Show GRAND JURY REPORT question of sunday closing of T A saloons reviewed the school county and city all election amter ie alt receive a snare or attention the arand jury filed into court yesterday at 4 and presented the fol ing report to judge smith to the lion 11 W smith judge of the fourth judicial district ogden utah the arand jury met on the 3rd day of december and has been in con until that date during that time they have considered thirty nine cases ol 01 which they have ignored sixteen and returned indictments for twenty three of which one is a united and the balance are territorial we one hundred and seventy witnesses when the grand iury was convened the court instructed them to investigate all questions that were brought before them by the district attorney and especially instructed them to take up and investigate certain frauds eaid to have been committed in the recent election held november ath in certain districts in weber county and also to investigate certain complaints that had i come to the court in regard to the ad ministration of the liquor ordinances ol 01 the city ot ogden relative 10 the election question the grand jury has investigated as thoroughly aa possible and baa found by absolute and incontestable evidence that certain frauds were tn this matter they have examined sixty tour witnesses and have returned three indictments the grand jury beg leave to the notice of the court the very caries and inefficient methods by the judges of election in respect to properly locking and sealing ballot boxes at alie close 0 election and in regard to their security and safe beeping after election relative Eela tive to the liquor question your grand jury would respectfully eay that they have fully considered the matter and find eliat the violations 0 city ordinances and the same be aaben taben care of by the proper city authorities we called boilore us the chief of police and upon questioning him as to whether the saloons were closed and on sundays he replied that they were not we asked him if the city ardi nancee required the closing of the saloons at midnight and on and bo replied that they alil lie was naked if lio as chief of poUce had authority to lesue an order closing the faloona at these almee end he replied abat he bad not it seems to the crand jury that their duty compelled in calling the attention of the calv anthor aties to this chate of affairs and perlupo the action of the arand iary in questioning the chic of chief of police has already had a beneficial effect in that we understand that the paloona were blaed on sunday the day of december in of himself the chief of police however stated abat he was fihe custom that under ad the grand jury would respectfully auest that the responsibility of this matter does not rest entirely with the chief of police but that the city council and he police and fire 10 whom ho makes hie report and to whom be ia personally be held to account for this state of afla lra the grand jury hag examined and made an ot ane conduct of affairs in the reform school county jail and city jail we find the administration 0 affair at the retold school generally rood there are forty one inmates of which thirty one are male and ten female they teem to be liappa and contented to atay there their food is of good quality altho aeh plain and the evidences are that they are instructed anil that the tendency ie toward a better cosTi auE ON OSTI NUEl birst grand Jury Report lie cosof thiern leave been here dufore tho only criticism which iho jury would make in regard to this ingli tullon is arze general closets in the basement ba ement which are a menace vf the health it eacle inmate and shoals he taken out fd and improved at alio date e atio county jail 1 not at alt adequate adt quate to its it wag baill buill to iacca certain twenty and et lac in tiza convenience of and good sanitary sani tarr lie located under alio llio county court ahouee makes ventilate it and iu tue t ue of fire it would bo impossible to icat no any of alie inmates the erand jury aliat it ie hie duty of tin to alii aliat liat be termed a disz iaco to itself grilii a bood ac enild ing ct the earliest ible dito ae ar the administration of connect ed is it to bo as rood ai the location of the and other will permit except aliat alo room used as a closet i bot kept in puli pu li a dareo of cleanliness as it be bcd as it lie with a very email amount t additional care the city jail seema to be well taken care of as justlee and the law require the jury did biot alie toor farm nor make any there or the that no provision hotd been made for thel to that place and we that alice is no fund be drawn to pay the grand jury request that the ballot boxes of the let and aid polls second precinct and of the hooper precinct and of the Kanei nille precinct be retained in the custody of alie court un til alib erand jury meeta in january the eald boass and being important evidence which cannot be replaced tho strand jury lias completed the investigation vesti gation of all cadee now before them except iho charge certain for altering tho ballots in alie ballot boxes of the late election which ii arld open for further proof and have adjourned to meet january in conclusion the grand jary commend the energy and courtesy of the assistant district attorney and of the deputy marshal at hia office thanking you lor your kind consideration during th e session of the grand jury we remain J 0 foreman peter W Mau jilian thomas timm J G nicholas bieber parker 1 G thompson william M weir joseph Sor ersen bannister robert mckinnon G J mason ervine W beckwith 0 A 0 D Goldic ft |