The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1919-01-22
RESTRAIN YOUR LAUGHTER,
FOR This BE GRAVE MATTER
Being Recital of the Recent Pilgri-
mage Concerning Lake Tahoe
Adjudication Case

The perennial pilgrimage of the
and of the High Chiefs of the Recla-
nation Service in the Jarndyce VS.,
Jarndyce case, which lovers of Dick
ems imagined had been finally dis
posed of in the English courts gen.
erations ago, but which the dictator
of the legal bureau of the service
modernized under the caption Lake
Tahoe Adjudication case, is again
under way.
In solemn state, without pomp,
bespeaking the sacred memories sur
rounding this mildewed relic of the
department of justice. there entrain-
ed at Fallon last week Project Mana
ger j. F. Richardson and District
Counsel r. G. Patrick. who, pursuant
to sealed orders, left to participate
in the semi-occasional ceremonies,
the place thus honored being San
Francisco.
We're it possible for those of our
potentially fertile valley, who are
wont to treat lightly this memorable
case, TO be present within the hal
lowed walls wherein are assembled
the legal intellectuals of the Recla-
nation Service and be witness to the
solemn rites with which its consid-
Grafton is approached, they would
return 10 their plowshares with the
conviction that there be more
things on earth than were dreamed
of In their philosophy.
With bowed heads and reverent
mien, following the opening of the
occasion by Oliver P. Morton, CO.
adjutor 10 the legal chief. who de-
manded that the records of Jarn-
dyce VS.. Jarndyce be brought forth,
the entire assemblage waited while
two burly porters deposited upon
the reinforced table the mighty ar
ray of documents grown weighty
through the enormous accumulation
of Red Tape.
With low ineantations the intro
ductory proceedings we're followed
and then seated. the group of chosen
representatives of the men in the
Seats of the Mighty gazed with
awe upon the volumes before them,
SO silent in their form but containing
within their pages such history of
delayed justice to the settlers, pres
ent and prospective, of the Truckee-
Carson Project that had they voice
to speak the very desert wastes
would resound with a cry for deliv-
erance from the impoteney of the le-
gal department of the Reclamation
Service.
But one incident occurred to mar
the usual calm routine of the occas-
ion. this following the introduction by
one recently come from that coarser
world where action was demanded,
of motion that the representatives
proceed to at once take suitable
measures for an early adjustment of
the entire matter.
The horror depicted upon the fac
es of all assembled so oyerawed him
that he sought for an explanation
which was gently youehsafed. and
thus he learned that this sacred
relic of the legal bureau was such in
fact and to his query as to the ulti-
mate end of it TO him was given the
knowledge that with the case ended
the occupation OF the legal lights of
the Service, like that of Othello,
would be gone, and that with the
passing of the present horde of le-
gal luminaries, addition was to be
made to the Smithsonian Institute
in Washington, and there, that all
future generations might see, would
repose the ignoble history of the
Lake Tahoe Adjudication case-Hic
Jacet.