The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-04-02
Contest Over the George Lewis
Estate at Ogden.
STORY OF THE MARRIAGE.
Evidence Tending to Show That 1t
Took Place at Albuquerque.
Status of The Great Power Dam Project
The Worlds Fair Fund-NeWs from
Provo, KaysvilIe, Payson
and other Towns.

OGDEN, April Judge Bishop devoted
nearly all of today to the hearing of the
contest over The estate Of George
Lewis. the gambler who was killed some
time ago by Frenchman whom he had
victimized- Professor j. 3. Lewis,
brother OF the deceased, and Eleanor
Lewis, who claims to be the wife Of the
Gead man, have both filed applications
for letters of administration on the estate,
and the hearing was for the purpose Of de-
ternining npon the legality Of the woman's
claims TO any part OF the estate. Mrs.
Lewis, as she claims herself TO De, was
mol present at the hearing on account OF
sickness, and after taking the cyl
dence OF several witnesses the juGge
adjourned court until April 10, when the
hearing VIII be resumed. The evidence
introduced went to show that the claim
ant and Lewis were married in Albuquer-
que. New Mexico, in 1887, and lived as
man and wife from that year until 1892.
No legal separation had ever taken place,
and all deeds for the transfer Of property
was made out IN the name of George
Lewis and wife. The witnesses for the
woman claimed that the marriage certii-
cate had been lost or destroyed.
THE WORLDS FAIR FUND.
Worlds Fair Commissioners Kiesel VIII
make a last attempt to raise the SIC, 600
guaranteed by him as Ogden $ share of
the territorial Worlds fair fund. Mr..
Kiesel mas pledged himself personally for
81, 600 and the banks of the city shou Id
have no hesitancy In guaranteeing the re-
mainder.
POWER DAM AFFAIRS.
No new developments have taken place
Dr. L.. Is.
l1ayne refuses TO be interviewed on the
subject. He confines himself to the
statement that the dam will be built this
year, providing certain negotiations
now pending are successful and he can
obtain the, moral-not financial
support OF the citizens OF Ogden. The
building of the great dam would prove of
iDcalculable value TO this city and mean
fully as much as the establishment here
of every other enterprise which has yet
been mentioned as probable Ogden acqui-
sitions.
On Monday the case of Peter Wilson
vs.. the stockholders Of the Power
Dam company viii be called up in
the district court on the report of Referee
Breeden, which awards Judgments
against large number OF the subscribers
to stock, who have not paid up, for the
full amount Of their subscriptions. Then
the war Will be on and after the usual legal
preliminaries have been disposed of some
sensational developments may take place.
In 1890 President Henderson of the COM
pany confessed Judgment in favor of Will
son, who was contractor OF the works,
for the full amount of the latter's claim
against the company, and tie attorneys
for the stockholders against whom that
judgment is now about to be enforced
viii move for the setting aside of the judg-
ment on the ground that it was fraudulent
and confessed for the benefit of the presi-
dent and several of his associates, VINO
had conceived the idea of completing the
dam themselves. There is on record a
transfer OF Wilson'S claim and Judgment
agoinst the company to Joseph Brinker,
one OF Henderson's associates, the consid-
Grafton being 50, 000-
The machinery for the ice mandatory
has been shipped from Chicago and will
reach Ogden about Thursday. The build
ings OF the plant are being rapidly erected
and the projectors of the enterprise say
they will have the plant in full operation
by May 10.