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Show THE COURT RECORD. The Empanneling of Grand and Petit Juries Takes Place in the District Court. . THE OPENING OF THE NEW TERM. Judge Zane Opens Shop at the Old Stand, While .lodge Anderson Begins His Labors in the Sky Parlor Scalper Oiil'ord Sentenced. Justice shook the folds out of her skirts this morning and steamed forth with a "double-header," Judge Zaue at one end and Judge Anderson at the other. The former opened the run ou the docket in the Federal court chamber, while the latter boarded the elevator and opened shop in "J3" the sky parlor. The preliminary work was the securing of a petit jury to serve through the term, and for this E. B. Critchlow, ex-assistant district attorney was mustered in. He swept them through the well known catechism in a manner that was a warning to the drones, and out of a drawing of fifty-eight talesmen who were recently taLea' from- tire -svsr; -forty-seven passed muster. Some pleaded la grippe, others had to hasten to the plains that the bellowing maverick mav-erick might be furnished with spring pasture, pas-ture, some were densely deaf until the order excusing them was sounded. The empanneling of a grand jury was then proceeded with but owinir to tlie unavoidable un-avoidable absence of some of the venire the tilling of the DAnel was deferred until to. nor- row morning at which time the instructions Will be given and the automata sent on its mission. In the meantime Judge Anderson was blazing the way for the goddess in the chambers cham-bers above, and was assisted by Assistant District Attorney Stephens. Up above timber tim-ber line F. B. Gilford had climbed his tortuous tor-tuous way in an effort to secure a new trial. The defendant was convicted recently before Judtre Anderson on a charge of forgery, which the jury found had been committed in the alteration of a railway ticket between Salt Lake and Provo. The motion for a new trial perished, however and, the defendant was sent -need to imprisonment for One year in the Penitentiary. It was a bitter orde.il and determined to fight it to a tiii's'i if. ford gave bond in tlie sum of S-'x 0 for an appeal to the territorial supreme court. Court Notes. The transcript of the evidence in the Northland-Mayflower mining case will embrace em-brace 1,000,000 words and cover 3000 pages of foolscap. There will be no vacation in i Court Reporter McGurrin's office this sum- mer. The juries began their labors in the respective re-spective branches of the district court at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The criminal calendar will not be taken up again until the middle of May. |