Show cutet EVENTS edmunds law prosecutions andrew anderson And ereon a resident of huntsville was arre arrester at that place june 18 by deputy mclellan on a charge of polygamy and taken before commissioner cross the defendant was arrested for unlawful cohabitation six weeks ago but owing to ill health judge black had postponed the hearing from time to time on june 18 at 1 pm he and his alleged second wife emma fagerstrom appeared before the commissioner and time as they could not find their attorney the commissioner granted until july ath and placed them under udder bonds of 1000 for defendant and for the alleged second wife to appear as a witness at the hearing ogden standard at odgen on june 19 the grand jury reported seven indictments under united states laws and three in territorial cases the unlawful cohabitation cases against john andrew and alex baird were ignored as were also alleged violations of the territorial laws against rasmus peterson and john A peterson in the third district court june 19 F S richards asked that the indictment against C W penrose for unlawful cohabitation be dismissed as mr penrose had been pardoned by the president of the united states district attorney peters opposed the request and urged that the pardon was conditional upon the future conduct of the defendant mr richards stated that the condition was void that the pardon was absolute in law and that the court could not consistently refuse to dismiss the indictment mr peters insisted that it should be held over the defendant but in rep reply ly to interrogations by mr richards admitted that it was without force and that if the defendant should violate the law in the future he could only be followed for that action the government however could not show that the law had been violated since the pardon was rendered mhd court was about to pass upon the question when mr mir peters fe marked that he had submitted the question to the Delart department ment of justice and that the attorney general of the united states had instructed him to tao the effect that the indictment should be dismissed judge zane then ordered that mr Rid richards bards request be gr granted aRted and remarked that if there was any violation of the law in the future it could be referred to the grand jury the indictment was dismissed june 20 was the time set for the trial of the charge of unlawful cohabitation against alonzo E hyde when it was called in court mr hiles said he wanted another continuance he then read an affidavit made by deputy franks franke which is to the effect that ella wilcox is a material witness in the case that for the past two years the officers had failed to find her although they had made diligent search that they had bad within a few days obtained information that she wils was in california un der an assumed name and that they believed they could secure her attendance at the next term of court mr sheeks opposed the continuance the had been found in august 1886 without the witness and the trial had been put off ever since by the prosecution the court had made a peremptory order that it be tried today now the government insinuated that the witness was kept away by the defense but they had not dared to place the charge on paper in in a form that it could be replied to the defendant was entitled to a speedy trial and to further postpone it was an injury to him the request for a postponement was of course granted by judge zane who said he would let the government have another chance owing to the peculiar conditions which surrounded the case the following business was transacted before judge henderson at ogden june 24 lars christensen larsen was arraigned on a charge of polygamy to which he pleaded guilty james bywater was arraigned on a charge of unlawful cohabitation to which he pleaded guilty sentence was set for july 8 1889 jens jena P jensen was arraigned on the charge of adultery to which he be pleaded not guilty an AD order was entered for copy of indictment henry was arraigned on a charge of adultery to which he pleaded not guilty A copy of the indictment was also ordered in the case released from prison on june 21 the following breth ren were released from the penitentiary where they have been confined for living with their wives x S T Parag oonah iron county francis webster 8 F jones jonee cedar city iron county wm B R butler jos S barney escalante garfield county L D watson parowan carowan Pa rowan iron county niel P neilson highfield birchfield Bich field sevier county the last named had a three months sentence all the others the full term of six months they all stayed 80 90 days because of the heavy fines f nes assessed and which they were unable to pay on june 22 peter C geertsen Geer teen of huntsville weber county was released from the penitentiary where he has bas been confined for living with his wives he was detained thirty days for the fine and costs niels P Bas mussen who was sentenced in the first district court to a term in the penitentiary for living with his wives has satisfied the penalty and was released june 25 in adli addition tion to the term of imprisonment he was kept thirty days for the fine and costs home from the states on june 18 elders richard A and M bard shipp jr returned from a mission to the southern states they left this city june 30 1887 and after a visit of a few days to new york went to chattanooga and were assigned to labor in different parts of the west tennessee conference their first experience with mobs was when a conference was broken up but no one was injured in richard richards Is field of labor there was considerable opposition on january 1888 in christian county ky he was taken by six nien men who inquired if he was engaged in ill preaching mormonism and on receiving a reply in the affirmative he was beaten with a barrel stave receiving 45 or 60 50 blows they demanded that he be make a promise never to come that way again agai ii but at this juncture his traveling companion and another man came up and the mob departed on another occasion ln in montgomery ornery county tenn the elders had an appointment to preach but when they got to the schoolhouse they found only a mob of some twenty mounted men beaded by a dr outlaw were prevented from holding a meeting and left A few minutes after the mob followed them apparently with the intention of do doing dg them injury ury but they stepped into the woods and thus avoided them there were quite a number of other instances of mobbing elder richard A shipp was appointed president of the west tennessee conference in january 1889 during the last nine months of their time in the field the two brothers labored together though they had some severe experiences M yet they met with many genuine friends who showed them every kindness especially was this the case in caldwell county where they met with an excellent class of people who were ere willi willing ng and anxious austo to hear the gospel and afforded every facility for the elders to preach when the elders shipp were on their way home they stopped by request in kansas and baptized one person into the church they have enjoyed good health while on their mission farm Farmers e rs Beware christian A madsen writing from gunnison under date of june says the country cou is flooded with letters from bankers and money lending establishments offering money at from 10 to 15 per cent on security in landed possessions at the present time I 1 am not acquainted with any improvements connected with agriculture which are worth half that amount of interest leaving a reasonable margin to the user af pf of the capital for his trouble of applying it in other words capital used for the most profitable investments that at the present time can be made in farming is not worth over 5 per cent and farmers who think to benefit themselves by mortgaging their property at the rate of even 10 per cent will find out with regret that they made a bad bargain farming is a most legitimate pursuit and does not give more than a legitimate remuneration and if farmers submit themselves to extortion ruin is sure to follow more contributions the johnstown relief committee closed its business monday june 17 1 77 money has been received since a as follows lead mill bingham 1950 19 60 lower bingham 2050 20 50 upper bingham 1200 12 00 bingham city 1300 13 00 john rock hill spanish ork 6 5 00 alfred wharton 1 00 no name beaver I 1 1 50 alice atkinson 50 50 E A ireland 10 00 rio grande western spanish blanish fork 2 00 john middleton kon hon h on gity city 5 00 liitle alice godbe 0 2 00 total ae 00 reported monday evening 03 grand total 03 on june 17 governor thomas remitted to seattle to pittsburg about four hundred dollars of the total of was sent in by persons r outside of salt lake city nelt salt lakes contribution is |