The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-05-31

loss of trade she suffered owing to his
early departure, and his inability to
show himself few minutes before
every saloon in town.
The taking of testimony in the water
suit will be resumed at Woodfords
June 5, when it is expected that the
defendants will finish on their side in
about ten days more, and then an adj
journment will be taken and the
further taking of testimony will be re-
sumed at Carson, when the plaintiffs
will put in all their evidence in re-
buttal. It is expected that this will
occupy about ten days. Pete Milich
testified that he saw party of sur
veyors on the line of the Snowshoe
Thompson ditch No. in 1859, and
Robt. Trimmer,testified that Snowshoe
Thompson ditch No. 1 was dug to a
point near the road that goes from
Woodfords to Markleeville, where the
ditch now crosses it, in 1860, and that
in 1861, along in March the ditch was
completed to the divide, and he knows
that fact because men working on the
ditch went to Woodfords and got a
jug of whisky to celebrate the event of
getting over the divide with the ditch,
and also that was the time he heard
about the inauguration of Lincoln as
President of the United States. Ben
Palmer is equally as positive in his
testimony that it was in 1868 that he
first became interested in the Barber
rahch in Dutch Valley, and during the
fall of 1853 he put two men to work in
company with Snowshoe Thompson,
Robert Trimmer, Stevens and others
to dig that ditch, and that it was dug
in 1868, but no water went through it
that year, and that in 1864 water went
through it, but not enough to serve
either Thompson or himself on the
Barber ranch, because Bony Clogston,
and Trimmer on the Dudley estate
land, and the party who was then ON
the Harvey land, being Stevens, took
il all, and they did not get drop.
Failing to get water through No. 1
ditch, Thompson and Others com
menced Snowshoe Thompson No. 9
ditch in the fall of 1864, which ditch
now serves the lands of Vallem, Ellis,
Johns Scossa and Barber, and this tes-
timony of Palmers agrees with the
notice of location of that ditch, which
is dated August, 1864. Palmer was
two years without water, and in 1855
he got an interest in the Snowshoe
Thompson No. 2 ditch for making it
three feet wide, and the Barber ranch
has been irrigated by means of that
ditch ever since. Robert Trimmer and
Others testified that Snowshoe Thomp-
son Ditch No was dug in 1862 or
1858, and that it led water to the Scossa
and Barber ranches in 1868, thus plac-
ing the digging of the ditch two years
before it's notice of location. All of
the defendants, so far, have testified
positively, and with one voice that
none of the plaintiffs ever interfered
with their dams, and that they never
spoke about water rights to them, and
that they have never heard Of any
trouble about water until after the suit
was begun. If Robert Trimmer had
spoken the testimony into a phono-
graph, and the roll had been handed
to the several other witnesses with in
structions to put it in the machine and
turn the crank, there could not have
been any greater unanimity and voice
concert on this question.
QUELQUEFo1s.
Eighty-seven carriage horses were
sold the other day in New York for