Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-08-05
COURT At VERDAL.
A Host Important SESSION 10 Con-
msnCe Next Monday.
CRIMINAL CASES TO lie TRIED.
Cattle Men and sheep Men Gathered
from Utah, colorado, Wy
Oming anil Idaho.

Associated Pressl.
VERNAL, Utah, via telephone to
Fort Duchesne, via telegraph to Price,
Utah, August 5-On Monday next
tho criminal court for this district
coRvenep, Judge Duseuberry Of Provo
presiding. This session OF the district
court is perhaps one " the most I'M
portant as well as Of more than ordln-
airy interest, fer the reason thst there
comes before the trial court the cases
OF several alleged notorious criminals
who have recently boeR captured In
this vicinity by the eheritl's officers,
and by the help OF tho United States
military officials at Fort Duchesne,
and by the help CT the United States
military Telegraph, watch covers the
distauce OF nearly one hundred miles.
Were 1t not ior the military post at
Fort Ducbesne, tho unlawful element
Of cattle thieves, highwsymen auu
the worst of murderers would prsc'
tically have control OF this country,
away out here beyond tho bounds
Of civilization. 30 to speak.
THE M'kEE BROTHERS,.
There are several very serious cases
10 be tried before the coming session OF
the criminal court here, but the most
important case which Ia docketed for
trial 10 That against the Mckee broth
eIs charged with cattle and sheep
stealing and slaughtsring. There is not
to be- had within the confines oil the
hotel accommodations o! Vutnni, al
this writing, avacant room or cot or
mattress after next Saturday,. Every
sleeping apartment hus heen engaged
by telephone and telegraph by aitor-
neys and by prominent cattle aud
sheep raising men frsm not sniy Utah.
but from Wyoming and Colorado, in
lAct from al lar away as Idaho. Tho
cattle men and the sheep men seem TO
have pooled their grievous issuee, ne
against the eo.called thieves AMI
slaughtersrs, and II vould seem that
they are determined to rid tue coup-
Try OF the pests. The repres intRlive
cattle aud eheep men Of tins aforesaid
districts are ell route here to see TO II
stock viii be the last for long time 10
come, II not the last OF all which has
eretufore peen so DISASTROUS auc that
iehsoD Simon pure punishment is
meteu out TO the guilty partite, who
they clnlm arc now In CUSTODY, and
others will soon follow.
THE M'KEE BROTHERS,
said lawyer to thu Asso.
clated Press reporter today, have a
great deal to gdisprove. Gh,y have
left nothing undone towards employ.
Ing nblo council and let me tell you
right here, that they hRvs employed
Il. ii, Rhodes of Salt LsEe City tU de-
tend them, Attorney Rhodes is one OF
Utsh'a big lawyers. He was formerly
resident OF Denver; was the county
attorney OF Arnpshos county several
years ago, and nude an enviAbl.
reputation IA d great criminal laws er.
Lawyer Rhodes 10 on his way here
ito auisnu the Mckee boys, anu next
week the greatest legal criminal
charge fight ever known IN Ulah will
he fought right here nj Vernal. The
Utah, Wyoming, Colorado snd Idaho
Cattle GrowsTs' Protective association
ate going TO supply the prosecution
with aele counsel TO try TO convict
tnoBe recently arrested"
HOW IT ALL HAPPENBD.
For long lime past the cattle and
sheep mo- on the ranges have been
troubled by deptedaIiOns upon their
stock by maliclOusly incllntd outlaws,
TO put It mildly. Post trauer James
4. MeaEc, at Fort Duonesne, has been
one OF the largest Sufferers in
financial point OF view. For months
past efforts were made TO capture the
misoTesute. On qhuFsdaY, July 22
last, posse OF msn composed OF sheep
owners lett Vornal for me purpose OF
capturing, uesd or alive, the Mckee
brothers, against whom 1t In saiI
sufficient evidence has been secured
to convict them OF having recently
bound the Eriekson brothers to tree,
and then malIoiousiy killed a large
number Of sheep. The four Mckee
brothers, James, George. Joseph aud
Thomas are under arrest here, and as
before stated there Is to be tremen.
dous legsl fight on hand in the dis.
tricI court next week whom their trial
segins.
From indications today the Assopi-
steu Press representative Is in oImed
from source considered reliable, that
before the trial OF the Mckee brothers
10 finished, several arrests Will he
made OF others hereabouls who are
supposed to bD concerned In the cattle
stealing and killing outrages, and that
three arTests viii create u tremendous
sensation throughout the West, II is
furthermore stated today that the
mother OF The Mckee brotherP, who
resides In SAit LAKE City, win be nj
Vetnal Sunday, anu that the mother
win be a very important witntBi duI-
lug the trial vi her sons. Il. nj, 3.