Show IDE allt LAKE jari thi rut forth a 11 ll OB ad special dispatch to tl i STANDARD SALT dec 15 at 3 30 yesterday afternoon the grand jary 0 HIP thaid district made us report andas expected Is intensely political in its character it abat indictment have been found against twenty one persons under united states laws and eighty under lans word ign red seven united states cabi caei and territory Terri tor al cases three hundred and thirty three witnesses were examined they also eo they say the third district clerks olice tho penitentiary tent iary albats and united I 1 office lie county and city affairs and the jials in the district the report aia in regard to the district court cleric aliat they found no evidence ol 01 in the affairs ot the penitentiary and united states marshals ollice the history ol 01 thoe departments under manuals ireland dyer and parsons was recited the report says that all vouchers rendered the ov ernt nent for po tatos and milk hv deputy wardens dow brown and aratt ft ere not to alie facts also that during ahn anne mr brown was deputy warden not half tha milk has dicu tho vouchers tou chers called tor in regard to llie feeding of prisoners in the penitentiary tent iary the report raya Jing the fresh meat ham aid bacon lun was as to quantity about 25 per cent in excean 0 what ft as necessary and as to price was 25 per cent too high it says of allowing milk to prisoners that it has involved a disputed question concerning prison discipline via M to ft bother it is best to furnish healthy penitentiary convicts with articles 0 tood other than the regular prison fare in regard to alie penitentiary the following summary is made that nearly nil alie vouchers rendered alie government by the deputy wardens tor potatoes and milk were fraudulent in whole or in part and 2nd hut the BU plies ibave been excessive in quantity quan lity ad tint alie brics paid for each supplies have in inacy instances been extravagant ath ahat the wagon account is an imposition upon ha government sill that it is bad policy and worse judgment to permit the marshal or any employee under him to keep private property in or about the premises or to permit an to perform any kind ol 01 work or labor for the personal benefit of the marshal ath that men berving terms of imprisonment for violation of alia laas ot congress against and unlawful cohabitation hae been granted preat r liberties and more generous fa or than alio e imprisoned for oher of fences believing this to be unwise and an unjust discrimination we respectfully suggest abat it be there is also an attack upon ex marshal dyer for pa ing his deputies CO per cent of the fens ard for llie use of teams and says llie present a arshall also insists tint it is a proper war to charge actual expenses the alt lake county since 1881 are then reviewed at length and the grand jury we charge that alie county court was culpable in its appropriations of S W fox jr w lien selectman the jury makes this ling mr fot as of this contingent road account deemed to usurp the functions ot the entire county court approving of work and paying bills at his pleasure lie county court always approving his a tion the accounts 0 george ans mon and R J golding when they held the office of assessor and collector also received attention fault is also found with the sheriff of salt lake county for employing some 0 the city police as on behalf ot the county and says of this division that the county disbursed public in an autocratic manner alie jury next attack alie by the county court of one sixth interest in the jordan dam to the hydraulic canal company and say that the county had no right to make the eale fault is found with the county court for paying 1 per day for the expense of keeping H Y II ampton when he was imprisoned also for the game thing in the case of convict frank J cannon imprisoned for an assault W II 11 dickson united states attorney in regard ti the canals on the w ea side of the jordon river the report says conaty were stockholders and olli cers in chiao canal companies As such county dicera dicers di cers they mis appropriated and diverted county funds to the building of canals upon the pret eose that it was a beleut to the county they charged upon alie county books these large sums of money against the canal companies as advances and loans and alter a while when the statute of biad run the debt as officers and stockholder of the canal companies backed by the legal opinion of their creature the county attorney they refused payment in begird to the city complaint is made that i was spent for water supplies in 1888 yet the water supply of the city tor was leea alun daring any tune for ears past 0 the exchange of canal water for parleys canyon creek ahe report baya such a by a body of men first duty should be to protect the cites interests and promote ita welfare admits of no reasonable explanation and for poor judgment misappropriation of city funds and wilful betrayal of brusti thir transaction cannot be surpassed unless it be by the purchase of hydraulic canal rights an account of which appears elsewhere in this report the next grumble is because tho city purchased lumber from taylor gomney armstrong and Maor armstrong wai a member of that firm the report says that was a very loose manner of conducting business and cannot but result in great baete of city funds of the police department it bays we find ery loose methods in conducting the business relating thereto there is a complaint for city prisoners 2 chos also employment of detectives on behalf of the city of latter it frays in regard to the endeavors to detect houses of prostitution and punish the keepers inmates and thereto all these transactions appear 10 the jury to be illegal and demoralizing moral izing to public administration and teem closely akin to active partnership v ith crime on the put of the city marshal and mayor it bayn that in this detective service cers have wide the gates and torn down every barrier chich should re etrain those m whose hands the hard earned taxes of are placed from a wasteful and villainous of the public funds the city presented to members of the history of halt lake and them care of lion john T gme washington of this lie grand jurors ftfe why should the city be to pay express charas the hydraulic canal company then 03 attention it e of the facts in regard to the operations aad intentions of the canal campany and then faya of the purchase ot the canal companas comp anys right by the city fr which ofa jl was paid es clear a steal as waa over any public and the though appear ing upon the ace as in bome ilir and that the money aa paid lo 10 men who hail a rightful claim to it the lifts as presented lo 10 ais tt arran the we now make that the bulk of that filid found ita way into the poi keta of city and county and the mormon church and that the whole was devised and carried through by those men ith the de liberate lib prAte of robbing the illy in referring to the street railway and other franchises ho report makes a wholesale attack upon the city council because the or in the corn to which and rays euch a rule es public ions and that the mayor of salt lake city ia not exempt from ahe timit beset ordinary humanity in this respect this is the chopo of the report aa to the indictments it ia rumored eliat many of them anro city and county officials but nothing definite could be learned |