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Show I LOCAL HISTORY WHAT HAPPENED FEBRUARY 7. lSt'J Two hundred twenty-five Mormons In charge of Robert Martin, sail from Liverpool on the Khlj) Henry Wait bounu for Great Salt iake valley. 1S50 Ono huiidriid minute men, under command of Capt. Geo. D. Grant, leave Salt Lake City for Utah county to stop an outbreak and protecC settlers set-tlers irom depredations of Indians. 1S52 Governor brlgham Xoung approved all of Utnh assembly, appointing probate Judges In Utah, viz., Davis county, .Joseph lloJbrook; Iron county, Ohapman Duncan; Juab county, Geo. V. Bradley; Millard county, Anson Call: Salt .Lake county, Ellas Smith; Tooele county, Alfred Lee; Utah county, Preston Thomas; Weber county, Scaac Clark. 1854 Gen. .lohn C- Fremont, with a company com-pany of nine while men and twelve Delaware Indians, arrived at lJaro-wan, lJaro-wan, in Iron county, almost dead from starvation. One man fell from his horse dead Just before the settlement set-tlement was reached. The party was enrouto fiom California to Fort tiwnln. New Mexico, and hud got lost. Thoy crossed tho divide between Beaver and Iron counties through a pass since known as Fremont pass. The party remained al Parowan until February 20. and then, supplied with provisions and fresh animals, resumed their Journey east. I860 Social hall, in Salt Lake City, was reopened for public amusements which had been discontinued there for three years. 1556 Nephl Stewart of Payson, Utah county, accidentally killed near Eureka. Eure-ka. Juab county. 1557- Bishop James C Hamilton of Mill Creek, arrested in Mill Creek on charge of unlawful cohabitation, brought to Salt Lake City and placed under 51500 bonds. Tho following day preliminary examination was heard before United Stutcs Commissioner Commis-sioner McKay and he was discharged. United States supreme court reversed the decision of Judge Powers, and tho Utah supreme court, In Apostle Lorenzo Lo-renzo Snow's case, holding that tho orfensc with which ho was charged could not bo segregated. 1S8S A. D. ttogcrs of Ogden, John Marriott Mar-riott of Marriott. Weber county, Charles A. Anderson and Hans P. Hansen of Ilyrum, arrested for unlawful un-lawful cohnbltation. 1S90 Last Liberal parade of tho campaign cam-paign takes place In Salt Lake Cltv. Joseph P. Barton of Paragoonah discharged dis-charged from the penltcnllury. People Peo-ple (Mormon) hold outdoor meeting In front of city hnll. 1S05 Jieb. Barkdull discharged from the Utah penitentiary. 1S08 Former postmaster of Sail Lake City, Caleb Robinson Barrett, dies in Salt Lake; Elder Robert R. Anderson appointed state bank cx-umlncr cx-umlncr for Utah. 1899 News received of the killing of John C. Young and Wllhelm Goodman Good-man near Manlln. A. W. McCunc conies within two votes of election to the United States senate. 1900 Ogden councllmen come to Salt Lako to avoid being -forced to. attend at-tend council sessions nt Ogden. 1901 Utah sennto adopts resolution favoring election of senators by people. peo-ple. 1902 Groat thaw in SaH. Lake, followed by rain. Mining dividends from Utah mines amounting to 5250,000. are announced. an-nounced. Lively session of Republican Repub-lican city committee and six councll-manlc councll-manlc supporters of mayor. 1903 Court orders Former Senator Arthur Ar-thur Brown to puy alimony or go to 190-1 Local Balllmoreans lose property In great fire. Press club annual banquet. ban-quet. 1905 Will Phillips arrested on a charge of complicity In the bounty frauds. Patrolman George Moore captured a heavily armed burglar in the Redman Red-man Van & Storage building. The boiler bill was killed In the house. Smelter smoke Investigation begun , before the county board of health. lauo independent Telephone company Insists In-sists hoard of education remove Bell phones. M. & M. association denounces de-nounces fako advertising. Annual Y. M. C. A, banquet In gymnasium. Women's clubs hold meeting. Dr. E. S. Pa.yne acquitted. Girl baby found 10 drowned in Jordan river. 1.907 Samuel iVcwhousc returns from Cobalt. Co-balt. Clegg bill, aimed at foreign bonding companies, killed. Supreme court holds stato law on liens in-v,JHcl-Arrs; Lcttlca A. Brown awarded award-ed SloOO from city on account of son s death In conduit. Mill Creek Power company furnishes electricity for first time. Eureka railroad company com-pany of Salt Lake flies articles. In this local history mention is made or the discharges of men from the Utah penitentiary. These men were polycramlsts convicted under the Edmunds law 'for unlawful un-lawful cohabitation. The Mormons nN ways refer to these men ns martyrs to a cati3c and likewise have always declared that no man ever took a. plural wife and entered into polygamy unless he was able lo support the extra vlves. This statement Is disproved by tho fact that iv I1 1, C?,SCB "f conviction for unlawful cohabitation (polygamy) that thoro was a fine In addition to tho sentence of Imprisonment Im-prisonment and that lp nearlv every case where a polygamlst was discharged from the penitentiary he took tho partner's path, under an act of the Utah legislation the larger majority of whom were Mormons, Mor-mons, and thus escaped the serving of a longer term In tho penitentiary unless he paid the fine, thus conclusively prov-Ing prov-Ing that thoy were paupers. |