Show HE CUTS THEM ALL OFF Mr Dickson Gets His Mower to Work on the Mormon Jurors aud Cuts Them All Down He Shows Another Phase of the Oath and Makes a Man Guarantee a Virtuous Future A Few Sticklers An Independent MormonAn Interesting Day Before Judge Zane There was a large assemblage of spectators spec-tators in the Third District Court this morning it being the day set for the commencement of prosecutions against unlawful cohabitation and polygamy The first business done was the em paneling of the petit jury The foll wing w-ing jurors were called David W Hunter D M McAllister John P Benson GeoHodman Henry Harker John Erickson K W Barnes Enos Stookey John F Oblad S Bringhurst Jr Jas W Campbell Ed Snelgrove J F Bradley Jacob Huser David Cook E J Swaner Charles Chrisman Thomas Williams Joseph A Silver A D Wooley John W Andrew E E Phillips Robert Eure Wm S Brighton Emery Ward Alex Rogers Lucien Simons P H Towley Louis Stransburg David W Hunter was first called He believed in polygamy and would not take the oath and was therefore excused D M McAllister believed polygamy right He had 110 present intention of violating the law and thought therefore that he could take the oath He finally concluded that he could promise not to take another wife at any time in the future and was passed John P Benson and George Hodman would not take the oath and were excused ex-cused Henry Harker had never made a study of polygamy and did not know whether he believed it or not He concluded after some consideration that he would not under the present circumstances take the oath John Erickson accepted polygamy as a divine revelation and couldnt take the oath Excused R W Barnes did not accept or reject polygamy had been taught that it was a divine revelation but didnt know for himself He was willing to take the oath and was accepted Enos Stookey appeared with a battered face which gave him the appearance of having gone through a threshing machine ma-chine He couldnt take the oath and was excused John F Oblad was excused on the same ground Samuel Bringhurst Jr believed polygamy to be a divine doctrine but it was his intention to obey the laws of the land He said he had no right to believe that he would ever be commanded to preach or practice polygamy if he was so commanded he would not obey the command Accepted James W Campbell was accepted Edward Snelgrove believed in the divinity of polygamy but was willing to take Hthe oath prescribed by the Ed mundsTucker law Mr Dickson Are you willing to take an oath that you will not at any time in I the future take another wife Snelgrove I am willing to take the oathDickson Are you willing to take an > oath requiring that Snelgrove A oath Dickson An oath He was willing to take the oath but if be should at any time be counseled to break it he would do so Excused l Jacob Huser and David Cook both believed be-lieved polygamy right would not take the oath and were excused J F Bradley was accepted E J Swaner didnt know whether he believed polygamy right He thought he was a member of the Mormon Church in good standing but did not know He I believed that a polygamy revelation was given to the church and was not willing to take an oath that he would not at some future time obey it Excused Charles Chrisman would not take the oath and was excused Mr Sheeks objected to the questions as put by Mr Dickson saying that the law did not require that he should take an oath never to violate the law of God but that he should not violate the provisions pro-visions of the law so long as he lives in any of the Territories of the United States Mr Dickson accepted the amendment Thomas Williams was not willing to take an oath that he would never violate vio-late the oath while a resident of any of the Territories and was excused A D Voolley did not believe in polygamy po-lygamy would take the oath and was accepted Mr Richards made an objection to Mr Dicksons construction of the oath on the ground that the law might be repealed re-pealed Mr Dickson said that the presumption that the law would be repealed was unwarrantable un-warrantable and that the law required him to say that he will not in the future commit any of the offenses mentioned Judge Zane ruled that Mr Dicksons construction was legal Joseph A Silver believed polygamy right and would not take the oath Excused Ex-cused John W Andrews and William S Brighton could not take the oath and were excused Robert Enre said that his present intentions in-tentions were as pure as Mr Dicksons but he could not say what his future would be and could not take such an oath Excused Alexander Rogers and Emery Ward were accepted P H Towley was not sure as to his citizenship and was excused Lucien Simons and Louis Strasburg were accepted At this point McAllister arose and said that after hearing the question put to the others ho was not prepared to take the oath Excused The jurors sworn were I John Eripkson R W Barnes Saml Bringhursfc Jr Jas W Campbell L F Bradley A D Wooley Alexander Rogers Emery Ward Lucien Simons Louis Strasburg The Court then ordered a venire for fifteen new juors In the case of B G Raybould trustee vs the Price Mercantile Company Injunction In-junction heretofore submitted etc Plaintiff has the right to have stock subjected sub-jected to the benefit of plaintiff Injunction Injunc-tion changed and modified without prejudice preju-dice W II Kellog et al vs David Williams et al Allowed till May 10th 1887 to comply with former order In the cases of the United States vs Alexander Edwards Richard Collett and James Wood the defendants withdrew their pleas of not guilty and entered pleas of guilty April 30th at 2 p m was set as the date for sentence All the other cohab cases were continued con-tinued on motion of Mr Richards until the September term Adjourned |