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Show LOCAL HISTORY WHAT HAPPENED FEBRUARY 6. IS ID Ship Ashland with 1S7 Mormons on board sailed from Liverpool for Salt Lake. The party was under tho direction di-rection of John Johnson 1S55 Mormon battalion Inaugurate a two days' festival in Salt Lako City. lSbl biidpr an order of the commander of military post at Camp Flovd, Utah, tho name of the post was changed to Fort Crittenden. This was dono bo-cause bo-cause Secretary of War John B. Flnvrl. nflpi' whnm Ihn ra,v.n -,... .. inally named, had left his post and allied al-lied himself with tho south against tho union. p 1871 The mooting houso tithing office and postofllcc at Pleasant Grove destroyed de-stroyed by fire. 1S72 Edward Samuels and William Hampton wore killed by a snowslldo , In Big Cottonwood canyon. ISSi Peter Carlson and son killed in a snowslldo near Logan. 1SSG Tho Utah supremo court sustains tho decision of Judge O. W. Powers against Apostle Lorenzo Snow, but " granted the defendant twenty days in which to perfect an appeal to the supreme su-preme court of tho United States, Judge- Powers hold that each day Apostle Snow lived with plural -wife constituted a separate offense. And this decision was sustained by Utah courts. The United States supreme court reversed tho decision, holding that tho ofienso could not bo segregated. segre-gated. The Utah supreme court also sustained the decision of the Third district court against Brlgham Y. Hampton, who had been convicted of conspiracy. This was tho famous case wherein women, of ill-reputo were brought here by Hampton, who was a church officer, and established In a disorderly houso for tho purpose of ensnaring government officials, peepholes peep-holes having been arranged so that an espionage could be had over every one who ontorcd the place. Tho Salt Lake City nolic(v wero parties to the scheme. The leader of the notorious women was ono named Davenport, blio sk ppcd out after Hampton was Indicted, but was arrested In Denver and returned hero. After the trial she disappeared and was' never heard of. It Is alleged that she was slain and that her body was secrctly burnctl in the City cemetery-. Tho case was known as tho "Peephole" case. lSSSPcopIc's party (Mormon) convention conven-tion In Salt Lake City. Hans Soron-sen Soron-sen and .7. II. Barker of Newton and James Archibald of Clarkston arrost-4;M..for arrost-4;M..for ",,lwr"1 cohabitation Jacob tlaryr dlscharged rro,n Ulal" penitcn- 1S80 House committee on territories recommended rec-ommended statehood for Idaho. Wyoming Wy-oming and Arizona, but refused to so rccommoud for Utah. Joseph Foster . slm',.fleItl arrested for unlawful cohabitation. Peter -Barton of Kays-ylllc Kays-ylllc sentenced by Judge Sandford of the Third district court to fifteen months imprisonment for unlawful cohabitation. 1804 Territorial legislature council passes eight-hour law. It was sup- icnnp0r.lc1 by th. Povcrnor February 20. 1SP9 -News received of batteries In battle bat-tle near Manila.-Dr. Henry A. Young killed -Cold wave causes closing of E'x nchoolu announced r. 1 .Unw3Bl iJiu Anotlajr telrni,n- iMm -Grand Cent k"0 King YMiiinn,!,buy mm Oommcrelar vdo W SrffiUlia SSW 1006- Two frcleh : H collide near Wry "8.V trainmen killed ,thm Recorder Moreion Juvenile court PrnSicB vlctcd of murtw .?f!S Pon.-Ordlnance VJM franchlHP to iiitp i lm burglars cd ordinance SJnJl power to app'ont"., Robert Andcrion, n2 heavy box whilo JifESM Gambling nt "n & 1007- Heatl debate n S which Representative W down Alphabet Jcnli f octet 10 per cent rS rado-Utah rates.-jJB trocutcd. ""-ia!n |