Show district court the february term of the district court closed fi iday morning after four d iv s of desultory work 1 he one cami nil case aroused much interest and kept the court room crowded with witnesses and spectators the tows of Cast ledale george W brandon aia the first caso called or hearing coming up monday afternoon the matter was an appeal from justice andersen s court where the defendant was convicted of selling liquor on sun j day some time in october last the fine and costs amounting to will reid and soren X chistensen appeared for defendant in the higher court and ex dist attorney woods represented the town after the prosecution had presented its case defendants counsel moved fora dismissal of the case on the plea of former jeopardy it appeared from the record of the lawor cou t that after defendant had been arraigned and a jury selected to arv the case court ad journea at the next sitting of thea court an amended complaint was filed the old jury discharged and a new one i selected judge johnson held that leop I 1 ardy bean from the time of the accept ance of the first sworn jury and that all subsequent proceedings were therefore illegal the case was thrown out the main cage on the criminal docket the state vs peter P mickel josephs swasey and lee mcdonald was put on trial wednesday morning after a motion to dismiss on the ground that the district and not the county at orney had filed the information was made and overruled several jurors were disqualified and the following were accepted J M killian F M reynolds ephraim li allred johnson majors L P john P johnson S S grai ge and alfred J Bro denck the trio was charged with having ap about 23 horses in december of 1899 from the ranges south of this cita district attorney livingston and will reid were the opposing counsel and each worked hard or his respective clients A large number of witnesses were examined and the case went to the jury at 5 30 clock thursday afternoon at 8 30 the jury appeared in court tor information concerning some question of tact which respective counsel agreed to them having at 11 clock judge johnson obtained from the jury the in formation that there was no likelihood of an early agreement ind gave notice that he would be ready at 6 clock fn day morning to receive the verdict it one was reached it was 6 30 clock when the jury agreed and at 7 clock they were brought into court and rendered a verdict of guilty as to all of the defend ants recommending mcdonald to the mere of the court it is the general opinion that it was as to mcdonald 8 I 1 art in the alleged stealing that the jury hung on about halt in favor of acquitting him friday being a legal holiday and the court officers and counsel desiring to get out of town there being no further business to dispose of counsel for both sides waned any technicality that m arise out of sentencing the ans boners on a legal holida judge john son thereupon called the prisoners be tore him and in a few words sentenced swasey and mickel to three years each in the pen and mcdonald to one year attorney reid immediately gave no tice of an appeal and will endeavor to tree his clients on the grounds th it the information against th e accused should have been presented to the grand jury bi the county attorney instead of the district attorney judge johnson fixed the bonds of mickel and swasey at 2000 each and of mcdonald at mickel and me don ild soon secured acceptable bonds men and bv night swasey had also given bonds the case of orange seely v ed 01 sen which was tried in justice worth en court at t erron last december be fore justice edwards of almery was thrown out of court for the reason that justice worthen s bailiwick was not the proper jurisdiction for the former trial suit was brought to recover money on a note given by defendant and endorsed by mr seely and afterwards paid by the latter at the ferron trial mr seely claim tor was allowed by the jury and the costs amounting to 77 were also assessed to the defendant in the lower court kofford represented the phin tiff and john reid the de Y ne w action is to ho started probably in sanpete county where the note was made payable the caso of bevi compbell vs rio grande western hallway will come up before judge johnson at salt lake city next tuesday when a mo tion for a new trial will be argued judge johnson made an order that par ties to said cause be allo v ed to with draw from the county all papers needed from the files of the court returnable in lo 10 d lys mrs campbells husband wae killed at woodside Wo odeide by a locomotive boiler on in 1898 his widow brought luit tor damage the case was first heard in ogden after wards birned to the supreme court heard here in the last two hear ings plaintiff lost joseph chistensen 0 Cast ledale granted a divorce from druzella chris on the grounds of desertion parties were married in the manti temple in 1893 being then residents of nsf ingv judge johnson ly questioned plaintiff for a considerable time before granting him the decree his witnesses were soren hansen and isad olsen mrs Ch was given the real estate in Cast ledale owned by the parties and the custody of their three children to the support ot whom mr is to pay 15 a month S X Ch represented plaintiff and ephraim nelsen of ephrin ap for mrs Ch A negro giving the name of gopher red was brought down arna price tuesday night by alt olsen acting as officer red had broken into a freight car at mounds the night before and ap a pair of shoes and a little other stuff before justice andersen he pleaded guilty and wanted to be sen fenced right then and there next morning he was arraigned before judge johnson and furnished some amusement tor the boys he said he was an ala jama coon and wanted the court to fit nm out with a boiled shirt and stove pipe hat and make the sentence a light one his bonor thought that three ears a the pen would fit the and red said that would do nicely and thanked us honor ked is mulatto and bis body bould be quit light it fieo an oc cas ional bath estate of D griffiths deceased ordered that 80 acres of land and all personal property of said estate be sold ay iy the administrator W M grimes in he precinct where such is located in the matter 0 the estate of george olsen deceased ordered that letters of administration be issued to nanc olsen whose bond is to be in the sum of 1000 all petitions in said estate here tolore filled are dismissed TITS huntington johnson majors S S grange J P johnson john L brasher orangeville Orang eville robert johnson N guman jr J V killian joseph jewkes Cast ledale frank M reynolds jas jeffs D ole olsen carl john cleveland john P johnson L P A P emery alfred J Bro denck rasmus jacobson excused on account of sick ness perron bengen jengen ephraim L allred george hertz john molen edward larson COURT NOTES billy hinkein as bailiff part of the session 0 J acted as deputy district court clerk G A iverean has developed into a farst class court stenographer although there ft as very short calen dar the attorneys and tardy witnesses managed to hold court in session tor the whole week nearly nels nelson of perron a native of sweden took the oath of allegiance to the united states his witnesses were john and ephraim allred following the selection of the mickle swasey case on wednesday all other furors were excused tor the term hav lag had nothing more to do than draw their warrants judge johnson is a firm believer in vaccination he vaccinates as often as he deems it necessary and has frequently assisted in nursing small pox patients without contracting the disease the attorneys present at this week s court session were F E woods kofford A D dickson will reid john reid wm D livingston S X and ephraim hansen |