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Show who was charged with adultery, ended end-ed in the acquittal of the defendant. The girl in the case was Maria May Campbell, aged 14, of Escalante. L. H. Eddy, the county attorney of Grand county, has been indicted by the grand jury on the charge of malicious mischief. He immediately, immed-iately, entered a plea of guilty. Eddy took part in a raid on a Moab saloon , Harry Hayes, the Pelican Point murderer, was resentenced by Judge Hatch at Provo, . Saturday, Dec. 19. to be hung. The date set for the execution is January 22, 1897, Hayes still protests that he is innocent.. in-nocent.. , ' ' ; ! George Walters of South Cottonwood Cotton-wood was found dead by the road-side road-side within a short distance of his home, two miles east of .; Murray. Sunday morning. Her had been drinking, and it is thought that hU horse stumbled and fell upon him. as a number of severe ? bruises were found on htm and the horse.' ROUND ABOUT THE STATE. , Items of Interest . Culled From Various Vari-ous Sources. ELECTION LAW VALID. Monday's Deseret News gives the following , brief report of the decision de-cision of the Supreme Court in the election contest: "At 4:15 this afternoon the State Supreme court handed down its decision de-cision in the case of M. L. Ritchie vs. the State board of canvassers. , The question jnvoived was the jv; : validity. of the Australian ballot law passed by the last Legislature, and . -under w!ich the general election in this State in November -last, was ;'. held. It was the most important , ;r election question .yet raised in the :n State, since the invalidity of the law meant that all election proceedings ' '- under it would be void. "But the law is good, the Supreme y court affirming its validity through- '' '' out. "On the first point that the law had not been properly passed, the court said the inference was that it T had been, since the journal did not show-to the contrary.-Tthercfore that point was hot well taken.' "On the point of the Australian ballot and the secrecy of the same, onnrt hflH that the svstem VftAW V " . V - J tended to encourage the voting of straight tickets and the discourage-meri discourage-meri of the; independent voter, which some objected to; that the system had its merits as well as its demerits, and that the Legislature having adopted it, and having thus expressed the will of .the people, the court did not feel to override that ' will.' . There might be a better sys-tem sys-tem of providing for contests, but this was the one the people's repre-: repre-: sentatives had chosen, and while it might.be improved it was not violative vio-lative of the Constitution. "The whole law was therefore de-1 clared valid, and the writ asked by Judge Ritchie ; forbidding the canvassing can-vassing board to declare the result was denied. ' 1 "Judge Zane rendered the opinion 1 of the court. Judges Bartch and Miner concurred in the result, but ' Judge ,B.artch- will file a separate opinion." S. G. Sly, the Payson man accused 1 of counterfeiting, has been ac-. ac-. quitted, . - . W. A. Williamson has been appointed ap-pointed postmaster at Murray, vice M. F. Jackson, resigned. . Conditions are said to be very unfavorable un-favorable for sheep in the deserts on account of a lack of snow. ' " Judge Henry M. Larter died at Mt. Pleasant last Friday, of neuralgia neural-gia of the heart. He was 65 years ; of age, and had been one of Sanpete county's prominent .citizens for many "years. . ' . The trial at Panguitch on Dec. 17 of George Robertson, of Springville, |