Show JAIL ON oil PLACER GROUND peculiar case before the court at idaho city D balse somewhat ise july 20 apeci special al to tribune A somewhat peculiar case has been occupying cu p ying the attention of the district court at idaho city for sev several eral days over a year ago joseph branstetter and his partners were enjoined by the county commissioners from doing placer mining on ground that was claimed to belong to the county jail and their last cleanup clean up amounting t to nearly 1000 was seized by the sheriff and deposited tit in the bank subject to further litigation as to its ownership afterwards a suit was instituted by the county against branstetter et al in which it clain claimed ted damages in the amount of to the county jail property the county introduced in evidence a deed deed to the property given by 1 I A knowles in 1864 and describing the boundaries of 0 a piece of land feet square but owing to the chaotic condition of all marks in the vicinity of idaho city on account of the successive operations of placer mining none of these boundaries can at present be located and the only hint as to where the countes coun tys feet square was originally situated was contained in the testimony of ex commissioner frank moore who stated that the old jail was built in the center of the lot this jail served as a territorial prison at al one time the ground Is now mined out on one side of it |