Show local and other matters Z FROM MONDAYS daely DEC it 14 fined pined today to day the young fellow crawford who bruised fritz the saloon leperi keeper last hist week was brought bf bc before fore the fhe he police court and fined 15 criminal Business This morning ua cited suited states district attorney carey informed the judge of the third district count court that witnesses in eight orten or ten cases were being subpoenaed congressional record we are indebted to the yao lao hon i n geo Q cannon our respected delegate to congress for a copy of the congressional record of the first session of the forty third congress missionary appointments for sunday dec sugar house ward wod district south cottonwood and west jordan mill district il i i stealing francis P mcray mcbay was ai rested arrested this morning for stealing a a coat from the pacific house he was talkative and made quite a speech which was lost on the judge who committed him for twenty five days toworu to work for the city busy alderman was ivas very busy for a short time this morning dealing out justice to the victims of bad whiskey they came up as follows two drunks and disturbing the peace each having to pay 10 one disturbing the peace had a 10 fine and an assa ussa i tit I 1 t and battery 15 brought back some time since J VV wiggins gave bonds to the third district court for his appearance for trial on an indictment for gambling wiggins who is a notorious three card monte nan man j jumped bumped his bonds and fled to wyoming Vy oming territory he was subsequently captured at Evanston by I 1 deputy marshal kingsley who brought him to this city on saturday evening on his arrival he be was lodged in the penitentiary where he now lies arrivals in england the mut hit dennial tennial star of nov 17 has the following the following elders arrived at this port from utah on sunday morning dinst J per the gulon guion steamer wyoming viz robert rubert easton U G flygare andrew B R anderson 3 S C hansen john M larsen J gustavsen hogen hansen soren petersen john dewsnup and george ball these elders left salt lake city oct 28 and embarked at new york nov 3 they had a prosperous journey and are in the enjoyment of excellent health wants to hear from his broiher brother william tait care of dr grierson melrose Roxburg shire scotland is anxious to gain some tidings of his brother robert tait talt who he says was a first class musician was in H 11 regiment formerly stationed in canada and who left that portion of victoriaa victorians dominions for the united states about twenty years ago subsequently coming to utah where the inquirer says he settled the writer of the letter states also that a friend of his from the united states informed him last year that his brother was alive and wen well weli and he is exceedingly anxious to learn definitely whether such is really the case this Is the second letter of inquiry that mr tait has written on the subject the first of which we also noticed in the NEWS but there ther ewas was no response sinthe in the shape of information thereto we try again shooting affair about 10 on saturday night mr nir william hilton night watchman on the wasatch hotel block heard beard the report ort of a pistol in the cigar store of oseph joseph casso under the hotel named he immediately rushed in and found mr casso and mr nir bonkofsky Bou kofsky clinched and struggling desperately he separated them when it was discovered that casso was shot through the right groin and the fleshy part of the right thigh it appears that mr nir bonkofsky Bou kofsky petered entered the back room of the store in in which were mr and mrs casso and some friends bonkofsky Bou kofsky stating that the object of his visit was to get a cigar the two men adjourned to the store when some words passed between them casso telling the other he wanti want him to come to the house any more he states that Bou bonkofsky Bouko kofsky then drew his hla pistol when attempted he ho to seize it to prevent him shooting instead of getting hold of the weapon he got hold hoid b olg of bou wrist lowering it so that when the pistol was discharged the bullet struck him in the lower part of the body the wound la is very painful but unless inflammation should set in which is not probable in the present favorable state of the weather need not be considered dangerous this tills morning he was suffering considerably we have had an intimation regarding g a arding the cause or of the r but prefer saying nothing a about bo ut it until disclosed byj by judicial uricial investigation nv e s t ga was arrested on saturday night and was liberated again till noon today to day when he was to appear before justice and give bonds for his appearance for examination at a future day district court proceedings this morning judge mccurdy and mr mccutchen presented a demurrer to an indictment against john J mahon for forgery and uttering a forged note the ground of the demurrer was the including of two of fences in the same indictment U B S district attorney desired that the demurrer be also considered in lii the light of a motion to quash and then read voluminously from a large number of authorities thorl thorit ties les showing that two distinct of fences could be charged in separate counts in the same indictment the common law being practised practiced under in the utah courts the california cases cited in support ot of the other side bide did not apply as there was an express provision in the code of that slate making it compulsory not to include two of fences in the same indictment the prosecutor said he had bad been careful in bringing up authorities this morning as the same question had been several times raised and it was desirable that it should be definitely settled the demurrer and motion to quash were overruled mr mccutchen asked the court to 0 o note an exception mr joseph S rawlins bawling attorney for A T Delano indicted for forgery iery gery was granted leave to withdraw raw naw the plea of not guilty and to tile file a motion to quash the indictment judge Z snow asked the court to lo grant a restraining order against the rhe defendants in the case of john van cott et cd al executors of the estate of the late daniel spencer vs H brunton HB runton and nicholas groesbeck mr hir snow stated that the order was a matter of urgent necessity as relating to a matter that was 0 occurring cur ring today to tr dax day the facts set forth in the affidavit were in effect that a piece of ground belonging belon girg to the plaintiffs had been leased to the other parties for a period of ten years that the tenant was indebted for rent in the sum of about one thousand dollars for the security of which sundry buildings erected on the ground by defendants were held b by plaintiff and that today to day deren defendants li had commenced to tear down and carry off the buildings alluded to boand and the order was asked that they might be prevented from so BO doing until a motion for an injunction indu nc should be heard the court granted the restraining order and cited the defendants to appear in court on saturday morning to show cause why an injunction should not be issued the jurors who were in court were dismissed till tomorrow to morrow morning philip shafer shaner indicted for the murder of peter van valkenburg was brought into court and pleaded not nop guilty U S district attorney carey asked the court to set aside an order made on friday directing him to elect which count of an indictment against john beegan for I 1 larceny and robbery he would woula proceed under the court had come to the conclusion that it was consistent with the law to include two separate offenses of the same general character in the same indictment and ilie lile therefore ordered that the order be set pet aside as moved for by the detlet attorney A little scene ti i it occurred in court on mr carey liu iju oving for the dismissal of an attachment in a case in which he was counsel mr nin beaty being on tho the other side mr beaty sad sad his client who was a poor old colored woman was not in town being in the mountains and asked for time etc while mr nin carey humorously set forth that his bis client was a poor old colored man and desired to read the affidavit on which the suit of attachment was given there being no sunni sufficient clent elent grounds in h his to opinion for its issuance A time was set for the hearing of the motion to dismiss the attachment Inform atlon ailon desired any person who can give the information desired in the annexed communication will confer a favor by forwarding it to the address of the letter LINCOLN TOWN lincoln co north carolina brig brigham brigham Erig ham bam moung young Y oung esq lear dear near sir I 1 have a son in utah and having all the anxiety of a mothers heart to know of his whereabouts and knowing of no more suitable person than yourself to address on the subject I 1 take this method of entreating you if convenient to use such endeavors as may suit you to ascertain where he be IF i my sons name is wallace haywood hobbs and I 1 live near Lincoln town lincoln county north carolina I 1 think he is in salt lake if convenient and you u will attend to this and let me hyo hear ea r from you you will place me under lasting obligations yours respectfully SUSAN HOBBS HOEM |