The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-16

PROVO, July 15.-In the case OF Lid
lard VS.. Twelves, the plaintiff was
awarded judgment of $161.5O and costs.
An appeal may be taken.
OTHER COURT BUSINESS.
Thursday, July 23d, was the day set
for hearing of motion for injunction IN
the Alpine Irrigation company vs.
Bateman case.
E j. and NJ. F. Raddatz of Camp
Floyd have brought suit in the district
court against the Flodora Mining COM
pany to determine the right of posses
sion of disputed piece Of property be-
tween the Beecher lode and the Noble
lode, adjacent mining claims, the de-
PENDANTS having applied for U. 5. pat
ent and the boundaries, as the plain
tiffs allege, including part of their
claim.
Last evening Martin Hammer, a
young man CT about 50 years of age,
whose wherea bouts has been a pro-
found mystery for the past fifteen
months, surprised his father, Neis
Hammer, a widower living in the Third
ward, Provo, by driving into the yard
with a spanking team of horses att
tached TO a blackboard. The young
mans Homecoming was wholly unan-
nounced and the surprise on The old
man, though delightful was almost
more than he could bear for he had
long since come to the conclusion that
his lost son was dead, and was deeply
mourning his untimely end. The young
man bad two brothers in the dairy
business at Springville and in March
of 1895 they fitted him up with wagon
load of cheese and other dairy products
and started him off for Phoebe, New,
and the Marysvale country to sell he
goods. That was the last heard OF
him until last evening. A tramp started
out with Martin and, not hearing from
him, the family began to suspect foul
play. Last winter his father heard on
two separate nights, and while fully
awake, three distinct raps on the door.
Calling out he got no answer, neither
could he find trace of any person or
animal having been near the house and
the old man took these rappings as a
signal from the other world that his
son had entered there and SO the fam
lily came to mourn the boy as lost. Joy
in the household reigns supreme, how
ever, and Martin is kept busy telling
of his career since last he saw his rel
atives. He went over into Osceola,
down into lower California, and worked
his way up the coast across Nevada
and then home, trading horses, Wag-
way and all in all has spent an enjoy
able fifteen months in wandering. 1t
was merely a matter of carelessness
that he failed TO write home. The
young man. it seems, was born with a
rowing disposition, and disregard for
the worries Of his friends and relatives
over his absence. Once when quite
boy. while living in Salt Lake, he was
sent to a store on an errand. On the
way he met a tramp and was not seen
nor heard Of for four months, until one
day he returned as unceremoniously as
he did last evening. He had been to
San Francisco and back.
Numerous fishing parties went out
today, the law being up.
The Wilson bay mare, Belle, and
the Chesley Piute. pony. Pumpkin, are
matched for a 600-yard race at the
lower end of Seventh street, straight
track, on the 9th. Fifty dollars a, side
have been put up. T. c. Thompson
backs Belle and John Chesley backs
his own horse.
Glove, in the Enquirer, has a. pet
name, the 'makeshift,' for this writer
and says that seem entirely oblivious
TO the important railroad moves about
Provo the last few days. News in
these parts is indeed mighty scarce,
but not so scarce that a wide-awake
correspondent need fill a column space
with a Letter from Provo repeating what
The Herald had already published,
viz. that Colonel Dodge and other Rio
Grande Western officials are at present
making a tour of inspection of the
operating and proposed branches of the
road. These gentlemen went up Provo
canyon the other day. were seen by
this correspondent, had no news to
give out, and as the fact of their visit
had already been published by The
Herald. the item was not repeated by
me. The Enquirer, in all its three or
four columns of stuff about the visit of
these gentlemen, has said absolutely
nothing new about the railroad.
Lucky Jack Davis is over from Mer-
cur. He brings news that has caused a
tnree-ply smile to wrea+he the faces OF
the numerous stockholders in the An
ME mine residing here. He says that
the miners have been working in ore
for three weeks and that the body
gives every evidence of being an i'm
menseay rich one. and that the ore car
ries high in gold. Several ore bodies
have been encountered and passed In
the Annie, but heretofore the value of
the property has depended upon an
pearanees. Now it is the real thing
that makes the owners smile and feel
HNe say IHS DO5S, 1T > go take some
thing"
The board of county commissioners
are in session today. finishing I'D the
work Of equalization Last week a
number of property owners on the
principal business blocks of Provo Sc
cured a general reduction of 25 per
cent in the assessed valuation of their
property. Today the state board of
equalization met and objected to this.
rather to the method by which the re-
QUESTION was obtained than to the
equity of the reduction. The work
was done by lump upon the verbal
representation and petition of a COM
mitFee, and not upon petition of each
property owner separately. The work
will he revised, after which it will be
found whether or not the state board
viii agree to it. OF course there is
more or less kick against the reduction