Show I MEAKINS HIGH HONOR Mathias Being Tried in the l Federal Court I OLD CHARGE AGAINST HIM I A Noted Character Who Has Heretofore S Hereto-fore Only Been Accorded Trials in tho Police Court Being Tried on a Charge of Selling Liquor to Indians Regarded as Quoor That Ho Would Part With Any Liquor Hin Promotion to County Jnil Has Improved Im-proved Him I The December term of thei United Slates court opened yesterday with the trial of Mathlas Mcakln on the charge of selling liquor to Indians Mcakln was arrested by Officer Moroni GlllcG ple on July 22nd srttl > was later Indicted in-dicted by the United Slates grand Jury It is J charged that Meakln supplied to Capt Brown and wife Uinlah Nellie two Ute Indians of peripatetic tendencies ten-dencies a certain amount of booze contrary to the cloak of protection which Uncle Sam endeavors at all times to keep thrown around his wards Meakln was examined by United States nl n u 5 5 VUt1 L JI IUlJ1CY Lnu SlIlce his arrest has been Incarcerated In the county Jail To be In the county Jail Is quite a promotion for Mathlas who heretofore has not aspired higher than the city Jail which placo he has visited at very regular Intervals of about a month for many years The charge In almost every case has been getting de liriously drunk although through what Meakln calls a conspiracy he was stuck for pettit larceny onco last year Mcakins record as a conversational water connoisseur leads those who I know him best to aver that the present charge against him In the United States courts is ludicrous in the extreme ex-treme it being argued that a savage Indian with a Held battery and a tomahawk toma-hawk could not separate Mathias from a bottle of rye to say nothing of two such fat lazy and harmless black civilized civi-lized Utcs as Capt Brown and Uintah Nellie CONFINEMENT IMPROVED MEA KiN The arrest has done wonders for Meakln and he looked better than for years past when he hove Into the Untied States courtroom yesterday His beajd l has grown and his appearance appear-ance is aTmostdlsllngulshed His eye J is bright flesh firm voice resonant and aggressive and he does not look at all like the man who asked for 15 cents to have the leg he broke by falling down I a shaft In Parleys canyon fixed District Attorney C O Whlttemore and Acslstnnt Distret Attorney Iennel 1 Chcrrlngton are conducting the case j for the Government while Meakln Is icprcsentcd by James A Williams A Jury wnn Impaneled as follows Wll 1 Ham Wood L li Hall W S Tanner Enoch Farr W P OMeani George B Squires W T FoaJger J B Thompson I Thomp-son p II McGuire James AV Skinner Peter Greaves and William Lowe Officer Glllesplc was the first witness called by the prosecution and told of I seeing Meakln pass a bottle to the Indians In-dians of which they partook lie arrested ar-rested Meakin and took him to the city Jail the prisoner subsequently being bound over to the grand jury and taken to the county jail Commissioner Tvomey wis the next witness testifying testi-fying to holding the preliminary examination exam-ination and binding Menkfn over This concluded the worlsjf the forenoon 1ll AKIN SAYS IT WAS LINIMENT The testimony of the Indians who were prenenl in the courtroom van not taken yesterday owing to the absence of an Interpreter Henry Harris official offi-cial Interpreter nt Fort Duchcsne Is expected to be present today The regular reg-ular order of taking testimony was waived and the defendant himself placed on the stand Meakln said he had given the Indians no liquor Ho met them he said on South Temple and as he had known apt Brown for about thirteen years he slopped to pass the time of day Mnlhias said ho had some liniment which he had bought to treat an Injury lie had and seizing the bottle which contained but I a few drops the buck Indian swallowed tho contents at once Meakln Hays he Immediately snatched the bottle away and allowed lie squaw none of the contents I con-tents MATIIIAS REFUSED TO BUY I The I Indian I I Meakln I said produced a I iuLrLe1 anu wanlOU HIS wnlle ulenu togo to-go and purchase some booe for his Indian In-dian friends r but this Meakln says ho refused to do and Immediately returned re-turned the money In tho course of his testimony Mcakln Insisted that Mr Glllesple told an unlrulh when he raid Malhlas gave anything to the Indians In-dians to drink At till piellmlnary examination ex-amination the evidence showed that Meakln had two bottles with him at the time ot the encounter but this Meakln denies His crossexamination did I not develop much except that he went more fully Into his post and repealed re-pealed much that he had said on direct examination Dr S G Clark the druggist from whom Mcakln bought the liniment was the last witness of the day and Identi fled a small bottle shown him as one he had given Meakln with liniment In It The liniment DI Clark said con tamed iibou 10 per cent alcohol and was comparatively harmless although he admitted that enough of It would make one drunk The bottle shown would he said contain about a drachm of alcohol An adjournment was taken at 330 until this morning when the Indians will be placed on the stand It Is expected ex-pected the case will go to the Jury this forenoon I 5 I h4 Lsr f = = cW = ± D What Meakins Testimony Showed |