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Show JustHistory By Albert F," Philips Amonc thk karlikr )ud(c M Utah ww John 8. Kinney, Vh n Auvuat 14. ltM. auceMded Judir Tkkrui Itaad mm chief Junlr on ihk kuprnik bench ot thk territory, Judire Reed haeinr peeked er at Hath, N. three month pre-oedlnc pre-oedlnc Judge Reed waa well liked br ill. and to thlk Koed will Ju.-tlf Ju.-tlf Kinney auceeeded. He wae the flret alaner to tha petition, le Prealdent Franklin Pierce prayina-(or prayina-(or ih reappointment of Brlgnam Tounr to be governor of the territory terri-tory of Utah.. Juetlce Kinney while edmlnleterlnf juatlre, likewise waa bonlface at tha Union notel. which wae located near the northern extremity ex-tremity of Salt Leke City, the hotel taklnir Ha name fromUnlon kquare. Thlk hotel 'afterwards became the t'nlon academy and waa taught by Dr. Dork my a. Afterwards It became a department of the Uni-veralty Uni-veralty ot Deaeret. and later the Deeeret hoenltaL Juatloa Kinney waa a great, big-hearted big-hearted man of eplendld phye!qi. and he raptured the people during ' hla realdenee. He remained on the ', bench until when he returned to Nebraska with hla family In I order to give hla children the ad- j vantage of the schools. While rte waa' on the bench he tried the , case of several Indiana who were in the Gunnison massacre, tbe court being held at Kephl and guarded by a tfetachment of eel- 1 dlera, n attack bjrUte warriors 100 of whom were camped In the j town, being feared. Three of the ' red men were convicted of tnur- j der and sent to the territorial pen- Herniary. . ; Later Judge Kinney returned to Utah aa an appointee to the court end In 11(1 he was removed by; President Abraham. Lincoln. Than he was. nominated and elected -a delegate to congress, aucceedlnr ' Dr. BernheUel. who had served hi third term - In the , lower house. Judge Kinney- waa -elected aa a Democrat, but he had no use for the "copperhead" faction of the nertv. and In hla flrat soeeeYt In I the house In January, 114, he ex corlated Fernando Wood, Democ-et, of New Tork. for referring to the I people of Utah aa "profligate out-I out-I rests, hostile to the moral and no-I'tlcnl no-I'tlcnl Institution of tha .VnHed States." In this address Judge Kinney declared de-clared that "a tnan who would stand up In the American congress at a time when the government was struggling for existence) . and pronounce the effort .' made byA It to put down tite rebellion ae ' a 'hellieh crusade' ought to be expelled ex-pelled a upworthy to occupy a seat on th floor of congress." During hi career In the house. Justice Kinney made an appeal for the passage of an enabling act to admit Utah Into the Union nniTk presented a bill providing therefr-i which failed tp pass. At the close nf the congressional career of Justice Kinney he returned re-turned to hi old home In Nebraska Ne-braska and subsequently removed to Kan Diego, Cel. When the Trana-Mlsslsslppl congress wn held In Salt Lake In 1897 Justice Kinney waa sent aa a delegntn from California. Then In 1S! he naln returned, to Utah, settling In I Salt Lake aa hi home, and her he died August 1. 102, almnsg forty-eight yearn after hla flret visit to Utah and where hemad hi home. t t . |