The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-03-10
IN THE SECOND DISTRICT.
Forming the New Grand Jury
General Notes.
BEAVER, March 6. 1856.

Correspondence OF THE HERALD.
The March term of the Second Dis
trict Court convened hsre last Monday.
The first thing to be done was the en-
panelling OF grand jury. This, how
ever, proved to be no easy matter, mas
much as the ideas of young W. S. Zane.
and his ermined master, Foreman, were
of such a radical character that the old
paraphrase, No Irish need apply!'
was for the once transmogrified into
No Mormon need apply" for in other
words. the questioning was of such a
character that not even an avoTe ily I'M
prejudiced non-Mormon was permitted
to retain name among the grand in
quisitors; he must be an uncompromis-
ing enemy to everything that might be
construed as evenly remotely favorable
TO the Mormons or else be incont n
emily rejected. In fact, the query SEEM
! ed very pertinent as to the eed of a
new Edmunds law to further Cypress
and deprive the Mormon people of their
legal rights, when a pseudo court of
justice" so barefacedly ignored every
principle OF right and constitutional
liberation in the selection of its Jurors.
Three days were spent in ruStling UP
suitable" material for the body Ill
question, and finally on the fourth dav
the fifteen individuals named below
took their oath as grand Jurors, and
patiently listened to the harangue of
his honor in relation to rights that those
bearing the name of Mormons must
not o. sess.
Following is the list, everyone of
VIII m it is almost needless to say is an
"odd number" or it other words, an
uncompromising anti Mormon: Richard
Turpin, w. Z. Smith, David H. Thomp-
son, Thos. t. Willis, a. w. Maxwell,
Samuel BENEFITS, George Dockstader,
John Lee, Jr., w. ]. Kennedy, James
Earles. Benjamin Reed, Francis Degen.
James Skaggs, Edward Bird and Henry
RounseVejt. w. P. Smith, who by the
way. is an attache of the court, United
States Commissioner, was appointed
foreman, and the organization was
complete. This appointment 10 the
foremanship might have been practical
ly much worse, but it is certainly curl
GUS in principle.
If u. S. Commissioner Smith can be
the foreman of a grand jury in Beaver,
then you Salt Lakers can very reason
ably look forward to the promotion of
your old standby" Commissioner Nc
Kay to like position i'll the Third Dis
trict, and more than that, under the
actual mode of procedure adopted here,
his continued retention thereon term
after term.
1t is almost useless to say Judge Bore
man strove hard to excel himself, and
he certainly did excel all of his previous
efforts as a"charger,' when he charged
this last jurorical body; while he Gel
tainly did strike some rather salient
points in regard to men in polygamy,
once in a while neglecting to live up to
their professions, in abiding what the
Judge was pleased to term, ian alleged
revelation from Cod" in that now the
Edmunds bill was being enforced, they
attempted, or rather asserted. they were
obeying IL law of the land by abandon
| ing almost invariably" the first wife,
Instead of living with and acknowledge
ing all plural wives. He on the other
| hand INDUCED in some of the most vim
dictive, wild and unfounded assertions
in regard to the alleged immortality of
the Mormon people as whole, that
humane being, let alone professed
Christian judge, ever degraded himself
to utter; and were he as reflective and
conscientious as he ought to be, he
would certainly hide his head in abject
shame to think of the manner in which
he maligned a people, more moral
than which cannot be fou' within the
limits of Christendom, and he is chal-
lenged to the proof.
However, the inquisitors are at work,
and the Judge is studiously nursing a
boil or carbuncle which has appeared
on his neck. By the way, maybe this
eruption of nature may account some
what for his extreme malignent ascer-
bity in charging the grand jury, who
knows? Many witnesses are present
from the further north and it is fair to
presume that many If not most OF them,
represent unlawful cohab." cases.
Times are otherwise extremely quiet
in this southern region.
Old Boreas has been giving US a
rough deal during the past eight or ten
days; intense frosts, following by a
considerable fall of snow, having made
external things rather uncomfortable
during that period; and one would Ger
tainly judge from present appearances
that we would yet have quite "spell"
of winter.
Respectfully,