The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-07
IN UTAH COUNTY.
HOOdIums Run the Town of Provo
Murder Mysteries Come High
City Marshal knight Once More
Social and Personal.

Provo, June 6, 1S95.-The hoodlum
element of Provo is becoming very an
noyfng to the laW-abiding citizens, and
unless something is done TO check the
depredations, something serious will
certainly happen OF late, the wild
youth of the town have been carrying
things with a high hand, stealing pie,
cake and ice cream from social gather
ingS. y. key of beer was stolen from
the baseball grounds a few days ago.
Some of the thieves are known, and if
justice were melted out to them, they
would languish in Jail. At party
given last evening by the ladies of the
Baptist church, these same boys stole
a quantity of the ice cream. If the city
officers can not stop it the citizens will
take the matter into their own hands.
The county court has been in ses-
sion for the last three days hearing the
reports from the different county
officers and allowing bills. Among
the bills paid was one for S2S5, to pay
the expenses of officers in the investi-
cation of the Pelican Point murders,
This does not include the corOner's bill
and some others which were referred
to committees. A loan of $4,000 was
made from the Provo Commercial
Bank to pay off the warrants issued at
this session.
An appropriation was made for a
contingent fund to be used to further
the murder mysteries.
The officers reported the progress
made, and have great hopes of yet
bringing the guilty ones to cover. A
set of harness was recently found
buried in the corral at the ranch where
the boys were supposed to have been
murdered.
City Marshal Knight is again being
roundly censured. His last nonsense
was to take one of the tramp prison
ers, who refuses to work with a bail
and chain, to a locust tree near the
Jail yard and handcuff his hands
around the tree and leave him there
in the hot sun for about one half hour
The affair is the talk Of the town and
the marshal is scored on every side.
A very pleasant surprise was given
r. a. Barney at his residence last eVy>
ming. Some of the most prominent
people of Provo were in attendance
and a very enjoyable time was had.
"A son of Deputy Marshal iNorrell
was severely kicked by a horse last
evening. The little fellow was assist
ing a playmate on to the horse, when
the horse plunged and kicked him in
the face. Luckily the blow was a glanc-
ing one and the boy was not seriously
hurt.
The papers on appeal in the case of
Provo city VS.. Joseph Kirkwood have
been filed in the First district court.
Soren Christensen has begun suit in
the First district court against Mary
Sonora Connors, of Mount Pleasant,
for 1924, balance alleged to be due for
attorneys fees.
The article in the Tribune recently
Of the finding of the dead horses sup
posed to be those used by the muir
derer of the three boys at Pelican
Point, was without foundation. Some
dead carcasses We're foundn put no
where near the spot, in faU1 on the
opposite side of the lake entirely. The
Tribune correspondent would seem
ingly connect dead horses found in
Colorado with the murder Sheriff
Brown has nothing Of any Importance
for the public in connection with the
investigation.