Show PROVO POINTS Stccii round Muilty Conference Ad jounis General Notes Deputy Marshal Cudihee has returned from Cove Creek having made a four days trip in about thirtysix hours Cudihee is a good traveler Prof L G Maeser was arrested last Monday on the prevailing charge he being be-ing a polygamist On Thursday he had an examination before Commissioner Hills The witnesses in the case were his legal wife his daughter Otillia and his son Emil They were all perfectly straightforward and gave their testimony without the least reservation There was no disposition manifest to hide up any facts that tended to throw light on the matter In this particular Jght Professors Pro-fessors case proved a very commendable exception to the rule After the witnesses were examined the Commissioner took the mater under advisement till yesterday yester-day morning when he ruled that Maeser be held to await the action of the Grand Jury and therefore placed him under bonds Among the Conference applicants for citizenship was one Alfred Anderson avery a-very green young man from the wilderness wilder-ness He was so overcome by the ma jesty of the court that he answered as incoherently in-coherently as a child To one question he said Chicago is a State and then fell flat on his back as though he had been shot He was taken from the courtroom court-room but returned later in the day and was finally admitted to citizenship The charge of Judge Henderson in the Steen case was a lengthy and explicit one The jury retired and after being out all night cam into court yesterday with a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree recommending the boy to the mercy of the court When the foreman fore-man read the verdict Steen dropped his head and sighed heavily jLfter the jury was discharged he arose shook his lawyer heartily by the hand and solemn ly walked from the court room back to jail Next Monday waR set for the day of sentence The verdict in the Steen case gives general satisfaction what was generally gen-erally supposed would be given Alex Sutherlands address to the jury I in the Steen case was a very able and eloquent effort The gentleman talked for three hours and worked faithfully for his client which was all the more commendable com-mendable because he defended him without with-out remuneration Judge McBride is here as one of the attorneys in the Fillmore McBrideSpeed murder case A great deal of firstclass legal talent is arrayed in the McBride murder case The defendant has for counsel Judge Ale Bride Judge Dusenberry and Alex Sutherland Esq a very able and hardworking hard-working trio The prosecution consists of Ogden lilIes Vic Bierbower and Jos H Giles county prosecuting Gies Jrosecutin attorney from Fillmore In this trial every step will be contested and a hard fight made for the defendant Prove is full of Exfuldior5 There are here by that name I drug Tere livery stable a hotel and 1 whole host of pretty girls are included in the list from a standpoint of beauty I would be interesting to know if the Salt Lake Police quartette Marshal Solomon Sol-omon policemen MaIm Smith and Sol mon draw their salary while down here attending Conference instead of their duties in Salt Lake City Yesterday Mr Rasmus Wilson of Spanish Fork exhibited on the street one I of the finesNhorses in the westthe French stallion Sultan The animal I I was imported from France last August and wintered near Chicago and Tuesday of this week he arrived in Provo Sultan Sul-tan is a magnificent horse standing seventeen sev-enteen and a half hands high and weigh ing 1800 pounds He was three years old the fourteenth of last month is of pure Persian breed his decent corning down in a direct line from 1820 No purer blood has ever been imported to America and Mr Wilson is therefore justly very proud of his stallion The animal has cost the owner about 25nn but he is well worth it and Mr Wilson is to be highly commended for his enterprise enter-prise in importing so costly a horse to Utah The Provo Dramatic Club Drimatic played to a fair business during the Conference sea a son By special request they repeated Rosedale last night The trees are coming out in bud and blossom so that the town is nearly in full dress of red white and grepn Conference was adjourned yesterday liter the reading of Messrs Taylor and Cannons epistle it was not possible to hold the saints longer together PROVO April 9 188 MILOZIP |