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Show s- - thk mt.t lake times, saturdat. may m. y which such Dvnvvr la twit The World Clothing and Shoellouv. formerly of Denver, hate their tempo-rary headquarters al 70 Kat First South street, w here von caii find all the latest styles iu tirst-e1a.s- clothing, hats, furnishiug goods and shoes. Business and working suit from W 50 to .00. worth double the money. The most stvlish dress suit in the city at from $9.00 to $18.00. worth tH).-0- to !0.UO at actual value. An elegant line of boy 'I and child-reu'- s clothing at half price. An elegant line of straw and fur hats nt less than regular prices. A full line of line summer flannel shirts at from 40 cents to for the best French llannel, with silk slrics. An extraordinary line of ladies' sty-lish shoes, Oxford's and tun colors aiid black at less than other houses can sell for. A tine line of men's shoes. A largo line of medium price men's shoes, low and high cut, from $1.40 to f'J.75, worth double the moncv. al the World Clothing and Shoe llouse. 70 Knst First South street. Salt Lake City, L'luh, opposite thu Salt Lake theater.' J. P. Gaednee, 141 MAIN STREET. I Fine Clothing i A. NO i Gents Furnishing Goods. TRUNKS, TRAVELING BAGS, ETC. ONE PRICE. AND THAT THE LOWEST I The Troy Steam Luundry is justly fa-mous for its excellent work. M'J Maiu st. Telephone 103 Wanted. All kinds of second bund household foods at Ktehisou & Webors, 157 S. Kast street. www - Shoes, Ladies' Shoes. Immense Cut in Ladies' Fine Shoes. We shall place ou sale Thursday Wright & ret ers' Celebrated Make at the following prices! Our $4.00 Dougola Kid foi $ $ 50. Our $1.50 " for $1.00. Our $4.75 " for $125. Our $5.00 " for $4.50. Our $0.00 French Kid for $5.50. Our $7.00 " " for $5.75. Our $7.50 Tat. Leather for $0.20. Oxfords. Our $3.50 Dong. Kid Pat. tip for $3 00. Our $4.00 for $3.50. Our $5 00 French Kid for $4.25. Our $5.50 Ooze Kid for $1.50. Tiik Walker Hkos, Co. J. M. STULL & COMPANY, FIIB INSURANCE AGENTS' First-Clas- s Board Companies Represented. No. 22 Hast First Sonft St., Sat Lake City. L'jA. SOUTH M ADDITION. Now On the Market. LOCATION: Cor. Tenth South and Ninth East. ON TIIK CITY LIMITS TWO MILKS FROM l O. LOTS FROM $100 TO S600. THE SITUATION IS GRAND. Overlooking tho Vallr y. Call Early and Get Choice of Lots. CJ101CK RKSIDEM'B. BUtUNKKS AND ACKKAQE I'ROl'EHTY. BURTON,SIM& CO., Sole Agents, 269 S. Main St. mm Tho Variety Hall, 64 Wet Snoond South, keep everything you want. Fine line of carpet at S. B. Marks & Co. ' Lots in Rrighton can be hail for a short time iu inntalluient of $1.00 per week or $5.00 per month. Watch Brighton. - Kdwin W. Senjou. Have you (seen it? in Harratt Bros, window. 1 1 NT AH HOT.l Commercial rltrMt, on tho Kurnpoas Plan. This lino hotel, strictly first clan In every respect is now offering indiiee-men- l to the local and traveling public which cannot be excelled In the west. Central location. Restaurant in con-nection for nhort orders at all hours. FllkNCH & SOWKKS, proprietor. Baby carriage at cost at S R. Markt 4Co. - - - Cafe du Louvre, Il pABST BEER HAI.I.7 j 1 1 . - THE BEST IN THE CITY Meals Served All the Time. THE CULINARY DEPARTMENT Is supplied with the very best in the market. German Imported Beer, Ales and the Best Wines, Whiskies and Brandies For tlio TljIrHty. Fritz Ricpen, Mana Remember the I'lare -- : 1:1,15 $nd 17, l'omtnerril St., 8JZJ? Cmr. Utah Title Insurance & Trust Co. 6 Wet --'nd South St., Salt Lake City, Itah. John E. Dooley, President. I 8. Hill, nt A. L. Thomas Secretary. I nro rrxuktor r H JtClllvl Mr.tiii W. (t. M..ji. Bu.. K ( ( . (iir. Wiliiut W II K. rfciui. jmi li T rrt-..l-- l J I ! t mri R.iir.id, j y, ixxttT ( --mr W'lU-'- ' i- - ' I &fr U-- ft .aa W C H hIXt, AVitrtr AmtmU L. T- - tw at I I V Him i n'hm br Sn--i B.oH. t K ur I im Siiwul Hni. )m a. mui-iu- i. rrwurjui. I T u. M tpt, ..;. it. i. Attorn. John A. Mart Kali. Elegant lini of ttunmer neckwear in bowf, scarfs. Windsors, etc. Bast-M- a all Mta. Vo. 141 Main street. tin. Whltncr Rarkar--a Iwnlal parlors next to Cui!en hotel. KMTTlNli .MaIiIIVE IOK N.ILK. A (iuoit fori mm for Young l.mly. This machine will knit Anything in tho wool line. Cost $140; w ill sell very cheap, atid will give lessons when wanted. Kiupiiro t this office. iiiiiiinii'Eim' Complete Review of the Litigation Leading Up to Confiscation Proceedings. ,0 CUBI0U3 COMPLICATIONS. ,eral Suits Compromised Values Une-arthed by Receiver Dyer-Am-ount of the Estate Seized, fc Tho Mormon church escheat case ,cicled last week by the United States mw court adversely to the church, oue of the causes celobro of Utah, it few people even in this territory acquainted with the legislation c ,'; j, iea(i up to tho confiscation of the Irch property, and not many are the curious legal proceedings '.mected with the case. The readers Tin: Tim ks may be interested in a ri sketch of tho litigation and a re-n- ff of the most important facts con-1(lc- d with the proceedings. The Mor-- people arrived in Utah on July 24, 17 under the leadership of lirighain iiiiic. They soon established what failed the State of Deseret, and v '? legislature on February 8, 18.it, seil "an ordinance incorporating the lurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y j. The first section of that act-,t- ' ' ' as follows: De it ordained by the general v of the state of Deseret, that all ,t portions of tho inhabitants of said ite which now aro or may hereafter aimu residents therein and w hich are oivaaiul distinguished as the Church Jesus Christ ofXattcr Day Saints are ffliv incorporated, constituted, made I declared a body corporate with rpctiml succession under tho original, me and style of the Church of Jesus irist of baiter Day Saints as now with lull power and authority sue and be sued, defend and be den-ied, ii; all courts of law and equity this state; to establish order and reg-,i- e worship and hold and occupy real il personal estate and have and use a il which they may alter at pleasure." section 2 provided "And be it further iained that said body or church as a ijiotis society may at a general or cial conference elect one trustee-in-is- t and not to exceed twelve assist--l trustees, to receive, hold, buy, sell, mage, use and control the real and mhui property of said church, which il property shall be freo from taxa- - !." ...,iimn three is n follows : "And he that no buil.VuTo, Jn y U'; Provided tenant thereto Vhkh u ZT ?",up-Pie- d exclusive y C om'-worshi- p of God fnPUrposes of thfi therewith, oH miff co"ntcd forfeited." grounds shall be , t Proceedings lnstitcted. ceedintrs TtLiu i ' lnstlt"ted pro- - of America, plaintiff, and tho l,t ,J? i,atler-ila- y Saints, John K dtl,,! trealsvaessfistainAt trus-tee- the defendants. The plaintiff .it eged on information audbe c th t clJ;7 19. 18W. was and the abont 1.000.01)0. Thi complaKsk .fi for the appointmeut of a receiver to take charge of the assets of the disin-corporated institution. Demurrers replications and other legal stumbling blocks were interposed and finally on November S. 1W. a receiver was ap- pointed H'auk H. Dyer, who was then Lmtod States marshal for the territory or Utah, was chosen, and ho has ever since acted in that capacity. Tho prop- erty of the church was scattered all over the territory of Utah, and portions of it were located in Idaho. Evtry county m Utah had its quota of ecclesiastical goods and chattels. THE ASSKTS consisted of city real estate, farms, coal lands, promissory notes, railway shares, telegraph stock, theater stock', gas stock, horses, cattle, sheep, wheat furniture, vegetables, etc. The church authorities early in 1887. while congress was considering the escheat act, began to devise ways and means to evade it iu case it should become a law. Some of tho shares in the various stock com-panies were transferred to prominent and trusted members of the chinch on secret trusts, the real estate was deeded over iu a similar way, and an attempt made to place every possible obstacle in the way of recovering any of tho property of tho corporation. SUITS HAD TO BE BROUGHT in a number of instances by the receiver to recover property, and "among those begun in the Third district court of Salt Lako City were the following: Against Angus M. Cannon, the presi-dent of the Salt Lake Stake of Zion, to recover a valuable piece of land in the Tithing house block known as the church stables. Against the Salt Lake Literary and Scientific association to recover a part of the old Constitution block on Maiu street. as most of it was of a perishable nature ana was almost impossible to trace af-- i l"S pse of a .vcar" the receiver con-- e uiledlt was best to compromise this IrS'JL and he accordingly took ' in lieu of it. The property was so thoroughly scattered that to have at-tempted to recover by suit would have been an endless task. ACTIOS BV THE RECEIVE B. The receiver atid his attorneys by UUigent search managed from time to time to unearth a great deal, though by no means all of the hidden treasure, t'ycr. soon after his appointment, took possession of the following properties in Salt Lake City: The Temple and J abernacle block, valued iu 1887 at SlijO.OtM); the tithing house and ground, valued then nt 5.O0O; tlw (iardo house, built by Brigham Young for his favorite wife, Amelia, and where the president of the church usually resides valued at $:0,000, and the" histori-an's oflioe, where the records of the church are kept valued at 110.000. He also took poses-sio- ii of the church farm, a tract of land underline cultivation, containing 1.103 acres and situated about four miles south of this eity. Also an undivided, one-hal- f interest in what is commonlv called the church coal mines, situated in Summit county Utah. The receiver, beside the cash above referred to taken on account of the compromises, found the following per- sonal property; One large safe, ouo medium sized iron safe, twenty-liv- e arm chairs, eleven rotary chairs, ten uphol- stered chairs, two desks, one letter press, 800 shares of $100 each of the capital stock of the Salt Lake Cas com-pany, 4733 shares of 100 each of the capital stock of Dneret Telegraph com-pany, four promissory notes given by James Jack, Letirande Young. Bishop H. li. Clawson, John Sharp and Fera-mor- z Little, due March 2nd. 1889, with interest at 0 per cent from March 2nd, 1887, and secured by certificates of stock in tho Salt Lake' Dramatic associ-ation, the notes amounting to $23,000, and representing the value of the Salt Lako Theater, which the church owned, and also 80,150 head of sheep. The total value of the real estate seized was $285,000, and the personal property, including cash, footed up $409,788.38. making tho aggregate sum of $724,788.88. The properties described as Temple block and Tithing yard were occupied and used by the cliurch prior to 1803, the former as a building spot for houses of worship and the latter as a place where tithing was collected from the people. All the other property seized was settled upon after 1862. The Tem-ple block and Tithing yard were a part of tho public domain and continued to be so till November 21, 1871, when the land was eutered by the mayor of Salt Lake City, along with other land, under the general townsite act passed by con- - gress. 1 he church therefore claimed that the Temple block and Tithing yard were exempt from escheat. TO ITRTHKK COMPLICATE MATTERS tho church at a general conference held at Provo, Utah, April 8, 1887, passed a resolution authorizing the ap-pointment of three trustees to take the title to certain church property under section 28 of tho Edmunds-- Tucker law, which provided that all religious soci-eties should have tho right to hold throngh trustees appointed by any court exercising probate powers ou the nom-ination of the authorities of such society, so much real property as might be necessary for houses of worship, par-sonages and burial grounds. Under this resolutiou the probate court ap-pointed Willia 15. l'reston, Robert T. Burton and John R. Winder to take title to church property, and deeds of the Temple block, Tithing yard and Gai'do house were executed ou June 80, 1887. to them by those who held the legal title. On October flth, 1888, leave was grant-ed the United States attorney to prose-cute suits by information, for the pur-pose of having declared forfeited and escheated to the United States the Gar-d- o house and grounds, the tithing office and grounds, the historian's oflice and grounds, the church farm and the coal Fands, and these suits are still pending in the Third distiict court of this terri-tory, although the properties are actual-ly fu tho possession of the receiver. THE CORPORATION DISSOLVED. On October 8, 1888, tho territorial supremo court made a decree in the main case from which decree an appeal was taken to the United States supremo court and the decree sustained by that court ou May 19, 1800. That decree set forth that on March 8, 1887, tho corpor-ation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was dissolved and that since that date it has had no legal corporate existence. It was also de-creed that tho deeds to Preston, Burton and Winder conveying the Temple block, the Gardo House and tithing of-fice were without authority, and they, were ordered to be cancelled aud an-nulled. Tho court further ordered that the Temple block be set apart to the voluntary religious worshipers and unincorporated sect known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints, aud that the trustees ap-pointed bv tho probate court hold and manage said property for a place of worship, and the receiver was ordered to surrender tho Temple block to tho trustees named. It was further decreed that none of the other property seized had ever been used for building or further ordained: That as said nrch holds the constitutional aud final right in common with all civil il religious committees-'t- worship it according to the dictates'of c6n-iiico- ,' to reverence communion riMy to tho principles of truth aud Milttuiiize marriage compatible with revelations of Jesus Christ; for the iirity and full eujoyuieut of all --sings and privileges embodied in religion of Jesus Christ free to all; is also declared that said church es, and shall possess and enjoy itimially the power and authority, and of itself,, to originate, .fcc, pass and establish rules, regula-iis- , ordinances, laws, customs and terions for the good order, safety, rei nment, conveniences, comfort and itrol of said churchy and for the pun.-- , ifie'nf or" forgiveness of alToffeuses ative to fellowship, ac'conling to irch governments; that tho pursuit Ifaand the enjoyment of life, in :ry capacity of public association aud meslic happiness, temporal cxpan-- n or spiritual increase upon earth, may not legally questioned; r provided, how-r- , that each and every act or ftice so established or adopted for or custom, shall relate to solemni-sacrament-ceremonies, consecra-h- , endowments, tithings, marriages, whip or the religious duties of lo his Maker; inasmuch as the doc'- s, principles practices or perform- - support virtue and increase mor-)'- . and are not inconsistant with or Want to the constitution of the iwl States or of Hub state, and aro din the revelations of the Lord." "the 19th of Jrnuarv. 1853, thisor-aac- e was 'by the logisla-- and approved by Brigham Young, s then governor of Utah. THE LAW OF ESCHEAT. 'ven years thereafter the congress no baited States passed the anti-?'m- y bill, section third of which ta it shall not be lawful for any 'oration or association for religious charitable purposes to acquire or real estate in any territory Of the ctl Mates during tho existence of territorial government of a greater ? tlfta $50,000; and all real estate W or held by any such corpora-- r association contrary to the pro-- " of this act shall bo forfeited and '.Mlo the United States." 115 act related only to real estate. ' to this enactment tho church had ""P a number of tracts of land be-- u the public domain, and it Against Francis Armstrong, then mayor of Salt Lake City, to recover 2100 shares of the capital stock of the Salt Lake City Street Railway company which it Was alleged had been fraudu-lently transferred to him. Against John C. Cutler, who was then and is now the clerk of the county court, aud the Provo Manufacturingcompany, for the purpose of recovering 600 shares of the capital stock of said Provo Man-ufacturing company which it was al-leged had been fraudulently transferred to John C. Cutler. Against the Zions Mer-cantile Institution and the Provo Manu-facturing company, for the purpose of recovering 500 shares of said Provo Manufacturing company, c.aimed to have been fraudulently transferred by .the church lo tho Zions Mercantile Institution. On July 9, 1888, the church offered to eomprouiiso these suits aud several other suits which were in contemplation by paying in cash: In the Ancus M. Cannon suit i R.D0O 00 In the S. L. L. & 8. Ass'n suits. 36,211 15 In the contemplated suits 43,025 (10 la the John C. Cutler suit ll.OOOOO In the Z. C. M. I. suit 1 LOOT 00 In the Armstrong suit 51,000 00 Total...... 157,668 15 The receiver by petition advised the supreme- - court to accept this compro-mise and a decree was entered dismiss-ing the suits and accepting in lieu thereof $157,600.15. . I'ROl'ERTV DEEDED TO CHURCH STAKES. Tho territories of Utah and Idaho are by tho church ecclesiastically divided into stakes, these stakes corresponding in most instances to the county boun-dary lines. Early in 1887 the Mormon church formed church associations in each of these slake. There Were- churches in each of these stakes presided over by a bishop. These bishops had on hand a large amount of tithing which was constantly being collected. This tithing belonged to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and an account of it was kept at the general church otlices in Salt Lake City. In order that this should be saved from forfeiture if pos-sible, John Taylor, the then president of the church, on 1'ebruary 28th. 1887. made a deed conveying the personal property then located m the various stakes, . to the church associations in those stakes. The deed begins: "Whereas, By aud with the consent of mv brethren of tho lirst presidency aud the twelve apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- Saints and with the approval, as far as I have been " "en aUer the passage of thi3 acquire title to real estate For l5 I've years the church kept piling " assets until finally congress again "it matter in hand and on March .' 'he Kdnmnds-Tticke- r went into l section 17 of that act provided: THE EDWAHDS-TUCKE- ACT. the acts of the legislative as-- l of the territory of Utah iacor- - 2- continuing or providing for ionuion known as The Church .s'iisUiristof Latter Day Saints, or,!inance of the so called of the state of Deseret JoratinK the Church of Jesus Latter Day Saints, so far as may now have legal force and j. wo hereby disapproved and ii, ! tne said corporation in ffliay now ave- - or Pretend ivw) anI,legal existence is hereby That it shall be the duty of attorney general of the United i in ?use such proceedings to be tt'16, BUPreme court of the ter-- ; ,Llj.ah as shall be proper to ex-- ;, Joregoing provisions of this m- -l l. wind P the affairs of f'J?tl(m conformably to law." Bh.f,tfen of that act provided: 'Zl ib? the dutV of the attor-Tio- f the United States Prosecute proceedings to in sdleat to the United States I 'din C0I'Poratiou3 obtained tnf loll'tionof section three of if f ,,'pn gress approved the 1st .1,3-1S62- , entitled. 'An act to prevent the practice., of 'lsktln the territories., of-th- e and other places, anddif-irUi.- f' ann"Hing certain acts of m-- i nWy of the territory Vlo'ationof section 1890 andMi s,atute9 of the United v!b property so forfeited 'ed to the Uhited States :morSP(J of by the secretary of Minti tue proceeds thereof "11 I "I ani' tenelit of the ols in the territory in . - - able to lay the matter ueioru im-m- , ui the members of said church, and in con-sideration of the rights and powers in me vested, and of the reservations and uses to which the property herein named is to be put. I, John Taylor, trustee-iu-trus- t, have for the purpose ot aiding the several stake organizations, concluded to convey to the resp'-ctiv-e corporations hereinafter named, the personal property situated i" the counties of Utah hereinafter desig-nated as the certain stakes of Sion. "Now, therefore, in consequence of the premises and of the promise am that the said grantees w ill flithfully carry out the trust and e fiorelnand hereby mposed aud for and valuable consulera-on- s andforthe sum of $1 to me in each of the corporations medPhereiafter the "ce.pt Jcno is hereby acknowledged, I, or, haveT granted and conveyed called the to the corporation Church Association of fciaKc . i. f 7ion the personal property cattle, sheep j S rtndNave and except fhebash or stocks as aforesud for he arh. .i Prudent Tavlor appoinied James "then territorial irea,-urettaiT- y as out.heeonveyaneeand; TWST'tl..- - church parted? grounds appurtenant thereto ior me purpose of the worship of dod or of parsonages connected therewith, or for burial grounds, ft was also ad-judged that all of the real estate seized bv the receiver was the property of tho Iato church corporation and the same was held in trust for said corporation. And furthermore that the legal titles of saiil real estate were acquired by said corporation subsequently to July 1, 18W and that prior to that date neither the corporation nor the trustees had any legal title to said real estate. THE COURT KCBTHElt DECKEEU that the late corporation having become by law dissolved there did not exist nt its dissolution any trusts or purposes within the objects aud purposes for which the personal property was origi-nally acquired, to or for which said per-sonalty or any part thereof could be used or to which it could be dedicated, that were not in whole or in part op-posed to public policy, good morals iind contrary to the laws of the United States. And furthermore that there do not exist any natur-al- l persons or anybody, association or corporation who arc legally entitled to any portion of said personalty as suc-cessors in interest to said Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints nor are there now any trusts of a definite and legal character upon which the court sitting a a court of chancery can administer the personal property. Ana it u further ordered and decreed that all and entire the personal prop-erty of the lale corporation bv reason of the dissolution of the cor-poration, on account of the failure or il!eraiitv of the trust to which it was dedicated at its acquisition aud for which it had leu used by said corpora-tion and bv operation of law become escheated to aud the proirty of the United States subject to the cots an.l expenses of this proceeding and of the receivership by thi court inMituted and ordered. THE RECEIVER'S SALARY. When Frank 11. Dyer was appointed receiver, he executed a bond in the sum of $250,000. He had been in office about a year when he went into court and procured an order making a special reference to E. T. Sprague, as master in chancery, to examine aud pass upon the receipts and expenditures and to take proof and report what would be a reasonable compensation to him and to his two attorneys, p. L. Will-liam- s and (ieorg'e S. Peters, the latter also being the United States attorney for Utah, who acted for the I nited States government in tho niain escheat case, for their services. The master in chancery took a large amount of testimony as to the nature and valti" of the services, and fixed the compensa-tion for the reeeher at fr.Vi.noO, and that of each of his attorneys at $10,000. Ex-ceptions to this report were riled by the eomplaiutant, the United States. United States Attorney Hohson of Colorado. under 'instructions from Attorney Ceneial (iarland. acting for tho government. The I tah court, after hearing arguments on March 8, 188!t, tixed the compensation of the re-ceiver at $10,000 for the year and gave to attorney Williams $:i',(KH) and to at-torney Peters $4,000. On 'the 27th of November, 1HSX. cer-tain school trustees filed a petition iu the I.' tali supreme court containing charges of misconduct on the part of the receiver and his attorneys, and asking to be made parties to the pro-ceedings then pending to fix the com-pensation of the receiver. The court determined that the interests of the trustees were too remote to allow them to intervene as parties, but allowed tho petition to stand as charges against the receiver and his attor-neys, and ordered that tho game be referred to Robert Harkness as spe-cial examiner to tak, the proofs offered in support of the charges. Tho evi-dence taken at this examination covered 1151 pages of typewritten matter and cost the escheat fund $4738.87. Tho ex-aminer listened to evidence concerning the compromise made in the suits to re-cover certain real estate, it being alleged that the compromise was made unfairly to the best interests of the government, and that the court was deceived when It made the decree accepting the compromise; also to testimony of witnesses concerning the leasing of the 30,000 head of sheep, charges having been made that they were leased far below the market rates; also to testimony affecting the compro-mise on the personal property, and fur Iher to testimony tending to 'show that the receiver omitted to take possession of certain property belonging to the church. The examiner iu his report gave the following us his conclusion: "I find that there was no fraud, cor-ruption or misconduct, or fraudulent and unconscionable claims or charges lur compensation or unprofessional con-duct ou the part of the receiver or hi attorneys in respect to any of the trans-actions set forth or contained iu the petition." Lust November the receiver again applied to tho court to lix his compen-sation for the second year of his stew-ardship and the matter was referred to Joseph P. Haehe, clerk of the supreme court of Utah, to"tako testimony. His report has been on tile for'aeveral mouths, but a decision ou it has been postponed awaiting the decision of the United States supreme court iu tho main case. Now that that has been rendered, the question of the receiver' compensation will be settled on June till, that being the date to which the supremo court of this territory ad-journed. " The receiver has ever since the inves-tigation furnished the court with monthly reports. Ho leases tho fiardo house, general tithing olllce, church farm and the sheep after due advertise-ment and under the direction of the court. His account for April, 18IKI, shows the following figures: April 10, balance on hand last rrprirt.t&S.M..14 " by rent (tiuHo house. April.. tfto no " " genKTHl tithing office KM " " church fiimi.. 401.11O " dlbldend on gas stock 9.4UJ.U0 H!T6.lfl7.M Disbursements u.tgn.Wi Balance on hand In cash fc'iVl.Wi.V! The real estate escheated hax in-creased greatly iu value since 187, the boom which Salt Lake City has had aeniiing the valuation up to nearly $1,000,000, so that tho worth of the en-tire escheated property, real and per-sonal, is probably $1,2000,000. Tho total expenditure by the re-ceiver up to date for salaried, compen-sation, the cost, of the Investigation, the care of the sheep and tho geueral ex-penses aggregate over $40,000. Out of the 110,000 sheep in the receiv-er's charge, 12,418 are now leased, and tho balance are divided into herd and the herder paid by tho receiver for their care. Last winter thirty per cent, of these sheep wero lost by tho severe winter weather. Now that the question of the constitu-tionality and validity of the escheat act has been settled, the receiver will make a further search for property ami it is more than probable that a suit will be instituted to recover a $75,000 piece of property on the corner of Main ami South Temple street iu Salt Lake City known as tho Council bouse corner, which formerly belonged to the church and which was fraudulently disposed of to evade escheat. Tho church has employed able attor-neys to defend it, Senator McDonald of Indiana aud Colonel Rroadhead of St. Louis being the leading light. On May 23d Senator McDonald obtained a Slav of the mandate for thirty day, although the United Slates supreme court refused to grant a petition for a rehearing. The plea on which the stay wa granted by the United States supremo court in that the Edmunds-Tucke- r act never intended to confiscate the personal property of the church, but was only applicable to the really. It may fx? that tho court will decide' that only the realty can bo escheated a the act of 1802 above quoted merely provided that no church should hold over $ K),000 worth of real estate and did not mention personal at all, and a section 13 of the Eropertv law provided that escheat proceeding should be brought to forfeit property held in violation of the act of 1802. Should the mandate of the United States supreme court alter the decree of the Utah supreme court in that respect it will save the church over a quarter million of dollars. Goods called for and delivered. Km-pri- Steam Iauudry, 21 Commercial street, Telephone 04. He sure and see our new goods, just arrived by the train load lot. Come and take a look for yourself. llAiiitArr Hnos. Ladies everything of the latest you will liud at MYs. W . H. Fox's Millinery parlors, 833 South Maiu si. Crane building. To Nrll or Trail.. Two hu ge Mores, one tine borne, one store with six roonin above, Htablcn, j)te., a chest of rarpenter'a tool, forty aeren near rity, good land, mean of irrlat-iutf- : b'M and oerenxe iu eity and prln-flin- t I additions; two houses and lot in Chippewa Foils. Wineonslu. A Rood ranvaixer wanted for Oirden, Park City, Farmington, Morguu, Hundolph, and Hox Elder. Teaehern preferred. Call upou or addien W. P. Doddx, 70 East First South street, opposito then, tor, Salt Lake City, Utah. Utah Sour.nira. Three doom north of the Clift house, 2721 Main U the place to buy ouriositie. such as minerals, hIioIIh, corals and agate good. Hewn Connection. Wo are now prepared to put in sewer connections from the house to the sewer. We have the sewer pipe on band, so that we can promptly do the work. Salt Lake Cons'tki.ctiok Co., 01 State Htreot. ii InriMtor, Attention. Why should you loan your money at 10 per cent when you can make 811 per cent in buying ten choice lot 8llx 140 feet each on Seventh West and Seventh South streets. Rapid transit line building past. For full particular address owner, 1'. O. Hox No. SI8. Workln(inn Who wish to build a house and have their own home, should call on K. li. Wicks, .03 H. Main, and get hi terms. For three weeM it lias bu impos-i-bio for us to do watch repairing promptly, but now that wo have the services of Mr. Kbert Rob ert. to UDg and well knowii as a lirnt-r!- a watchmaker, we can get all work finished in nhort order. Davimmx, Lkynon & M' t'tsB. Barratt Bros, have all the late and fancy dining and bittintc room Chairs liAKRATT JiliOfl. fall and itee my nevr line of Spring Suiting worsted paiitalooningn. etc. I W. A. Tatlok, 43 E. hecond isouth. I . A bargain 24x10 rod between I Fourth and Fifth, on 1 atreet. City j water, fruit, and near to the electric , car. Price, liaoo, reasonable term. In-- quire room i't, Wasatch building. , j READ, To Real Estate Owners: List your property with us at once. Xo cost to you unlcfs sale is madf. We have a system of advertising that keeps a printed list of your property open to the free inspection of the general pub-lic, giving exact location of jour prop-erty, with description. pne, forma, owner' name and addre. We place your property with over two hundred good agents and purchasers at once. Our system enables any oue having our list to" find your property and you, and deal with you direct. We invite ail to call or write for our printed list of property. We mail it to any addre fi the United SiaU-s- . (;. W. Wiluekmax Co., Xo 2'(C South Main St.. in basement, ftpli OSr. I am authorized to offr. for fi-- dayt, H2ixl5 ft. on corner Fifth and I, . with brirk bou four room, clowt, bail, cellar, itv water etc . for 4.7W. J F.Jva. ! VIS J. Slain rtrerl. Car load wool and luir inttrew at 5. B. Mark Co. i j. |