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Show DISTRICT COURT, A Very Bad Boy From Spring-i Spring-i yille in Court. . SEVERAL ARRAIGNMENTS Made, Pleaa Entered, and Sestence Passed Iiizzie Lester the Incorrigible from Moab Sent Hom9-The H. S. Pyne Case Other Matters. In the I irst District court today, the following business was transacted: Judgment for $10.00 and $6 25 cos's (incurred in. Commissioner Dudley's court) was entered against Provo city in favor of Johnathan Buckley, ex-policeman. ex-policeman. The costs accrued in the First District court will hae to be borne by Mr. Ducklt y.as he lost his case in this court.City Attorney Whitecotton in behalf of the city tendered Mr. Buckley the sum of $16.25 before the case had been taken from Commissioner Commis-sioner Dudley's court. Judtre King held that Mr. Buckley, havicg presented pre-sented a bill for $60.00 a month for his services as "policeman only once (the last month of hia seryices) and having presented a bill for and accepted as payment for his services each month before, $50.00, notwithstanding the fact that the ordinance provides tnat a policeman shall be paid monthly a salary of 160 00, cannot collect the $10 for each of the nine back months before be-fore November last. The suit may be appealed. Ray Westwood, a Springville youth, sent up to -he reform school some months ago, was brought before Judge King this morning by an officer of the reform school, who reported that the boy is wholly incorrigible and totally beyond control by those in charge at the schoel. The offic er wanted the boy sent to jail. Hon. S. R. Tnurmau, assistant prosecuting attorney at-torney argued that inasmuch as the rc -form Echool is a territorial institution established for the very purpose of taking ;are of incorrigible youths, this is a rather peculiar proceeding; that the court has no authority to take this boy out of the reform echool and place him in any jail. The court was not inclined in-clined to acceed to the reform Bchool officer's of-ficer's request and the boy was sent back to Ogden. Lewis Madspn and C. P. Lund, implicated im-plicated in the Detroit M'nine district affair appeared and pleaded not guilty to the indictment. Hearing of the cases was set for March 5th. George Ilardey was arraigned on an indictment charging rape upon the person of Pearl Houtz, a little 10-year-old girl of Springville. Took till 2 o'clock to plead. Robert Wilson, accused of stealing two horses from Le Grand Young, pleaded not guilty. J. M. Richardson of Park City was ordered to appear tomorrow to plead to an indictment found against him. M. P. Nielsen, the young man of Lake View, indicted for assaulting old man Anderson not long aa:o, was not in court and his bonds were forfeited. John Schmidt of Mercur, indicted for assault was not present. His bonds were forfeited, Don Carlos Know of Provo who re cently pleaded guilty to a cnarge oi unlawful un-lawful cohabitation and promised laithfully toobey the law in the future appeared for sentence. A fine of $50.00 was imposnd. Lorenzo Huish of Payson pleaied guilty a charee of unlawful cohabitation cohabi-tation stated that this is his first offense, of-fense, that he had obeyed the law strictly for two years last past and that he intended to obey it in the future. He was treated to a stern lecture from the judge and sentenced to thirty days imprisonment in the penitentiary. The case of Hathenbruck vs. Fowler et al was continued without date. Supplementary proceedings inquiring inquir-ing into the status of H. S. Pyne's property pro-perty were then taken up. The hearing hear-ing was conducted until noon when a postponement was had. The judge will continue the hearing this afternoon in chambers. Some time ago judgment was bad In the First District court for $1400. and costs on a note signed by F. W. C. Hathenbruck of thia city. Mr. Pyne, druggist, was an endorser upon t'ie note. VVm. Harrison, who oblained the judgment, assigned it to 1. N. Christensen, dentist, of this city. It is now alleged by Mr. Christensen that Mr. Pyne is disposing of his property, including shares ot stock in the drug company to his wife fraud9ntly and solely for the purpose of avoiding payment pay-ment of thia judgment. The case on trial tins anernoon is a EUit for $483 00 on a promissory note brought by Captain W. E. Davis against the Darrow BrotherB to whom he sold his ranch in Westwater, George Hartley pleaded hot guilty and hearing of his case was set for Thursday of t'lis week. Lizzie Lester of Moab, up for incorrigibility, incor-rigibility, was sent back to her home, there being no evidence in court against the little misB who is but thirteen thir-teen years of age. Her Htep father and mother were cited to appear in court today, but they failed to' appear. |