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Show OVER AMK-SNAI A Feud Between Neighboring Farmers Leads to a Wind-up in the District Court. THE DEMAND FOB DAMAGES. Dragged Up for Contempt Summary of the Dull Day's Pio-- Pio-- . ceedings. The district court opened this morning morn-ing with the case of Ephraim Johnson vs. Swen M. Lovendahl in the scales. Tho action is one In which the plaintiff seeks to collect damages in the Bum of $4000 for injuries - which he claims to have sustained in an assault committed on him by Lovendahl on March 81 last. Both are big men. The defendant is quite gray, while Johnson is cut on the order of the Swede with hair that defies de-fies the dyes of time and exposure. Across the apex of the nasal protuberance protuber-ance is a heavy scar that betrays the fury of tho engagement from the effects ef-fects of which he claims to have never recovered. He says it was inflicted with the leaden butt of a blacksnake whip. This morning the defendant, who is a red-faced, fipry denizen of the valley, was put on the stand. He denied de-nied the plaintiff's story and says Johnson John-son was undertaking to drag bim from the wagon when the horses started and. the latter was dragged under the wheels of the wagon. Judge Powers subjected him to a very severe cross-examination and was going away back into the slumbering past when the court called a halt. Judge Powers Were you ever arrested? ar-rested? The witness Yes, jedgo; for wal-lapin' wal-lapin' a follow when I was a young buck. - ' , Judge Powers You were also arrested ar-rested and Convicted for wallaping the plaintiff. Overruled irrelevant. Judge Powers Were you not arrested ar-rested for kicking John Morton nearly to death? . Overruled as immaterial to this case no matter how many men with which he may have prior to or since wiped up the county road. Up fur Contempt. Autumnal repairs on water pipes and steam radiators have made the court room ring with pandemonium at times and this morning a tinnor who was beating a tattoo on a tin roof was ardor-ed ardor-ed to desist.- ; f . "Stop that noise, Mr. Bailiff," demanded de-manded tho court, and the minion at once started for its source. , "The fellow won't stop," reported the bailiff a moment later. "Then bring him in for; contempt tho exigencies of litigation must be respected" re-spected" and before Jack Robinson could be mouthed the lofty bailiff entered en-tered the swinging door with a fat, good natured little fellow, covered with soot aud avidly chewing a cud of tobacco tobac-co that found lodgings in the upper story as the court ordered him to stand up. . "You may go this time" concluded the court "but remember you must do your work without making it a source of annoyance to your neighbors in future." fu-ture." And the little fat roan toddled with ticklish glee from the court room. |