Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-10-04 | Page 21 | As I Remember

i i S transmitted to the tha national national national na na- capital by Justice William W. W Drummond and Civilian W. W V. V M M. 1 K F. Magraw alleging undesirable condition conditions In Utah hail had likewise been made It was waa said acid by Associate Associate Asso Also Clate Justice George P. P Stiles SUlee who flied filed an affidavit in Washington following a disagreement between and attorneys members ol of oC the Mormon Mannon church which added to the Drummond charges Justice Stil a holding that the court r records roe rec orde of oC Utah had bad been destroyed The reply of ot Deputy Clerk Dolton to the Drummond charges of ot the destruction of the records was likewise a n. reply to the allegations of Justice Stiles SUles But Dut regardless both Drummond and Stiles maintained main main- tamed that the records could not be found hence believed that the they were destroyed And the first mention mention men men- tion of ot the organization of ot the eu supreme reme court of oC the territory of ot Utah as found round In the records today shows that It was sas not done until the arrival of oC Associate Justice John and anti Charles Charlea E. E Sinclair showing the organization Of the court to be April 12 a 1859 CAUSE OF DISPUTE i iThe The disagreement between Justice Justice Jus Jus- Jus-I Jus tice Stiles SUles and occurred in February 1857 and grew out o of I differences between the United States marshal and the territorial I marshal as has heretofore been mentioned In these stories and which resulted finally in the tho enactment enactment enact enact- ment merit of the Poland law However at the time of or the Justice Justice Jus Jus- tice lice Stiles Instead of fining the at attorneys at at- tornes torne's for tor utterances which he he re regarded re- re garde t as ns a attempt tempt to Intimidate suddenly adjourned court and he complained that Governor Brigham Young when appealed to him manifested mani mant- tested Indifference over the matter Another federal official who vho it was alleged also alga incited the the- theau au authorities authorities au au- against the Later Day Saints w was s Dr Garland Hunt agent for the Indians in tho the territory It should be remembered that the mall mail facilities in those days were meagre and conducted between Independence ence Mo 1 and Salt Lake and official official cial documents were long in coming com corn tog ing Dg from Washington to Salt Lake I so 80 that not ce of the coming of oC the army under Albert Sydney Jornson was not nol learned until July 24 1857 and news of the coming was made known while the people of Salt Lake were celebrating the anniversary anniversary anniversary sary of ot the arrival of the pioneers at Silver Sliver Lake Brighton It wa was was the tenth anniversary of M the plo plo- neer neeTS' neeTS advent Into the Salt Lake Lalee valle valley NEWS ARRIVES Abraham 0 O. O Smoot was mayor of Salt Lake at that time and arid he while on a II trip east as an agents agent of the X T. T company which was wasa Wase a II company organized In Salt Lake to carry mall and express from the Missouri river to Salt ShIt Lake learned from Feramorz Little of Fort Laramie Lara- Lara mie and later at the office of ot a a. government contractor in Kansas City that all the old officials of or the territory had been removed which bich Included Governor BrIgham Young and that an army would accompany the new officials to Utah This Int in information information In- In formation t caused u Mayor Smoot toi to b bre break reak k kIP P I th the thorna m mail i tio ll 1 l stations nm vh which hI 1 t h h b bre break reak k kIP P I th the thorna m mail i tio ll 1 l stations nm vh which hI 1 t h h up c chis his company had established and move them westward and he re returned returned returned re- re turned to Fort Laramie on July 17 Tejn days das later he was In jn Salt Lake and arid the people were notified of the coming of ot the army anny the force be being being being be- be ing 2500 2100 of the flower of ot the army The lost cost of ot the expedition in the end to the government was between I and Resistance Resistance Resist Resist- Resistance ance upon the part of ot the people of Utah Uta was determined upon and the Echo Canyon war was the result