Show END OF A LONG SESSION Court Adjourns at Richfield After Transacting Important Business Richfield May 26 Today the second term of the Sixth judicial district court closed This has been one of the longest long-est terms in the history of Ihis district and fully as much business was transacted trans-acted as in any previous term Court was in session continuously for sixteen days with Judge McCarty on the bench every day except two when Judge Jacob Johnson was in the city Last Tuesday the grand jury after being in session for eight days came into open court and made the report that five indictments had been found Clayton Gannett was the only one who has up to date been arrested and his indictment was for selling liquor without with-out a license Monday the judge ordered or-dered that bench warrants be issued for the remaining four indictments to be presented tomorrow morning There is considerable uneasiness felt as to whom the other four guilty parties are and it is expected that some racy cases may come from the grand jurys report when it is made public The case taking the longest to adjudicate adju-dicate is that of W J Cook et al vs Lost Creek Irrigation company This case was started Friday morning last and at midnight last night the judge gave his temporary decision W J Cook and others of his neighborhood claim to have opened up stew springs along the Lost creek and demanded i r lm their allotment of water The irrigation irriga-tion company claimed that the springs were there all the time and that the plaintiffs did not evolve any new water II but simply made trenches and allowed the same water that rightfully belonged to the company pass through them By stipulation of the attorneys on both sides Homer McCarty was appointed court commissioner whose duty it should be to measure the water during the different seasons of the year The plaintiffs and defendants were both I ordered to put in weirs the defendants at their dam and the plaintiffs at the point where they take their water from I the ditch to enable the court commis sioner in measuring the flow A temporary tem-porary decision wa rendered last night in which the defendants were allotted nine cubic feet of water per second the whole year and in the spring if there was more than that amount the plaintiffs plain-tiffs were to receive all water over and above nine cubic feet The court commissioner com-missioner will make his report before the next term of court and then a permanent decision will befiven but until that time the water will be governed gov-erned on this scale Besides this these probate matters were adjusted yesterday and today In the matter of the estate of Frederick Fred-erick Jacobson deceased the annual report of Andrew Anderson administrator adminis-trator was approved William M McFaydpn vs Sarah E McFayden et al defendants were given ten days additional time in which to answer I In the matter of the estate of Claus Rasmussen deceased P F Peterson was appointed administrator Court adjourned to June 9 Tomorrow morning Judge William McCarty wIll leave for Salt Lake City where he will sit on the supreme bench |