Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1861-04-19
From Our Utah Correspondent.
sLvEa crY, urAm Trnnrosr, Feb. esd. 10

From Our Utah Correspondent.
snvEa CrY, UrAn Trna,rosY, Feb. esd, 1861.
DEAR GAZETTE while you are busy with
secession alarms and aghast over the latest
sensation letter from the South, we are hav-
ing our little domestic squabbles over our
gold and silver veins. Three companies have
been for sometime fighting over one lead
which happened to prove rich, to wit: The
st. Louis, the Lucy Ella, and the Rich Co.
The st. Louis Co. served an injunction on
the other two and for a while they stopped
work, but the members of the "Rich" took
it into their heads that Cradlebaugh, the
Judge who issued the injunction, was not
the duly appointed and commissioned Judge
of this district and, therefore, that they would
not regard him, but maintained that Flenni-
ken was the correctly assigned Judge. They
got number of U. S. muskets and took pos
session of the mine, building fort of earth,
rocks, brush and sacks Of dirt at the mouth
Of the tunnel, inclosing the ore-hous,, and
erecting flagstaff run up the Stars and
Stripes. They then issued printed procla.
nation setting forth what they intended to
do. will give the concluding paragraph
Of this wsr-breathing document; the italics
are theirs: .....-
"We intend to disregard all orders cmana-
ting from Cradlebaugh, or any other PRETEND
Err; WE INTEND TO MAINTAIN OUR RIGHTS,
guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of
our common country, and ask the sympathy
Of all honest men in our efforts"
Here followed the names of sixteen mem.
bcrs of the Rich Co. But the sheriff of Car
son county arrived here a day or two ago
and in spite Of the fort and muskets the
whole 16 were arrested for contempt of Court
and loaded into wagons and taken to Carson
City for trial. They did not attempt to use
their muskets, for Flenniken had telegraphed
them on that morning, that he no longer
claimed to be Judge; and besides it leaked
out that the Sheriff had the "dcad wood"
on them, as he had made arrangements at
Fort Churchill by which, on sending . tele-
graphic message requiring their aid, a COM
pany of 50 u. S. soldiers would be on hand
in six hours. =. ..,.-... e.... ...... .
This move on the part Of tho ST. Louis, or
rather of the Judge, created a good deal of
excitement; the miners all left off work and
thronged the streets and for time there was
strong talk Of the mining community setting
up ruler and making their own laws in def
ance of all Territorial rule, but better counsel
prevailed and the prisoners were allowed to
be taken away. 1t gals the miners extremely
to have the bunging and diatory function
aries at the County Seat tinkering at their
business, considering re-considcring, wrang-
ling, and dragging in all manner Of irrelative
and trivial circumstances in addition to the
already multifarious and conceded circum-
ratory lodges ofjudicial diplomacy. Left to
themselves they would either settle their
disputes amicably or fight it out and have
the whole matter in dispute adjusted in one
days time and the work be progressing in
the disputed territory as though nothing had
happened. AS it is now, between the
bulldog obduracy Of the parties and "the
laws delays" it is next to impossible to OBJ
tain any permanent adjustment of difficulties
of this character. Three of the Richites were
allowed to remain at large on their part of
honor" as old John Willet, the fat landlord
in Barnaby Rudge would say, and no sooner
were the others started for Carson than they
raised company Of men and again took pos.
session Of the fort and lead, and the whole
was IN statu quo. Before the Injunction was
served on the Rich Co., they had got out
several tons Of quartz, the Lucy Ella Co. also
had out some 80 tons; but the st. Louis Co.
claimed the whole. The Rchites hauled it
off, in the night, both their own and that be.
longing to the Lucy Ella Co. (which latter
Co. they had driven off the ground } and took
it to mill to be crushed The Lucy Ella
Co. served an injunction on the mill.owner
to keep the amalgam in his hands, but here
the st. Louis Co. came in and by some legal
bubble or coup u nnitre Of policy got hold
Of the gold, (said to be some Sl8, 900 worth, }
and now the Lucy Ella Co. has sued the
mill-man for damages. So you see there is
considerable Of snarl. Washoe is bound to
be the elysium of lawyers! As did not set
out to bore you with history of NIL our little
squabblcs but merely to give you some idea
Of the uncertainty Of titles to mining property
here, ] will drop the subject
One Henry Kelly citizen of this place
met with a fatal accident on the day wrote
my last letter. The day, you will remember,
was very stormy, and Kelly being on his way
TO Virginia City, on horseback with dram
to many aboard, got little off the road and
fell into shaft l40 feet in depth; when
found three days afterwards both he and the
horse were dead.
We had something off excitement on the
streets few days since in consequence OF
certain parties turning out and jumping all
Of the cross streets and the plaza. For a
while the prospect was good for general
muss, but there was, after all, no shooting
done and those who thus become possessed
of real estate still maintain their ground,
though they begin to feel somewhat ashamed
Of the business, and it is thought will event.
ually weaken"
| One Bishop beat an Irishman over the
head with his revolver day or two ago, cut
ting him pretty badly; the next morning
some Of his friends watched for Bishop and
a. he went to work took several shots at him
with ri6es--it is perhaps superfluous to add
that no damage was done, as the attacking
party were all Irish and couldn't have hit the
side of a barn, lit is currently reported that
during the firing Bishop stood with his thumb
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