The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-04
UTAH COUNTY.
Court Notes-A Racket In Provo
Canyon-Tramp Tactics.

CanyOn-IraInp 4dCIlSS'
Provo. Feb. 3.-The following orders
wore made in the Fourth district court
today:
C. F.. Shoebridge ct al. VS.. Annie NJ
Moore; demurrer to answer and cross
compliant argued and taken under ad-
visement. ., 10
Estate of Joseph Heber Harrison, de-
ceased; receipts for all properly III
hands of Administrative filed ana APP
proved and Administrative discharged
peter Jensen VS.. J. Jensen ct al;
suit TO quiet title to Pleasant Grove
property; decree il favor of plaintiff.
Professor Dierks gives free lectures
on phenology in the OLD tabernacle
Thursday and Friday evenings.
Brown, Henderson & King. attorneys
for defendant, have filed answers III
the Fourth district court in the case Vi
the Rio Grande Western railway ION, coIi-
panv VS.. the Telluride Power Trans
mission company, w. w. Ferguson, l..
/. Num- and L. Holbrook. These cases
involve the right of way over certain
lands in Provo canyon, which are
claimed by both parties, by the rail-
way company for railway purposes ana
bv the defendants for reservoir Pur-
poses.
The answer denies all the allegations
lively that plaintiff has no purpose or
design to construct a railroad through
the canvon. and that the work which
has been done by plaintiff has been Tor
the purpose of annoying Defendants
and preventing them from construct
ing their proposed reservoir and eiec-
trio power plant.
Mrs. Kate Patten of PaySon mas
commenced a suit for divorce against
Riley Patten on the grounds Of deser-
ton and failure to provide. The parties
intermarried in Payson, July 10, 1888,
and Riley is charged with leaving his
wife on the same day. Joseph 4. rage
is attorney for plaintiff.
/. E. Rasmussen of Mount Pleasant.
who has been attending the d. I.
academy, went home today, sick.
Joseph Murphy drew good house at
the opera house last evening; his pres
entation of the Kerry Cow was
highly appreciated
The teachers of the American Fork
public schools have received invitations
to a character dress ball, to be given
in the American Fork opera house
Friday evening.
A burglar entered the store OF the
Provo Hardware and Iron company
last night. through a back window, and
took q 3S-calibre HUTCHINSON revolver.
1t is supposed he was frightened of
before he had time to make selections
of other articles.
Mrs. D. r. Beebe and children have
moved to Mammoth, where Mr. Beebe
is the manager of the Mammoth Mer-
camille company's Business.
On Tuesday afternoon six tramps,
who were making a disturbance near
the Rio Grande Western depot, were
arrested; today two of them were fined
s. each for drunkenness, and one of
them SO for resisting an officer. Three
were discharged. Thomas Sullivan is the
name of the man who was fined $40.
He had a 16-year-Old son with him,
whom the officers thought of trying to
have committed to the reform school,
but as there was nothing against him,
and he did not want to go, they gave
the idea up. He said he had been
tramping with is father as long as he
could remember.
Mrs. Susa H. Gates goes to Mammoth
Friday to lecture before the relief So
ciety of that place on Saturday.
David Rockwell. who shot William
Ritter in this city in June, 1895, and
who was shot in the head by Ritter,
70 give new bonds for his appearance
for examination before Justice Booth,
the bonds to be approved in Salt Lake
City. Rockwell carries a bullet in his
head as a memento of the shooting
ARRAY and for q long time after the
encounter he was unable to appear for
examination. Some time ago his bonds
were declared forfeited by reason of
his failure to appear. When the new
bond is furnished his attorney, Mr..
De Noisy, will endeavor to have the
forfeiture set aside, and the defendant
will waive. examination and be bound
over to await the action of the dis
trict court, where he will be tried or
examined as to his sanity. His friends
claim his mind is affected from the eff
fects of the wound in his head and he
is physically wreck from the same
cause.