The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-09-11
BEAVER.
Interesting Proceedings IN the
Second District.

The following was received yesterday
from Beaver. 1t tells its own brief
story:
The deputy marshal who went forth
with the open venire soon scooped IN
from the streets of Beaver eight men to
| fill the panel of the grand jury. The
ouestionings of the prosecutor were not
/ tedious when he became aware OF the
complexion of the jurors, and the
Judges charge to the jury was very
mild when compared with former
charges.
The Beaver Jail is filed with men ac-
cused of murder, rape and larceny, and
the jury must be for attending to these
cases, the witnesses in town beng Ter
ritorial. No witnesses have been sub
penaed yet before the Grand Jury on
United States cases. The town is quiet.
The following came by mail last even
ing:
BEAVER, September 8, 1885.
Tothe Editor of THE HERALD:
Yesterday morning, in this city, the
Second Judicial District Court, of this
Territory, opened for its regular Sep
tembe: term. His Honor, J. S. Bore
man, presided, and E. B. Crltchlow.
Esq, appeared as Assistant United
States District Attorney.
Thirty names had been drawn, from
which to select q grand jury. a OF these
| but twenty-seyen responded, and these,
| through the rigid anti-Mormon ques-
tons of Mr.. Critchlow, were again
| thinned down to seven individuals, who
were finally accepted as satisfactory
grand jurors. There being no more
names in the box the court felt con-
strained to issue an open venire for
| twenty-seven additional persons. from
which TO select the remaining eight
were deemed suitable, and yet
another "special' venire was ordered
/ issued for another batch. The final re-
suit was the impannel.ng- of the follow
! ing named individuals as grand jury
/ for this district for the present term:
| George T. Halterman, Fred Joy, S. j.
| Pollock, Il. G.. Rich, VIM. Maloney,
Charles LAYER, Henry Collins, James r.
/ Lindsay, Charles Van Xleet, David Pol
lock, Thomas E. Stinson, John Fother
} ingham, D. H Thompson, Vim, Myers
Asahel Bennett. The court appointed
/ J. r. Lindsay to act as foreman and af
! ter delivering enc of the mildest of
charges to the new grand jury, dis
missed it TO its rooms.
/ A busy term Is anticipated not alone
/ from the fact that our county Jail has
quite number of tenants; alleged vio-
| lators of the ordinary criminal laws of
! the Territory who are awaiting the;action
of the grand jury; but it is asserted
! that lively campaign will be opened
against those who have honored their
own convictions by entering into poly
! gamic practices.
Some half-dozen of our citizens were
/ indicted by the previous Grand Jury
| for alleged unlawful cohabitation and
their individual trials are all set for this
! term. What the result OF these trials
will be if conducted like previous cases
of the same kind, can hardly be left to
conjecture. Packed juries can bring but
one sure result and that Is too obvious
! to mention.
On dit: 1t is said that Professor Rein
hard Maeser of the Beaver Central
school, has purchased a one-half inter-
est in the Southern UtOni0n. and that he
assumes full editorial control this week.
Daniel Tyler, of Battalion History"
fame is the retiring editor, and 1t is
almost needless to say that he goes out
! with the best wishes of all.
Respectfully,
SCRTBENDI.