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Hello, My name is Jo Ann Scott. , I am your host for Daniel County for Genealogy Trails.com.
I work at bringing you as many of the stories, biographies, military, census, mortality data as possible. If you have data you'd like to see on this website, please contact me. You will get full credit. Use the search box located under the county names to speed up your search. THIS SITE IS UP FOR ADOPTION.
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JUSTICE'S BOOK
By Hayden H. Huston
It's a real relic of the earliest days of Daniel. It certainly doesn't look like it's a hundred years old.
The fabric on the cover is coming unstuck here and there, and there are a couple of gouges in the back cover. There might be some dust on the edges.
Opening up the book discloses that page number one is dated May 25, 1901. The pages in the ledger are made of heavy, ruled paper. Although that first entry was made practically a hundred years ago, the writing and the pages are still in perfect shape. They will probably easily last at least until Daniel has seen another two or three centennials.
When Daniel's onetime storekeeper and postmaster, Scott Barber, and his family left Daniel for good around 1922, this ledger ended up in his personal effects. It went to California with him. He, and then his children, preserved it carefully. Believing it to be of historical importance, or at least interest, to the people of Sublette County, the
Barber children sent it to me to be placed in the Museum of the Mountain Man in Pinedale.
This is a Justice's Book, in which justices of the peace in Daniel summarized the court cases appearing before them. There, in the actual handwriting of several well-known, early residents of Daniel, or nearby areas, who were justices of the peace at one time or another, are summaries of the problems when our early residents ran afoul of the law, and of the thoughtful verdicts that were applied. Although many of the cases are negligible, there also appear in the ledger tantalizing glimpses of some of the long-remembered murders and other major crimes in the Daniel area. A regret is that the writers did not give us more detailed information.
Only a few of the 212 pages in the old book are filled. However, the information in it is of interest, since it reports not only on daily life in the area years ago, but also mentions residents still remembered by many.
In JUSTICE'S COURT before W. S. Scott14 State of Wyoming
Daniel, Wyoming, May 29, 1901 vs Wm. Kannard Complaint filed by A. C. Caswell against defendant for killing one antelope.
Warrant issued. Trial before jury. Complaining witness testified to seeing defendant commit the crime. Other witnesses for prosecution: Grover Hartley, Mrs. A. H. Houseeing.
William S. Scott was a brother of Harve Scott. In the early days, both took up homesteads on Green River near Bronx, a few miles above Daniel.
