbe church obligations that existed between be-tween the prisoner and jurors, it is -i-iirl inflnnnl thnir inrh-mpnt. There is a general expression of belief that further legislation must be had from congress before Mormons can be convicted of crime. Ricks will give bonds to-morrow to answer an indictment of polygamy, found by the grand jury last December, of which he was a member. The Herald published the ovidonce brought out on the trial, therefore it is unnecessary for us to say whether the verdict was based upon the facts, as sworn to, or otherwise, even had we the moral right to do eo, which we; hold that no journal has, the verdict having been rendered by twelve men wfao mado Bolemn oath that they were not biased in their minds and would decide the case upon the evidence. ' But it is with the assertions of this infantile ass, this light-headod jumping jump-ing jack, this baby popinjay, that we have to deal. For years the despicable des-picable clique which are manipulating manipulat-ing young Gould, kept up the howl at the doors ef congress that special legislation only could open the doors of the Utah courts, and finally, by persistent sensatien lying, and having on the bench as a" leader in the onslaught, on-slaught, a judge to aid them in their base purposes, they succeeded in securing the passage of the Poland bill an act which is as unrepublican as it is disgraceful to the Forty-third congress. The bill was made so as to take away as many of the rights of the people living in this territory as even congress had the conscience to rob them of, but its provisions were not cruel enough to satisfy the morbid mor-bid desires for illegal plunder and unholy persecution which actuated the ring. The law opened the courts aud set them in motion, but the ring found that it cut both ways it applied to one class of the community as well as to the another; an-other; and therefore was not satisfactory- What the ring want is a new law which will permit them to drive the people from the territory, when the clique would divide and pocket the spoil. They make the man-child Gould telegraph over the country, " There is a general expression expres-sion of belief that further legislation must be had from congress before Mormons can be convicted of crime." There would be just as much reason for making the assertion, only changing chang-ing the word " Mormon," to " non-Mormon." non-Mormon." In either case it is an insult to the honor of men, and is not justified by facts. But this betokens be-tokens what is the purpose of the combination. They intend to create the impression through the country that more stringent and partial legislation legis-lation is needed for Utah, and thug prepare the way for another seige at the halls of congress. Concerning the post-trial conviction convic-tion ot Col. Ricks, it is despicable and mwardlv in the extreme: however, in this as in his other telegraphic reports, re-ports, the infant Gould is not responsible re-sponsible for what he says. He is the weak tool of a contemptible set of scamps in this city, who, without knowing aDy of the facts, before the trial declared Ricks was guilty, and have kept up the cry of guilt ince the jury acquitted him. The jury was mixed " Mormon " and " non-Mormon" non-Mormon" there being three of the latter clots to nine of the former; therefore, even did the "Mormons" favor the accused, because he was a member of that church which no one honestly believes the " non-Mormons non-Mormons " would not have favored him for tlie same reason; and had they considered him guilty would have hung tho jury rather then acquit. ac-quit. The assertion thnt a Mormon would not convict a fellow Mormon if proven Builty, bos been so often disproven, that no one will believe be-lieve it now. |