Show HUNTIN fiTON jos charged with murderous assault bound oyer to the district court ble grew out of cor sheep and cattle joseph of who has had more or less trouble from time to time with his neighbors over tres passing stock was up before justice 0 J harmon last monday chaget with assault to commit murder county att A D dickson represented the state and E G defreze appeared for the deafen dant the alleged assault occurred late sunday afternoon feb and the testimony of the state at the prehm tended to show that on the date above mentioned chris neileon and joe brown rode to the joseph to see about some stock the had charge of and which were held jos eph s corral for alleged tres pass it had been hinted about that josepe was in the habit of dav ing in stock from the range corral mg them and holding owners up for tres pass words passed between the par ties above mentioned and chris bolsen nolsen struck joe in the face with his fist knocking him down while brown was baill on his horse the visitors state that joe told his wife ta go into the house and get his gun and he would kill the the woman got a singletree instead and in warding off an expected blow from it it is claimed that chris struck mrs joe the face with the back of his hand all parties went over to the con a and the bar let down by joe neil sen for the visitors to get out their eatock and all seemed apparently well joe then secured a pitchfork aim start ed toward the house and at the same time yelled to his boy to get into the house the boy followed the advice of h s father and a moment later came out with a gun which he gave to his father ahns and brown seeing the warlike preparations mounted their horsey and started to yet dw ay while doing so joe took a shot at them they claim the rifle ball whizzing past their heads they were then about maids from the shooter and a moment later were protected by the topography of the country but rid ng out into the open again an other ball waa sent it them s waived examination and was bound 0 er in the sum of which was later reduced to bonds were given on the morning following the fracas anns and joe brown appeared before justice harmon and corn on themselves nielsen was fined 7 and brown 3 some man foi warded an account of the fracas to attorney gen eral bierden and the letter was pub dished wednesdays deseret cewe and tribune said account differs aery materially from the testimony brought out at the preliminary where toe had a chance to give his side of the story but failed to do so considerable feeling is aroused at hun angton that the community should be advertised as lawless when as a mat er of fact the local and county ire open to a squal e deal for every man |