Show local and other matters FROM SATURDAYS DAILY APRIL 3 the tho mountain i meadow case the follo following whig was received yesterday evenin evening 1 I cde car elt eit april 2nd and 1875 sutherland bates safes cannot bring on those trials this thia term rm ID D P n Y erom from rom the above dispatch to sutherland bates leading counsel for john D tee iee and major majer wm vm H dame confined in prison bince since last Oct october oberon on indictments indictment for murder committed at mountain meadows sept 16 1857 and eight others it will be seen that the U S prosecuting attorney tiu not be he ready for trial at the present of tho the court at beaver the session of which commences next monday monay mr bates bites leaves on monday bionday morning t for neaver beaver and will endeavor to have all the cases nino nine in number set bet for an early day in may next when they can all be taken up tried and disposed of at one session and when all the defendants not yet arrested and now out of the territory it is is un voluntarily appear in person in iii court and demand a trial As the indictments ten in number were found in september 1874 and as lee and dame two of the defendants were arrested buon syon after and have been in close confinement ever since the one in irons ancamp at camp Camero cameron nand and the other in the ilia penitentiary and as the constitution guarantees guaranteed to defendants ants a speedy trial dby by a jury of the vicinage and tobe confronted with the witnesses against them it would seem as if the district attorney and his assistants ought to be ready the defendant defendants we understand are now ready and an d will next week through their counsel demand trials at as early a day as may be possible in order that this long delayed 1 ay ed ox examination may be made by a court ald and jury with witnesses on the stand the defendants we hear assert that they are each and all able to prove and demon state their innocence and are ready and eager to meet the issue when these cases are tried we learn that the prosecution will be conducted by wm win H carey U S district attorney and D P whedon assistant and for the defence by john macfarlan and wells spice sp icer r attorneys for defendants also b by sutherland and bates avld aud other able attorneys from salt lake lako as counsel for tho defence there are indications that the case will attract attention from all parts of the union and will terminate as the defendants and their counsel believe in the acquittal of all ali alche the defendants in this connection we may add that we are informed that it will wi 11 appear in evidence on trial that immediately after this dreadful occurrence presidents byoung byoung and geo A AL smith urged on judee judge cradlebaugh baughard hand and the then governor of utah the necessity of immediately going to the ground and making there thele a judicial enquiry as to the whole matter and who were the guilty ones that presidents young and smith offered to go in person with the territorial officers and project eject and defend them even at the ilsk risk of af their own lives if any risk there were and use their influence to have furnished every possible facility and aid on the part of the people to bring to just punishment whosoever were guilty the speedy and unexpected removal of major dame back to beaver today to day we are informed was precipitated by a th threatened habeas corpus to discharge him froin from custody for being illegally brought here out of the second district and imprisoned in the penitentiary Penitent ary in utter violation of all law and by other reports to which we need not more particularly refer at pre present ent FROM MONDAYS DAILY APRIL aprin I 1 acquitted dward edward E X field tried in the district court on saturday on indictment for im embezzlement bezzie was acquitted the jury re turning a verdict of not guilty 1 wintry it ihas has been cold and biting all day today to day it has also been trying all day to snow without any material s success u access however except upon the tilo surrounding moun bains S spells while the spelling fever is going the round of the eastern ern cities salt lakers are having spells spella of another and moro more satisfactory kind they are having a spell of peace caused by the breaking of the backbone of the crusading ini Ing icing ning ring they are having a spell of ju judicial lal ial consistency from trona the same cause both spells are arc refreshing after a somewhat protracted absence of either kind of thing likes his lodgings jack macdonald is an old jailbird jail bird he was liberated from the city prison on saturday but did not appreciate the breathing of the pure air of freedom ho he hankered for the ceilesh flesh pots of his old quarters and in order to get back there he went to daviss Davisa cronk beer saloon ordered and devoured a lot and things and refused to pay for them for this impudent transaction justice sent him up for fifteen days another robbery late on saturday night a young man named george wright was going to his home in the eighth ward vard when he was pounced upon garrot ted and robbed by a couple of men one of whom held heid him while the other rifled his pockets the scoundrels did not get much a pocket book and between three and four dollars in currea currency cy one of the robbers hel bel held heid d his baud band over mr wrights mouth to prevent him making any outcry there Is no track to the gai gar who are probably the same fellows who robbed mr jlia ein cin ney the other night va childrens rehearsal N notwithstanding ot luh ith the unfavorable weather yesterday morning probably between two and three thousand sunday school children met at th the new tabernacle acie acle and rehearsed the songs which will be sung by them at atCon ference terence tomorrow murrow to morrow afternoon the songs practised practiced were zion is growing our own sunday school the temple tempie Son song gand and we are the children af of the saints the children should be at the tabernacle tomorrow to morrow in time t to 0 be seated by two and should not neglect to have bave their song books alon aion along with them 1 thel thee the daynes concert the concert given by mr joseph josephj J daynes at the ward schoolhouse school house on saturday night was attended by a large audience the hall ball being well filled the pieces on the program me were all rendered eini effi efficient efficiently cien eien aly the singers and performers eliciting fron the audience well merited applause uhe the song of if birdie birdle darling was sung in mrs happiest style and delighted the audience the performance for mance of or mr nir J J daynes was executed with neatness and skill and the violin solo of mr willard weihe was a most creditable performance for mance mrs urs M A miller A mackay and ii L hardy hard y and mcintyre owen owe n clissold lissol d john dayner and W sanders all performed their parts well and ap patently to the satisfaction of the audience the music produced by the trio band was really delightful and the closing piece the landing indof of columbus being well ren reni dered dared madean made an excellent finale p returned home rome on saturday evening byi INI mr r jehn john W young and mr joseph chardson richardson Bi reached this city from the east mr young has succeeded most gratifyingly in accomplishing the business dewent he went eastward to perform previous to himself and some others taking hold of the utah western railroad that enterprise was apparently to all intents and purposes a dead concern but now mainly through his indefatigable efforts and keen business tact it has been resurrected and become a I 1 iving living accomplished fact with a good prospect of being speedily completed as far fai to the westward as it is designed to take it he was also the leading spirit in projecting and carrying forward the tho utah northern as was also the case in the constructing and equipping of the street railroad in this city mr richardson is the well known railroad extensively man interested in the union pacific and other western lines and whose capital and energy have been largely applied in developing devel pig this portion of the country the tho forty fifth I anual annual nual conference at ten 0 oyt olt ck lit tomorrow to morrow mornin morning g the ferij fort I 1 firth annual con conference fe ence of the chuich of jesus christ of latter day saints will convene in the new tabernacle in this city these periodical gatherings of the people who have come out from nearly all the nations of the tho globe are necessarily times of refreshing the people meet and bear words of wisdom counsel and instruction to enable them to go forward with renewed energy and increased intelligence to do well their part pare towards establishing righteousness on the earth at these gatherings of the people the progress of the great laa latter iatter day work can be talked of and reflected Z upon and there probably has been no time when the saints have had greater reason to give honor and praise to the creator than tho present the blessings calling forth their gratitude being multifarious and marked A temple tom too the living god is being reared in the southern part of the terri tory with a good prospect of its early completion that god who said to his church if any man lift his voice against you he shall be confounded in mine own due time has most signally fulfilled that promise the promises made by the lord to the ancient inhabitants of this land concerning their descendants in that they should receive the gospel know that it was a blessing from their savior and in process of time by the influence and potency of the good spirit and the principles of salvation become a civilized and respectable people is commencing ing to be fulfilled in that those same descendants are coming forward and asking to be baptize baptized cl declaring that heavenly messengers have visited and counselled counseller coun selled so to do in exact fulfillment odthe of the inEp inspired ired lied predictions of bf the book of I 1 murmon mormon these and other circumstances connect connected od with the work of the father 1 are encouraging in their character and should tend to lead the people when they convene together in conference to do so in faith and thus draw down the inspiration and blessings of the lord abundantly doubtless the conference which commences tomor to mor row will wil W be a time of freshing refreshing je among the saints long to be remembered district court the trial of john 0 wiggins for gambli gambling tig did not pru prudence commence mence at ten this morning I 1 ng as expected owing to shome tome of the witnesses for the prosecution not arriving in time to appear in court at that hour counsel for defendant i tilford and hagan made a motion that the prosecuting atto attorney aney be required to elect which of the thu four counts of the indictment he should proceed under the court overruled the motion each count related to a separate transaction but the charge was identical in each gambling after remaining in in session a short time a recess was taken till one when it was expected that the trial in question WO would uld be proceeded with which was gentleman from the southern part of the territory states that on his journey to this city he met marshal max and bishop dame ou on their way to beaver and that if he had not known know the tho bishop alad and had been told that the two were a V U fco S marshal and a prisoner he should certainly have taken the bishop for the marshal and max for the prisoner jv kanab from bishop lievi levi stewart of kanab kane knue county we learn that that part of the territory ia 19 being gradually built up and improved the building of dwellings improvement of their surround surroundings dings fencing of fields J and other evidences of material progress go steadily forward s in for conference we ve had a call this morning from bishop henry lunt of cedar city who with elder E rastus erastus Snow left cedar nine days sincer since having had a very quick but a very cold and unpleasant trip the bishop rea reached elied clied york the terminus of the utah southern on saturday noon and canie came along to this olty city in the afternoon he says that lie he found the change from slow travel in a wagon and very cold weather to warm railroad cars as novel as it was agreeable the nit bit bishop hop in informed formed us that j just before he lurt leu home two coal deposits were discovered six miles from cedar city in coal creek canyon one of which is nine feet thick the other seven feet four both of them easily accessible and giving pro mise wise ofa of a large increase to the prosperity of the people of that region the agriculturists of cedar and dicinit Vici vicinity nit are busy buby with their spring work and the prospects are good for crops the coming season co operative sheep herd is do ng well it having paid last geason season a dividend of forty seven and a half per cent after deducting all expenses the bishop says there is a good opening at cedar cit city y for a cooper and also for an h n ek experienced perien perlen ced eed tanner as the tho citizens there wish to start a cooperative ap tannery they hav having ing plenty of the raw material t to 0 in make a such sueh an institution successful and money being scarce th they ey feet feel the necessity ri there as well as in other parts of the territory of prosecuting home homo industries as far as possible |