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Show FROM. PR0V0. (From our Special Reporter.) The First judicial dUlri. t court adjourned ad-journed on Saturday lust until the 13th dny of October. The jurors were discharged for the term. On meeting of the court on the aforeaaid day the names of jurors will be drawn for the November tern, and it is thought that no other, or very little business else will be done then. The business was rushed briskly through, and cases continued, to enable tho judge lo assist Judge Schatfler to clear the docket of the Third district court. It is very evident that the arrangements arrange-ments of the courts in Utah are anything any-thing but suiuble to the times, or adequate to met. t the ends of justice. jus-tice. iVe have three courts running at the one time, in which criminal casos should be tried, and yet there is but one prosecuting attorney to attend at-tend to them. In constqueuce parties par-ties have to bo imprisoned or be under bonds month after month before they can have a hearing. Witnesses gut away and justice is thwarted. It is true that the attorney can appoint deputies, but were the terms properly prop-erly dietributed ho could attend to all promptly, and not have too much practice then. The Tbird district cwurt docket is so lull that one judge cannot possibly hear all the Crises, and thus it has been, and is, that Judge Boreman and Judge Emerson have had to assist. Cases in the First district have been continued con-tinued and laid over to auother time, or term, in order that the judge may assist in the Third district. Two courts running in the one district is an injustice to lawyers, who may have clients in each branch of it. Judge Schaefler is a great aud industrious worker, but hecannot per form impossibilities, and hence must be assisted. Indeed, bis duties seom arduous enough to wear qiiu out, fnr he Beerns to have no ceosation. We think, then, that our courts need re modelling. We Bhould have a state government, and then we might have a court in each county, as in other places, having jurisdiction suitable for the demands of the county. This would not only be convenient (or the people and necessary for justice, but would aave thousands of dollars yearly to the people. Fur a new territory containing only 30,000 or 40,000 inhabitants, in-habitants, the present arrangement might pass, but for one numbering between 100,000 and 200,000 people, it is simply preposterous aud unjust. TARDY INDICTMENTS. Quite a number of persons were committed to await the action of the grand jury of the First district court tor alleged stealing of precious ore Ironi the Crismon Mammoth of Tintic. But the jury seemed very unwilling to indiut tbera, although the evidence was deemed strong. It was noticeable notice-able in the matter that tour indictments indict-ments ware found in the early part of their sitting, and the rest seemed to hang so long that it was suspected by the court officers that the others would not be investigated. The last day of their sitting, however, brought out indictments (or all committed. com-mitted. It was whispered uround by those who know a thing or two, that tha first indicted referred to, wore unfortunate to be "Mormons," wno I were drawn in by their conlreres lo commit tbedishoneut deeds, and that the tardiness in the canes ol Lbe others arose from an unwillingness to indict those who were not "Mormons." The officers had their eyes on the cotrae of the jury, and ihe latter got to know that it would nut be safe to refute to do their duty. MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE QUICK. Much sensation is created and kej.t up by the divorce suits and decrees m the Salt Lake county court, and capital is sought to be made out of it by the ex parte reports of a certain sensation sheet. We are no apologist for reckless divorce, yet if the law is complied with, and parties seek separation, it would be both unjust un-just and cruel to enforce hateful unions. While the probate courts, because presided over by old citizens of Utah, are berated by a paper, and their records examined by bitter partisan par-tisan juries, we ask why are not the records of the district courts also I scrutinized and reported on ? That they have their flaws, or apparent ones, let us illustrate. A district judge, not a thousaud miles from b.ilt Lake city, on a certain Saturday joined two persons ot respectability together in the leeble bonds of matrimony. matri-mony. The judge did bis best to I fasten them, and the parties were pliant as loving natures c uld be. On Sunday morning.however.the married gentleman sought the judge, laid a complaint about the newly made bride and averred with all earnestness earnest-ness and sincerity that they could never live together as man and wife, and must therefore be separated forthwith, as the only good thing that could be done for both. His boner expostulated, and used his greatest powers and influence to dissuade the parties from separating. Both the gentleman and lady were determined oa severing at once the conjugal knot. On Monday morning, in chambers, the petition or complaint for divorce was tiled; in ten minutes the summons was served; in half an hour further the answer was filed, and the parties appeared in court, or i chambers, ready lor trial. The case was beard forthwith, and A divorce decreed strictly io accordance with law in every particular. Married by law oa Saturday, separated by law mercifully and justly on Monday. Our courts are 80 crowded by business that there the old complaint of "the law'B delay" will no lunger exist at that rate. Co riles. |