| Show THOSE conspiracy CHARGES the cloud of mystery enveloping those conspiracy indictments by alie late grand jury of sail lake against various city and county officers and private citizens has at last cleared away through the publication of the charges alfred solomon is indicted upon the testimony of one Z coltrin in connection with the public documents which appear in all the cases for conspiring to defraud the city in paying the said coltrin a portion of the public moneys to which coltrin was not entitled the substance of this arraignment is that coltrin mas employed in the capacity of a detective for the conviction of vio lAtora ot the sunday liquor ordinance and the prosecution of carrying on and patronizing houses of ill fame another indictment charges judda elias A smith with conspiracy to de fraud etc the basis of which is the drawing of a salary tor official service rendered in in the capacity of superintendent of county affairs the animus of itiba action is explained sufficiently for present purposes in the fact that judge marshall alie liberal successor of judge smith drew money on identically the same basis and no action was taken in bis case it is also understood that the present incumbent judge bartch has applied for the same thing the most conspicuous of the indictments and veithal the most ponderous aad sweeping is that which arraigns twenty three citizens of salt lake for conspiracy in the sale of the notable hydraulic water claim the substance of this indictment is several years ago a number of men conceived the idea of the water of the jordan river on to the high lands near hie point of the mountain for the irrigation of tract of r ch alluvial land on alie west side of jordan considerable money was spent by the company for engineering and the spot the dam was to be put in wai located according to due form of law in 1888 alie waters available for alie salt lake jordan canal company proved insufficient and the hydraulic company negotiated a silo of their presumed water right to the city for alie gum of this sale is the presumed conspiracy it is alleged that the company had nothing to sell but the validity of their claim is cot especially in point here there being an abundance of fact available which is more pertinent to the charge of conspiracy during the present year there lias been some agitation about the transaction in qiea tion and in view of this the company on dec proffered to refund the amount paid by the city for their clam if the city would convey bick to them alie right be that what it may tor which they received the money in the course of alie of the hydraulic companas comp anys proposal st is a significant fact that mr dooly a liberal councilman as quoted as having affirmed that it the company could establish its claim the city would be foolish to boll it back to them for councillor another liberal member said thought the city got all the title that any body could get II 11 w identically alo tame atho other ennui gut annj he ally in the lortt lie had divver heard alegar opinion lr gard ri to ho I 1 artho IDA ianus a rood buy lain not councillor sharp baij tharo no member on tho flour of the council who would pretend to claim that the not iulo lu pool hy both at the time and for one he thought at the lie city glod ur chine mayor armstrong alio is fair authority on local business matters baa personally offered to pay the company a much larger eum than the cly did anil take chanie ii on the ali dily of their title tin s is the exhibit ulon which tweet oliree citizens were inducted in balk or conspiring to d fraud the city if the decent ot the capital digest sort of grand jury work it lont a result ot bile on the stomach they are of a more thoroughly cae hardened sort of partisan bias than the M orld ever before witnessed |
