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Show JUDGE JOHNSON HAS BUSY DIN COURT Several Matters of Importance Import-ance Come Up in the Federal Fed-eral Tribunal. ! j In accordance with a stipulation In the 'case of airs. Bertha Oliver asrainst the Bingham Mines company, a judgment of $1000 was rendered yesterday by Judge Tillman D. Johnson In the United States ! district court. A personal injury suit was 'brought by Mrs. Oliver as a result of the ! death of her husband while operating an electric trolley in the property of the mining company at Lark. Sixty bags of corn meal were condemned yesterday in the federal court as belni? unfit for human consumption, because of the presence of worms. Suit for $10,00 personal Injury damans was besrun in the I.'nited Stares district court yesterday by Mrs. Sarah Pollen Sherwood Sher-wood of Murray as guardian of her dauyn-' dauyn-' er, Susan I?nora Sherwood, against t i:e Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph eompanv. According to the complaint the ?irl, who Is 9 years of age, was run down bv an auto truck of the defendant com-oany com-oany at the Intersection of Simpers avenue and State street, south of Murray, on October 6. 1P1S, and severely Injured. Upon mr.tlon of United StaU-s District A.ttornev W. W. Rav, the case aerwinst . Morris Cheney, charged with defrauding numerous farmers of this district by conducting con-ducting an unlawful brokerage conrn through the T'nlted States mails, was dis-misped dis-misped yesterday. i Cheney recently nerved four yeara In a j federal prison as a result of having b'-n i r-onvirted of a like charge in California. henev is alleged to have profited by securing" se-curing" farm pr-vlucts by offering premium prl'-en and soiling the good" consigned to htm without making remittance to the consignees. - j |