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Show p nora I POSTMASTER llett Is field for; I EmbezzSemeot. jdrew Smith and Arthur Mew Charged With Pflail II Robbing. fiSterfelt Coin Gets Two Men Into $5rou,ble Luko and Willumsen Cases Ignored. 'Tho Federal grand Jury, -which has ten In cession for the past week, ycs-rSay ycs-rSay returned Indictments In the foiling foi-ling cases: United States vs. Reuben S.- Collett, fjembczzlemcnt of postotfice funds at SrnaL Mr. Collett -was the postmaster fVernal, and is Indicted for em- zllng on or about November 16, 1904. 1.84 of the postal funds, and $S27.6G of jfcfmoney order funds of the Govern-Jin Govern-Jin Collett is now out on bonds, A next Saturday, December 10, has yft set aa the day for him to plead to Wndlctment. ffiUcd States vs. A. McCarthy, fffged with passing counterfeit coin for about May 12, 1904. At that time sCarthy attempted to pay one Llllie iward a debt with a counterfeit 55 I'd piece, He is now In Jail, and will (called on December 10 to plead. Charged "With Bobbing Mails. fcjthur Tev. charged with stealing d carrying away mall from the Salt ike postofflco June 12, 1904. was also llcted. Tew la Indicted on two rgc. One count charges him with J tiling a letter containing a check for iS5 Issued by the Utah Independent ilephone company In favor of the Utah lye &. Hardware company. Another unt charges the theft of a letter con-Inlng con-Inlng a check for $2. issued by Find- j yi & Nelaon of Montpeller, Ida., In vor of the Utah Stovs &. Hardware impany of this city. He will plead act Saturday Kn Indictment against Andrew A. alth was likewise found by the Jury. 51th was a distributor in the Salt ike postofllce. and on or about Sep-Bber Sep-Bber 25, 1004, opened a letter ad-eseed ad-eseed to Shores & Shores containing ree 51 bills, appropriating the money ti destroying the letter. December was the day set for him to plead to Indictment. fjidrcw Chrlstensen was indicted on ec charges. One count charges him th having in his possession counter-It counter-It coin; another count accuses him of ising a counterfeit ?5 gold piece, and III another with passing a counterfeit Of gold piece. Chrlstensen was mixed f&wlth Jed Grant and Rue Smith ftthe fall of last year, but fled to Butto. ftiere he was arrested by the secret irylce ofllcers of the United States Treasury department last summer and fought back to Utah to await the acton ac-ton of the grand Jury. He will also lead next Saturday. W Two Charges Ignored. No Indictments were found In the fses of the United States vs. Francis KLuke and the United States vs. M. A. fillumsen. Luke was charged before JUnlted Statc-3 Commissioner with vlo-fclng vlo-fclng a postal law by ending a letter pne F. J FInnlgan In an envelope mrked, "Scientific Collector of Bad JtbjEr-Some People Don't Like Us." isj'hondsmen .were by order of court ACharged. EiI. A. "Willumsen, editor and owner &tho Hurray Eagle, was charged th sending obscene printed matter trough the mails, and had his prellml-Lfy prellml-Lfy hearing beforo Judge Twomey In ie' latter part of October. His bonds-Jen bonds-Jen were discharged. JThe finding In one other case lnvestl-Ited lnvestl-Ited by the grand jury has been wllh-jtld wllh-jtld pending the arrest of the party Khtcd. |