The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-03

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session of the district court. The cases
heard were Peter Jensen VS.. City of
Richfeld ct al, demurrer. The Cotton
wood Irrigation company. party in the
defense, through their attorney, C. B.
Jennings, demurred to the amended
complaint of the plaintiffs attorney,
NJ. S. Brown The demurrer was sus-
tanned.
Joseph A. Harris was appointed guar
dad ad Item for the minor heirs of
the j. w. Stewart estate.
B. H. Greenwood VS.. Eva 3. Stewart
ct al: this case arose over an alleged
sale of real estate by ]. w. Stewart 20
B. H. Greenwood. Said real estate was
never decided. The case was argued
by Stewart and Collins for the plaintiff
and Joseph A. Harris for the minor
heirs, and taken under advisement by
the court.
Ecclesiastical ward of Inverney VS..
Eva B. Stewart ct al, is a. similar case
to the last ]. W. Stewart not deciding
real estate he had sold. The plaintiff
asked for a decree deciding the same
and the decree was granted.
In the cGse of Peter Jensen VS.. City
of Richfeld, the city attorney, j. j.
Stewart. argued a demurrer which the
court LOOK uQQ6T dQNlS6IIeUL.
Richfield is no longer the southern
terminus of the Sewer Valley branch
of the Rio Grande Western railway.
When the road decided to build farther
south than Salina, the. right of way
agents went among the people to see
what they would do toward helping the
road if il would come. The people OF
Richfield saw how Salina had been built
up by being the terminus and, thinking
Richfeld would also be the terminus
for some time, they made very liberal
concession of land, labor and good will.
But they were doomed to diSdppoint
ment, for they had but given all these
helps when the company began to do
grading further on. On the first of
June the regular train service was CX-
tended to Richfield and it has been the
terminus for two months. Last Friday
afternoon the freight went on to Elsi-
more. That night the regular passen-
ger train went on too. There is no
Y at Elsinore, so the trains have to
back into Richfield to turn about.
But Elsinore will not be the terminus
long. The construction company is
buying every tie that can be obtained.
They have right of way even over in
Piute county, buying land, getting it
as concessions from the farmers and
in other ways doing all that they can to
run the railroad into Marysvale in the
near fu%ure.
Marysvale is attracting a. great num-
her of men at the present time. Hotel
keepers in Monroe say they never had
SO many mining men as they have Tad
lately. A great many are said 10 be
coming in from toward Beaver, so that
the Marysvale country is being quite
thoroughly prospected-
The raolifip9l not in Sewer county is as
yet but Sizing and more Of the Re-
puhlicans are ready to have the fuel
applied to commence boiling. Many of
the present party leaders have gone TO
wearing Mckinley buttons, while 9TH
ers say they viii vote for Bryan. The
Mckinley Republicans are terribly at
sea, with no rudder. They try to raise
the old cry of free trade, but the Demo-
Gratis do not fear that. Others still say
that there is too much good in the Re-
publican platform to throw it all away
for free silver. This much is sure: If a
reading ut-of-the-party game starts,
there are lots of the best, most solid
Republicans who will be read out like
men. Others, who now favor l3ryan,
may stay in the party under the party
lash's cutting swings.
Meantime the Democrats are begin
ming TO make ready for the fight. The
precincts are being organized and they
will perhaps have the fight to start.
The water suit, involving every ditch
in the valley, that has been pending for
some time, promises to be one of the
most interesting. as well as one Of the
most complicated in the history of
water litigation. The suit was begun
as a peacea BILE case with S. r. Thurman
as the attorney for all the companies.
Conventions with representatives from
ali the companies were held. The dele
gates TO these conventions decided TO
go back to 1878 and make all water APP
propriated UP to that time OF equal
value. This step was taken as means
Of settling the dispute in the shortest /
manner. When the bitches were first
built they were usually made small and
were enlarged from year to year. This
was not the case with Annabella- The
little town took out a canal in 1872 and
has never enlarged it since. This
gives it a right Of six years priority, and '
It, did not like to be placed on a foot
ing with bitches taken out six years
later. So, joining hands with the farm
srs in what is known as Brooklyn. they
have begun a fighting suit. Should any
company in the suit get more .han its
share of wafer, they know TOO well
hat the new canals will begin suit to :
recover the same. So 1T is that a series :
Of law suits that will perhaps take sew i
,ral years for their settlement will c
)egin. '
Another factor that enters into this a
problem is that great deal Of the q
water that was first appropriated in the 9
SEWER valley has since been taken out t
by Panguitch and Circle Valley farm f
.rs. The wiser heads among the Sewer
ALLEY people have tried to prevent the
people of this valley from beginning
.hese hostile law suits, but TO first
settle the water rights among them h
selves. and then see that parties fur e
her up the river let their water come 1
Town. But it is OF little avail Men y
,ovet only what they see, and not c
seeing the full canals of Garfield and j
oiute counties they crave them roi, 9
,ut crave rather the meagre portion of I
heir already scrimped neighbors. The q
PRESENT suit among the local canals
viii only be a step preparatory 20 the b
BEGINNING OF a longer one between the k
'arious valleys on the Sewer river. =
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Salt Lakcrs i'm Idaho. ;,
David and Charles Margetts, brothers n
{ Phil. and Fred. of this place, the g
ormer accompanied by his wife, and a
he latter looking after the welfare OF