Show SILT LIRE LIKE ITEMS A I petition to have eagle gat gatt preserved the following petition is ie being numerously signed in salt lake like city to the honorable city council of salt sau lats lake city the undersigned undersigner under signed have learned that it ii contemplated to remove the eagle gate from ita its present position at the head of first east street and we herewith respectfully request that this be not done we represent that the eagle gate was erected a third of a century century ago and has therefore become a familiar amill ar landmark to all this generation in utah and fa is known through pictorial representations and the visits of tourists tou riste throughout the civilized world not only is there a sentiment of affection for the gate on the part of a great majority of the citizen citizens gen generally brally which sentiment ie to particularly intense in those pe people 0 pis residing in the neighborhood or who wil 0 frequently p pass am along south temple street but the eagle gate late is an object of gre great t interest to the tourists and strangers who come to this city many thousands of whom visit the place plate every year we submit that the tile removal of the gate would be re carded as an unnecessarily offensive act on the part of t the he authorizes authorises autho author rises ldes especially as the objection which baa has been urged against theaon ti nuance of the old landmarks namely hat that it interferes with street traffic is frivolous and untenable in view view of the associations and all the circumstances we feel justified in respectfully requesting your honorable body not to order the removing of the eagle gate and in expressing the belief that you will comply with this our humble request re you will but please the public sent sentiment tou ment of the citizens of utah yesterday forenoon a jury was quickly im paneled to try the case of the uni united ted states vs george D roach who was indicted a year ago for adultery alleged to have been committed with a girl aged fourteen years half bieter sister to hie his wife air mr vanan varian prosecuted and arthur brown by appointment of the court defended the testimony was direct but bif of a character unfit for publication the case was given to the jury without argument shortly after twelve and judge zane delivered the charge and adjourned court for the noon recedes shortly after two the jury returned a verdict of guilty as charged and recommended the defendant to the mercy of the court arthur brown called attention to the fact that the defendant had bebenin been in prison four months and a half that bis his wife had condoned coudon ed his no 0 of irence fence that he bad had her and two small children dependent upon him for sup port and stud that he bad been very sick with consumption con fjug eption though his health was now better mr vanan varian expressed the opinion that it would be proper for the court to consider the circumstances referred to by mr brown judge zane said in effect that it would do eo no I 1 and pronounced sentence of five fi vs months imprisonment at this the defendants wife who was in the court room burst buret into tears |