The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-25
STORM BUREAU GAME
owen Still Filing Affidavits With
Colonel Lannan.
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CENTERVILLE CONTINGENT
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gUDGE BRANDON ENGAGED IN
SECURING EVIDENCE.
Owen Files Charges With the Storm
Bureau Organ Against Three
More Citizens, But No Charges
Have Reached the Prosecuting
officers-Methods Employed.

Pennington, Oct. 24.-The announce
ment in the organ of the storm bureau
this morning that affidavfts had been
| sent to County Attorney Streeper
charging John E. Woolley, Joseph Ford
and John Adams with unlawful cohab-
itatfon, is the only information con-
corning the matter that has been re-
ceived in Davis county. Mr.. Streeper
is net in Pennington today, and, con-
SequeIFtly, ne has not received the doc
uments. An effort to find the county
attorney in Centerville where he re-
sides, failed, as he was out of town,
and no Information was obtainable as
to Where he is. The probability is that
he will be at his Office here tomorrow,
though he is so busy with official mat
tiers that take him away from Farm
ington that he may not be here for
several Gavs-
1t is regarded as certain that Mr.
Streeper will not have time to take UP
the new cases for several days. He
has promised to see Mr.. Owen ON the
Roberts case as soon as his time will
allow, and since that time he has de-
clined to discuss the case, so there can
be nothing said as to what his decision
will be. Mr.. Streeper will, without
doubt, make a careful and, as far as
possible, a complete investigation OF
the charges made, and the probable
evidence to be brought forward by the
Complainant, before he viii arrive at a
decision, and his course Will be gov
erned by the evidence and the law.
The cases against MesSrs. Woolley,
Ford and Adams will be treated in the
same manner, so that for the present
nothing can be said as to whether or
net the issuance of variants will be
authorized.
Reckless Affidavit-maker.
Centerville people who were seen to-
day EXPRESSED great surprise that a
complaint should be made against John
z. Woolley, and it would seem that the
affidav.t-rnaker and his co-prosecutors
will have a jolly time proving their
case on that gentleman. Mr.. Woolley
is childleEs. His legal wife, Mary r.
Woolley. has never borne him any chill
dren. The alleged plural wife, Lizzie
Knighton, is also without children, so
the charge of unlawful cohabitation in
this case will very likely fail OF being
proven.
The filing of either complaints against
Centerville people was not entirely I'M
expected 1T has been known that
nun.iher of the storm bureaus enfissar-
les have been ait work in Ceuterville,
having frequent councils together, and
that something new was about to de-
veiop was pretty generally believed.
One chief Of the Owen push, Judge t.
j. Brandon has been making almost
daily visits to Salt Lake for several
weeks and his son.. Ray c. Brandon,
is believed to be one of Owens princi-
pal informants Ecth of these are
neighbors of the men against whom
charges have been made.
T.. 49,, IL h.
tine way, is an eX-probate judge of
Davis county, that he gave up a more
or less lucrative position as janitor of
a saloon run by his son, Jesse G. Bran
dom in .ReXburg, Ida, to come down
and help procure evidence against Con-
gresham Roberts and other Center
Vile men. He arrived only a few days
before the affidavit against Mr.. Rob
erts was fled and it has been conn
mented upon that whenever any OF the
Salt Lake storm starters have visited
Centerville their first inquiry has been
as to where Judge Brandon's residence
was located.
The Judges" Methods.
That the judge has been energetic in
procuring evidence was apparent
when the story of the new baby in the
Roberts household was told in the col
there was absolutely nothing GO base
such a story upon made no difference;
it was given out, according to the cur
rens belief i'm Centerville, for the pt1I'-
pose of prejudicing the public against
MI. Roberts and the fact that but few
of fhose who saw the story would hear
of the denial was relied upon to have
the effect desired by those who fabrt7
Gated the falsefood
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Moved in seeking evidence against
CONGRESSMAN Roberts, it is told that
the wife of Judge Brandon met some
f3tfles children, nieces of the congress
man. ON the street and piled them with
Questions. One day recently she met
them and asked. i'm a winning tome:
ssTIow is your Aunt Celia's little baby?' !
AS "a matter of fact. there was no little
tabv'' in Aunt Ceiia's" household, ana
the child addressed was frank to, say
.ob YES. there Is now, isn't there?
she has d little child, hasn't she?" per-
sisted the questioner. but aSa she could
get from the child was the trlltda.
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at did ne. more good than anything
II ever used My dyspepsia was Of
months standings after eating 1T was
terrible. Now ! am well, writes S.
ii. Keener, Hoisington. Kariss Of Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure. Ii digests what you
eat. F., G. Schranlm, Mccormick block.
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