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Show The State Trials. In the district dis-trict court yesterday Mr. High asked that the witnesses in the criminal prosecutions pro-secutions should bo placed under bonds for their appearance, whenever the cases in which they were summoned to appear should be called up for trial, Mr. High also stated, in reply to a question by Mr. Hempstead, that probably pro-bably the criminal trials might be set Ibran adjourned session of the present term, but that in any event the defense would have ample notice for preparation. prepara-tion. Judge Strickland then said that , he was not authorized to issue a venire for grand and trial jurors for the term, and that he would only order special juries for the trial of civil cases. Hence the State trials will not come off before the return of judge McKean, and if they arc to be postponed until congress passes a law providing funds to pay the past and prospective expenses of the court, there is no telling when they will be tried. |