The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-11

msn pace parties TO the Cannon bond case.
niaH'ion was the purchaser OF some OF
tto ponos, one Issue at least alleged 10
!9Ne Dcen made at time when the dis
NC tLiet had money in this Logan bank In
inc names OF Hart or Parkinson or both
WHICH. II known 10 the settlers under the
irlEation system, would have removed
'hT e. necessity for the bond issue.
lhiS incident. by the way constituted
| one OF the specifications made By Callan,
ADAMS ct al. in the famous bill OF par
! t,cuiars set out against Parkinson before
inc recent ecclesiastical court through
which Parkinson rendered his resigna .
| Ion as president of the Oneida stake OF
ZION. and the church court ruled that
nn uno conpIalnants were correct in the
charge.
II may be that tho First National bank
OF Logan Utah, will vet hc compelled 10
explain 10 An interested Idaho public
Why ii refused TO appear against Hart
and what knowledge It had and wbat
part 1T took in the success OF these two
preston thieves TO cover up their pilfcr-
Ing chicanery.
Court Suggests Referee.
Another very important phase OF this
sltus tion is that at court in ATalad last
week ms honor. Judge Budge. asked At
torneys Judge Richards FOR The district
and Judge Hart, for the defendants. TO
Try 20 agree as 10 a referee to take the
testimony in this long -dra out ac-
counting between the district and its de-
which the district has been forging for
over two years. In each step OF the pro-
SrcSs made with this end in view. they
have encountered the stubborn legal re-
sistsncc OF Henderson. Parkinson and
Hart. In the meantime. Parkinson has
been shorn Of his ecclcsiasticsl power.
Snu | nn4erstshd now mat Hart WIN soon
nave charges filed against him and
quest made for an ccclcsiaStiCsl court 90
hear his defense of many charges,
II is said 0at at ono stage Of tho
Pa y1I i'm hCrnrc hig ;,..,1
superorS, ono or them threw up his hands
and averred his amazcment that Hart had
been guilty OF doing some things which
involved Parkinson. At this suggestion
Apostle Grant is said to have ihtorposcd
the suggestion that Hart other than
Parkinson. was the culpsblc actor i'm the
shady transs actions explained by the COM
plainan;s: vet only three weeks ago Hart
was sustained as The head Of the Young
Mems Mutual Improvement association
Of Oneida stake of Zion and also a. a
member Of the high council OF tho stake
This gave rise 10 the demand on The
part Of the decent Mormons Of this stake
for court hearing. by church officials.
Into Mr.. IIarts connections with Tho sf
fairs of the Oneida irrigation district.
Some of the friends OF dcccncy within
tho Mormon church Of tho Oneida stake
Of Zion have been. al q. loss 10 understand
the apparent evidences OF bias on the
part Of Apostle Grant member of the
recent ccclesiastical court, IN favor Of
Parkinson. il may he 7 can here give
soule light on tho subject which win
probably explain as TO 1.-THE tie that
Binds"
Apostle IIcbev J. Gran, was said TO be
sorely pressed for money, and extremely
anxious 70 cNtrlcatc himself from some
ombaTTa ssing financial relations with a
Salt Lake banking house. George O.
Parkinson is said to have gone out among
tho priesthood OF tho Oneida stake Of
TO relieve tho cramped finances OF his
superior officer, an act OF Kindness which
Grant cannot forget.
Humiliating to the State.
IT is humiliatinG TO tho state Of Idaho
that Parkinson and Hart have escaped
Idaho. Their political cunning. backed by
their ecCleslastical influence. is rcspon-
siblc for their escape.
IL is diseraceful that such men have
been psrsdeJ before and over a con-
sttuency as leaders and representatives
of d religion; and the getting rid of
them is laudable on the part Of those
| OF tho Mormon church who aspire for
a cloanly order of manly virtue. Par
| lCinson Is thing Of the past as a die
! taLor OF the affairs OF his church. Ar
cannot stand before . court and detend
his shady record, Then the civil court
| will receive the testimony pertaining 10
an accounting. which Will lead the In
irrcsfnd public into The light Of these
! transactions, affecting the landed inter
ssts of The state school fund. about which
they arc eager for knowledge.
James H. Wallis, the state pure food
! iugpcctor is neglecting PocateIlo. In a
bri6f drive over tho city today passed
- ~ Jnirv barn and corrals which Is in
a ari,ma nmiry yconditlon n for regulation, ia ac-
cordancc with the habits OF that par.
tIculsr official who has peen buSylnE
himself in the purIhcation OF such con
ditions elsewhere in Idaho for a couple
OF busy years.
Commissioner Wallis has bcen pre-
yiousIy asked by q leading townsman o.
pncnicuo 10 remedy these deplorable con
ditjons, and has failed TO keep his prom
iso so to do. ,,,;,.,or
80 :anccIs for the present. my oblis3 tior
10 the public in and about Pocatelio, So
Tar as darcB are concerned.