Show I 1 azz I 1 I 1 SALT LAKE AND b i STATE NEWS ica 0 BOARD D OF PARDONS HAS mor A VERY BUSY SESSION the state board I 1 of pardons saturday granted liberty to six prisoners 9 st at the state penitentiary among these was john I 1 L obrion obrien to whom judge armstrong gave fifteen years for or a statutory rv offense march 30 1805 the district attorney recommended I 1 big parole I 1 I 1 mrs dorosea work who stole a diamond from a main street jewelry C store to obtain money to give her husband t who was not given to earning I 1 big own living was pardoned her sentence would have expired in six weeks beeks she was givena given a year on ay july 10 1907 or thomas keel who got a year from judge Fordin ferdinand mid erickson in emery NN county for adultery october 22 1907 it vas set free his previous good character was iras established by many petitions samuel wade anade convicted of larceny 1 la ogden and sentenced on october 11 1907 to one year was allowed to go tree free both district attorney halverson and judge howell making such recommendation jesse F mcmillen was allowed to fo go april 25 three days before his sentence expires empires he was a bartender in a saloon on west temple street salt I 1 lake lak and handed a customer some knockout knock out drops to enable a friend to rob sim the man who got tho drops lied died and mcmillen Ilen len got twenty years I 1 for murder in the second degree and I 1 the other man a life sentence hyrum smith convicted november and given eighteen months by judge armstrong for grand lan larceny ceny was let go on parole domingo lariba the peruvian I 1 coachman of A IN mccune who wm was found guilty of seducing a number of young girls and given a year by judge armstrong was refused a a pardon 7 r walter E burrill bun ill who was given eighteen years for robbery by judge armstrong january 27 1805 1905 was refused I 1 a pardon t alma D jones convicted of burglary january 3 1907 and given three years was refused on account of his being a second term prisoner peter charland whom judge armstrong gave three years for burglary october 26 1906 was refused a pardon james marron who was handed eighteen months by judge armstrong october 21 1907 for embezzlement will servo out his sentence the case of edmund hirsch con evicted of embezzlement and given fifteen months by judge booth at provo on september 16 was continued for one week ATI ari application from william F al brecht who was sentenced ceil june 19 1907 by judge erickson in ini emery county to three years for burglary was continued to the ju june c meeting of the board I 1 I 1 the case of dutch charlie botha ahn wh was sent to prison for life from sa juan county for killing hilling the M man tn who ruined his home and in whose behalf so ro many petitions have been filed was considered in executive session but final consideration was again post postponed boned this matter has been J br fore the board for foi two years f I 1 contagions contagious CONTA GIONS GROW 1 I 1 health department finally admits presence of disease in salt lake 1 I 1 salt lake april 19 the city health department seams seems wholly enable able to cops copa with the spread of contagious dis eases cases this is clearly shown by the weekly report for the week ending sat arday which shows that there were two now cases of 0 smallpox reported during the week seventeen cases ot b scarlet fever nine of ct diphtheria three of measles six of whooping cough and three of pneumonia making a total of forty cases of contagious diseases in one week it is the first tam tl mathe the health department has haa admitted small smallpox exists the officials of the hoard board have bavo been stating that the sc scarlet alot fever ri scourge wad under control but these figures tell a different story there were forty nine births during the week of which twenty seven were males and twenty two females and twenty flye deaths of which thirteen were males and twelve females SIX si bodies were shipped to salt lake for I 1 burial the report shows that at the end n of the week there were twenty eight houses in quarantine on account of scarlet fever and from the records of the office it is learned that th there ere are five cases of smallpox within the city limits IF BANKRUPT IS BANKRUPT salt lake april 19 in a suit filed ky by mrs ruth Por kilis matthewa A a widow of north ogden against pro Willi william arn M stewart head bt the university normal department wil which ich will come to trial before justice dana T smith soon a peculiar legal problem Is involved it Is as to whether one may include in a bankruptcy petition an obligation which will not mature continued on pago page five 1 SALT LAKE AND STATE NEWS NEW I 1 continued from pago page three until seven years after tho the petition Is filed mrs airs matthews in her complaint filed april 3 sols sets out that prof stewart in salt lake january 1 1899 executed and delivered vard to her a note for as follows for value received I 1 promise to pay ruth perking matthews with interest as follows sixty dollars on or before january 1 1900 and the same amount annually thereafter until the above amount Is fully paid prof stewart St according to the complaint pla irit kept up monthly payments or of I 1 5 each until 3 37 07 had been paid then he ceased leaving a balance due of this amount is asked for in the suit april 11 prof stewart filed in an answer to the complaint alleging bankruptcy and that the account was included in fa his list of liabilities bili ties in the petition filed december 29 19 1902 he was discharged in n bankruptcy in april 1903 the schedule of payments shows that 92 was pala paid on the note after his hia discharge in bankruptcy and the face of the note shows that maturing at GO 60 each cach year it will not bo due until january 1 next year ten years atter ater its making CLASH salt lake april 19 az E J watts swore out a complaint saturday afternoon against P 1 delmas of the delmas copper mining company ot of palisade nev charging bilm with assault watts was recently tl a director in the company but was arc roond by the loffi I 1 I 1 T cers it is stated at a meeting held recently I 1 e n ta y S saturday a tu r d a y m morning 0 r it 1 n g W watts achs N ho ho sa said i d h he e w was a s s still t il 1 a d director i r e e t 0 r of the c company 0 called a meeting of the board and it was over this that the trouble s started delmas had just returned from visiting the companas comp anys property saturday and had called a mee meeting ting of the directors to hear the report of the engineer watts had already called a meeting ot the directors and when asked why h ho had bad done so he replied that he was a director and a stockholder in tile the company and would call a meeting when he so desired A short time later delmas was leaving the elevator in the atlas block after visiting J D wood at the tha ground floor he be met watts and again asked him what he meant by butt butting lug into the affairs of the co copany company pany watts again informed mr delmas he was a director and this was again denied d hot words followed and when the two men reached the front of the building delmas hit bit watts a jolt on the left ear car which knocked him to the curbstone watts immediately went to the police station and swore out a complaint against delmas charging assault later in the afternoon watts atte attended tho the meeting ot of the company at their offices at 11 and 12 central block in company with two detectives NEVADA QUICK TO RECOVER many indications of returning prosperity are shown I 1 salt jakc april 19 As nevada was samong wa armong the first of the states to feel the recent depression and was among the states hardest hit by the financial stringency so it seems to bo be among the first to recover its stride once the stringency cy has passed and will be showing substantial progress over tho c of last year ear long be fono other states have done lating themselves that they havo have come somewhere near their former mark such substantially was the opinion expressed yesterday by J A reeves general freight agent of the oregon short line who has returned recently from an all extensive trip through the territory tributary to the southern pacific cal ei in nevada mr reeves included in his trip tonopah Toni opah and goldfield and other mining centers nevada will return to prosperity to find her business on a much more con aca dative basis than heretofore sa said d he in some respects ther the panic w with itan its attendant financial disasters has been somewhat of a blessing there but bat the development of the states resources arces to is still going ahead apace new strikes are reported every day or so and the interest in the mines has not lessened there was a good deal eal of talk of a railroad from schurz to rawhide to be built by the california development company and from indications it appeared as if the project would be carried out DISTRICT COURT NOTES salt lake april 19 sult suit was filed in the district court saturday by morris A thomas against R IL dittinger Bitting cr and AL S floss floes for flar 1502 due for payment on a flock of sheep delivered under a cont contract raeA made october 1 1907 george curley Is suing louis C shaw and albert shaw in the district distri et court tor for alleged to be due on a contract for mason work done for defendants on the poplar grove school building entered into april 20 the international chemical company of illinois has brought suit in the dis brict court against henry clr gren aea J R reeve and william green doing business as green reeve for for merchandise supplied in the district court saturday judge morse approved and confirmed the report of thomas ferguston Fergus eon receiver in the case of the utah mining machinery and supply company against the holderman filter tank company tho the property of the latter company at manning was sold by the receiver for to W W armstrong judge morse of the district court granted a decree saturday dissolving the sharp livestock company before judge armstrong saturday J al hamilton withdrew his appear |