Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1878-12-16
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PROCEEDINGS OF TIE GRAND
JURY OF THE q. 8. COURT.
i The Largest Business In the History
OF any Grand Jury in the Territory
Forty Five Indictments Found
Sitting OF the Territorial Supreme
C0urt--The Gentleman from Wales
Indicted. sstts3i!
Il B Especial Correspo fthe 7ri6une.)
THE CAPITOL.
YANKToN, D. T. Dec. 10 After a siege
Of over three weeks the grand jury Of the
i U. S. district court, adjourned. leaving
only two days for the arraig gnments of the
indicted and the completion of the bust
| ness of the term The Territorial supreme
court was booked forto-day,, and its sitting
could not be postponed. Judge Moody
had arrived from tie Hills, travelling over
|, 1000 miles--the distance from his dis
I triet in the Hills to the seat ofthe supreme
court. Jud ge Barnes was on his way from
Delavan, is, his old home. The non-ar-
| rival Of Barnes necessitated an adjourn
ment Of the supreme court until tO-mOr-
row Chief Justice Shannon + says the
term will be an unusually long one, and
will be signalized by the final disposition
Of y number OF important cases.
THE INDIAN FRAUDS /,
"a, -, 1>,,c; v,noo
grand jury, can say that forty five indlct-
the history Of any grand jury in the Ter
ritory. Some ot them were sockdolo
gers One Of those indicting Livingstone
covered a realn Of paper, fguratively
speaking. 1t embraced an inventory of
the medical dispensary of the Crow Creek
Indian agency. The names taxed the pro
nouncing power of the A ssistant U. s. Dis
trict Attorney. j. +. West. The total mum
ber 81 indictments found against Living
stone, was ten, and with two to six counts
in each Indictment They alleged for
gerry, conspiracy, embeZZlement, and all
the other incidentals thereto. False
vouchers, farming utensils, Il loft Of tobac.
co. and a dispensary Of medicine figure
most prominently in the. papers on the
Grow Creek agent. There are two oother
Indian indictments not made public.
Jointly with Livingstone are indicted his
clerk, heal farmer. interpreter, and an
employee or two One man came all the
way from Wales, to appear as a Living
stone witness, when Ills trial came on
B. gg,tti II THE WELsHMAN WAS INDICTED sls
fo- his pains, and will have occasion to
stay here longer than he anticipated.
LYNN gstone will plead on the 23d. His
lawyers are Bartlett Tripp, S. L. Sphinx,
3c.thel Demosthenes of Dakota as Judge
Shannon calls him) and Mr.. Gamble.aThe
trial will probably not come off before
next April. 5 A. 25#
The grand jury found fifteen indict-
ments against; timber thieves; several for
horse stealing from Indians, and several
for selling whisky to Indians. An lndict-
ment2 was found, but not made public,
against Lieut.. H. G. Johnson, the First
Infantry stationed at Lower Bru]e post.
johnson was dismissed from the army last
March for Il grieyous offense not down in
our note book. Several parties subse-
quently compared notes and found that
johnson had sold them seven pay ac-
counts Of 1928 each. that were eitherfor-
ge:ies or were valucless through offsets at
Washington for government propertyin in
his care and not reported. johnson is a
eon Of the commissioner of customs in
Washington. and boasts an elegant family.
He now lives in Texas. Judge Campbell,
us. district attorney, and U. s. Marshal
Raymond, are efficient officers Dakota is
lucky They a.c men Of stamina. The
grand jury. witnesses and officers Of q. IS.
court, to date, have cost 5E
f EIGHT sANDDOLLARs.
Livingstone's trial is regarded by Sec
termne in same measure the wisdom OF
iudicially calling to account the beheaded
Indian agents. They have all been be-
headed this year, on the Missouri from
Yankton to Wolf Point. The last to fall
has been DR.. IRWIN, of the Red Cloud
agency. He was solid" with poor Lo,
but had a row with Col. D. Beirnc, OF the
New York Herald, who brought the. shy
tena'' Of tile Indian inspectors, Gen.. Ham
mond, to the agency. A general inquiry
proves that IRWIN was a friend by virtue
of his reckless issues Of -four, corn and
clothing The sacks Of flour were cut
open for the sacks. Five hundred bushels
Of corn were scattered over the prairie at
one time. k..75i5i
y a A DOCTOR BY DEGREES. s:
3 Yankton has distinguished doctor.
His card reads as follows: Ed Kidd NJ.
D.. T.. r. e. p. 81 S., u. r. C. Pc, NJ. C.sP.
s. S. OIL. NJ. G. p. Edinburgh. There
sisno use in Disgusting the fact DR.. Kidd
is "a very learned Doctor" !.
a4 4 II Educational Contrast nsgft
b In pleasing contrast is the school sys-