Deseret Evening News | 1901-12-05 | Page 4 | Timber Case is Dismissed

TIMBER CASE GASE IS The Tho ca 9 of ot tho United Slates vs VII W W and others was dis dismissed missed In tho federal court this morn mornIng InK Ing on motion of ot tho United States Dis District DistrIct Attorney Mr Tho was n 1 criminal prosecution for tor al 01 alleged trespass s dm Ing tho months of uJ ly Iy August and September 1898 on Oil lands In the vicinity y of ot Colton In III addition to tho criminal case n I civil case clao was brought to recover tho value of ot taken by bytha II tha tho defendants This was settled and tho government was paid by the de do defendants aggregating sev SOV seven en al thousand dollars A second report was recently rondo mado by Special Agent Bowers rl and It was concluded tram from It that a criminal pro could not be Jc sustained and particularly since n recent decision of at atthe the tho United States court of appeals In Inthe Inthe the case caso of ot the United States vs Trading company hold that limber could bo taken tullen for fot nov MW railroad con construction at any point adjacent to tho main line of or tho rondo road Consequently Cons tho case was dismissed The cuso of ot Wm vs VII the Oliver King Mining company woo was ordered order d dis dismissed missed The fhe federal grand Jury Is III expected to give ghe n 1 partial report this afternoon Thomas C Hanley a 11 railroad brake brakeman man of ot Ogden today tiled n petition In Involuntary voluntary bankruptcy Ills amount to Uca nil all unsecured hla assets to 1000 claimed exempt cC Arthur 13 Peterson filed a petition In Involuntary voluntary bankruptcy with liabilities of ot assets ts of ot claimed Lorn Iem Farr was discharged tram from bank bankruptcy