Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-06-27

l.. II. Wilson and |. G. Gregg,
who were brought here and lodged
in Jail on a contempt of judg-
ment proceedings brought by Key
Pittman, pleaded guilty to the
charge and were fined one dollar
apiece by Judge Taber, in the dis
trict court, but the defendants not
having quite this sum of money on
hand, We're helped out by their
counsel contributing one dollar for
each prisoner and the desperate
criminals" were turned loose to
prey upon the public.
1t is alleged.
In arguing his own case this
morning, Attorney Key Pittman said
that the decisions of the court must
be sustained or there would be no
law and anarchism would rule in
this country.
The history of this case dates
back few months. Wilson, en-
November 10, 1910, squatted on
land in the Smoky valley, near
Round Mountain. Gregg on De-
cember 10,s 1910, squatted near
Wilson's place. The land was sur
yeycd about thirty years ago, and
the corners have long ago disap-
peared. Wilson and Gregg, in set
tling and taking up the land, did
50 under the homestead act, which
gives them ninety days to locate
their corners, where the corners
ae not defined. The men have re-
sided on their ground since that
date and their intentions were to
farm and to improve the land, as
the government intended it should
be. when the act was passed.
On the 25th day of January,
19at. it is alleged that Key Pitt
man and Mimosa G. Pittman filed
ON Gao acres of land under the
desert land entry act, which acts
calls upon the filers to swear that
the land is arid; does not cor
natural grass of any commercial
value, etc. A part of this oath is
as follows:
That said land is not naturally
irrigated or watered, nor overflow
ed at any season OF the year by
the foregoing or any other natural
stream, spring, or other body of
water; that | expect to obtain my
water supply to irrigate said land
that the character of the soil is
............; that said
land will not, without artificial ir-
aiga1iOn, produce an agricultural
crop Of any kind in amount rea-
sonably remunerative, and that it
will not, when unfed by grazing
animals, produce native grasses suf-
ficient in quantity to make an or
dinary crop of hay in usual sea-
sons; that there are no trees on
said land; that the same is essen
TALLY dry and arid land, wholly un-
fit for cultivation without artificial
irrigation; that said land can not be
successfully cultivated without be-
ing reclaimed by conducting wa
ter thereon; that it is fact well
known, patent, and notorious, that
The same will net, in its natural
condition, produce any crop; that
no portion of said land has ever
been reclaimed BY conducting wa
ter thereon, and there are no lands
in the vicinity of this tract that
Z aro occupied by settlers and cul-
ivatcd without artificial irrigation
And | further declare that | have
personally examined every legal sub
division of the said land and there
is not, to my knowledge. within
NV iilllllS tHSIeui, any NclH vi
lode of quartz, or other rock in
place, bearing gold, silver, cinnabar
lead, tin or copper, or any deposit
of coal; that there is not, within
the limits of said land. to m!
knowledge, any placer, cement, grav
ell, or other valuable mineral de
posit, salt springs, or deposits O
salt; that no portion of said Lane