Show LOCAL NEWS FROM wednesdays DAILY APRIL 28 robbery Kob bery last evening a thief entered the tithing office in this city and stole from a waon wagon a valise belonging to mrs peter garff containing a quantity of valuable ladies and childrens clothing mount carmel brother W J jolley writing f from rom mount carmel kane county says all is well with us in this place our fruit prospects are good yet though the spring is backward fall grain looks very well the people are generally prosperous arraigned Arr aligned in ili the third district court coart today to day charles denney of the bilth ward was arraigned on an indictment charging a violation of the edmunds law from may 1 1883 to dec 81 1885 by living with sarah A denney and lucy F denney as his wives A plea of not guilty was entered battery and conspiracy angus M mcannon cannon jr was arraigned tin the third district court this morning on two indictments and entered a plea of not guilty to aae each ch he is indicted jointly with hugh cannon and frank J cannon with having entered into a conspiracy to commit a battery upon one wm win H dickson and also tor for battering mr dickson the migrants immigrants Bm the following follo following winf dispatch was received from new york last evening the nevada has arrived with the company in charge of elder edwin T woolley will leave tomorrow to morrow all well JAS JAB H HART this company af saints will probably reach salt lake city on tuesday next sugar house sociable there was a pleasant sociable given in the sugar house ward meeting house last friday evening A very interesting pro gramme of son songs s speeches and recitations was carried carried out with considerable credit to the participators participatory A bounteous supper added to the general interest and was partaken partaker par taken of with hearty zest the gray haired middle aged and youth of of both sexes mingled together in social conversation making a scene long to be remembered by those who were fortunate enough to be there the infanticide the preliminary examination before justice bradford of south cottonwood in the case of miss monson charged with infanticide was concluded yesterday afternoon Thes testimony is however au pressed for good reasons the gf garl admitted to several bartles parties that the child was hers that it had ad been born alive but died shortly afterward and she buried it at the examination the defendant made no statement she was committed to the custody of the sheriff to await the grand jurys action in the matter sudden death brother thomas whittaker one of the best known knowd and most estimable citizens of Cen centreville treville same came down to the city on business bubines and was stricken with V violent 0 cramp pains in his bis stomach from wb which ich he continued to suffer notwithstanding kind f friends 8 did all they could for his relief until death ensued about this morning his son john was beside him during his suffering but the other members of his family knew nothing of his sickness until informed of his death he has had twenty one ch children ildron born to him all of whom are living the raid eaid on payson A payson corre correspondent spon dent sends us the following particulars of the recent raid a at t that place under date of the instant early this morning deputy marshals vandercook bed redfield field I 1 smith and three assistants raided our town in search of their usual prey visited seven or houses along with the spotter jini jim wilson a young man well known to the police court of our town no arrests were made as in eve every ry instance the parties wanted were n not at at home A few persons were subpoenaed to of a appear pear before the september ter term of court at provo after breakfast at smiths hotel four chopfallen deputies departed in their buggy toward provo and two left on the north bound freight train the witnesses were first subpoenaed to appear before mckay of salt lake city upon some of them plainly telling the deputies that they would not go out of this judicial district unless taken by forcythe forc ethe deputies held a short conference af after ter breakfast at the hotel and then called upon the witnesses to appear before the court as above stated friendly words an influential business man of one of the large cities of the mississippi valley writes a private private letter to a friend in this city flom from which we are permitted to make the following extract on condition of withholding the name 1 I am just in receipt of a copy of the DESERET NEWS also of the epistle of the first presidency of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints which you kindly sent me please accept my thanks tor for same I 1 have read the pamphlet with interest and must say that it is a splendid article and well written I 1 would further state f that had this pam pamphlet pa bee been published 1800 or years ago bound between the two lids of the bible today to day I 1 am not a amorton mormon I 1 however I 1 do not thank god for that there is one thing su rethe people who are persecuting the mormons cormons Mor mons must either throw away their bibles or accept the mormon religion as true if this epistle of the first Pre presidency is not a clincher for the mormon re religion I 1 based upon the teachings of t the ige bible then I 1 am no judge of sound argument killing dogs salt lake city contains a large number of snarling worthless curs whose continued lease of life is doubtless due to the tenderheartedness and humane feelings of their owners or the unreasoning fondness which children are wont to lavish upon dumb brutes rather than to any value real or imaginary that is attached to them hem and in view of their being a boblie pu public nuisance a general slaughter of them by some humane method would the public good there are however some valuable aole dogs in this region which are highly prized by their owners and a nuisance to no one without it be the housebreaking fraternity and which are entitled to life by virtue of their being registered as well as bees because use of their general worth to wantonly kill such dogs is an outrage to be deplored for which the perpetrator if caught might be subjected to a heavy penalty ye yet t several cases of this kind have occurred ot of late without however the guilty parties being discovered the plan adopted has generally been to poison the dogs and some owners of valuable canines have beco become meso so alarmed for the safety of their pets on this score that they have provided muzzles for them which effectually prevent the brutes from eating while wearing them it is sincerely to be hoped that the parties engaged in this heartless killing will ket yet be caught and punished as they rie richly ly deserve the davenport case the case of the people vs fanny davenport for keeping a of ill fame was taken up for for trial in the third district court today to day considerable time was spent in getting a jury and after the panel was completed isaac woolf wholesale liquor dealer was called as the first witness he testified that defendant had had business relations with him and that she kept a house of ill fame woolf often visited the place on cross examination the witness admitted that his visits there had sided aided in giving the house its ill repute he was in the habit of frequenting the P place and often took other parties th there especially country dealers who came to the city to do business with woolf when asked whether he had been in the employ of the defendant lie he grew wrathful and finally answered in the negative he ref refused used to state the names of any of those who accompanied him when he be frequented the gouse house of ill fame P W madsen testified to having sold the defendant some furniture but as he was not paid for it took it back H H schaeffer testified to having visited the house the reputation was that it was a house of ill tame B Y hampton was called and re f used fused to be sworn on the ground that the prosecution had bad moved for the dismissal of several re sorters to the house declaring the witnesses un wo worthy r theof of credence the court instructed him to be sworn which was done mr hampton then declined to testify as his statements might be distorted and used against himself the jury retired from the room and the matter was argued pro and con when mr hampton was excused wm salmon was called and refused to testify as his evidence might be used against him the court asked if there was an indictment against mr salmon and mr varian replied no and there likely to so be mr salmon then testified that the place kept by defendant was reputed to be a house of ill fame and the elution rested their case the matter was then given to the J jury ury and of course the verdict could not be otherwise than guilty the defendant has departed for parts unknown and of course is beyond the jurisdiction of the court |