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Show I LOCAL HISTORY I WHAT HAPPENED MARCH 18. lSni Pionldcnts Bi-lgham Young and Holier- C. Kimball mid olhorii loft Salt Lake City on a visit lo Utah county. Elder W. Burton of Sail Laku City dlod Jn Edinburgh. Scotland, Scot-land, where hu labored us a inls-olonnry. inls-olonnry. JS.'ifi A convention mot In Salt Luke to prcparo a utaio couHiitulloit nnd memorialize me-morialize eongroHH for tin admission of Utah into tho Union as the stuto of Descrel. Tim constitution and memorial were adopted on the 27th, and Apostles Georgo A. Smith ami John Taylor wore elected delegates to promint Iho name to congress. 187:. MaJ. Both M. Blair dlodrat Logan. lS7ti W. D. L'holps, one of tho escaped ronvintu and murderers, was wound-od wound-od with fatal effect by Sheriff John D. Ilolladay, who tried to capture him near Smiiaquln. Utah county. 187S--C01. Stephen Markham died at Spanish Fork. Utah county. 1SSI Bishop Silas Richards- died at Union. Salt Lake county. lSSIi John Nicholson, associate editor of the Dcsorol News, was arrested, charged with unlawful cohabitation, and placed under $li00 bonds, to answer beforo tho grand Jury. 1SSU In tho Third district court, the cas': of President Georgo Q. Can-' iion was. railed, but the defendant did not appear, and his bail was declared de-clared forfeited. In the Third district dis-trict court (Judge Zauo) Abraham II. Cannon was sentenced to six months' Imprlsonim-nt and $300 flno for unlawful cohabitation, and taken lo ihc penitentiary. After several days' trial, in the Second district court at Beaver, Marcus Ij. Shepherd, Shep-herd, charged with unlawful cohabitation, cohabi-tation, was acquitted. ISS7 Archibald N. Hill of tho Nineteenth ecclesiastical ward, Salt Lake City, was arrested on a charge of unlawful unlaw-ful cohabitation, but slipped away from Iho officers. ISno lohn C. Weston. In heroic dofense. shot and killed a robber In Salt Lake City, nnd mortally wounded another. Amos Pcnso Stouo.' an old pioneer, died at Ogden. Olnf A. Andolln of Dover, Sanpete county, discharged from tho penitentiary. Nicholas Muhlcstoln was arrosted by United States marshals at Provo for unlawful unlaw-ful cohabitation. lSOU The Fiftieth anniversary of tho organization or-ganization of the Relief Society at Naiivoo. III., was celobratod throughout through-out the Mormon church. In Salt Lake City services were hold in the tabernacle, and the congregation was addressed by 'Ann. D. II. Young, Abraham II. Cannon, Joseph F. Smith, Rathshoba W. Smith, Romania Ro-mania 15. Pratt and others. In the First district court, at Provo, John A. Mower wna sentenced to ten days' Imprisonment for unlawful cohabitation. co-habitation. 1SDS Bishop Ellas Morris died in Salt Lake City from tho effects of an accident, ac-cident, sustained by him the previous pre-vious Monday. March 11. 1S09 Mormon church Issues a new scries sc-ries of bonds. Smallpox breaks out at Fort Douglas. 1900 Petition of Thomas Williams for pardon denied. St. Patrick's day celebrated. 1901 Utah legislature adjourns sine die. Inlermounlalii baseball league organized. or-ganized. 1003 "Corlanton" company returns from northern Irln. Sandv nosloflico robbed. Utah Irrigation commission holds first meeting. 1904 Mormons decide to orcct monument monu-ment to those who died and were burled at Florence (Winter Quarters). Quar-ters). Nebraska. 1906 Snow blockade In Salt Lake lifted. James McRac Injured while horseback horse-back riding. Herbert & Barton butchers, charged with selling bad pork, discharged by court. 1907 Ripper bill killed In senate Clar-encc Clar-encc Johnson robbed on Main, street. |