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Show uu AFTERMATH OF ! UTAH MASSACRE Supreme Court to Decide Financial Fi-nancial Responsibility of U. S. for Property Lost. By Emigrants Washington. D C. Dec. 24. The financial liability of tho federal gov rnment for the property, lost by California Cali-fornia emlcrants massacred at Moun tain Meadow I tah. In 1857. by alleged Mormons and IndlanB. and made the basis of a claim before 1891, is to be passed upon by the supreme court of the United States. Briefs submit tir.K the claim of Malinda Thurston, whose father, William Cameron, was one of those massacred, for 19500 worth of livestock and other property, was presented to the court todnv by her attorneys. F Sprigs Perry and Harry Priton. The government through Assistant Attorney 'Jener.n Thompson, Is resisting the claim The massacre was one of tho harrowing har-rowing tales of the early days of the rush to California All but three or four of a string of 28 wagons, constl tutinq what was considered the richest rich-est train that had eer crossed the plain, were lost, together with about thlrtv mules and horses and approximate! approxi-mate! 900 cattle Alleged Perfidy of Mormons. After an unsuccessful attack on the Immigrants, it is claimed, one of the Mormon leaders. Johu D Lee washed the paint from his face and approached the train with a white flag, explaining that a company o.' Mormon militia would escort th- eml grants to safety After the march was resumed. It is claimed the Mor mon militia shot down the unarmed emigrants and the Indians torturec' the women and children to death. When Mrs. Thurston filed her claim, under the Indian depredation law with the court of claims. It had to meet the requirements of having been presented to congress or the In terior department before 1891 Hei claim was filed In congress in 177 but that claim namud the Mormons alone as defendants The court ot claims held it was not an Indian claim and dissolved it From this an appeal was taken to tlie supreme court. Aft |