| Show THE OATH IN tum SECOND DISTRICT court piro celedinas cee dinas in beaver un cn lawful killing rix of Ju juries beaver utah may 18 mi editor deseret news the oath administered to the petit jurors here yesterday was the one formulated by the tha commission for voters judge boreman did not see how any honest conscientious mormon could take it but it turned out that less cormons mormons Mor mons in ili proportion to their numerical strength declined to subscribe to it than did those of the gentiles Gentil eai the jurors were informed that the oath related to their present and future status and of course mine miners s and adventurers who find or wish to find a wife in every camp will not take the oath as they erroneously suppose the they y would lay themselves liable to prosecution for perjury for fornication fornicate forni cati committed affet afeei taking said oath it is said that tb this Is refusal is very unsatisfactory to judge boreman Bore Bor maa ernan although the legal oath was administered in court the interrogations were in accordance cor dance with tile the LEAGUE OATH which was rejected by the Commis commission kon and several who would have subscribed to lawf lawful ul questions were challenged off because their answers were not satisfactory to the prosecution ane interrogations were very pointed and so far as I 1 child judge no part of the spirit of the league oath was omitted of course as abis is usual several of the most prominent men who made the country and who stood food the fiery fl ordeal of quizzing were peremptorily brother M M X steel from Pan guitA who came prepared to contest an indictment for unlawful cohabitation had bad to return without a hearing because as is believed there were still lef left t too many of his real peers aers on the jury at the next term of of court the OPEN VENIRE will be supreme one balf of ahe number received this time on the panel i completed y yesterday e were simmone summoned d on open venire wilford halladay will be tried today to day for killing the fellow who seduced his wife while he was in the penitentiary his aged parents are here to witness what is to be the fate of their son our large fruits are nearly all killed with frost there is con considerable adorable Ad erable sickness in the place from influenza our crop prospects are not as good a as 6 we could wish owing to the protracted drought DANIEL TYLER |
