Show UP A winchester came up with them in the district court settling of estates in probate court TUESDAY an order of attachment for martin olson a witness in the case of hyrum bjones vs J W Stew arret al was made in the case of J 0 nielsen et al vs W W brandon et al tha jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff ot head of sheep and 35 costs alie case of H V jones vs J W stewart et al was continued for the teim at plaintiffs cost the reason for the continuance is the absence of important witnesses WEDNESDAY the case of the people vs J D brannon resisting an officer was called and a jury paneled em mr varian prosecuted and mr A G sutherland appeared for the defense brannan has the reputation of being a bad man sheriff westwood of emery county and three others attempted to arrest him last november on a charge of petit larceny when the officers approached him he opened up fire upon them one of the shots tired narrowly missed sheriff westwood and it was not until after quite a skirmish had ensued that brannan was captured he was duly convicted of the crime of petit larceny and a term of imprisonment thereof the indictment for resisting the officers was found by the last grand jury A number of witnesses for the prosecution related the circumstances of the capture the defendant took the stand he admitted having tired at the officers but he did not know they were officers they had approached him with guns in their hands and had commande comman dd him to throw up his hands when ha threw up his hands he had a winchester in them after he had fired two shots at the officers and they had fired a number at him he stepped back into a ravine and went around to where his horses were he returned in about fifteen minutes and gave himself UD a man by the name of nay having informed him who the officers were to mr varian the defendant stated that he had been traveling by team with his wife for six weeks he came from dallas hills colorado where ha had been anen the saw the men coming with guns in their hands he picked up his gun and fired because he know but aliat they were desperadoes and horse thieves and he wanted to protect bis wife ind family and property prop eity he stepped bacic into tho wash ravine to fix his gun which had got out or ler the sheriff did not tell him he had a warrant for hid arrest until two houra after he had surrendered court took a recess until 2 |