Show BECK REGARDED BERTHA AS HIS WIFE WITNESS Beattie Asserts Mine Mail Ilan Ian Honored Her as Legal o rr Mate lIate Case Continued Herald Berald S It Provo Pro Sept Sep 25 Sensational iJ testimony testimony mon mony was introduced toda today at the trial of or the tho suit brought by Bertha G Beck widow of or John Beck owner of or the Bullion Beck mint mine against the Utah- Utah Idaho Sugar company compan which is being heard in tho the Fourth district court here herc before Judge A. A B B. B Mor Morgan n. n About seventy acres of oC sugar beet land at tho Saratoga farm In Utah county which Is valued t at about 70 Is involved Tho suit is a test ca case e which It Is skid said S' S ld will be followed b by other suits Involving property valued at among which Js is Becks Beck's DecksHot Hot blot Springs Saratoga Springs valuable valuable able coal lands in Uintah county alu 1 and an mining minim claims in Eureka In the proceedings ro today Ja the defense numerous documents that John Beck had signed irous as widower In somo some others his marital status was not given biven Walter alter J J. Seattle testified that he ho was secretary for tor John Beck and the thc Bullion Beck Mining company between 1891 and lS S that on a a. trip to California California Cali Call fornia in August 1895 1896 In Jn company with Simon Bamberger er- er Abram II It Cannon and Mr Ir and lr John Beck Mr r. r Beck regarded Bertha as aa his hilt le legal al wife and that Just before reach reaching InK the Palace hotel In San Francisco Francl Simon Bamberger Bamber- Bamber ger told witness Welter Walter I want you ou to see gee to It that John holds Bertha out outon outon on this trip as his legal wife Thomas r R. R Cutler testified that he first kne knew John Beck as a n Junk and that he staked him when ho he started to develop the Bullion Heck Beck mine He lie understood th that Mr r Bock Beck had selected Bertha as his wife who In so society society so- so and presented her her- heras as such but ho did not know of or John Becks Beck's marrying Bertha Harr Harry S. S Joseph declared on the witness witness witness wit wit- wit wit- ness stand that between 18 1895 and 1898 ho lea wa was engineer for Cor John Bock Beck ck Ho Ito said that he went to Mr and Mrs rs Beck Beckon on ono occasion and told them that Mr Ir r Beck was waR bein being robbed and when Mr lr Beck replied that ho could take tako care of or his own business witness ur urged cd Mrs Irs Beck not to sign an any papers he asserted Louise LouiNe Beck Heck In Irwin in a plural wife of or John Beck testified that s fIO io always considered Bertha as tho the first wife and that sho Rho and Matilda Goss B ck were understood to be plural wives and so considered themselves The case caso was as continued until ne next t Saturday L when the evidence m may ho be 10 concluded N N. N G. G Morgan an and E L. L C CAshton Ashton arc are cc conducting the case for Mrs Irs Beck H J u |