The James Trial Kansas City Mo 22The Journals Jour-nals Gallatin Mo special Today To-day finished an interval in the James trial the court having journed until tomorrow noon in order to give the attorneys an opi jortunity to prepare challenges The sheriff will present the panel of forty men tomorrow from which the twelve are to be selected The interest is still sustained although the crowd today was naturally smaller than that pf yesterday James sees but few persons except his attorneys lie maintains an undisturbed demeanor and does not manifest anxiety as to the result of ths trial His mother wife and child nre here The Journals Gallatin Mo special The community was thrown into a high state of excitement excite-ment tonight by the fact becoming known that two of the most prominent prom-inent citizens of Gallatin Hattield Davis and Alexander Irving who are witnesses in the James trial had received threatening notices through the postoffice Both men were active in their efforts to capture the mur derers of Captain Sheets in 1S69 and took part in the pursuit and had a running fight with the James party at the residence of Mrs Sam uels Notes were dronned into tliP office addressed to each man wiiUen by the same hand and running thus You better be care ful about your evidence against Frank James A friend These notes have aroused a strong feeling among the citizens many regarding it as a cowardly course to intimidate the witnesses while the theory of James friends is that the notes were written by his enemies to prejudice public sentiment against him One thing is assured the witnesses wit-nesses for the State cannot be intimidated in-timidated by such a course It is learned tonight that the at1 torneys for the defense will take the full time for challenging the jurors and the jury j will not be announced till Friday hence the court tomore row will simply meet and adjourn till Friday LaterA meeting of James cotta sel has just been held and they bitterly denounce the letters to Irving and Davis as a trick of the enemies of James to excite popular opinion against him