The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-06-07
A BEAR RIVER SCANDAL.
Fraud alleged in the Sale OF the Canal
Property.
The Purchaser Said to BE an Ageut Q
the Jarvis-ConlSlin Company-Ex-
Minister stevens interviewed.

OGDEN, June 6. --(speciaD = The
theatened expose in the Bear river canal
case has come, and now William Garland,
the contractor who holds the mechanics
lien on the property, wants receiver ap-
pointed for the entire property. and on
Saturday morning the case will again be
argued before Judge Miner. Garland
charges that the sale of the system to
George /. Walker was fraudulent, and
The result OF a conspiracy on the part of
the Jarvis-Conklin people, who by that
means hoped to gain possession of the
very valuable property.
Late Monday night, GarIand's attor-
ney's appeared before Judge Miner at
Salt Lake, where the judge is attending
the supreme court, and succeeded in
obtaining temporary restraining order
preventing Walker, whom they claim is
clerk in the office of the Jarvis Conk:in
Mortgage Trust company, at Topeka,
Kansas, from IN any manner dlsposIng OF
the property, and Saturday was set for
the hearing on an order to show cause
why permanent restraining order
should not be granted.
This morning an amended complaint was
lied in the Fourth district court, setting
forth the alleged facts in the entire trans
action, and asking that Garland be given
an equitable lien on all the property Of
the canal company, and that decided to
Jarvis and Conklin, and also the Ogden
city waterworks system, and that re-
celver be appointed to take charge OF the
property.
EX- MINISTER STEVENS TALKS.
Hon. John l. Stevens, OF Augusta, Me-,
ex-United States minister to the Hawaiian
Islands, accompanied by his wife and
daughter, arrived in Ogden this morning
at 6:15 O'Clock, and left for the east over
the Rio Grande Western at O'Clock.
This is very sad home coming for the
ex-minister in more ways than one, as he
Is taking back for burial the body of his
daughter, Miss Grace L. Stevens, who
was drowned in the harbor of Honolulu
last September by the capsizing of a boat
which was waiting to convey her to
steamer lying in the harbor.
The party took breakfast here and dur
ing the wait a HERALD man had the
pleasure of q few minutes conversation
with the man whom the stormy times at
tendant upon the dethronement of Queen
Liliuokalani, the raising and lowering of
the American flag, arrival of Commits
sioner Blount, and his subsequent sue
cession as American minister. have caused
the world to the other. Mr.. Stevens is an
old newspaper man, and always greets
the boys of the press with kindly smile,
and tells them everything he knows-ex-
cept state secrets-a sort OF common SYM
pathy. The ex-minister has been on the
islands for almost four years, having been
appointed In 1889 by President Harrison.
Mr.. Stevens expressed himself as being
well pleased to be once more on United
States soil. He was not inclined to say
much regarding the events of the past
few months in the islands, and was very
guarded in his remarks concerning his
successor, James II. Blount and the
Cleveland administration. He said the
sentiment in favor of annexation was as
strong as it ever had been, and that there
was only one OF two courses left for the
islands-either to become United States
territory or else be absorbed by Great
Britain.
The readers OF the daily press will re-
member the recent visit of Paul Neuman,
special envoy for the deposed queen, and
his subsequent return to the islands.
Some time ago it was said that Neuman
did not stay long in Honolulu, but had
departed for Japan, where he had entered
the service of the emperor OF that island.
In regard to the statement, Mr.. Stevens
said the talk was almost. foundationleSs,
and that Neuman is now in San Francisco,
although there is some talk of his going
TO Japan. Just what his present mis- sion
to the United States is no one seems to
know, but some assert that it is for the
purpose Of obtaining, if possible, a mon
etary consideration from the government
for the deposed queen.
BAR ASSOCIATION MEETING.
Tomorrow morning at 10 O'Clock the
Ogden Bar association will meet, for the
purpose of hearing the report of the COM
mittee appointed to investigate the Jones
case and for the transaction of other BUSH
ness which may have accumulated since
the last meeting. At the last session of
the association a resolution was passed
setting out that 1t was the sense of the
= association that there should be fewer
supreme court commissioners IN Ogden,
and on Monday President Smith pre-
sented the matter to the attention of the
supreme court al Salt Lake. He has been
requested by the court to lay the ques-
ton before the association again, and
that body will be expected at its meeting
tomorrow to select the names of the two
commissioners for this city. This is a
matter of the greatest Importance, and
the attorneys viii be out in full force.
The committee in the Jones case has pre-
pared a statement of facts, but makes no
recommendations, SO that it will rest en-
tirely upon the Bar, after hearing the
report, what action is suggested.
REoPENING OF THE REED.
The Reed hotel Will probably reopen on
Thursday. Ogden's business men have
responded generously to the call for pat
ronage, and the house will, under the
new arrangements, be enabled to run
without loss, at least that is the hope OF
the gentlemen who are at the head of the
enterprise. Tomorrow force of helr
will be secured, provided certain arrange
ments now on the tapis are successfully
carried out.
MR.. BRIGHAM's VISIT.
United States Marshal Brigham was in
Ogden today, the center of an admiring
group of ''probable deputies. - He was
the most sought-after man in town by
the sprospectives' and "would bes. .
Mr.. Brigham has as yet made no appoint
ments, and stated that he would not do
50 until about the 30th of the month
when he will assume the duties of his
Office.
Commencing June 20 the Grand Lodge
of the Knights OF Pythias for the territory
viii hold 4 three days. session in Ogden
and the members OF the local lodges are
making every preparation for the meet
ings. The programme includes banquets