Show A PETIT JURY juey AT LAST TODAY TO DAY the citizens drawn for petit jurors were to be in court ready for the trial of any case of course this is an important event because the jury will be we believe the first leg legal aljury jury for trying all ali kinds of cases in this district for more than four years the present incumbent of the judgment seat on his inauguration here proceeded to have juries empanelled empanel led according to his own notion but the way he proceeded proceed ed was authoritatively pronounced to benot according to law and therefore his juries were illegal and all their acts null and void vold after that the judlue became afraid or he was cross anyway he would woul not empanel em panel juries under the territorial laws for criminal cases nor was he anxious to do it for arl ari any V cases until the passage of the poland bill by angres on gres which took the jury matter and others out of the hands bands of territorial officials and put them in the hands of U S officials a movement with which exact justice justlee had nothing to do when he came to act under this new law having thereby a chance to have things more his own way and less themay the way the people wanted them his long time dilatoriness 4 forsook him and he gave evidence that he be was getting in a hurry to go to business so he fie pushed the grand jury ahead somewhat hastily he may do the same with the petit jury itis generally believed that he had no good reason for refusing to empanel petit juries under tho the territorial laws and certainly the delay thereby occasioned in the adain admin administration istra or of matters judicial was hardly considerate toward the public interested and did help to crowd the docket with cases now walting waiting to be acted upon the docket Is consequently a heavy one and the judge probably nas has before him in cases already on flie nile and immediately anticipated enough business to keep keel JIG him pretty steadily engaged for a twelvemonth this press pres of bf busi ness however is generally regarded as principally his own fault in refusing to empanel juries according to territorial law but the responsibility of ills his decisions III in this connection rests with himelr now that he is going on with the of juries it is to be hoped that petit juries will be obtained who will strive to render verdicts impartially according to law and justice the best citizens desire this and the worst are entitled to no more |