| Show - 'Ilty salt Lake 112 I UT - - II tiltilit I 11114 12001 4 Search for a shortcut West produced a remarkable report Gen Ntan stabbed in head and condition torso in sale Kearns man who was stabl)ed twice in the head and four times in the torso at a parking lot Friday night has been upgraded to stable condition while his male assailant remains at large West A Valley City police say the 29victim was followed vear-olfrom inside a at 3180 S 5000 West to the parking lot after an argument in a l'heck-ou- t line over the at - NVal-Mar- tacker's girlfriend After the stabbing around 7:30 pm the assailant fled in a vehicle Sgt Dalan Taylor said The victim called a friend who drove him to a hospital and police were called Officers rontinue to in but have not made any aiTests Sgt Itrock lludson said Saturday SIC man gets 90 days for assaulting woman A 41 year-olSalt Lake City man was sentenced to 90 ays in jail for kidnapping and trying to rob a woman af ter ofThring her a ride Clay Grant Wiscombe initially was charged with felony counts of aggravated d first-degre- rob- : kidnapping aggravated bery and aggravated sexual assault for events on Feb 17 2002 According to charging documents Wiscombe locked the doors of his van and fondled the victim then grabbed her purse and fondled her again before throwing her from the vehicle causing scalp injuries Wiscombe pleaded guilty to second-degrefelony cotmts of k idnapping and theft Third Mstrict Judge Ann Boyden also 4)1aced Wiscombe on probalion fined him $800 ordered restitution and counseling as directed by probation officers Sex kid) minor brings 90-da- y home confinement A 22 year-olman who had sex with a girl he met over the Internet has been sentenced to home confinement for 90 days Robert Victor Lolohea pleaded felony guilty to attempted sexual abuse of a minor in 3rd District Court Judge Judith Atherton also fined IA)lohea $1000 and ordered him to obtain a mental liealth evaluation and cornplete any counseling ordered during a probation period e the high price of such legislation notes "Unfortunately the people paying the bills for you to inahe that statement may not feel the same way you do" For two years Rusk president of the Utah Education Association (UEA) has fought a law that prohibits teachers and other public employees from having union political contributions deducted from their paychecks To dale the state has spent about $1 million defending itself from the UEA lawsuit including settlement costs that included part of the union's legal fees And the case is back in court "That's a lot of money to keep public employees from donating i a dollars" says Rusk Staff attorneys did not warn lawmakers that the parrolldeduction ban might draw fire other government though watchdog groups did The same is true for another 2003 law now held up in court that made it harder for citizens to get initiatives on the election ballot More recently Utah ACLU President Dani Eyer criticized legislative attorneys for failing to spot problems with a bill to toughen the state's same-semarriage ban The bill did not carry a red flag though an unlikely grouping of legal minds — Eyer former chief justice of the Utah Johnston feared they "could not be checked and turned aside in time to prevent immense suffering" Hut nothing could stop Americans from gambling on a new shortcut and Delia Thompson Brown's family tried it in 1860 "Oh more had luck" she wrote on the Great Salt Desert "Old Tom has been sick ever so long and last night breathed his last and has gone to where all good horses go" The next day lightning killed a man and two horses and by the time she reached Carson Valley lasts" But Assistant Utah Attorney General Ray Hintze insists "This is different because it impacts our budget" Lawmakers pass problematic legislation and then expect the attorney general to defend it Without adequate resources complains Hintze "It's frustrating because we spend a lot of time estimating the cost of litigation and only about 10 percent of our fiscal notes get put on couple-hundm- BAG LEY HISTORY MATTERS Supremo Court Michael D Zimand two Brigham merman Young University law professors testified to its numerous constitutional shortcomings Legislative attorneys since have added a legal warning A similar oversight occurred abortion with the partial-birtban Despite warnings from Utah Al torney General Mark Shurtleff that it may cost his office as much as $200000 to defend legislat lye fiscal analysts reported the bill would not significantly impact the state financially "What kind of advice are 'lawmakers getting from these folks?" asked Bev Cooper of Utah's Planned Parenthood "They must be under a lot of political pressure I've never seen it quite like this" Chief Legislative Fiscal Analyst John Massey counters "We don't make projections on lawsuits because they're pretty much all over the board A lot depends on whether the state wins and how long the lawsuit I ContimA from the hardy "ships of the desert" had a hard time in Nevada her party°s starving horses ate her sunbonnet Brown met a train that had come through on the old road "and had gisxl grass all the way" They crossed only one 50 mile desert "and the vay we came has been desert all the way from Salt Lake" she wrote "It is rather provoking" Ironically the country Simpson explored soon came into its golden age Central Nevada Nx'ame famous for what George Ilushnoll called the richest silver mines known in the world" and use of Simpso Ifs road exploded But as Bushnell wryly observed a mining camp like lone "would he a gmat place if it were not for a to wants under which the builders struggle" First they needed "a better country upon which to build a town" second they needed something to build it with and finally they needed a good reason to build it Freight operators used camel caravans to supply the new towns but even Whatever problems his wagon road had army topographical expeditions produced elaborate reports and Simpsons is among the best Although the Civil War delayed its publication when it appeared in 1876 it had "information torespecting the history geography bota meteorology geology pography and statistics of fly zoology ethnology traversed" the country Simpson served honorably in the Civil War and was made a brevet brigadier general "for faithful and meritorious services" while Johnston died commanding the Confederate forces at Shiloh in 1863 Today Highway 50 follows much of the wagon road Simpson laid out in 1858 — and it's still the Loneliest Road in America Will Bagley finind A S Johnston's critique of Simpson's Route in the Fort Crittenden Letter Book at the National Archives MATRIX cleared in the case of man's released information a Willey& Neither constitutional warnings nor fiscal notes however spell doom for legislation Of the more than 700 bills introduced in 2003 392 passed - a rate of 58 percent By comparison 28 percent of those carrying legal red flags passed "If the legislators think it's important enough they'll pass it" said Mike Christensen legislative general counsel "Do legislators and outsiders question our judgment? Of course they do But if we feel the warning) needs to go on there it goes there The whole legal process is a judgment call" Indeed Sen Chris Buttars makes no apologies for his ban "I will never be held hostage by the threat of litigation" says the West Jordan Republican Allen dcpesn't recommend handing state government over to lawyers but says there is something to be said for respecting the US Constitution lIe blames the public and not legislators for bills like Buttars' "The fact that a large group of people don't vote has allowed interest groups on either side of the aisle to dominate the legislative process" Allen says And in Utah's Legislature where Republicans hold a veto- - and filibuster-proo- f majority "the right wing drives the agenda" kst ewart sltribcom d pany obtained confidential information listed in motorHowever veh i cl e records officials already are sure they know where it didn't come from "The important thing to remember is this information can be obtained through several means" DPS spokeswoman Tammy Palmer said Saturday "We are confident it was not obtained through MATRIX" MATRIX federal a is -- numbers The winning drawn Saturday night in Idaho's Powerball lottery worth $74 million are 3 6 27 37 41 POWERBALL: 38 27 WILD 1 For winning numbers and pri:e amounts call the Idaho The winning numbers in Idaho's Wild Card lottery worth $335000 are 1 14 21 26 Lottery's information line or log on at http: Iwwwidaholotterycom '"0!! 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Introducing the I Firefighters believe a blaze that caused Sl00000 damage to a group home operated by Salt Lake Valley Mental heath on Friday started when one of its occupants smoked in bed Salt Lake County Fire Capt Jay Ziolkowski said a woman was smoking just before heading down from the second floor of the home The blaze temporarily displaced all 23 residents As of Saturday 17 returned while six were moved to another Valley Mental health facility WILL - 1 Smoking in bed likely caused group-hom- e fire I but they soon learned there was no easy way to get across Utah Territory Johnston sent Simpson a testy letter In November 1859 saying he was get ling news from travelers that contradit led "in no slight deiTee" Simpson's rosy reports Johnston sent Capt I lenry Clarke to check out the road and determine if it could support large wagon trains The answer was a in "no" Even relatively few rest animals had already nearly stripped the country of grass and water which was to put it mildly "not abundant" Johnston thought the military the US Mail and even small wagon trains without cattle herds could cross the route safely but he ordered Simpimn to stop encouraging travelers to use it If overland emigrants set out on it d third-degre- a" thi-4as- send messages through bills Public sttkty nrwSfr re reports Fir 441: : Well sort of It was shinier and overland stagecoaches quickly adopted it as est road to the Far West Enthusiastic emigrants began using it immediately Lamakers FOR THE RECORD cm Trail? 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