Show THE CHURCH SUITS tome tedious gathering ot of evidence before the examiner TB Tho taking of testimony y inthe suits against the church still continues a and nd the conduct ot of the examination is about as tedious as anything aay thing well cab be about 3 yesterday afternoon john C cutler was caned called as a witness and interrogated re regarding gardin g some provo pro vo manufacturing company companas Comp anys I 1 8 stock he said in substance in reply to te i questions put by mr peters in march 1887 I 1 L gave a note to james jack tor for made payable to the best beet of my recollection to tio john jahn taylor trustee in n trust payable r in one you year from date with interest from and after maturity rt ft was not secured and bore uie the date of march ad 1887 mr jack was acting for the trustee in trust I 1 received as consideration lor for the note shares in the provo manufacturing company I 1 do not know how long john taylor a alor held the stock I 1 dealt with Y james mes jack in making the deal which was arra arranged about the of february when I 1 was asked it if I 1 would purchase the stock the conversation had about it was with james jack had DO conversation with john taylor bishop preston bishop winder or bishop burton I 1 paid no money on the stock the note was not secured in any way nay at that time I 1 was worth between and consisting of real e estate tate mortgages notes etc I 1 re caved the stock from james lack jack I 1 believe a few days after I 1 gate the note I 1 delivered the note to mr jack as the agent of mr taylor I 1 have no knowledge as to what he lid did with it there was to understanding that he was to hold bold the note until I 1 received the stock mr jack told meas me AS near as I 1 can remember be r th that it I 1 should be protected in the price the note is past pasc due and has not g been e paid has never been presented for payment it if the note were to be presented now DOW I 1 should not pay more than the stock was worth there was no secret understanding between mr jack and myself that I 1 should hold bold the stock for the benefit of the church or for the trustee i in trust there was no reason given me for selling the jie stock at that time I 1 know however however what would have bave actuated me had bad t been in their place with the law jaw then pending in congress I 1 suspected that was the reason if my note were to be surrendered now I 1 would not care to surrender the stock because it now belongs to me ai I 1 suppose the reason he be did not deliver liver the shares at the time I 1 gave him the note wu was that he did not have them on hand band there was no demand made of me tor for security I 1 am agent of the provo woolen mills and also county cle clerk rk have been agent of that company lor ten years 1 have received dividends in ila goods good s and cash since march last to about 1500 the capital capital stock of the ahe com company I 1 believe la 9 less than 50 company lany I 1 belleve believe the off officers leers of the com coin pany in march last were members of the churchly church my impression is that john taylor was a director I 1 made no other purchases at about abort the same time from the trustee in trust mr jack was then recalled and his hil testimony 0 uy continued today to day he idled fled in n regard to the trustee of proper t to the various stake associations tk that at he commenced sending out oat the orders for the transfer about the of february telegrams were sent back from some of the stakes appointing H B clawson as their agent in this city I 1 should say that weber county was wag one of the stakes that made him their gent agent I 1 think it was on the of february that he received the appointment I 1 telegraphed president shurtliff of the weber stake asking him to appoint aa agent to appoint ff B clawson u such agent unless he be had some objections could not tell whether there was a description of the property proper in the telegram or not have not seen a copy of the dispatch since my examination on tuesday clawson called on me the same day he received the telegram and accepted the appointment all that was done at that time or since in that respect was the formal acceptance by him of the agency that was all there was of it the only reason I 1 know for the appointment of clawson was that the attorneys attorney franklin S richards and le grand grana young suggested it the substance substances of the order sent to the weber stake stab would be B R J taylor please deliver to 1 W shurtliff president of the corporation known as the weber stake of Zion flenall pall property in your possess posses loi be belonging longin to the church of beaus christ of latter day saints signed Si ened JOHN TAYLOR trustee i in by JAMES JACK attorney bishop preston had bad charee charge of all tho th formal property of the C church urh at abot time the orders were sent to the various bishops agents to transfer toe property to the stakes bishop clawson was a appointed agent for several stakes es among them being cache box elder juab utah Sau pete and thou those that could be reached by telegraph lists of the property turned over were men sent in those were taken in evidence eviden ct utah stake did not report for a number of months I 1 have not the list of the salt lake stake you mr peters and mr williams took ani add ke kept it t te th the proceedings were principally A series of questions on the 0 the transfers made to the stake associations ciati ons |