| Show AWFUL STATE OF S HERE is bome some of the news sent west telegraph by which people hear bear when a long way from home hume NEW YORK june isa 18 A washington special states that official acial advices advises received at the theoffice office of the attorney general from salo salt La keCty indicate that utah Is in a condition of legal anarchy that so far as the bucce successful enforcement of the laws la concerned the federal courts and officers might as well have no ext exl tenee tence it Is utterly impossible to obtain a jury either cither in or criminal cases the wheels of justic justice eare are blocked and commercial litigation is entirely useless under tho ibo rulings ot of the courts made in accordance with the decision of atthe the supreme court of the united states in the case ot of engel brecht brechtl it has thas been decided that juries in the federal courts can only be drawn by a ma marshal marshai marhal rs h a 1 and a rid it la is also d decided ee idoa idea that themar the marbal in that territory has not been legally isla Is in effect to say that thal abe federal courts cou arts can have no j u ri esThe con equels conflict in jurisdiction between the mormon pro probate bate court coutt cour tand land and the federal court is so great that commercial interests in that country greatly suffer tho the development of mines Is retarded because bebau e there ure are no mo juries e to determine titles the most insignificant ant protest protect against a title however holeve worthless va ethl in law suil suii sui bui loes floes to throw valuable I 1 interests into litigation where no judicial determination can be had bad except by mutual consent of the parties to waive the right to object to the validity of a jury this consent Is never obtained when mormons cormons are defendants the cutt tair of timber on the public lauds lands ot of the united states cannot even be restrained BO so helpless are the federal authorities the mormon legislature has recently granted authority to several prominent mor mormons cormons ons to cut down timber in any part of the territory at their discretion and the destruction or of timber in some parts of the territory tas las been so great groat as to seriously interfere with the working of the mines there are also extensive frauds practiced in illicit distillation of whisky which cannot be punished or p prevented r sed ted in response to an application tor for a remedy for these difficult iest lod it ia Is represented that under existing laws in decision the government Is rom rem remediless eriless ed iless liess all we need say concerning 0 the above is that it is as full of concentrated lle lie as it could well be and that it is 1 a I piece aliece of or the tile essential tim trad of those bright patriots who would like somebody elso to die for their country and who are preparing to inaugurate another crusade against utah for effect upon the country and und con giess giesa at the coming session of the latter bo so the public may prepare itself for another infamous rehash re hash of sensational slander about the people orthis of this territory |
