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Show THE LVillilh Testimony Adduced Sliowirg Judge Zane's Participation in the Case as aa Attorney. P. H. EYES AGAIN ON THE STAND The Ex-Eeceiver Gives a Pull Account of the Stewart-eliip. that the safe thing to do. we could have j received lioiu them, iu-t.'ad of W.ng 1 SPJ.Tofl we could have ve,'".vod j $111.70. which wou'i.l have mile a difference to the fund of S2-1 (U! -'.. i Add that to the cost of the investigation makes S 771. Mr. Judd I believe, if your honor please, we are through on my side, but mv associate counsel in the ease ate both away, and 1 would not like to announce an-nounce it until they return. The .Examiner I waut to ask Mr. Dver a question or two. J 1 understood you, Mr. Dyer, in your former examination to say that you had tiled vouchers w ith your ditl'er-i'lit ditl'er-i'lit reports made to the court, and your proceedings as receiver, and thai your tiual accounts will show voucher fm- all disbursements made bv you, with some f....- uv.M.iiiiiiiw aniiill amounts. oil The Dyer investigation was resumed at that gentleman's ollice at ten o'clock this morning. John B. Kaehe, clerk in the territorial territor-ial supreme court, was the iiist witness and being examined by Judge Judd, tcstilied that he is familiar with the handwriting of Judge ('. S. Zane, and he. recognized that handwriting in which the decree of the Utah supreme court of July 12th, ordering the present investigation was written, as Judge Zane's. The witness identilied several documents which formed part of the liles of this ease, among them being tho petition of tho school trustees, signed by Zane & Zane attorneys for tho petitioners. pe-titioners. F. II. MeGurrin, tho present court stenographer, was sworn and tcstilied to having reported a part of the testimony testi-mony taken before Judge llarkness in tin. ..vi.iln.itw-.n of 1 1 1 1 St Piisp nml that tiled those with the clerk of the supreme j court? A. Yes sir. ; Q. With your monthly reports that you made? A. Yes. sir? j q. And could you give me a statement state-ment of m -h items in your account of disbursements, for which you have rendered ren-dered no vouchers? A. Well. Judge. 1 think may be vou misunderstood mu about that; 1 saul that I didn't lake vouchers from the parties to w hom my agents paid the money; 1 did take vouchers from the agents in the held. To illustrate. Mr. L. Thompson hd charge of the sheep, and was managing them; and of course it was necessary neces-sary for him to go from one point to another, of the territory, terri-tory, to visii those herds as often as ho could get around lo them; and in doing that, w hy he had to pay his railroad Lire to diil'ereut points; then he had lo hire a horse occasionally; ho would ston over night at a hotel, and it was incidental expenses of that nature; said 1 didn't take vouchers from those .1. a ..t 'LI 1 U lllllf I the linn of Zane & Zane took part in those proceedings and was composed of the present chief justice of Utah, C. S. Zane aud his son John M. Zane. Judge Judd here wishedtosaythat while his client was ready at all times to have his official acts investigated, he strongly objected to having them under or before Judge Zaue, who was aud is, and always has been, opposed to the late receiver, Frank H. Dyer. The articles of incorporation of the to W lioill iue mom-v mis ... ....... bv the agents, although I huve vouch- ci-s from' the party that I really paid it to, taking his statement for these little incidental expenses on the road O You have a voucher, then for each item set forth in your accounts, on tile with tha clerk of tho supremo court? . . i . i A Unless it has been mislaid in some way. ves, sir; 1 certainly liled om and I think'lhev are all then) now; u , there are nnv short, of course we can tako pains to get them: there, -..r.. none short when 1 St. George Temple association, tne articles ar-ticles of Incorporation of the Salt Lake Association of the Stake of Zion, the articles of incorporation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints residing re-siding in the First ecclesiastical ward of the stake of Zion, a copy of a deed of Horace S. Kldredgo to tho Salt Lake filed them; it was almost impossible to take vouchers iu those little mutters, of half a dollar or a dollar, involving tw or throe thousand dollars. Thereupon the examination was adjourned ad-journed until Wednesday, September L'lth, 1WM). at 10 o'clock a.m., at the ollico of Dickson & Stone. Literary and Scientific association tlicse papers were oll'ered in evidence to show the manner in which the temples, tem-ples, stake and ward meeting property is held, and Lc Grande Young testihed that they are, almost exactly similar to all siich'transactious all over tho terri-tory, terri-tory, with perhaps sonic local modilica-lions. modilica-lions. Frank II. Dyer being sworn upon examination by Judge Judd, testi- lied that the cost of lliu investigation conducted before Judge llarkness was $47:W.87, about $100 of which was paid to Judge Sprague for his services. Q. Mr. Dyer, have you a statement whereby you can exactly doterniino the cost of the former investigation before Robert Darkness, Esq., under the petition peti-tion of the school trustees heretofore tiled iu this case? A. Yes. sir. il Slate the amount of it, please. A. Well the expense, us I have it charged up, includes all of that investigation as well as the reference to Judge Sprague. The cost before Judge Sprague how-1 ever was a moro nothing. .1 think a hundred dollars of this, or such a matter, mat-ter, covers the amount paid Judge Sprague, on account of taking testimony testi-mony . , o Q On the question of ,ompetisation? A Yes. sir; that is all I see here with reference V that; but the amount 111 total is $473:1.87. 0 Well, do you mean to say that that is the amount of the cost of the investigation in-vestigation that took place under the school trustees' petition before Robert llarkness? A. Yes. sir; with some little deduction for the , . . O About how much deduction? A. It appears here there is only 100 pawl Judge Sprague for his fees for silting in the case. , . O. The balanco is how much? A. OThat was the cost of the investigation investi-gation under the petition of the school trustees before Robert llarkness.' A. o' & liave, you heretofore stated the ij in ihn .Instruction of aniOUIll UI me , slieep, and the loss of rents by reason of the last herding that you did under the orders of tho court? A. l made some reference to it in my tesli-monv tesli-monv on the direct examination. O If vou have the exact amount that was lost to the funiC by reason of that please state it. A. Since that allusion al-lusion to that matter in my testimony. 1 have taken occasion to make from in) books and reports an Cstiiiiate---not an estimate, but as I understand it he exact ex-act ligiires-showing the number of "l,ep'ost to have been 72.VJ. and reckoning reck-oning those at the price at w hid. the sheep sold recently, makes L,k,(.i.. 4 then the exiienscof herding, dipping and s l eariii? and other neccs,ary expenses V making a total cost to the fund (which was I think as economical as hevcouhl be run under the circi.m-st circi.m-st ineesl of m;mM. less the wool which was sold, an.l the lambs, wh.eh e c an increase to the herd, amount-g amount-g to WW; deducting that from the t.hi0M would leave 1!).7.W of act- : n-tl loss to the fund, uai 10. s rented out n -Now, if they had been re men o ,1 , s thcv formerly had licen, to Mr. Pi; k- "orinstatici what would ha-! Jen; ?). Mate of account? A.-W e l, I w ill j ate his, that I didn't reckon .1 upon t At basis exactly, because this !a-t year I had a longer time in which to lease hem. I had ail the summer long a 1 I went to the court early m the summer for advice a4 tow al -sh ould be , (iotlc with tho-e sheep, what Position sliouhl hp , n,;"lu' f1 them. I'S advocating; that thev should be sold: that they were ,d have had go, d binds; if they w ould k 1 , rm tted i. e to do so, and we h , i7h i5nH them also later on. then thVt oflVr was refused at W cents h, and thev instructed me to do herd them, and of course . charge that instruction to Judge -W the if th hee |