Show DANGEROUS PRECEDENT tile the register of the land office refuses to deliver a i patent and gets up a contest for the priesthood to recall the entry mr robert smith saya the D eschet news of 0 la lust last st evening in a willful enli chood ii 18 the claimant for piew piece or land northwest of llin city on which filich ho he lai hai lived for some home tima our oar neighbor is well posted on the or thil we rao awl and hence benco as will appear Lere hereafter after the iho ON cot of its in lie is obvious ob viona robert smith may to bo be a claimant tor for the land referred to but as the new well knows kiowa lio he resides in the nineteenth ward on the corner or of fifth north and third west went streets eig and hm bas aired there loutitia only on ly for a dumber of yora years pst past tina this smith nun alion and is is ore cm plo ed ni n i giard to 0 o the city prisoners rea aiDi the ho opposite to ol of those which inspired tho the Ialo hood in the church argao wo we havo haa looked into this thia lind laud clim claim of mr robert Sm illi and will now give gio a true and all HIS OF TIM THE CASE CABS the laud land is thus thui deeler in the iho official north northwest west quarter ol of heltion 25 no 1 north dorth or of range no I 1 west vest containing IGO lure tv re in my may this land was th drawn from sale alo or entry by the united stales sates it diving won lon then supposed to be ba within the pacific railway grant and the order of this withdrawal woi wei duly male made known to the public now comes smith to hive have upon that lieas ol of land to in juno ina allor lite hie withdrawal and wo we have seen been an affidavit of that gentlemen deposing to MI hn citizen citizenship hip and residence on the buur here neither of cheso being with wilh awl wo we hop mr robert Rober did not verity verify them in corain in 1873 ho appeared thi rr giter ol of tholand office in this oily city to 10 prove prova up whim his hia atry was rejected mainly on tho the ground of the tau withdrawal of ci the land bed as 3 tilted above it appeared rise tl io that it if tho the land hid been subject to nry then smith had la ia no parti particular ir complied wilh tho the law lav un on the ilia eighth of 0 january 1871 1874 it having banns b on en by curvo that alin land was VM not inside tho the rail roa roil I 1 grant the department declared j it open anil and a liuti lion to tuii oil off ot 01 was vai IQ io the nun brorn january 8 to F bruvry 8 1371 by authority of tho the government then as for or scars cara boford and at this time smith waa has living in hii haae in tile nineteenth ward bull and witching watching lite salt like city cily chain g elal mi Z but leonard cottrell cottrail oa 03 tho the first day dpn which the land was aula ot to entry ailed riled I 1 ania R SECTION sEo according to law and proved at the outa t that bo be is a native citizen of the iho united states A man inan named davey bad a hotie hou o ori no this lud lind which hid hall been used a as a glue factory aliory aoi ory and cottrell bought boight it froni froin the owner afterwards con veiling it ino a residence in he be dwelt for or more thin ahin months davey hd had rent irot for or the ground occupied by him lii m to on ons who orl dently devi r knew an thing of smitha pre claim having mado made his irgal residence reido aca and cultivated a por per tion airn of the lh 1804 land cattrell tat trell on tile tho of august 1874 pro presented lis his croaro end on oa cox put pid up in 10 full for or the quarter section Sofa thin abent erit well for lim but antho mal 1875 ten dave data ago mr willet regi ster of tile land office at t aa it lt lake inko city received hom a large bat it ol of pa patents teats with iwAr actions to dolier deliver theli to the entitled to them among these inae came the patent lof for leonard cottrell cirell which tho ibi withheld from publication li in a notice babbled bLed aej in the city last week upon inquiry or of acme person in tho the and office coltrell Ool trell twined that his pata patac lit bad arrived lif for l if him oad his certificate p ot denler TO 10 MAKE HAKE DE livena ot of be instrument ioB on the ground thit lint tho the mormon of county declined de choel to tj accept tile tho bonda of judge brawn namely that ex rob cab rl ri smith would coolest contest the tight of the paten patentees teel sapient Pott enKer what a pity such vast durntion duon tion should bo be wasted in to so narrow larrow a in tell genco to too one her bar party cottell called for his ha patent aielt aie ot but I 1 re fused to eive it t him bioano I 1 prom judge sutherland Sut herLind to hold it until they could get ao order of ra ie coil cill train washington lington and ana as ae has ais atnel to do this cz cx it u its bit bat remon coda aclaro that the at in ia question is 11 now io ia the findl of the learned gont lemin abare named for safo keeping certainly on tho the facts now dancil cal ting tina wo we abound co con nider ajer the A 11 egister ft a most moat unreliable of such auch docu merib behind this bungling or hut huterer ever worse it ii my may be called Potte ogar oger represents that in no bomber list ribert abert smith called upon a him bun malting making some statements ul eftig a to 0 o set up a counter claim cottrell Coi trell then did Polte Pot oger temporarily DIVEST ans CIAL dlo DIO to lo draft an affidavit for ther thaw would cull bo be coalt Blout assuring smith tint that this paper would esti ii blish the iho requisite amol lotof fit conlu aion in the depart moot at al washington he be lurther so bug gotta that moers ilo anra orland orlind bates smi h las attorneys ought to karo have a chance to past upon the iho virtue 0 ol 01 I 1 abis aO Davil drawn dran by lawyer and an sworn to bairo beg abter PoL or the result of that examination wo we lave colb bog to lo aly the lio rola fiodi ot thos legal gentlemen to any of the iba paries having bavine nothing whatever to do dl with th lio n oon duct ol of the register iu in concealing IM I 1 refusing to deliver a patent cucil sucil i by the gove coment anti nil figard by the president there to is much more to bo be a kiil lid on the subject tta as alio re girding the tha real parties irti oa to the alio cookst cobb el in 10 lich thu the alien smith is put forward as a licati paw who those aro are the integ iw letor 0 could probably guese from doai his limited acquaint arico with toai I 1 high x mormon dignitaries chobo ladd flavo bern been developed dof eloped 0 perfection to in tho bno under review rethew thi pat p i nice is iii of course a gentile elio the ba priesthood who covet hie bia property could get it AiL hout regard to tho the re b bearing cal of an entry or the ibe citizen aldip rini a of robort tic nith of which there LI is no ricord io in utah the con antonion ana onion 11 II abo loefer loe DO befit fet bews yews can throw any moro more light on an the smith laud claim w we how boon to liar at no ba early day from that aposto liel source |