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Show One Week of Court; 3 Convictions Secured; The past week of district court was a r -cord-breaker in many respects. Little time was wasted securing jurors and examining witnesses, with the result that it was possible to twice secure two full juries out uf the 17 jurors impanelled, impanel-led, and thus be able to have one I jury in the box while the other was in i tie jury room at two different times. John (or "Red") Rossette of Mohr-1 land, accused of assault with a razor j upon Tony Ferrara, a country man, was i convicted and was duly sentenced to the ! stat;1 peniteniiary for a term not to ex- ; ceed 5 years, with u probable recom- ' me:idation for a minimum term of two ; and a half years. ; Attorney B. W. Dalton acted for the , defense in the case and made an excel- : leni. argument, but it avail d naught a- gain.-t the plain evidence of guilt as brought out very pointedly by District Attorney CSerry, The following jurors tried tnis case and returned the verdict of guilty: Miller S. Black, fore:n..n; He'oer Frandsen, Jam s P. Uisen, Lars Peter Larsen, L. P. Jensen, John F. Lar-sen, Lar-sen, Oisjn Barney, H. S. Noyes. Tne appeal case against C. A. Franks of .Lhrlnd was continued for term on application of attorney for Franks. Tne burgh: ry ca-e against Samuel McD..n ild jr., and oth r Cleveland boys was dismissed on recommendation of Prosecutor Cherry as was also the grand larceny re-hearing case against Or?on M. Powell. Insufficient evidence was given as the reisons for asking for tne dismissal of both cases. Tne case against Andrew H. Hansen, accused of appropriating a pair of chaps belonging to Louis P. Oveson, was the next one tried and a verdict of "guilty" j rendered in a short time. Sentence in I that case will be passed tnis morning at ( ten o'clock. F. E. Woods defended ' Mr. Hansen and the following were members of the jury: Naihai iel Crawford, Craw-ford, foreman; J. J. Waddell, VV. B. : Mathie, George Mortensen, Thos. Fu- I gite, VVilford Jorgensen, Irviii Jewkes, j P. VV, Jones. j Tne case against Thomas Cheshire of Ferron, accused of indecent assault, was an ugly one and one that Mr. Cheshire's Che-shire's extreme age and former good conduct will be the only features to save him from the full penalty of the crime. The crime was clearly proven and the defense didn't offer a word of evidence though both Judge Woods for the defendant and District Attorney Cherrv, together with the jury, offered recommendations lor the leniency of the court in the matter of passing sentence. sent-ence. The court accordingly gave an indeterminate in-determinate sentence not to exceed five years; the judge to make known his recommendations in tne case after due thought and consideration. The jury in the Cheshire case was as follows: Heber Frandsen, foreman; H. S. Noves, Miller S. Black, Lars P. Larsen, M. L. Snow, Orson Barney, James P. Olsen, L. P. Jensen. Other cases were disposed of as follows: fol-lows: CIVIL DIVISION LAW AND MOTION W. H. Leonard, et al., plaintiffs vs M. S. Truman, et a!., defendants. Action for recovery. Continued for term on applications of attorney for defendants. de-fendants. CIVIL DIVISION TRIAL CASES S. C. Powell, plaintiff vs John Petitti, defendant. Action for recovery of personal per-sonal property. Continued for term. Guy Curtis, plaintiff vs John Petitti, defendant. Appeal from justice court. Dismissed by stipulation of both parties. Ed Mangum, plaintiff vs William T. Mathie, defendant. Appeal from justice court. Continued for term. E. H. Sparks, jr., et al., plaintiffs vs Edw. W. Fox jr., et al., defendants. Foreclosure. Dropped from calendar. E. L. Geary, plaintiff vs John W. Brasher, defendant. Action for recovery. re-covery. Demurrer overruled and 30 days given for answer. Duzett and Peterson, plaintiffs vs G. M Burr and Luella Burr, defendants. Appeal from justice court. Continued for term. Andrew W. Dowd, plaintiff vs Abinadi , Olsen, et al., defendants. Action for ', recovery. Judgment, of foreclosure a-j gainst defendants. j Samuel Singleton, pi lintiff vs Martin A. Andersen, defendant. Default. Judgment and foreclosure. F. W. Cox, plaintiff vs Lucy H. Cox, defendant. Action for divorce. Divorce granted plaintiff with alimony of $15 per monti for support of children. PROBATE DIVISION In the matter of the estate of Herbert Her-bert Farish, et al., minors. Petition for confirmation of sale. Confirmed. In the matter of the estate of Azariah Tuttle, deceased Return of sale and petition for decree of distribution. Ordered Or-dered that final account be allowed, and half of estate decreed to widow and ! balance to minor children. In the matter of the estate of A. D. i Dickson, deceased. Petitiou for letters ' of administration. F. A. Killpack ap-'. ap-'. pointed adminisTotor u der bond of $0000. I In the matter of the estate of Alby ! L. Sherman, deceased. Petition for i letters of administration. Edw. G. ' Geary appointed administrator upon refusal re-fusal of Alby W. Sherman to act. Bond $4000. j In the matter of the estate of Eunice ! Petty, deceased. Petition for final dis-i dis-i charge. Granted. j In the m itt-r of the estate of M. J. Frantgeskakis, deceased. Petition for i approval of final account, and an order i authorizing a final decree of distribution Approved. Paul Armstrong, government naturalization natural-ization agent appeared and examined the following apolieants for naturalization naturaliza-tion papers which were granted: Gun-nar Gun-nar O. Ihler of Orangeville. and John Peter Simon-en of Green River, both natives of Norway; and Lars Peter Jensen Jen-sen of Cleveland, a native of Denmaik. All candidates were well up on the answers to the questiors asked, some of which would puzzle some of the old timer citizens were they to be suoject-j suoject-j ed to such a grilling, i Judge F. E. Wood got barely started i before Friday's adjournment or :he Pearson and T?.ft foreclosure cas - a' iGre.-n River where some sp- t -five ; tracts of land are leing for closed and j will soon be colonized by the Pearson and Taft interests, i |