Show ITEMS FROM BEAVER the second district court to ie rapidly approaching the end of ef one of the shortest sessions for many years past the grand jury just dismissed reported eleven indictments only four or five of which were for offenses under the laws of the united states before the trial jury two men named fitzgerald and mcclain both indicted at the previous term of court for of bodily harm were convicted they will receive their sentence on the instant today the case of the U 8 vs fanny P Slaughter for alleged le I 1 ed fraud in conducting the post olice office at rockville Boc kville kane county w as given a trial and resulted in an acquittal yesterday a sad accident which occurred the lay day previous culminated in the death of the little eleven year old daughter of brother george munford the deceased child was wag a very promising pupil at the stake academy in this city and about noon on the day in quest question lon was playing along with some of her schoolmates in front of the school building when a young man named walter tanner rode by at a terrific rate on the back of a stallion belonging to his father the unfortunate girl happening just then to be in the roadway was struck down and trampled upon by the animal her ID injuries Juries being of so serious a nature that she died eighteen hours after the occurrence while it is thought that some blame may attach to mr tanner in this sad affair it should be stated that some of the school ch children ildron have lately got into the playful yet very reprehensible habit during the school recess of throwing gravel and other thin things s at passing horses and this mr tanner tanner avers was the cause of the lamentable fatality mentioned above about live years ago in judge Bor emaus court in this city one of our most respected elti citizens zeD william foth fotheringham agha 0 s was convicted of living with his cifes the court had bad never previously I 1 believe had bad before it a aase ease u under the ed edmunds mu tucker law and the judge imposed a renitence cen ren tence of three months imprisonment son ment also a fine of and costs his honor acknowledged immediately after court had bad adjourned that he had intended to say C six months and also the usual formula and stand committed until the fine and costs are paid the result was that at the completion of his three months sentence mr Pothering fotheringham ringham bain was discharged without any settlement of the fine and costs today he was astonished at receiving a summons from deputy marshat marshal mcgary to come to his office as he had some pa papers ra to read to him on his going 0 ing there at anee once the deputy produced laced 0 document and commenced to read attorney generans office washington D C in the matter of the united states vs a wm fotheringham etc 11 the tenor of the paper being that the defendant owed the united states and costs of court with legal interest thereon and directing the deputies to collect the same at what ever cost mr fotheringham thought at first that the attorney general was probably go I 1 ing ng to honor him with some office but when the title of the case was reached that possibly he had been guilty of an intentional wrong and had been indicted recovering his breath however at the close of the reading he blandly informed the dep 11 that he was utterly unable to liquidate the debt to which that hat gentleman retorted that he would levy on something anyhow and forthwith had bad a two days search mado made odthe of the county records discovering as mcgary thought a lot of because apparently unrecorded property in the name of the defendant officers were sent out and found that each holder of such property bad a duly verified deed of it in some cases fifteen years old but which through some negligence on the part of the grantee bad not been placed on record luckily some of the stockholders were non I 1 mormons cormons Mor mons band and as is usual in such cases that fact brought them to a sudden stop and now it is a matter of advisement with the officers as to what shall be done the moral to the latter day saints sal ats is obvious always see that your land titles are perfect perte ct and that each conveyance is properly placed in the county records PLUVIUS march 12 1890 |