county 
several  thousand  dollars  a year,  it  strikes  the 
average  taxpayer  that  the  constables  and  jus- 
tives  of  the  peace  are  rather  over  zealous  in  the 
discharge  of  their  duty.  They  should  use  some 
discretion  in  such  cases.

From  ihe  September  20,  1889,  Issue  of  The  Enterprise

The  Henry  McWilson  case,  assault  with 
deadly  weapon  on  Butch  Wyatt,  at  the  Ex- 
change saloon  of  your  city,  was  tried  yesterday 
and  resulted  in  an  acquittal.  E.  C.  Wade,  the 
prosecuting  attorney,  examined  only  one  wit- 
ness, Chas.  L.  Cantley,  for  the  territory.  Butch 
Wyatt  being  absent,  the  testimony  was  that  the 
defendant  took  delibrate  aim,  but  John  J.  Bell, 
for  the  defense,  proved  by  a number  of  wit- 
nesses that  the  shooting  was  accidental,  and 
made  an  ingenious  and  successful  plea  as  to  the 
direction  of  the  flight  of  the  bullet.  Tax  payers 
will  have  an  opportunity  to  settle  the  costs, 
(which  amount  to  several  hundreds  of  dollars), 
of  this  quarrel  of  would-be-gamblers,  who  en- 
deavor to  attitudinize  as  “bad  men.”  If  the 
complaint  had  been  one  of  simple  assault,  the 
justice  of  the  peace  could  have  settled  the  mat- 
ter, and  thus  saved  the  county  the  trouble  and 
expense  of  a “great  trial”  and  an  airing  of 
gamblers’  dirty  linen  in  court.

The  following  cases  from  Grant  County 
were  set  for  trial  as  follows:

C.  R.  Jackson,  murder;  third  Wednesday.

Frank  Lewis,  murder;  third  Thursday.