The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-20
FORMAL CASE
On PARKINSON
Charges Against Him That We're
Laid Before the Apostolic
Commission.
DISHONESTY AND FRAUD
REPEATED OVER AND OVER
The Hearing Begins at 8 Mon
day Morning; Lasts Till
4 Tuesday Morning.
BY G.. E. ARNEY.

special 10 me TrlDune.
!, PRESTON, Ida. July 19.-During all
the long hot night and until O'Clock
this morning the ecclesiastical court ap-
pointed by President Smith, sat In the
assembly hall Of the Preston stake acad
emy and listened to the record prepared
and recited by James Callan, the spokes-
man director of the Oneida irrigation
district, and others, telling q story of
crime, deceit. imposition. fraud and be-
trayal in which George c. Parkinson,
president of the Oneida stake of Zion,
was the chief culprit.
At intervals during this trying or
deal the lie was passed, men became ex"
cited and loud and demonstrative
speeches floated out on the still mid
night and morning air, and at the early
morning hour the benediction delivered
only penetrated the disgraceful proceed
ingS which took a recess to reconvene
at 10 clock today.
Encouraged by the new born inspir
alton of courage acquired only through
spirit OF injustice done the settlers
under the Oneida irrigation district over
in the Dayton, Clifton and Weston coun-
try, other parishioners under the tyran-
nical domination of this crooked
"crshien footed - thief are coming for
ward today with their tales of grlev-
ances against Parkinson.
AS the time dragged heavily by dur
ing the tedious hours of the long. hot
night, the temper of Apostle Grant
again lost its polse and too often for the
comfort of the aggrieved and injured
people; the weight of his influence was
brazenly cast in the balances against
them and in favor Of his old time friend,
who sat as the center Of the fire before
him, George G. Parkinson,
The people Of the Oneida stake Of
Zion are relieved because of this be-
lated privilege accorded them to pre-
sent to this "church court the eyi-
dence OF ''graftn practiced on them
systematically by the president of this
stake of Zion, and by the president Of
the Young Mems Mutual Improvement
association of their stake, although the
court sits in judgment on these mat.
ters, listening to the stories of repeated
crlms, and keeps no record or permits
none to escape the portals of the door
conseerated to the promulgation Of their
own peculiar system of faith.
During the fifteen hours session Of
this ecclesiastical court at Preston yes
terdey, Grant, WINS and McMurrin lis
tened TO the reading of signed state.
ments Of men living IL the enjoyment
of a supposed form Of state govern
ment, revealing crime after crime pun
ishable by the laws of the state of Idaho
by imprisonment, and no thought or sug.
gestion of invoking those Ssractured
laws, and scarce hope on the part of the
injured people who protest, of any &C.
clesiastical relief.
There are laws, adequate in scope, for
the punishment of embezzlement, for
gerry, and assault in Idaho, yet no Off
Ger and no civilian comes forward with
complaint against this arrogant,
treacherous, hypocritical criminal,
George c. Parkinson, IN an attempt to
compel him to atone to these offended
laws.
Oneida county has complete form of
government. 1t has full corps Of OH
cials sworn to the performance Of their
respective duties under the law,
Where, but in Oneida county, could
such criminal as he stalk stealthily
through this fair land, unwhipped of
Justice? Is there county In Idaho 9th.
er than Oneida, where two men could
take citizen Of the commonwealth to
and choke him into insenslbiGty, com
pei MIN to make and publish disgrace
full falsehood to use in regilding the tar
niehed name of the Individual who
holds him by the throat while his as
sociate holds him by the arms and an
swer to no criminal complaint for ms
criminality9 In this open meeting In
Preston yesterday Parkinson offered no
other excuse in palliatIon for this daS-
tardly crime against God and man ex
cept that "I lost my temper.
An AIl-Around Outlaw.
He knows no law but that which pro
tects him IN his crime. He appreciates
no form Of government save one which
he can ravish. He pays homage only
TO such law as provides courts which
set in private (outsldc the gaze of the
public who have heartbeats for patriot
isrn), whose officers enjoy the meals at
his own table and couches IN his own
domicile; while sitting in judgment on
the crimes he has committed. as related
in sober seriousness by his bent down
and fettered constituency
HI wish I could leave this co,nmun-
ity, land, home and all,' said a Nor
mon to me here yesterday, Hand get out
i from under such cursed system ms
serves to protect rascals SO base as
Parkinson and Hart" He then went
into brief exposition Of his home, his
life. his family and the ties that bind
His pitiable situation is q sad commen-
tary on the boasted freedom Of Il SOW
ereign state. Amid such an environ
ment, surrounded by such an atmos
phere, dominated by such leadership,
The rising generations in the Oneida
stake Of Zion may be expected to in
culcate principles of immortality, dIsloy
alty and irreverence TO Idaho, beyond
the comprehension Of the intelligent
reader who has never seen sights like
these witnessed in Preston yesterday
and today,
If the ecclesiastical committee of this
dominant church fails 70 lift the dark
clouds which shroud this community in
their mower to depose this tyrannicnl