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Show IM y u j" Court Notes. ! ' ' I2. K. Walker brought suit in the DIs- trlct court yeatorday against Thomas 'I i Weir to recover Vftil.VA, alleged to be ' owing by defendant on an agreement en- Ijli frered into with Davfd F. Walker, Jr., ror J ihe iurchoc of certain mining propcr- tics. It wu thought by the pluJntlrr,. to (I J whom David V. Walker assigned tho con- i, , ' . tract, that Weir was acting uh agent for IU 7t. 1. N'vhouse of New York city and ' f George I-J. Armstrong of Boston, but It , was held In the Circuit court thai Weir, j' in making the contract as agent, had act- h cd without and In excess of any authority U I Atsted In him by tho lCastcm-parties; Suit ji is now brought against Weir to sooure tho 1 1 ' amount alleged Id be due under the j.i ncreeinent. I (J Salt Iake City Is made defendant In a l suit filed In the District tourt yesterday by Fred G. Palmer, who usks judgmetil Ir'i for $150. The plaintiff wrongfully vefusoo. I ' io permit him to pave the sidewalk on j1 f. Sixth East street, between South Temple 'l nnd First South streets. JJe claims that I the work was ordered lust July and that I under his contract with the city for slde- f walk extensions, ordered betwocn Janu- 1 orj- 1 and October 31, 1003, he Is ontltled ' to the work. Ho asks judgment for $225, L j, ns profit on tho contract, and as dam- ' I) Ages. , I1 vw. AV. Baker pleaded guilty to tho crime I of forgery In the District court yesterday 1 1 1 nnd was sentenced to ono year in tho I State prison at hard labor, by Judge I Morse. Tho defendant Is alleged to havo secured ?40 from tho Crescent Loan com- J rany by forging tho name, of Richard A. I j Bennett to an application for a loan. ' A sentence of twenty days was Imposed v upon John Sparks, who entered a plea of I j guilty to tho charge of petit larceny for the theft of a rooster from a chlcken- R house. Tho defendant was permitted to I withdraw his former pleas of not gulltv H to burglary ana petit larceny nnd, upon H 1 his admitting tho minor charge, the other H' was ordered dismissed, v' 1 Upon motion of District Attorney Smith I J.) the court also dismissed the case against I S I , JSd, Peterson, who was charged with a felony. The case of Isadore AIMer, cm- I , hoLZlement. Tras set for trial on. June 2L I nnd those of J. T. Green, obtaining monov . under 'false pretense, and R6bert Hatch. I J assault with a. deadly weapon with intent , to do bodily harm, wero continued for tho II I term. |