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Show . The llro Chief Iiitoatliratlun. Major Llirnlj nalltnnttlir llrr. f I Utncral Xolci. f Too flro commlttro and Major ., Lundyaet run cumtnlltt'oor Invi-itlgv 1 Hon yesterday to litar tt.tlmony as to I I Wm.lllnrord's liKoropet.nojr as n flro i chief. Thosn prnrtit wero Mayor i 1 .Lundy, Councilors GUI ami llntrop, J Jones rutting In no uj pcarauco umll 1 the afternoon nation, Many retrained t 8 from rniltlnir. In an aparanr until , u tunimonod toapirar, aa tli.y foil Hist p they did not caro to I. artlea tuwliat Ji they tormid n "whliowasliliiH." I f aohame. Captain Jlorinell of tlie r (i I'aclUo Insuranoe Union, was also I I presont. . .. , f, During ono of tlio frequent walti for a witnesses llayar Iwudy rooeedml to I i Rive the liowtimpcr In central n I fi thoroilRli tonieue mailing, lie acousod , ' them of tellluR falithooda about the '. file until thoy bellornd them P true, ilo went ao far In hU t denunolatlona of the newspapers that , any on who would have accepted aa truowhat lie (aid would have been ' led to think that the Iioan ami Trust comfany'i building Vfaa not burned at nil, but the whole thing was a news- paper lllutlon. The mayor waa In a wiiltolieatand appeared to bo aa u- cited a ho la said to have been when ho deposed tho chief at the Iliu and assumed control, At the examination, the method of (juealloiiuiK wi, to lay the least, lecullar.AII tbeUiatlona aeked wt.ru leading ao that If there waa anything i In Illnford'a favor It would be brought .' out without particularly bringing tut iany damaging testimony unless the wlmeaaea volunteered It. Moat of thoie whuwere subtu'naed to appear before the commltteo aeem averao to attending. attend-ing. Many tlmea have the troubles of the Jlalr family been ventilated In court and out, and yeaterday another acene to tho drama It might be called waa added by the arrest, conviction and auhtence for dlalurblug the peace of lenamln Prank, llalr, the head of tho family and ex-husband of the notorloui liola. Hevcral dnya ago IjoIu and Tom Hhelton, who had previously been ox. I trcmely Intimate, ao lutlmale In fact that Hhelton apent three montha In the I.ullontlary for It, wern married, J.)a having aoine time before been divorced from llalr. On Wednesday night llalr loaded up on lighting whisky and go-j go-j Ing to hla farmer wlfe'a home attempt I J to clian out the family, lie waa arrtated Jealerday by Ueiuly Manlial ) Corey and arraigned before Conimla ) aloner Wardljlgl. who found him ' KUlltyandaenteuced hlmtoalx monlha I In tho penitentiary, aenteucu to be sua , ponded during good behavior. It la , almoat noedleiH to aay Bale waa very much lamed wheu tho court had exer i ulaed lta Judicial power. J Nearly all the bondamen of Carr A. t Callahan were preaeut at the meetlug 1 j laat night called for thu purnoas or agreeing upon eorne plan lor the set. ; tlement of the nflalra of the (Jraut i avenuo school houso. After n lull die- ; tuition It waa ilecldcil to aicept the j termi offered by tho board of education ' j A oommltlee waa appointed to collect ' ' from the Individual bond-men the , amount each will be forced tu put up to i cover the deficiency and clear tho 1 building of ludebtcdnua. Another anow allde occurred yeiter- J day morning on the Union 1'aolflo near the mouth of Weber canyon, ho L damage waa done and tbo track waa cleared without dsloj. Kngluceraon ,' all tralna have received Instructions S not to run at n speed of moro than I four miles an hour through the dan- .1 geroua i aria of the canyon. I ' T t A company of United Htatea aoldlera r for the California de ailment, occupy- I Ing a (pedal car, went west jesterday it ) altercoon. |