Show EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY joseph ff erans PArd pardoned ened by the president the deseret new news of saturday published the following fal lowing washington march 6 5 the president yesterday vest erday pardoned JOB jos IJ 11 evans the following are endorsements dor on the papers department OP OF JUSTICE jan al 2 SO president As A iba this man has bits served out mach mitch aver over half of bis his term and ai as he is is getting old and ought to be par boned I 1 4 recommend it I 1 dont attach under the cirou circumstances distance much importance to bis his declining to make the promise asked of him respectfully A H GAIt GARLAND LAND G granted rait ted this convict is near nearly y 70 years old and nod was convicted or of polygamy and unlawful cohabitation f he has been imprisoned more than two years his pardon is prayed for by lis his legal wife thou though afi be he will not promise to ebey the law against polygamy yet et I 1 am determined that the hanle bard hip iship of bis his case shall not be cited to show that the government is inclined to be vindictive in its aftem attempts ts to extirpate the practice of polygamy polygamy signed GROVER eth 1887 |