Show LOCAL NEWS FROM TUE TUESDAYS DAILY MAR MAK 30 dictionary the school that is conducted m a the penitentiary is in want of a die dictionary ti olary ia websters or Worce preferred e d but any other reliable work of the kind would be acceptable any person who has a secondhand second hand volume to dispose of at a moderate price would probably pio bably flud IL a purchaser on call calling aug at this office it if the proprietor of such a book should leel feel dis disposed posed to donate in preference to selling it seeing it is to be used tor for a benevolent purpose there would be no objection sentenced for larceny the second case cabe of larceny that was brought brought before justice this morning was a charge made against I 1 john joan brown for havivi stolen a suit of clot clothes bes at the trial jf it was developed that brown stole the appleen appa app Leej el from a companion with whom he had been around and sold there them at a second hand store the defendant made a statement as to how lie he came in possession of tile the ferou goods and aad the result was that a taw at 75 was imposed aud biown not having the necessary funds will work at ibe the gravel bank or 73 days das precautions against caterpillars we notice a good many citizens have lately adopted the suggestions offered in the nilas awhile aw ago and are giving their trees a thorough tri trimming mining as a precautionary measure against the ravages of the caterpillars and if all tree owners would adopt the same course coarse immediately we might hope to ret get rid of the caterpillars this year there is reason for encouragement as it is for the rings of eggs are not nearly so numerous on the trees in this city as they were last year and figs bibly in the natural cour course of things fiks the pest has almost run its course disastrous fire the denver and rio eio grands western hotel located at the crossi crossing ag of green river which was ae kept t by M H beardsley formerly of osden ayd en accidentally took fire early yesterday morning while all the inmates were in bed bad and was totally consumed the thirty persons who were in the building at tile the time barely escaping with such articles articele art iele of wearing apparel as they could seize in their hasty flight the loss was probably not less than 2000 of which falls upon mr beardsley who owned the furnishings the insurance on the building was about bad for lucern Iju cern we are informed that wany many lucern patches ou on the mill creek be bench ach have been destroyed during the pat winter through the ravages of field mice the rodents bavm eaten the roots if this be true it is certainly time that some systematic measures were adopted for the destruction st of the mice ere they overrun the country as the rabbits have in new zealand we thought it bad enough when we learned of s so inacy trees being destroyed by this pest batin eating the hark bark off them out it if that important imp crop the lucern which is the chief dependence pen dence of the country for fodder is to fall a prey to its ravages it is even worse still good beason lor for hiie p by private letter from cedar city we learn that sheep in that region have done unusually well luring during the me winter und and that ot those belon belonging t ring to the cedar city cooperative co operative sheep co consisting of four very f fin ne flocks enocKS three flocks are entirely free from scab or etli r disease and the other only very slightly affected with the scab better re in lambs sad and wool are looked tor for this year than ever before this company is fortunate in owning range on oa which its ita sheep graze craze and other sheep owners will in time have boado to adopt the same plan in this respect flaT or find themselves as the country becomes more thickly settled without a range depository transferred it was rumored roi some months since jt the time of the of thy Union national bank in this city by walker brothers and others that an effort was to be made to have it supplant the deseret Nati national bank as the U S depository As no fault had been found with the deseret national bank the business of handling the government funds deposited in its keeping for the payment of the army stationed here government officials etc generally amounting to about to had been done on strictly business principles it was not thought likely by most people that such a proposition would be entertained by the powers that be but sure enough the scheme has succeeded tor for the transfer was made yesterday by order of the secretary of the treasury the amount handed over being 11 thief caught and punished A short time since charles hussy lost his overcoat the garment having been stolen from the east mill creek meeting house A young man named ames bepley was suspected of having committed the theft but bot there being no direct evidence nothing was done toward prosecuting him on sunday however he succeeded in inducing two boys named ashton and Youn sito leave their home bome with him and the three started i northward the parents of the two boys made inquiries as to their whereabouts and veter dav morning took train to Kays kaysville ville davis county where the runaways were intercepted binley made a break tor for Il liberty herty and succeeded in getting off while the two boys were brought back home the chief of police of hunted binley up ap however and arrested him with the stolen overcoat on and brought him h lm to the city last night this morning the culprit was brought before justice paper gyps r for larceny and being adjudged guilty was fined 60 00 in default of the payment of which he will remain in the employ ot of the city for 60 days the contempt trickery y the eagerness with which every word i and act of a mormon is scrutinized rv aed tor an opportunity to plant some charge against him received another exem pAli cation yesterday afternoon in the arrest of george deome M cannon as mentioned tio in ouri assue last evening the paneling em of a jury to tw the important suit of 0 elias vs the mammoth mining company was in progress this being the second trial of the ee case the first having been held last may when the arv stood 11 to 1 in fa vor of giving the plaintiff tue toe amount claimed chaimea lor for labor and material furnished at the mammoth companas Comp anys works mr IT II N greene was being examined by mr varian as art to his competency as a juror and having replied that he had bad heard of the case the colloquy took place as reported in the complaint on proceedings for contempt Q well have you since formed an opinion A I 1 have conversed with parties artles interested ter te es ted ur or rather x parties gave have conversed v with me within the past two weeks Q parties that pretended to know the facts A yes ye sir a gentleman pent leman began the conversation some two weeks ago he said he understood I 1 was on vie tae jury ana after he had talked very rapidly a few moments I 1 told him if le continued to talk to me it would render me ineligible to sit as a juror he said he preferred to hazeme have me here the court he inquired first it you were on the jury A no he knew I 1 was on the jury lie he began bean to talk talfe about the case cabe to me ind and after he had fin finished fished his bis first sentence which he made a long ions one I 1 called his att attention antion to the fact that by his conversation he be would render me ineligible I 1 o serve herve as a juror court cobit did lie he ask you aether anether you wei weidon e on tae j ury ano A no ser because I 1 had told him several weeks before that I 1 was the report reporters erB notes were headst read at the request of the court court lie ile said lie he understood you were on the jury jur A he he understood I 1 was on the jury Q then began to tell you 5 ou about the cabe ayes A yes sir court who is the man I 1 want to gt get his name what Is his hia name A geo M cannon the county recorder of this county I 1 will say this tor to him he did not say anything more about it 3 after I 1 told him that I 1 die dia not wish to hear anything about abo Jt court he coin commenced fenced talking rapidly about it i did he i A Y yeb sir mr As recorded yesterday mr cannon was waa immediately arrested and brought into court where he offered to maxe an explanation but bur the court refused to listen at that time for the reason that the matter should not properly be investigated before the jary selected to try the case and it was set lor for monday aei beje no one could possibly be more surprised r than mr cannon at the ch chaise g preferred against him as the thought of such a thing had bad never entered his mind on being asked whether he had ever had a conversation with mr greene in which the morris mammoth suit was mentioned he replied in the affirmative the elie inquiry being pressed further mr cannon made a full statement of of the conversation referred to which in substance is as follows mr greene in his business as a real estate agent has frequent business at the recorders owe office with mr cannon A few weeks ago they were conversing in the office together on the general subject of litigation wherein mr cannon assumed the position that the jury system in civil cases wa was i not a success and that in any such dispute he would rather submit the matter to arbitration or for the decision of an able and impartial judge of the court that to a jury where one stubborn man could thwart the will of the other eleven and waste the tama and means of the litigants in a useless trial this was the long sent nee to which mr greene referred to and in support of his proposition mr cannon r pimply imply cited the action of the jury in the cormer loi mertria trial lof of the morris moms mammoth suit without saying a word as tz to the merits or issues involved in the case and not givins giving a thought to the fact t that hat mr 4 reene was a juror the latter then interposed the remark that thai if the case was talked of to him it would render him ineligible as a juror to this mr cannon promptly replied that he would not knowingly do anything that would di disqualify y a juror a as he should try all cases impartially impartial Y and as to the one referred to he was himself ignorant of the issues in dispute the conversation then turned to other matters mr greene was also seen this morning I 1 n g and emphatically asserts that mr C cannon a nou did not in any way refer to the merits of the case he further says say s that had he been allo allowed wed to explain as he wanted to there could not have been the slightest excuse for mr cannons arrest even on suspicion but as mr greene remarked a man dare not say his soul Is bis own now andthil and this was not permitted the matter will probably be thoro thoroughly ventilated on monday and the utter absence of any effort to tamper with a juror be shown wednesdays DAILY MAR MAE 31 logan temple the logan temple will ue te closed on saturday evening april ad and opened again on mond monday ay morning april A correction elder charles anderon writes to us elsinore sevier co as follows after having arrived home and enjoyed a kindly reception by relatives and friends 1 I read in the NEWS semiweekly of march a report of my missionary labors among the laoris maoris oy of new zealand in which appears a slight error which I 1 beg leave to correct in speaking ot of the gifts of the spirit as manifested among the maoris laoris you printed it le especially specially the gift of tongues which should read especially the gift of healing I 1 lam am not prepared to state however that the gift of tongues has not been manifested among them as the maoris laoris are capable of exceeding faith witness found yesterday deputies searched the homes of henry grow and A milton musser for witnesses in the ridges case but no oue one wanted was at either place the house of mrs agatha ridges was also visited twice but no oue was at honie home last evening however mrs ridges returned as ashe had bad concluded that I 1 it t would be better if she was wanted as a witness to be on hand shortly after she went home two deputies called at the house and served a subpoena on her to appear before the grand jury at 10 am loday lo to day clay and required ball bail in tor for her appearance mr heury henry grow surety for the witness who was vms usher ushered i ed into tue tile presence of the grand inquisitors inqui abl morning she way was afterwards required to furnish ball bail tor for her appearance pe arance when wanted attempted suicide last night an old mau named bailey was arrested by the police for drunkenness and profanity and was placed in the elio city jail for sate oaie keeping until this bunot morning diug yome some time alter he nad dad been locked lu la some of the other prisoners heard beard a peculiar noise in his room and finding that something was wrong raised the alarm officer thomas quickly entered baileys cell when he discovered the old man hanging against the wall the blood gusti gush I 1 ug ing from his nose and ears the officers promptly cut the would be suicide down aud and it was found that lile ille was not extinct though a jew few minutes lo leiger ager would have told a different t talu ile bailey had torna torn a blanket into strips and fastening fasten ing it ar aroud lud one of the bars across tho door nad ad passed assed the strip around his neck and hamly firmly tied it close up be then jumped there his bis toes barely reaching tte the floor he was taken such care of as was necessary and this morning had so far recovered as to be ready to come into court for trial this ip p the second attempt bailey has made in the same cell at destroying his own life A new incorporation the last but ut by y no means eana the me least east I 1 important 0 of t the e projects lately s started arted tor for establishing lis aug 1 incorporated or 0 ted companies for carrying on business of various kinds is that in connection with tile the coop co op furniture company whose place of business is on the corner of south and west temple street immediately west of the assembly hall the company of whom marks williams neve and schoenfeld have been the principal members have built up a very good business both in the line of manufacturing and importing furniture and now find and the increasing demands of their trade require additional capital and extension of facilities to secure which and add to the prestige aad influence which the firm already enjoys it has been decided to increase the number of their stockholders wid aad incorporate with a cap capital I 1 tat I 1 stock of the new organization i will be effected some time cr during ing the month of april or n not ot later than the 1st ast of may and will include as stockholders 8 R marks W N williams y S P neve F schoenfeld 0 H bpettit pettit H 4 G grant ra nt A li CaLno nJohn henry smith and F M lyman of this city also thomas B R cutler and john bock beck of lehi W C of grantsville Grants ville mark jeffs of reber heber city john jones of fork lyman G woods ot of springville Spring ville and a number of other substantial business men including several country dealers in furniture A branch house of the company is also about to be established at nephi land and others probably will be erected in other parts of the territory it affords us pleasure as it must do all who are interested in the prosperity of the territory and its inhabit anti to learn of such worthy men as compose this company uniting their interests and establishing various branches ot of business upon a permanent and substantial basis and to know that they are arc succeeding in that which they undertake that fire A gentleman from this city cily ba happened ened to be a guest at the green wip river er hotel on the line of the D R G W on sunday night at the time it took fire and has related to tons us some particulars concerning it he was steeping sleeping in one of tle the |