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Show Chief Pratt was again confined in the penitentiary last evening. The greater part of the time yesterday was occupied in hearing pro and con habeas corpus proceedings. The judge will render his decision today. Ti e main point at issue is, is Prosecuting Attorney Judd tbej mouthpiece -of tfce grand jury, and can a man be brought before a court in the manner Mr, Pratt was and be imprisoned lor contempt for refusing to answer nnpst.iryr i,V;-h-S2uiy 1 TouuiT" the proceedings in which room are and must be kept secret?! Popular opinion in jthe main seems to be with Chief Pratt and whatever happens the chief says he will not divulge the secret and those who hnow him are aware that when he has made up his mind that a certain course is the right one, he is not easilv moved from it. . " Complaint has been lodged charging Henry Southworth with selling liquors without a license at Castilla. Mr. Southworth will have a hearing before Justice Wedgwood. Officer Wilkins returned yesterday yester-day from his trip east through Provo canyon and beyond Heber, bringing witn him the two sets of harness stolen from Mr. Hayes and another man in Pleasant Grove last eummer. - The R. G. W. Ky. company sometime some-time ago brought suit against W. F. Young of Fairyiew for $200.00 damages for flooding a piece of the track of the company which passes over Mr Young's land. The jury brought in a verdict in favor of the defendant. The case has been brought up to the district court on appeal. The papers in the case were rilled today. The damage case, Argyle vs. Strawberry Straw-berry Cattle company, is still on trial before Judge King and a jury in the First District court. The free musicale at the B, Y. academy last evening conducted by Miss Ottilie Maeser, for the poJysopbical society, was a most pleasing and successful suc-cessful affair. In spite of the storm the house was filled to overflowing and the audience was delighted with what it heard. All of the numbers, though some were not entirely beyond criticism, criti-cism, were excellent. The first on the program, a boys chorus, was very pretty: next rouowea a most excellent song, "Tfce Vacant Chair' admirably and most sweetly sung by Ruth " Wilson, daughter of E. A. Wilson ; a violion and piano selection rendered by Professors Pro-fessors Giles and Partridge was a very pretty thing; Nellie Boyer's reciting was indeed most finished. W. D. Roberts, jr , Bang at his best; the other artists all did well and the sentiment on music by Professor Rydalch at the close was a masterly effort and appropriate appro-priate aid timely talk. Chahley Kakreks, citylmarshal of Lehi, is in Provo today. Mr. Karrens is highly offended at the remarks made by certain Utah papers, including The Dispatch, concerning him and his family in speaking of the sad accident tbat befell his daughter Edith in Salt Lake a few days ago. He speaks of my attorneys" in such a wav as to impress one that he intends brindin? a lewlibel suits. The Dispatch is pleased to acknowledge acknow-ledge receipt of a complimentary invitation invi-tation to attend a select students' party to be given at the opera house next Friday evening under the auspices of the polysophical society of the B. Y. academy. |