Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-10-26
FROM JUDGE POWERS. DISTRICT.
The Tintic Mining Suit-FrivOlOus
Cattle Cases, and How Powers
Disposed of Them.

The Tintic Mining Suit-FrivoIous
Cattle Cases, and How Powers
Disposed of Them.
Provo, October 25.-This term of the
First District Court has been the most i'm.
portant of any held in the Territory The
trial now in progress, involving the own
ership of a portion OF the Eureka Hill
property, raises some new and very inter
esting questions in mining matters. Mr..
Beck and his experts claim that the Eu-
reka vein, though traceable for miles,
splits near the point in dispute, and
hence is lost to the Eureka Hill Com
pany. To maintain this theory Mr. Beck
has secured able lawyers and well-known
mining experts. On the other hand, Mr..
Packard is followed into court by an ar
ray of legal and mining talent sufficient
to turn Mount Nebo on it's beam end.
Bennett, Hardness, Kirkpatrick, Dick
son, Evans and Thurman, Reyes, Col
bath, Van Dusen, Reed, Clayton, Samp-
son and Morton say that there is but one
broad mineral zone passing through the
ground in question, while j. G. Suther-
land, Emerson, Brown, Dusenberry. A.
q. Sutherland & Son, Blake, Nesbitt,
Mcqueen, Meyers, Matthews and Daggett
are OF the opposite opinion. That the case
is of an interesting character goes with
out saying, and
THE MAPS puOTocR Apis AMI sppCIupNS
On exhibition in the courtroom indicate
the energy and enterprise displayed by
both parties in placing their theories in
diligently before Judge Powers.
George Sutherland, associated here in
the practice of law with his father, under
the firm name of Sutherland & Son, is
giving the Salt Lake Tribune daily re-
port OF the trial. His father is one OF Mr..
Beck's lawyers, but George will endeavor
to do the case justice. The DEMOCRAT
would have a daily report, but to drag its
readers through slopes, drop them down
shafts and along drifts, in ore, strait
fled or crushed lime, iron-stained overalls
and mineralized boot-straps, is more than
they could possibly tolerate The cues
ton In dispute is given, and as is we'll
known, to follow the evidence OF half
dozen experts would be confusion and a
waste OF printers ink. To the ordinary
reader bag of dolymite might mean a
new brand OF corn meal, and sympathetic
cracks in the lime formation would have
tendency to demoralize Yonng Utah.
Whenever any new issue is raised during
the progress OF this important case, the
DEMOCRAT will be duly advised; but to
undertake to fill the lunatic asylum by
following an expert in print, we beg to be
excused
THE M'INTYRE CALF.
While the mining suit occupied the full
time of the Court, Judge Powers, much
to the annoyance of the court attaches
decided to hold night sessions in order
to give those indicted and awaiting trial
an opportunity to 60 to the Pen or to
their homes. Two men were in the
county Jail awaiting trial, John and De-
Witt Watts, charged with the crime of
grand larceny, in the stealing of calf
ten-dollar calf-from the MCINTYRE
brothers. The circumstances are as fol-
lows: In March last some men in the
employ of Mcintyre Brothers, who are
extensive stock-growers and discoveries,
when out on the range discovered. steer
calf among, what the range raiders con-
sidered, the Mcintyre cattle. Every
thing that wears hair and travels on four
legs in Juab county evidently belongs to
the McIntyres. The COWBOYS doWned
the stray calf, put the Mcintyre brand on
MN, and after mutilating the poor inno-
cent brute" altering it'' was the way the
testimony was given-turned him out to
roam with the rest OF the cattle. The
branding in this instance was merely
mutilation. The cowboys cut the ears to
conform with the mark usually used
by their employers. The ownership
OF the calf was never questioned
till the range riders knife had trimmed
his ears to suit the Mcintyre brand.
That operation performed, settled forever
the title to that young steer. Settled in
Cherry creek and. within the range of
Mclntyre's large herd are two brothers.
John and De Witt Watts. Both have
families, but the wife of one having died. |
the brothers. wife looks after the welfare
OF the orphan children. Some three
months after the cowboy branding and |
transaction above mentioned. |
Mclntyre's men conveniently found a |
calf answering the description of the one
IN question, in Watts corral. Both
brothers were arrested, stock association
attorney helped prosecute, and they
were held to await the action ofthe Grand
jury. Three indictments wers found
against them, and they have been held
close prisoners in the county Jail since
The list day of last July. That Sheriff
Turner and his guards have been kind to
hose brothers, is too we'll known; but
what OF the families-the orphan chill
lren, or the worse than widowed mother!
When the case came up S. r. Thurman
1eslred to assist in the prosecution of the
'ase. John Watts elected to be tried
alone, and as S. III. Lewis, Assistant q.
). District Attorney, was on hand ready
o try the issue, Judge Powers refused to
permit MIR. Thurman to assist in the pro-
ecution.
This action OF the Court seemed to
ause some CONSERVATION among the
esser lights of the bar, but it all came
ut IN the wash. The case proceeded. {
nd the jury felt, as Judge Powers |
expressed it, that a fimsier case ]
lever came before his court. A verdict
+ mot guilty was rendered. Judge Powers
open court, said: "This man Watts !,
as been held since July, away from his
uslness andfamily, charged with stealing
ten,dollar calf. The evidence produced :
ere by the People was entirely insult
Gent, to say the least, and that ten 4