| Show cutet edmunds law prosecutions proceedings before judge judd at provo april 11 united sates via va john beek beck the defendant entered a plea or of not dot guilty to a charge of adulte adultery united states vs wm backer eker to charges of unlawful cohabitation and adultery the defendant pleaded not guilty released prom from prison riv ardale weber cownty Cout tty was released from the penitentiary where he has served a three months term and 30 days for the fine imposed on a conviction for unlawful cohabitation on april 8 apostle francis M lyman was released from the penitentiary where he has been confined since the of january last on a sentence sen tonce of 85 days imprison ment for living with his ha wives he paid the fine assessed against him eli B hawkins of benjamin utah county and robert crawshaw of cache county abo have also been in the penitentiary for unlawful cohabitation were released april cafter going 9 before commissioner norrell the first named had a five anve term anu me last named was sentenced to three months in addition to this they received 80 90 days for the fine imposed on april 8 stephen nye of ogden had a hearing before commissioner woolcott and was discharged he was also imprisoned for living with his wives his term being three months he seved 80 days for the costs in the case cage brother nye has been in ill health during his imprisonment having been afflicted with rheumatic fever his condition is somewhat improved from what it was a few weeks ago 0 on n ap april ra 9 D daniel B hill of wellsville cac cache h county was released d from t the h penitentiary where he has served a six months term for 11 living drig with more than one wife he also paid fine and costs amounting to 1515 smallpox at provo at provo on the afternoon of april 6 dr simmons was called to attend mr A J stewart who had just got back from mexico and was staying at the home of august allen alien his son in law in the third ward of that city fearing smallpox but not being fully acquainted with the disease the doctor returned next morning accompanied by dr A 0 riggs and both phy clans became con convince vincel was afflicted with that dreadful malady the house has been placed under the strictest ar rutine tine effe effects arts of a change ogden is now in the hands bands of municipal officers elected by the liberal party and considerable change has occurred with regard to ambling gambling dens and similar places the I 1 he following is from the minutes of the session of the ogden city council held april 5 E H anderson and about 26 others stated they had good reason to believe there was a house of ill repute in a certain part of the city and asked that it be abated and the sign taken down councilor blaisdell stated that the owner of the house had rented it knowing what he was doing but if there was a law to compel them to leave he would bein favor of putting them teem out at once mr heywood city attorney stated that a man could no do as he pleased eased with his property the law for r the people in that vicinity was the same rot for them as for others and the courts were open for complaints referred to marshal metcalf educational on april 9 in the social hall an educational convention connected with the establishment hud and conducting of church schools was held the central committee of education a large representation from the stake academies aud and members of the various faculties were present ent I 1 remarks pertinent to the object of the convention were made by arof karl G maeser presidents wilford woodruff Woo druT george georg re Q cannon jv and lorenzo li orenzo snow sno w brother james sharp and others A considerable number of cow mit tees in which most of the stake educational organizations were represented were appointed to consider a large number of questions pertain ing an ato to the movement the result resul til 1 of the deliberations of these committees are to be submitted in writing by them and in that ah shape ape transmitted to the central Boards to 0 be considered and acted upon th questions are of a vital charac terna action upon them will doubtless give the schools already in existence ind an those contemplated a fresh impetus he has repented on april 12 mr henry reiser the watchmaker received the tor fol lowing lowin unsigned note mailed in the postoffice post office in this city yesterday yest erds 01 ahe the envelope also algo contained A a 5 watch which was stolen about four J years since mr henry reiber dear sir enclosed you will find and if a watch I 1 took from your store adov eral years ago I 1 have never it I 1 intended to have returned i it the first time I 1 came to t D town few ba 41 neglected it until now I 1 am baill bow U ashamed and sorry for the mean meal act and trust it will be the hw time I 1 will ever do the like fatally stabbed tab bed patrick a young wa matt who has been engaged as a balner at the horn silver mine frisco is now at the sisters hospital hullt ing from a knife wound which th ta doctors say is necessarily fatal tn i wound was wae received on saturday april 6 in a fight in a baloo two men came to blows and it B stated that baj made an w fort to separate them when kilmartin assaulted hij him n I 1 in n wa scuffle that ensued kilmartin afeie A his pocket knife and struck two blows with the second Mulva bW bill received a deep gash lour four anew long on in the abdomen it is sio that tha at kilmartin was arneter ano A i then released he has left ww the country 0 tak mills burned ricks co a flouring floering flou ring and saw mills at rexburg Rex burg idaho were burned to the ground about aboa mid nu t night april 9 the lo 10 loas so is about abou I 1 no insurance igwel jo son the miller was badly burlund ill making his escape out ortho of the xing building prairie fires extensive and prado fires alres have lately been sw sweeping 0 lyv yet D extensive districts in southeast kota in some instances wela the ills e would leap across a plowed stra hundred feet wi wide aud would sweep plain with the speed aneed of horse the drouth that ha W ka prevailing has rendered the prairie abass highly h inflammable great 6 has been done to farms and f atto arm ila improvements A few days ago a prairie fire approached Pro ached ed the town of mt vernon at about three in the hernoon afternoon ter noon the inhabitants turned ow en ell masse to fight the fire but in tain though aided by people from roe Heigh neighboring boring town of mitchell Ml ney ey could not stop the fire and it the entire town leaving 4 a the families in it homeless the ote amounted to about several other villages have been ap boyed oyed in a similar manner one 0 f wem them leola containing inhabitants A furious wind drove ta sweeping flames from farm to farm and from village to village lae ille total damage will wiil amount to it hundreds undress und reds of thousands of dollars alderman smith returned to apolis april 10 from sully bounty dakota where he went to w investigate the extent of the ale damage by the recent prairie area ree it was a terrible sight he faid u did not suppose that the 4 ut were so bad there are at tea families in sully county whid no lost most of the wheat they had joae of them saved a few things but t jn in most cases nothing W was saved those who witnessed the alre nr told me that the flames jumped hiblar ur and five rods so that ordinary tire re protection Protect io n was of no avail one man n was si sick ck and his daughter in bed dec when he saw the fire corning coming and d ills his wife rushed into the barn to antie the horses while he ran to fave e the girl and he had just car ried edher her out on a plowed field when the fire sprang upon alfr hilhouse house his wite wife barely escaped the horses ore ere burned I 1 saw where sheep of were burned in a heap the people blunt have done a good deal for sufferers but they are unable to to half enough and I 1 hope the good cople of minneapolis will put their shoulders to the wheel at once seed heat is what they want y now that the spring season is kt nand hand everything that can be len in the shape of relief ought to turned in at once A sudden stop in castle garden new york r on april 10 six english boys being gsg S passengers on the steamer wyoming were detained on the C arse INU rae t that they had been hir hired d ti gland land by a man named beato wa on his brothers brother ranch in wa a T the e boys will probably be nellt nt b back k to england samoan affairs at A washington ton despatch says it is authoritatively stated at the depart anent of state that the three treaty ors rs concerned in samoan affairs england germany and the d u eted states have reached an un lulng ding by the terms of which ay y will each keep but one war reasel at samos samoa pending the term MOD of the berlin conference the vessel too to be sent there by 1000 K united states will be the alert tous now at honolulu the aidan corvette sophie now on her y out from zanzibar will depre g sent the german interests while england will doubtless order the Callio pele return to samoa from sydney or replace her if she is materially damaged by the hurricane the london news referring to the coming samoan conference says I 1 germany must abandon her ideas of reducing the preponderating influence the appointment of bates as one of the american commission shows that any claim in that direction will render the conference entirely nugatory 1 I A cashier the following account of a crime thatis that is becoming far too common is given in a late dispatch from anoka minn the doors of the first national bank were closed last evening the cashier is in canada there is a woman in the case P P F Pratt the cashier went to minneapolis a week ago last thursday and on frilay friday the bank officials were startled by a note from the merchants bank of st paul that the account of the first national was overdrawn 20 A messenger was at once dispatched to st paul and discovered pratt had drawn out about due the bank and about twice as much more on his check A bank examiner was notified and gave the books a hasty overhauling enough was learned to show that matters were in a bad way and that pratt is short nearly not knowing where the end might be me the directors concluded to place the bank in the hands of the examiner and he will appoint a receiver itis it is impossible at the present to tell the amount of pratts prates killiany vil liany correspondents of the bank both in chicago and new york allowed pratt to overdraw to the amount of in add addition to this he raise 1 an the personal vote of mrs neland an aged widow residing at dayton who trusted pratt to manage her business matters to a large extent t also appears 1 rs that brattin Prat tin company with WS H S sparks has been speculating in wh wheat mt and sparks is overdrawn 1009 last summer the good people of anoka were horrified to learn that pratt was on intimate terms with a handsome young woman of doubtful reputation the scandal soon became public property and his wife took her two children and went to boston where they have since sincere re sided soon after this the grass widow also disappeared but it is alleged she has since lived in minneapolis where pratt supported her and her illegitimate child there was quite a contest in the bank directory at the meeting in january over his position on account of the scandal but it was finally decided that he close up certain business matters with which he was familiar before closing up his affairs with the institution it is believed his lings began at that mat time the president of the bank is L H fincknor Pinc knor a well known business man of this city and pioneer of the northwest the capital stock was unless matters prove worse than expected depositors will probably be paid in full As yet no steps have been taken to hunt down the absconding cashier but a reward for his capture will probably be entered at once As he has haa had a weeks week Is start he is undoubtedly on the safe side of the Ca nadaline canada line it is learned he disposed of all his pro property peTty in this vicinity some time ago desperadoes captured on the night of march last as the eastbound east bound atlantic pacific passenger train was pulling through canyon diablo west of winslow arizona it was boarded by four masked men the train was moving slowly and the robbers mounted the locomotive without difficulty by threats of shooting they forced the engineer to stop the train one of the men stood guard over the locomotive while the others took the fireman to the express car and compelled him by threats to call to the wells fargo express messenger to open the door which the robbers entered they searched the messenger and obtained from him between and A safe containing several thousand dollars was not touched and no demand was made on the mes messenger genger to unlock it none of the passengers were molested and no resistance was offered in fact it would have been useless and the robbers had a decided advantage after the robbery the four masked men started south As boonas soon aa possible sheriff buck oneil of yavapai county arizona collected a posse and started in pursuit the sheriff learned that the desperadoes pera does had made for utah and he followed being close upon their track while he was after them a dispatch was received stating that he and three of his men had been killed this was accepted as true by his friends as the pursued party were known to be desperate men but fortunately the rumor proved to i be false the robbers made the best time they could into utah word had been sent ahead to the sheriffs of kane and garfield count counties lep and about the last of march two of the fugitives made their appearance at cannonville Cann onville afield field county it is stated that there were about thirty men attempted to arrest them but the two robbers kept them at bay and managed to escape they traveled eastward and had gone about forty miles when sheriff OIB beil eil came upon one of them bill the sheriffs sheriff party had the drop on him so he gave up this was on april lat the next day another one john J smith was taken and on april ath the remain remaining fugitives tobe quince remaining int and charles clark lar were taken into custod custody 1 As the penalty in arizona for train robbing is death the robbers were armed and would have shown fight had their been a chance but this was not given them on april 10 the prisoners and sheriffs posse came up on the utah central train from the south it was deemed best not to attempt to go back overland as it was feared that an attempt would be madeko made to rescue them the sheriff did not consider the risk necessary so concluded to go by rail on april 10 he placed his prisoners ip in the city jail for safe keeping and continued his journey next day going by way of the union pacific to denver thence the party will make the trip by rail to arizona the prisoners are a decidedly hard looking quartette clark is about five feet six inches high medium complexion slender build and about 32 years of age quince is about 36 years old lark dark complexioned near six feet in height and weighs about pounds smith is also dark complex ned ened five feet eight inches high sharp nosed and is slightly lame in the left log leg is aged about 38 is 5 feet 9 inches high light complexioned very small eyes prominent nose heavy build and walks with a swagger he keeps his eyes on the noor floor most of the time but occasionally glances u up without raising his head sp smith mith aud and quince were chained together by the feet and clark alark each had a set of irons on when spoken to they would seldom reply and when they did it was in a most surly tone they rhey evidently think the game is up with them and are as sullen as though the death penalty had already been pronounced in the atter afternoon noon their irons were taken off by a machinist and the men 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