Show COURT AT PROVO the first district court ia is at work at provo the new judge presiding A jury panel has been selected on tho the most approved open venire plan and a number of uni un i lawful cohabitation pases vases arp set to v be tried last monday the first case under the edmunds law tried this term came up the defendant was it 0 kirkwood who offered to take the witness stand and furni furnish 8 it 3 all n the testimony that tho the prosecution required in ord order r to spare his family unnecessary tortures but the L subordinate prosecutor copied mr plan and refused to spare the defend defendants anes children and wives according to the provo enquirer the selection of the jury developed a marked hostility to the mormon church while exi examining mining the jurors aa As to their qualifications the 1 Enquirer says ea avas was eviden evidently aly the aim aim of the io have no man to sit on that jury who wa was s a believer in any of tho the doctrines of the church with which the defendant wae was connected P the man an had hadbo to announce his unbelief in the entire creed and declare himself to be an uncompromising I 1 sing foe of the church in question tion otherwise he a could not be trusted with the duty of deciding fairly aud and impartially as to the guilt or innocenc Ci odthe of the accused in iri other countries couer iea 1 lea thia state of things might be regarded as altogether one sided and decidedly fatal fiftal to t the b c prospects of the unfortunate individual on trial but in in this country I 1 it I 1 ia is permitted peri because bb b b alse there is a ascertain certain vital iesue issue at stake the overthrow and annihilation of a church that if allowed allow ed to exist and extend cannot fail to obtain legitimate and widespread supremacy |