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Show DISTRICT COURT. Ifec2-i ic "Guilty and Gets Join- Mouths. IDA HAY ARROWS MITH Pleas e GtzLLtY d la SenteaoeS A Por ties, cf tfc.3 S3ii6r06 is Suspended During: Dur-ing: Good Behavior Alma Hairue Aarain is Go-art Will I'l3d cz. Saturday CSter T. -.z:si?.n. C?.05 have been filad in tha clerk's effics c ih3 First District court as fellows: Kelson & Jorgenscn, cattle dealers of llt.rieaeant ye. Wyatt Bryan and J. D. Kiilpack, of Emery county. Defendants in tha case are the collector and the cssessor of taxes, respectively, of Emery county. The complaint alleges that plaintiffs never were at any time the owners of more than 450 head of horned cattle but that they were assessed with 1200 bead; that they paid taxes on 450 bead and afterwards Bryan took away and sold cattle to the value of $302.00. It is further alleged that the officers W9ll knew that plaintiffs owned not more than 450 head and further that Bryan turned the proceeds of the cattle to his own use and not to the county. II. H. Barrow vs. Joseph M. Moore end wife. Suit appealed from Commissioner Com-missioner Crapo's court of Grand county on s promissory nota in favor of O. D. Seymore and payable at tne office of the Gerrnania Life Insurance company in Salt Lake city, alleeed to nave beei signed by deiendants on December 8, 1893. Defendants allege, however, that they never did sign the note. Transcript of judgment has been filed lrom Abraham Noe'a court of tspringville against M. D. Crandail and ia favor of Win. Dinkle for $299.S9 and $5 00 coBtS. The case against Louis Madsen accused ac-cused of assault with intent to do great bodily harm upon the person of John Fury was concluded and at 4:30 the jury retired. At 12 o'clock m , the jury returned with a verdict of cuilty as charged, but recommended the prisoner pris-oner to the mercy of the court. It ap pears from the evidence that the turmoil tur-moil was nothing more tnan a drunken brawl that occurred on the night after last Christmas in and near a ealoon in tU9 Detroit Mining dia;rlct, and for origiuatlrjg which it is not known who is to blame. It eeems that Fury, who is a young Irishman of stalwart trams, took off ha coat anc declared that he was the Ueot man in tlie house, in the melee that followed Madsen got his head pretty well mashed up. He ia a young Dane and a very powerful man and he went after somebody in order to get even. He ran across Fury in or at the door of the eabija back of the saloon sa-loon and a couple oK-heer bottles he had in his hands, Fury's head and hands and the two stalwart frames nam into collision and ere-:t confusion ensued and much blood flowed. In the courtroom yesterday, after the jury had returned, the two shook hands and appeared to be the best of friends, both sorry for the trouble they were in. It was nothing more than a mining camp spree, the like of which used to occur frequently in the mining camps in early days and of which little or no notice was taken unless a man or two were made to Dite the dust. However, we're getting civilized, and tne dovs of the mines must learn to desist from the old-fashioned, skull-break .ng encounters. en-counters. Madsen was this morning sentenced to a term of four months in the penitentiary, peni-tentiary, Miss Ida May Arrowsmith the 16-year-old girl accused of Lmoezz'.ing money and merchandise from the postoffice at 1. V. Junction appeared in court this morning and was arraigned upon the indictment found against her. Today at 2 o'clock she appeared fr plead. A plea of guilty was entered. Attorney S. A. King appealed to the court for mercy and presented two numerously Bigned petitions asking leniency. One petition was signed by nil the members of the grand jury who lound the indictment, Probate Judge Dusenberry, Mayor Holbrook, and about one hundred other prominent men of Provo; the othor was signed by practically the whole populace of I V. Junction. The judge senienceu uei w pay a fine of $25.00 and to be imprisoned in the penitentiary for a term of six months, but euspended the latter part of the sentence remarking that if she repented thoroughly of her wrong doing, do-ing, was a dutiful giil for the period of a year and gave evidence of lasting reformation, re-formation, he doubted not but that the prosecutor wuuld consent to have the imprisonment remitted entirely. Alma Hague was arraigned upon the fourteen indictments found against him, Beading of the indictments was waived and the defense took, until 2 o'clock to plead. The clerk was instructed in-structed to furnish defendant copies of the indictmentB. The case againBt James Marsh accused ac-cused of burglary committed at l'lfas-Groye l'lfas-Groye on July 30, 1894 was concluded. Assistant U. 8. Attorney Richards prosecuted and J. D, Jones defended. j The jury returned a verdict of guilty. Hearing of the case of John W. Tuttle vb. Anna Marks, suit to recover possession of certain ground in Eureka was next begun and is now in progress. Alma Hague was ordered to appear and plead to fourteen indictmentB at 10 o'clock a. m. 8aturday, |