Show FIRST DISTRICT COURT proceedings before judge soil yesterday provo march ry 5 christian Ciris thorp made a sat sst ement and showed a pe atton in his behalf after sentence was imposed last week mud aud taday the court considered the matter and changed the sentence from six to four months vater elmer taylor made a statement that be would obey tue the law in the future and a petition from nephi in tit his was considered but in view of the fact that there wc were re tie chalices ch arices of unlawful cohabitation fornica ion and adultery pending the court imposed impo aed a fine of the other cates were dismissed henry G boyle adultery withdrew his bis former plea and entered one of guilty entity se sentence atense was postponed for two weeks peter neilson was arraigned tor for unlawful cohabitation said that he be would observe court took the matter under advisement henry heary hamilton was arraigned under an indictment for unlawful cohabitation and pleaded not guilty achu Will williams fama entered a plea of to the charse charge of unlawful cohabitation and sentence was set for march 6 W R jones and alma Ormand were naturalized on motion of the district attorney the case of the people vs gabriel huntsman was ordered dismissed on the round ground that the evidence was insufficient sufficient cien t to sustain the case which should have been tried in the i justices court ane case cage of the people vs soren grand larceny was baug tried today the grand jury reported seven in four under united statts states laws and three under territorial statutes ant an I 1 1 the people 1 1110 le vs erastus gibson battery people vs tuomas west battery ana people vs orson hudson assault with latent intent to t kill john was sworn in as bailiff hal liff in the case of the people vs brigham Cot chrell defendant was arraigned and pleaded leaded not guity to alae charge ot of maliciously viciously licious ly burning haystacks U S vs levi chrils defendant was arraigned and entered a plea of not to samuel allred wo was arraiz oed and pleaded guilty to a similar charge sentence was set for march 6 U S vs wilson M allred defendant was arraigned and entered a plea of guilty of unlawful frit cohabitation sentence was set tor for maren marco 6 the grand jury made the following report IN DT THE JUDICIAL COURT special report of the grand jury for the february term terin 1888 on condition of the territorial insane asylum On Friday the aad dinst we visited and inspected the territorial insane asylum Asyl aia located in this city we were shown through the building by the and other officials and made a reas thorough examine of its different departments we find there are fifty three male and forty seven female pati euta at present in the in or one hundred in all con sl side dering this greatly overcrowded condition the discipline order and cleanliness maintained is apt only praiseworthy but aing and the officers leers off and othen having immediate charge arp arf entitled entitle fl to much credit the portion of the building buil dins now completed was originally intended and is comfortably adapted for the accommodation wrid mo dation atlon and successful tr treatment of only seventy five patients the crowding of one kundred undred ii insane periong pa frioni tiro into the macd intended jor severy fire has aready led ed to and will in i he bo be prolific of evils aud dl di iad aad vantages watch can scarcely be exa exaggerated ger sted tiie theof kiy y taree mall male patients are df at necessity all kept upon one floor la in seme acme instances as many as ten occupy a single sleeping apartment the insane of a violent and quarrelsome type are compelled to ml mix and associate with those of a quiet and mel melancholy type thus greatly retard ing the of both and especially the latter the same remarks will apply to the female department it is only by the use of the utmost care and vigilance of f the officers and employed emp loyes that proper sanitary and disciplinary conditions are maintained were this to be relaxed for oner one moment the result might be some great calamity the crowded condition of the male department especially is such that were a disturbance ance to occur there among the more violent inmates the employed emp loyes would be practically powerless to suppress it t before some terrible calm calamity in I 1 ty would occur the result of the crowded condition is also to greatly retard the cure of patients while the asylum had only its proper quota of patients the percentage of cares was much greater than at present to make matters still worse the number of patients i constantly increasing and it is safe to say from the information we have that there are today in utah over one hundred insane persons who should be rec receiving eivin treatment at an institution of the kind but who with the present accommodations can only be received and treated as vacancies occur by the discharge of cured patients additions to the present facilities of et this institution institute a are imperatively demanded MIS it is to be hoped that the present legislature will not adjourn without making an ample appropriation for this purpose to neglect or befu refuse e to do so ao would ta in our pinion opinion be aal aser ioas mistake and a agave injustice to this most unfortunate class of ef our eur fellow beings NEWEL KNIGHT foreman the court was pleased that the g grand and jury had visited ad reported on the asylum and expressed a desire that the report be put before the public B |