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Show LAND SHARKS. lit aver, ju-t n-cv, is the scene of an j attempt to mb the settlers of lauds! ihirly earned by hone-t indu-try and j pioneering t.,il. It js a rep-tition of the e!ihrts n( tiie same class of land .-.harLs. in a hundr;d places in tiie we.-t. Li some new T-arit. .r:es th.y : m ire gi-nt-y; in no:i", We believe, so. t'-nderly :ti in ITali. Tiie exasp' -rated h:-t' ir'eal aeeu'Uit-. mav be relii-d on, -;:nu:g up f. urti.'en of these nuarVr eeli, m thiev s, and -avea warning lu the entire tribe from tiie ML-.-miri to U'e.o! iiiv. r Centr.-. An old settler of X. bra-ka, hifc.-elf o:u of the most ijiiiel and law-abiding of men. lie.s in-t'.rmed in-t'.rmed u- tint luning .settled on a piece of land he was under the neces--ity u( Inying a rill 1 with range so '-hat he could sit in his h-m-; and send a bail to any part of the land on which he siuat: -d; and then he gave public notice that he would make a target ot the first person who brought building material on to his laud. That has never been done in Vtah, nor have contiguous trees been .'ailed into . rei jiiU'.ti, m for improvised hang ing; the sharpest caution, we believe, being a sound ducking and sending a few shanties lloating. In every Territory hi the northwest and west, ;ir more than half a century, unscrupulous un-scrupulous and scoundrelly disposed men have sought, for purposes of speculation, to "jump" land claims on which the rightful owners have failed to comply with some technicality technical-ity of law, and the land oUiccrs of government have too often aided in the infamous work. The dilliculty at Beaver i.s thus tersely and plainly handled in the Beaver F.nta-jTtst ; The fi.-M, -o far, 1ms only three or fair -hanlii- 111 ihe cmirre of construction, but it U pn'.-uinaMo tlmt tu ltsa tlum ft month 1 nit A village will lie built upon the- land Ujl.mging to llm iiuUi.-trtoUi, hard-working in-oile uf ISeftver si-uletnent, hy jumper-. The itulividuiil.J who have taken pus-si'-.-ion, judgitifr from tin; fonnidablo display dis-play uf i-ix-thuut'.Ts and lii knives, muit unagiiie t lieiosel ves in un Indian country and in danger; hut ivsilly, we liave nut In-ard of tin- cecurronce ot "any Indian depredations dep-redations ince our arrival lu-ix1. So far n tlie jn.'ople of tli ia section nre eonceriieil, in our experience We have never yet lived in a CLimtnunity so thoroughly hutie.-t and peaceful, so they have llolliing to fear upon up-on that score. Strangers are treated cotir-;eou-ly hy the people here, wliodo all they can to malic them comfortahlc so long as tliev don't interfere witli matters eoucem-i;ig eoucem-i;ig lliem not. The fa, t of the ca.-e is that a Geulile lias a far hetter chance to a mils wealth in Soiulieni Vtu!:than a ilormon, lecau-e taxes imposed upon the fori nor are nominal compared with that which I lie laUer pa v. And vet, we tiiul a class, of men wiiarc endeavoring to take ad-vaniatje ad-vaniatje of po. r men who have spent years in rearing tlicimelves homes, living and su"por;inir their families on the products of a l'ov acres of land wliieh mo-t of tliem Icive paid the government ruice tor, hut have not livedhtpoii them the length of time required hy layr, ami wliy? iuijily bee iu-e, at the time thi-4and was preempted, pre-empted, it v:i; jeopardizing the lives of theui-elve.- and families to reside tliere.m, heeause it would nuc-if !,te holl-ci being erected so fir apart and scaltt-o ii that step- could he taken for protection against the bauds of Navajo and other Indians who lurked around the settlement 111 all directions, watching a-a cat lhra mouse, every movement c f the whites, and murdering mur-dering and stealing upon every occasion given them by the settlers, through a relaxation relax-ation of vigilance. ConseiUentiy the set-tleio set-tleio builj. h; JSeaver to wo, as elo;e together togeth-er a- posiblo, uijltivated and fenced the Held at present ji'.mpej ana s.puu.'ci upon bv certain partie-;, amonc whom wereeo-ni.e wereeo-ni.e Michael Powers, C M. Ihiwlev, Ja5. P.. M'illiius, Morgan Peyton, Thus, yeutt, and understand tliat .lames Brown, Lr. iieah mid others are interested , hut do not know to vhut e-;iuii!, hut in the opinion of all e;nod eiiieiis .with wWin we have con- Velid Up'.Hi tiiH s!pbjeet'n( (lii-'bi. jUIiiU,' both Mormon and U.'adle, whether interested inter-ested ar not, tliev ah cxires tin.-!!, selves a-tonished and di-gnsteil withtbi proceeding-: of the pa.-t few days. Jti case tiie poor and iiidusgrious people of this .-eetioll are to L'l stiii'i'e'd out of their land in the tield. of what Viilue iire ;i':eir dwellings in town! They cannot rai-e iiod ,'or their families in a .-mail garden, and have no other io -euiee for -ustenaiiee save this land in the tiej,l. .Do the individuals who are ena'inl i:i thi- biisincs-. desire real estate to tup-pon tup-pon tjieir families upon, or to make by the swet of 'lieir brow the eai'th yield them wealth and prosperity? thich a iup-posiiion iup-posiiion could not be' eij('. iii..ii;ed for one uioinent by uny sensible mtn. J ratty brain-work, whether it brings ruin upon innocent people or no. would s.eeni to apply more strictly to the men engaged in taking advantage of thou who undeitand but slightly )!;: tracings of law, and 'ho eoiiid 1 ' t live tip Ui ijs reiplireiiii'lits without with-out holding their lives ut the mercy of rutb!e- savag '-.-in retrard to tin: rieid- until ipiite recently. AVu can ;.'e no uther design on the part of these jumpers ami squatters than that of speculation. Should they sii.-eeed in substantiating their claim a::d thereby undermine the rights of men who have held peaceable possi;si-ii of and cultivated thi- land lor ten or mure years, Heaver's future prosperity is gone, for who will herratter hae ambition to improve land-and erect homes, with the pro-peet of b.-ing swindled out of them at lh5t? AVe arc not surprised to find Mr. Myron C. Uawley and othei-s of the same stamp engaged in this business;; and the ."-i'.'r,.-- says the latest act of this precious gang has been to 'jump'7 the ground owieJ by a poor widow. Self protection eompell- cl the settlei-s of Utah to build their houses together for mutual defense j against Indians, .instead of each man j building on his own quarter-section ; i and self protection may demand unit- ! ed etibrt against the gross the Its of laud-sharks who are bat land-pirates, and should be so treated in every communitv |