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Show Judge Zano Takus np the Deck and Deals Prom the Box of Cold-Blooded Cold-Blooded Jnstioa, YOUNG ELAISFOKD 13 PINED And Goes on His Way to Eia Wife and Baby The Echuli Embezzlement Embezzle-ment Cose. The fact that tho Raymond homicide whs on the regular call of the criminal calendar and that two convicts were upon the mercy of the court, filled the lobby of the district court room at un early homo this morning. Proceedings opened with tho arraignment arraign-ment of Sam Itoigel, who was last evening even-ing pronounced guilty of running a gambling house, the action having I grown out of a tempest between the defendant and one, of tho patrons of the game. The prisoner, who is a young man with a pule, intellectual look and a pompadour roach on his hair, whs somewhat of a stranger in tho run of a court room and it was only alter ho hud pushed his way through desks and chairs that he reached a position under the eaves of the bench. "You have been convicted," said the court, "of conducting a game of faro of gambling:" "Yes," lisped one of the fraternity, "the first nail in the tiger's colliu." 'The penalty for this offense," continued con-tinued the court as ho read from the volume on criminal jurisprudence "prescribes a fine of MOO and imprisonment imprison-ment not tii exceed six months." The outlook began to grow tropical forJSainmy, and visions of mint juleps and silver phizes commenced to tiptoe on the horizon, but tho court went on with the reading of the law, and when it had been ascertained that tho first victim to be washed ashore by tho billows bil-lows of reform had nothing further to say, a lino of fti.iO.intl costs of tho prosecution pros-ecution was levied. Sammy smiled a f""i0 smile and a few moments later Clerk McMillan was running over a stack of crisp bank notes. Tho fate of the first action against mo iraiernuy nas createu no small amount of apprehension in sporting sport-ing circles and the movements of tho grand jury will I e closely scrutinized ut its next sitting. Daniel Hlaisford was the next in the class and at the mention of his name he toed the ill-fated mark with Judgo Horns Hor-ns at his olbow. The judgo was loaded for melodrama. He thought it a time to commiserate boyish frailty and made touching reference to a young wife and bane that awaited him in a liitlo tenement over on the east side. In graphic manner the formidable for-midable proportions of the prosecuting witness wire placed alongside the beardless diniiiiutiveness of the defendant, defend-ant, and while the court appreciated the violence ol a blow that had penetrated pene-trated two coals and buried a knife-blade knife-blade in the victim's arm there were some mitigating circumstances. Ho therefore fixed the line at $15 and costs of the pro-eention. an amount which young Hlaisford paid and went on his way to his wife and child. The case of the People vs. George D. Scliell, charged with the embezzlement of a note in the sum of ifViOOO was then reopened. Counsel for the defense upon the call of the case yesterday ulternoon had introduced intro-duced a motion to quash tho indictment, indict-ment, contending that under the law it charged no crime, as the note in question ques-tion bore a general endorsement that convoyed title to the holders. 'Tho point was ably argued by Judge Dickson, Dick-son, who was replied to in an exhaustive exhaust-ive manner by I'niled States Attorney I Varmn this morning, after which the qu-siion as sil i.tti it i (r i. Al the conc'u-iou i f the arguments it was agreed by cour.se; ; di. iii.bs one cii irge in the ii.-iiieiinetit and t. re-.tiu-mit the remaining to the, grand jury, which course was approved. Hitigliuiii l.itigAtion. A suit will come up in the federal court at 10 o'clock on Saturday that promises to develop into quite a sensational sensa-tional one before tho curtain is rung down on the final adjudication of the case. It is the application of the owners own-ers of the Wclla mining claim at Hiiig-h.am. Hiiig-h.am. askimr for an injunction auainst the York company, restraining them from taking out ore. witiiin the side lines of plaintiff's territory. A temporary restraining order was issued iast Friday which holds until the court either grants or refuses the in-I in-I junction. The defendants will oppose the injunction on the ground that they I have a vein with its apex on their ground and which they have a right to tollow on its dip to its utmost limits, but if the court grants the prayer of the petitioners then they will ask to be per-i per-i milled lo give bonds and continue work j until the issues of fact are tried anil I the rights of the parties determined. The cause of the ditlieulty between j the two mines is not anew one; it is the ; same old issue that has been tried over awl over again in etery camp of prom-i prom-i incnee on llie Pacific coast, j The owners ol tho York claim they ! have a vein of ore within trie limits of I i tlieir property, the apex of which is j witlim their surface side lines. This, j they assert, has been followed contiuu-, contiuu-, ous!y on its dip until it has reached the j sitle lines of the Wella extended down-j down-j ward. At this point they are met with i an application lor an injunction, j 'The plaintiffs on their side will doubt-j doubt-j less deny these allegations, or set tip I the plea that they havu a separate or cross vein, or, that the apex is not on group of the defendants, but on their own. Thee are the questions of fact to be ilelermineil; and as the York is in coming a very prominent property of recognized great, value, the suit will prohabiy In; very stubbornly coufe.sled by both sides before it is linally .settled. i |