Show first district court the follow following laIr ba business siness was transacted before judge henderson at brovo yesterday HUBS basis christian nansen hansen of lot gunnison county was arraigned on a charge of unlawful cohabitation entered a plea of guilty and promised to bouey ane law yas was fifty three years old last marriage occurred lu in 1883 sentence vt asi fornof for nov ad he henry r beal same charge entered a plea alea al 0 of guilty last marriage was twenty clars y ars igo ago defendant was a man of moderate means had bad never evaded abed tha tbs issue was fifty three years old sentenced to 10 imprisonment for three months and add a tine fine of A M 00 to stand committed paid oaid peter M petersen Pe fersen of Ephr ephriam lam same charge was 46 years vears old last marriage occurred ISM 1883 had bad young children by second wife entered a plea of guilty and came to the conclusion that ne would obey the law inthe in the future the judge thought his bis promise to obey vie tie law would hardly be consistent when be bad married poil ga since the passage of the edmunds ejmunds law he had deliberately broken the law alace its passage and ince frince it began to be enforced the rule to suspend sentence did not apply to 10 such cases but to those who entered into plural marriage ma triage many years ago defendant was sentenced to turee three months imprisonment and to pay costs os of prosecution peter C hansen haasen same his bis last marriage was la in 1882 ni ait families had bad been sep prated tor for the last two years mar marred last just before the edmunds law went lao effect but bat continued lu in the loo and raised cu children ildren the autence a was waa two months imprison munt he promised to obey the law christion anderson was arraigned and entered a plea of not guilty sentence set for 2 p wa 0 but bat defend defendant ant was absent when calleo calico and sentence passed for the present sentence in the case of cf the united states vs john joha harris haris was postponed until nov 3 the case of we the people vs albert ether murder was called considerable time was taken up to arguing a motion for a continuance of the case as an important witness on part of the prosecution namely gilbert johnson Job was absent the defense maintainer maintained maintain ea that he be was a fugitive from justice as being one of the alleged conspirators against ether and would not probably be fould tile the motion for continuance was denied as the court thought ought iti the witness could be obtained if at all by the time the jury was paneled em the work of getting a jury ts ia in progress evans aad arthur brown prosecute and dixon taurman and sutherland defend there were over 30 witnesses in the cane case the grand jury returned 20 indictments 15 under united states laws and 5 under territorial laws A special venire was issued lor for 25 more petit jurors president lent A 0 smoot wa was S brought into court and arraigned on in an indictment chara charging jg him with unlawful cohabitation he pleaded not guilty bishop johnson was also arraigned on a similar charge and took two days to plead |