Show jurisdiction OF JUSTICES A little more than a year ago a decision C of 0 the supreme court ol 01 tit this territory practically annihilated the criminal jur jurisdiction WhAlon fit of justices of the peace in utah this astonishing decree e which with withdrew brew from some hundreds 6 f local officials ol 01 this territory tho the right to exercise certain powers powe rs granted by the statute was rag ren rendered derel in lie tile now notorious also case of is vs in which one W II 11 applied to the highest tribunal of utah for a writ of prohibition to ba present prevent his ilia t trial rial upon a charge of reg resorting orting to a housto of ill lime fame for lewdness the wide sweeping effect of I 1 ho he decision rendered in that cae by ill supreme c court our t lilts haafeen been apparent en t in every effort which hai has since been put forth by local authorities to control the lawless lauless clement element it is not no t sav saying ing too much to assert that no question of local law or application outside of the tile questions arising under special congressional enactment could interest or be of more importance than this matter it became clear to tit tho 0 1 best t legal minda minds that some correction must be applied to the ovila evils existing through the promulgation of this judgment but as the federal judiciary of the territory was constituted no attorney could naturally fuel feel any anxiety to reopen a case N wherein herein defeat fe t would b be almost a foregone conclusion cl the public neceta necessity ity however secured the services of its advocate the case upon which the attempt was wag made to gain a reversal of the tile decision in vs came from this county and was managed by our prosecuting attorney it was upon an appeal made by the people from a it decision of the first district court in the case of william douglass the achieved by mr richards Kic hards is fully detailed in our report taken from the dimet loews of list evening it makes mighty interesting te reading agthe as the politicians say for the rather sel selfish fish clasi of people who vt lie desired to a see ce the local officials of this territory stripped of their meagre remaining rights every officer affected by this decision should make a note of the facts and govern himself in accordance therewith A greater victory just at this time c could scarcely have been achieved it c comes ome along in re regular gular order and is not inferior to many of the other triumphs which the cause of good government has achieved of late in this territory the tito decision in the case of bearun vs speirl in effect nullified the uw law conferring criminal jurisdiction upon tho the justices of the peace in akah it went oven even further and by intimation weakened it i not abrogated the tile authority of aldermen acting under tho the provisions of municipal ordinances fully one hundred undred li and fifty separate kinds kind sf of offenses offen sea were ere thus withdrawn from the purview of local s thia this strange opinion was delivered deliver adby by boreman A J with ith powers rowers A J concurring and banc C J dissenting A peculiar ec uliar coin com carigon is shown by the fact that in this case to a conclusion by mr richards Eich arda tha tho opinion I 1 on reversing the tile former bew view of the supreme court is delivered by zane C J with henderson A J concurring and boreman Dorc min A J dissenting the former enunciator of the supreme courte courts decree found himself in the ilia minority upon this occasion judge henderson holds with judge zane while hilo powers rowers held with baroman Bo roman one of the many oddities of 0 our territorial jurisprudence ie is shown in the fact that Julge henderson of the first district court sitting aa as associate justice tf f the supreme court concurred squarely and fairly in an opinion reversing hie his own decision of a few months previous the inconsistency sis tency ho however adver is with ith the system and not with the official when judge henderson heard the appeal of william dougham 1 on the demurrer to tile jurisdiction of justice dee he was bound by the rulings of his supe superior Fior tribunal to sustain tile demurrer whatever ma mav have been his ilia opinion pinion which we have comeans no means of knowing lio lie could not do other than aa as lie did although the exhaustive argument adduced ej by mr Iti chardi at that time wa was pronounced by all v ft ho heard it to be absolutely convincing of the power of the legislature to confer and the right of the ju justice atice to exercise this jurisdiction but when judge no longer eat As district judge but as associate ju justice tice of the supreme court of utah territory it became not only his its right but hie his legal duty to review the matter aa sis presented uon upon ite its merits irrespective of the former decision decisions of thie this same tribunal lie ile therefore co coincided inc aided with milt the chief justice and the authority which never should have bare been taken from local officials is now refi restored to them thern it is interesting to follow the course ot of reasoning ortho of the supreme court in thi abia 8 matter it has adopted the theory ad advanced va ead by counsel for the 17 allowing showing that mr nr richards laid his ilia foundation upon correct principle the review of the use case brought brou glit up an examination of the office and au authority thorl of justice of the peace from th the e earliest time times doubtless mr Nr richards determined since tile supreme court lad had already on one occasion decided thie this question adversely to the people that lie most must leave no opportunity for the court to uphold ite its former mani test fest error but present a conclusive and irresistible argument not only dosa does his brief give a list of convincing authorities but it handles the moral and politic features of the question if in a modest but terse and emphatic etyle i the decision will be gladly received by byall all the officials affected through tha length of this territory from login logan to st george tile prosecuting attorney of this county was alone in ill representing this case tor for the people we congratulate him upon the victory achieved but more we congratulate lie the people of utah and the officers that the mst restoration oration pf 0 local ju u mcw hm ha tae sen pam ruco and nd that tw V 7 a defiance of tho the law and the courts by the tile lawless element no lunger longer receives a premium tut LONDON truth makes quite a seni sensation tation with its announcement ce ment tint that representations of british r ta are being used for ga garbov rg OIes les it says BI s that 90 some in e little time ago the parish C church 1 1 ai of st gilese giles was restore 1 and a buttress r standing at the western corner was ornamented with five gargoyles these figure hea la is represent it live ve sta tate tennen onen lord salisbury lord randolph churchill mr gladstone air bright a and ild mr me chamberlain tins this is ie evidently a new departure in ecclesiastical architecture tec ture for hitherto lut herto gargoyles haie have been representations represent irions of ginning inning devils the tones tories are arc more severely cly areata il than tile liberal liberals both lord salisbury and lord R randolph andol churchill being a sight for men and angels TUB roLLo paragraph ingoing is going the sp alper roun Is california producers of fru arut t and vegetables especially especial lyof of canned fruits will ill not lot mina the tile higher freight rates caused by the interstate inter state commerce law thia this season the fruit mell in in the fast east and in in the mississippi valley is IB FO so far below the tile average taken a whole thit that there is sure to be a brak demand deman I 1 for the products of the pacific coast and the market in in chicago ila has already advanced enough to niale make up for the rise rise in in freights meanwhile consumers will enjoy the blessings of living it 11 a country where here alt all oils and climates are found in in perfection and the products of widely idely separated regions 0 ns are poured into every im in cortani gi r t an market in the land I 1 ind SOMEBODY from michigan was boasting yesterday of thi climate of 0 his otate A bystander tool took an eastern paper from his pocket and made a random selection lection Bc of the follow lowing ing statement A michigan farmer says ea s it lias has been so hot in in that state that the horns of his cattle shrunk allowing the brass knobs to fall off tins this is is an example of one of those ead sad cases birre h re a man has missed his vocation in in life THE tiie earron of a crete nebraska paper announced that the pastor of a local church had withdrawn from the pulpit for a month the body of the notice was very considerate and respectful ful but the heading was cully bully if true AN As OHIO onto statesman eta proves to bis big own satisfaction that every year ear americans drink enough fizzing soda water to make a foam crested ocean large enough to carry the combined navie tile world tas of baltimore laid sim sam jones 1150 a night to filing slang at them lie called them a 11 silly 1 ay crowd ani and they proved the statement by soliciting a renewal of ins his engagement I 1 BOS 1011 HAS a club of ye vegetarian g dinner for one of them consists of six six cars ears of green corn three plates of aired cucumbers and two thick rounds 0 of f watermelon ater melon to top off on DETA DEVA is the name A of a railway elation station in colorado and when hen th debrake man shouts devastations the timid passengers hold their wigs on with both hands WHY DO the antipoverty anti poverty people ol 01 new york want to rush into the newit newspaper paper business this test of their recipe ie is too severe |