| Show AN ax ix INFAMOUS rAmous A FEW yew days daya ago sya sye no some bome i e particulars tic ulars of the ilip whale s i ale arrest of mormon tie tle culters at the in blance of the unprincipled string ring at malad who have been in illegitimate control of the aff aldef otone of one ida county tor fox some time t and inthe the near future a prospect of their entire discomfit ture tare the 30 november vember election if it i I 1 p properly conducted will c cause aus aug an ALI entire change in the administration 0 of f county affairs and as the issue turns on the mormon tote the animus of the ring ang Is clear clearly IY accounted for 4 the news newa in this city is to theer feet that tho the tie tle cutters to the number of between fifty arid and sixty have been convicted of cutting i timber umber on the indian rese reservation and fined and imprisoned in various amounts and for different terms this information is as vet ague and indefinite but the following is merrill has bean been Fentem sentenced ced cea to pay a it fine of and to be irm ira prisoner ed for three months and hyrum smith to a nine fine of loo 1600 aud and imprisonment for nine months ball was rufuf refused ved by the court unless the sureties were owners of real estate la in idaho to the value of the probability almost certainly is that the prisoners will be taken to the penitentiary at bolsa tomorrow to morrow morning merrill was running the saw mill belonging to the city cooperative tion in themous the mountains above malad smith wab waa 16 bossing a aranof ganob workmen kmen cutting ties for the utah and northern railroad ehe the T parties were ignorant of the fact that they weno on the reservation bell beil believing eying eting that theline the line was four miles to the the railroad rall Bail road company pany under competent legat advice considered hex hey they had bad the right to cut timber for their ties even the indian reservation therefore supposing that the parties were gre diel over the thu liue line there was no la in tent teat on to 16 commit any crime Ne heither neither fifie is ij it probable that thera would IM been any prosecution if they had not ben cormons mormons Mor mons buth full extent of the law framed for the protection of timber on ibe the public ila iia lands ads has been reached by the court la in pronouncing sentence plainly showing the bitterness at Q spirit which prompted it as indicated by the judges remark a few days ago to this effect 4 y beur au r bishop lai lah bas has defied this court I 1 will let him see thau that this cannot be done with impunity W fort hall where the indians indiana are gathered Is at least elih eighty t y nales ra alea from the point boint where the saw mill is Js erected at which merrill men ill lil was working it may be half a mile over the line which ignot Is inot defined th the Q indians do not come anywhere r near bear lo 10 it they are eighty miles away no injury Is done to them by the transaction the defendant merrill was was not engaged in cutri cutti cutting 29 timber from fram the public domain do main he was operating a saw baw mill making lumber for dom domestic estic batic purposes as permitted by jav cong al legislation and is not indictable for the cutting the defendant smith was getting ties for a railroad company who claimed the right to procure their material from the timber adjacent to their road these and otner other points can be established on appeal but the terms of bail ball fixed by the court are a sueh such u that the defendants who are poor men cannot conform to them their friends ond and effects being principally in utah and the probability is they will have to go to prison but can nothing be done in im relation to this matter yes and it should be done we think will be done quickly section of the revised statutes of the united states provides that the secretary of the navy may 96 mitigate in whole or in part on such terms and conditions as he deems proper by an order in writing any fine penalty or forfeiture BO so incurred this is because the object of the jaw law in regard to this matter was to protect the timber on the lands of the united states for the use of the navy as stated in section 2461 2451 of the rey bey bed hed atutes af utes the full facts acts in this case caw can be submitted to the secretary and the infamous nature of this persecution under the tb name of prosecution pointed out when we fully believe ohp penalty will wili be set get aside abide anda and the defendants liberat liberated elf eif 1 7 so no one ond hlll pretend that tut any of the timber they are charged chirped with cutting could ever be tv used wed foh for the navy of the united states and we do not believe for or a moment that Ahat they will have bolinger to linger lan ian king gunder under the unjust and aud infamous sentence pronounced upon them such buch a a case is w without parallel and without excuse bind and those who haye have chlof chiot anovers movers iii in me he conspiracy to incarcerate a number humber of men innocent of any intent to commit crime may jel jet have cause to regret nep nee ay the course they have taken with a yiew view roin loin to making a king political capital that judge should have permitted permit ted led himself 10 lo 16 te b 6 captured by the ring anid annd alid arid to be governed by spleen than Iny partial justice is a matter of n uch ucb greater surprise burp surp rlee to ui us and makes a dark i stain onn a official careen career w bich nich h ich is fortunately about to close in ln idaho |
