Show CUtET TT released from prison sidney B kent of lewiston cache county was released from the penitentiary feb fth he was sentenced for unlawful cohabitation to sixty days imprisonment and to pay the costs coats 35 feb ath P L quist of monroe sevier bevier county was released irom from the penitentiary where he has served berged on a charge of unlawful cohabitation four months imprisonment and thirty days additional addition ai for the fine of and costs february 17 newman van vail ilu mon was released from the penitentiary where he has served a days term and 30 days for the coste cats assessed against himon a conviction for unlawful cohabitation his home is at aurora sevier sev 61 county february john F beek beck of spanish pork fork was released from the penitentiary where he has served a five months term for unlawful cohabitation he also paid fine and costs amounting to brother beeks becks health hs has not been pod food during b hiis Is incarceration february 12 B R M humphrey of salina sevier county was released from the penitentiary where he has been imprisoned fw for living with his wives me he e w was sentenced to three months in prison and to pay a fine of and costs he was detained thirty days for the fine returned elders february ath we bad a call from elder nephi howard of draper who has just juat returned from a mission to the northwestern states whither he went in may 1887 nearly all of his hie mission was spent JEL in the southern and central part of indiana generally he was kindly received by the people he held upwards of three hundred meetings and did much good in allaying prejudice among the people he returns in good health and excellent spirits elder sylvanus hulet of sum mit iron co returned february 11 II from a mission to the pennsylvania conference of the northwestern north western states he left home on the lith april 1888 and labored in west vir virginia inia for the first six months uni until november when he proceeded to ohio and there continued for four and a half balf months after conference he went back to west virginia and there remained until the close of his bis mission elder hulet met with comparatively small success during his labors but was treated well by the people generally he was threatened with violence several times and on one occasion tones stones were hurled at him by a small band of youths but he sustained no hurt elder hulet returns in good health to judge blackburn the following special dispatch appears in this borni mornings tune tribune T washington feb 12 the members of the bar of provo city ogden and a few of the salt lake attorneys have petitioned the united states senate against the confirmation fir mation of judge blackburn on the ground that he is incompetent not requested by the drum corps february 13 we receive a visit from majar W A stanton mr W A and mr P F M glenn these gentlemen called as a committee of the I liberal drum corps to make a request that a ca correction be made of the a contained in the NEWS of tuesday last to the effect that the national nag bag was placed at half mast on the occasion of the death of isadore greenwald green wald at the so solicitation I 1 citation of the organization with which they are connected the request for the half masting was signed by judge powers mr george M scott auer auerbach ach bros mr john M young and mr tames james anderson the information as to who solicited the flag to be lowered came from one of the parties over whose building it was in ahat position and it was taken for granted the correction is cheerfully made the article in the NEWS alws conveyed no DO sentiment of disrespect to the deceased there was a doubt expressed however as to the use of the national flag on such an occasion this view remains unchanged they wanted guns P J haley was before commis ammis lioner greenman february 14 on a charge of aiding in an attempt to escape fram amm prison the circumstances indicate that there was a plot among a gang of thieves to effect a delivery of some of the fraternity from the penitentiary and the defendant was made a means of communication between those inside of the prison and parties outside mr haley was sentenced about three weeks ago to imprisonment for assault and served 19 days when he was released on sunday he had two canes one fully and another partially covered with braided garse horsehair hair both were from wm marshall and were for andrew J pettit who got out of the penitentiary some time ago having served a term for larceny warden amos suspected something was wrong and cut open the partially covered cane on the inside he found a letter atthe examination this morning capt amos testified to these facosi facts and stated that he be believed the letter was written by wm ana marshall who is in the penitentiary awaiting trial on several charges of horse stealing the letter better was then introduced in evidence as was also a communication sent into the prison by pet tit whose address was given on an the ranes canes as no west first south street the note sent in by pettit reads this to Is ft a cane I 1 want you to make for me make it as near like the one I 1 made for jack as possible J A 0 those are the anitila ini tiala tila I 1 w will 1 11 be out as soon as I 1 can it a for a f friend of mine A J p the concealed letter which was thought to be conveyed to pettit Petti tiu it one of the canes eanes reads as follows friend ewend andrew the bearer or deliverer of this cane is all right please get him two guns and two rounds of cartridges each he will get them tham to us the party dont know of this note he is 19 rather a small dark man with a little powder burn in the face the things are for R C F and myself if f you could come up with him it would probably help him out at least dont jall fail to get them for him yours I 1 wish you yon would try and have it fixed with them men at terrys about that rig see tufts and tell him about JARRY JAKEY the note is on thin paper in violet iok ink and the last paragraph and signature were not written by the same person as the first paragraph jas C watson was called to identify the pettit letter which was written on one of his bis bill heads he could not however say sal whether or not it wa was s andrew J pettit Pet tits a writing pettit had bad been in mr Wa watsons office several times and could have got a bill head there at almost any time as they were loose on the desk pettit assumed to be try trying I 1 to aft get a pardon for john S smith sit it in the penitentiary under a sentence for highway robbery captain Amos testimony was continued he said haleys haldys time expired on sunday he had served nineteen days we found the letters when he was coming out they were bidden in a cane covered with horsehair canes are frequently sent out but most of them are wooden I 1 bad heard that an unfinished hair catie cane had bad been sent out and that caused me to suspect then I 1 cut the defendants defendant Js cane open he said it was for andrew pettit and was from wm marshall one cane had a piece of paper wrapped about it but the cane was an old one and I 1 did not think there was i any letter in it the cane I 1 cut open looked to have dav e something wrong with it I 1 believe the defendant knew all about the scheme I 1 dont know who is the author of the note signed jakey but I 1 believe it is wm marshall D N swan testified I 1 am the marshals mar clerk know andrew pettit he has visited the penitentiary several times since his release the last time was ten days or two weeks ago he has visited wm marshall and W W wilson this closed the evidence and the commissioner held mr haley to await the action of the grand jury |