Show SALT LAKE NEWS JUSTICE ANSWER the answer of justice george W bartib to sensational charges made against him by alvinaa E snow in the case of C D morrison vs snow and the Mor rixon mining company was filed in the third district court yesterday Morr iron it will be remembered brought suit against snow and the company alleging that snow had defrauded jaim out of a large block of the coin banys stock through misrepresentation snow and the company then filed answers and snow made a number of cerious charges against justice barton the president of the company and asked that he be made a party defendant Mom sons attorneys moved later that portions of the answers of snow and the company be stricken out as impertinent scandalous lous and irrelevant but upon the solicitation of justice bartch the motion was withdrawn in order that ho might be given an opportunity to deny the charges made against him at once justice bartch alleges affirmatively at the very outset that the allegations made by morrison against snow are true this allegation is made however on information and belief and upon the same justice bartch admits the truth of the allegations made by morrison against snow it is then alleged that it was the duty of snow to have a certificate of the incorporation of the morrison mining company filed in nevada after the incorporation of the company here ba that he failed to do so it is also charged that snow did not organize the company at his own expense and that he failed to furnish money in accordance with an agreement made by him justice bartch then takes up the charges made against him individually by snow lie denies that he took any action to prevent the levy of an assessment as set up by snow and denies eliat IL B clawson was ever under bis control or that he ever exercised or as to exercise control of the official nets of crawson as a member of the board of directors it is denied eliat just bartch neglected to take action as president director or otherwise looking to the disposition of ore and it is alleged that a meeting was called at which orders were issued for the sale of ore upon the dump justice bartch also sets up that early in the history of the company the sale of treasury stock was authorized and a price fixed thereon a different allegation being made by enow continuing justice bartch denies that lie las ever been hostile to the interest of snow or the corporation or that he hag ever located or caused to be located any claims upon the property already located by the morrison mining company and denica that he was present when any lucli location was made or that he advised or directed the same lie further denies that the interests of the company have in any way been jeopardized by the location complained 01 or any act of his whatever it is denied that justice bartch had anything to do with e instigation of the suit as alleged by snow and the statement that he conspired with morri eon to have the suit brought is specifically denied justice bartch further denies that he nought a division of the stock bought from morrison by snow and gays that snows allegation to the contrary is wholly fal seand fact it the same connection itis denied that justice bartch ever used alie weight of hiis personal or judicial influence to induce morrison to begin hiis suit against snow and the company and it is alleged that snows allegation concerning the matter is false in conclusion justice birtch B denies that there is any agreement between him and morrison as to a division of the fruits of the suit as alleged by snow and he also denies that snow has been damaged in the sum of or any other sum by any act of his in harmony with these allegations and denials justice bartch asks to be die JAMES S BROWN DEAD james S brown who was with joseph V marshall when the first discovery of gold was made in california january died at his home 31 north first west street yesterday morning mr brown had been ft resident of salt lake since the fall of 1848 and was one of the most active workers in the church of latter day saints up to the time of his death which was by brighta disease mr brown was born in davidson i county north carolina july 4 1828 while still quite young he went with his family to illinois where he lived uni til lie became of age lie was converted to theMo faith by one of the first ciders of the church when the trip across the mountain to aon was proposed by Brig harn young he was one of the first to enlist his father and mother tried to him at first and then decided to go themselves when the cormons mormons had reached the missouri river in their march there came the call from the government for volunteers volun teera to go to california and assist in checking the mexicans in their advance on california A battalion of was formed for thi purpose and mr brown was one of alic first to join after a journey filled with terri lilo hardships and exciting adventures the battalion arrived just in time to render effective assistance in stopping the raids of the in the fall of 1847 the battalion was mustered out of alic governments ervice and the members prepared to go to salt lake on account of the hardships of the winter travel however most of them decided to wait until spring and meanwhile to secure work in california A number of them managed to get work near gutters fort from capt I 1 A suiter and joseppi W marshall in constructing a saw mill mr brown in his life of a pioneer tells the whole story of the finding of the ffoyd by marshall and the excite prevailed on the rooming of january the men of the camp were aroused by the shout of marshall who had arisen early in the mornin ff in order to prosecute hi for the gold he was sura existed in the creams i mr brown was the first one to reach his side as marshall came p tho lull shouting I 1 ive cot her now bayal boyal marshall had ten or more flaky pieces of gold in his hat mr brown took n piece of alic gold and bit it he found it BO hard that lie felt sure it was gold lie turned to the others and shouted s gold boys goldt he then tested the pieces of metal fart by pounding them with hammer j and then by beating after these two I 1 tt tests there waa no longer any doubt na to the find everyone then started out in scorch of and almost all were successful in finding small amounts of it in the stream which ran by alie camp afterward the search was carried further and they began to realize the importance of their discovery the first intention was to keep the find a but after it had once leaked out a letter was written to samuel brannon a mormon who was editing a newspaper in san francisco and the first news of it was given to the world through this paper jn the fall of 1848 james T brown who felt more devoted to liia religious cause than to alio finding of gold left california and traveled to salt lake with gome of his brother cormons mormons Mor mons mr browns last miggion was to the society islands in 1892 since then lie has lived in the city lie was a member of the seventies and a of the church lie left twenty one children and grandchildren ADMITS PASSING CHECK police officer parry picked up louis roberts on main salt lake yesterday afternoon and turned him over to deputy sheriff tom lewia who placed him in the county jail the charge against roberts ii forgery something over f month ago edward laird a of sugar house ward complained that roberta had induced him to cash a check for 22 which af berward proved to bo a forgery when arrested Roli erts admitted that lie had passed the check aih home is in waterloo DR ACQUITTED dr R A charged alt it having refused to allow two stockholders of the st inoc itoc mining company to inspect alie books of the company of which he is president was tried before judge dichl yesterday afternoon found not guilty and discharged from the evidence introduced by the complainants M II 11 eddy and E A wallon the charge against dr should have been one of assault and battery eddy testified that when he entered dr office with tha intention of examining the books alie latter without a word of warning sprang forward and struck him a severe blow with his fist walton was then interrogated by the doctor as to whether or not lie wanted anything and i when he had entered his assurance that ho did not bogli men were summarily ordered out of the office so eddy testified his statements were substantiated by wallon dr when placed on the stand admitted having struck eddy but majd the assault had been prompted by a threat which eddy had made some time previous so when I 1 saw his mug in the door I 1 hit him was the doctors terse explanation of the affair wit nesses were introduced to show eliat no mention of the books or papers of ane mining company was made and this the complainants did not deny the court accordingly held that the defendant could not possibly be guilty of having refused to exhibit tho books |