The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1867-04-06
Humorous Court Report.


The local reporter Of the Salt Lake City
Telegraph gets7of the following very humor-
Gus report of a late trial in that city:
On Monday and Tuesday the City Hall was
crowded with spectators, Judge Clinton oc-
cupled the. rosuom. Joshua Taylor was
charged with selling whisky, to portion of
the aborigines OF North America. Prisoner
plead otgaity in italics. The Judge crossed
His legs, told the Court to make herself at
lone. and called 4 jury and spread things out
tor an investigation. sFs9 vf)o3stI
"HonesEb0b," alias Thomas Henry Bart
, lett Hussd was sworn and agreed to tell the
sruth or ebustn His testimony was to the
effect THAI the female half Of defendant had
sent him for liquor for the Indians.
Cross examiued by The defence, the attor-
ney notifying the Court and Jury that nHon-
est Bob was liar. "Honest Bobp couldn't
see the econsistency between his title of sHon-
I est Bob" and the charge Of being liar AT
this jnucture the court room was thrown into
little confusion by the arrival of Little Sol
dier's band of Weber Utes, beaded BIZ Inter-
prefer Dimick. They had been subpGnaed
as witnesses in the case. Court invited the
LOS to pull off their rabbit-skin wapuses and
squaf down. They squatted The ipterpre-
Ter was sworn to speak tbe truth in both |
lAnguages--a difficult task, we should imag- |
inc. Lauan, I1elluel, aud Sam, alias Tobuc, /
Ylckalspe..ald Shat-eup, were empannelled to
.., au ~ paxolaiued tire natnRe ..A3
',nsn,ea them that if they '1alEep lo'nsu
world where ''biskltn would 'be,unknown wn ant
the stomach bnt seldom invigorated with tn
s;ght ofl a buck rabbit or lizard. This seeme'
20 operate on their religious ideas OF the ~
,nre and they took the oath at one dose, re
marking ,'if they told lie they knew III
,nolicemcn, would lock them up in the ston
wireup.n They sailed in on the truth one
a time. in the unadulterated Ute dlaiec
which reVerberated through Dimlekin Angie
Saxon. Theirtestimony was that defendant
wife and "Honest Bob had sold them whisk.
pave, semi-domesticated and half.pai
,ialfy-ciyifzed romantic specimen, was nel
called an. Dave had arunning idea OF Wei
s,ar,s Dictionary and other portions OF tt
english language. He knew howto eat vii
a knife and fork had been to- school, cou
write his own name, and another ''feller's
and scorned the idea Of talking "inlun."" n
sir. he could tell his yarn in American, al
here's the way he told it, verbatim - 0
aMe, I guess so, smart injn--heap know
y HallLDimiek all the time good talking
agent Head good feller-olsael ne Ilhe llA. l uin
rne Mormon ingin7-good inein-whilsky !
much no good--ingin fight, sing all ume Il
down-white sqnaw swap whisky--''Hont
Bobp fetch it--squaw say hide bottle-p
leecy-man mabe so dam mad.hf
al this point he weakened and all the !
dians gave a big grunt, which being INT
preted meant that Dave was tsome punkin
seemed 10 know more than he actnaily i
know, and was an ornament insthe tribe
knew 1t all in English and stcod good sh
70 90 to Congress, or keep store.
aSSe-go-et 7 q little chief arose and said,
knew something, and possessed the capabi
ties of telling it, ifthe Court pleased, 9
. --l---e9l in on a lecture on whis
tem,n said Little Soldier and he TreqIen
got on a bust together and invariably wou
p their rejoicings with big fight. lie CT
dered whisky bad medicine and hoped
lterna revenue officers would be dilig
busting up all the distlleries that did
0py more stamps than required. S a33
The ejury fined accused Sl00 and costs
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F-DEPENDENcE.- Many an unwise par
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