Show CACHE WILL consolidate commissioners act after 1 long debate joe sullivan found guilty of murder supreme court deals blow to states rights logan utah march 23 the cou county t y commissioners today pissed a resolution uniting all the school districts district si outside of logan into one distrI district Lt and I 1 end cadd d the long diRcus discussion sion concerning school consolidation the matter mattee was disposed of in this vay A ay at the recommendation of J L mcgarrey county superintendent of schools who submitted the resolution to the commissioners the resolution which was has adopted by the board creates one school district divides the district into five subdivisions provides lor for the appointment of a member of the board of education from each subdivision and fixes the bonds of the new officials at 2000 the fight which ended today has been a long one and at times considerable feeling was displayed the plan was upheld by some and opposed by others on account of the unequal distribution of the school funds and taxable property abr th board adopted the resolution after a discussion which lasted nearly all day salt lake city march 24 the jury in the case of joe sullivan the alleged slater of policeman charles S ford of this city returned a verdict of guilty of murder ii i i the first degree at 4 monday aften oon the verdict chich is accompanied with the recommendation that he be imprisoned at hard bard labor in the state prison was reached after forty eight houra deliberation delile ration by its action the jury declared that sullivan participated in the hold up of the albina saloon on west second south street on the morning of december 14 1907 and that he was one of the two men who shot officer ford to death as they rin from the front door of the saloon on that fateful morning sullivan will know his fate at 10 morning april 1 at which time judge armstrong before whom w hom the ex convict was tried will impose upon him either the death penalty 13 or life there is every reason to that judge armstrong will recognize the recommendation mend men dation tion made by the jury oh its all over all exclaimed sullivan after he had heard the verdict everything there is to say washington march 23 by deciding that the I 1 laws a w a of M minnesota inn es ot 1 and north carolina seeking to regulate I 1 interstate rates on freight and passenger traffic are unconstitutional the supreme court of the united states dealt staggering stig gering blow to states rights in declaring these laws unconstitutional by upholding the jurisdiction of the federal courts to inquire into the con fisca tery mature of state rate laws the supreme court gave the railroads their first big victory since the days when he the states and the federal gov crement b gan an their crusade ag against them in the north carolina case the court sustained the action of justice pritchard of the united states circuit court in dismissive dis james wood an agent of the southern railway from jail where he hid been sent for violating the state rate law the minnesota freight law vai haq declared ired unconstitutional in that it imposed such acay fines and long imprisonments prison on ments ment fine and five years imprisonment As a result of the do de ci attorney gemeril edward edard young of minnesota must pi p kiy i a fine of or go to prison for contempt of the federal court which aich found foun a him guilty of attempting to enforce the Minne minnesota rate law after the court had enjoined him from so doing |