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Show District Court At rrovo.Jia:i I5;:k khitrn On the Ik:uth. TIiO liir t ir. 1 i g js of C it s U e 0;ite on 'i'ri;i!. Eeisides Suadrv Oilier Items cf General Ir-terest. WEDNESDAY, March n. Alfred Tonilimst-n vs t'.;e Union F.i-j F.i-j eiiic lla'lvay, ve' i.ct a'.varduii the I plaiiitii Jjit fi..r u jtiiies sasia net I by j Leai:;' txpelied from a train ueionguig to said company. RIOTING DAC.'jS. The court then proceeded to try the case o! the I'eople vs Joseph 1'inas ai.d thirteen other Daos. charged with riot committed at Castle Gate, February. 22, iSgo, b storing up a row and filitiiiK with clubs, chairs, billiard cuts, suns, pistols, etc. W. 11. Kiiifr appeared for the prosecu- j lion ami A G StithetUnd for the de-1 lense Mr. Capri testified that on Sunday, Feb. 23, a number of Italians weie assembled as-sembled at Snith's saloon, that George Jones, a check weighman was knocked dawn by same of the Daj;os. The de- fendants were nearly all thete and made a rush with Jones into the corner, where they engaged 111 a liec-for-al! fight. 'I'll tee or four of the Italians wtie j kn eked down by men piesent w ho took tile p.ni of Jone;.. The laven-hait-ed boys fiorn Italy then provided tneru-selvts tneru-selvts with clubs, b.lliard cuts and chaits ami continued the light. The dagos lelt the building and went to the hillside piocuted guns and began tiling Irom the brush about fifty yards lioni the saloon, which tiiey pepoered with shot and bullets. The boys in the saloon wete unarmed, but piocured five revolvers revol-vers and returned the volley. The da-, gos rushed into a creek and began firing from therti. The marshal was then found and guns given to the citizens, who succeeded suc-ceeded in stilling the rioters, On cross-examination, the witness stated that the fust shot that was fired after the Italians left the saloon was done by himself to intimidate them, so they would not return. John Samuels testified. to seeing all the 1 'defendants at the "Saloon except foul, which he was not sure about Thete were nine or ten Italians in (be row who are 1101 before the coun. He gave an account of the fight, in w hich he Hooted three dagos and received some vigorous vigor-ous blows himself with fist and chairs. Lorento then said: "Gun, gun; gel a gun," and Ihe Italians made a rusii for their huts and began tiring from the hillside. hill-side. The witnesses produced a bullet which hail been cut liom the building near the bam. The testimony of other witnesses went to show that the Italians began a row with the Americans, through some difficulty diffi-culty thev had had w ith the check weigh man, whom they objected to in his position; posi-tion; that Jones was struck to the floor by Lorento, dragged to the back of the saloon, wheie Jack Samuels and four others came to assist in squelching the rioters; that a free fight took place between be-tween five Americans and twentv Italians, Ital-ians, resulting in an expulsion of the latter fto'm the saloon, who immediately set out to their hotises.armed themselves and poured a volley of bullets upon the saloon. The fire was relumed by the American's but no damage done on either side by the bullets. The case was postponed until Thursday Thurs-day morning to enable the prosecution to proctne more witnesses. THURSDAY March 12 William Tavlor, John Neiser, Ceorge Olsten, Heniy Boyleand Frank Halliday of Sautaqtiiii, were arraign don a charge ol riot by breaking up a dance at that town. They took the statutory time in which to plead. The case against the Italian rioters was tiken up andjohn Bell took the witness stane, giving corroboiative testimony to the efiect that dagos began the tint, by knocking down Check Weighman Jones a ter w hich others w ere attac ked, himsell taking an active part in the fight, knock-in knock-in six of them out with clubs, chairs or any thing he could get hold of. The prosecution rested. Mr. Sutherland for the defense, had mi interpeter sworn, and put Mr. Lom-batdi Lom-batdi on the stand, who testified to I e 1 g present at the row at Smith's saloon; that the fracas was commenced bvCheck Weighman Jones making a grab at Lorento, who in turn threw fones to the floor, after which Jack Samuels struck Lorento, He denied that the Italians followed Jones up to the billiard table or into the corner, and stated that there were only four or five Italians that he noticed in the fracas who w ere beaten back, and, after reaching the saloon, were fired at by the American bovs. He did not say that there was any firing done by the Italians. James Dajjis state! that the low began be-gan by Jones threatning to strike Lorento Loren-to with k beer (lass and calling him of b ; that nil ot the defendants except one, were present in the saloon. After Jones was knocked down it was the English boys that took him to the corner. Alter the Italians were driven from the saloon the bullets from that direction came whistling over thtir head There was some d.tiicuity in geninsr the testimony til the witnesses for the de-1 fense, but the evidence was made up denials of the testimony introduced bv the prosecution. Four dagos anncunc ed by the Americans, who also fired the first shots. Cross-examination brought connections and niibundcratandings that life was considered to shott to bother with. |