St. Paul daily globe., 1885-05-27
SALTWATER NEWS.
May Term of the District Court Con.
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District Court.

District Court.
The district court for this county opened
yesterday morning at the court house at 10
o'clock, Judge William NJ McCluer presid-
ing, and having as court officers Ira Nv.
Castle, county attorney; G. P. Holcombe,
sheriff; Adam Marty and E. w. Holcombe.
deputies, and G. A. Bennett, clerk. The
following is the
GRAND JURY.
Stephen w. Powell, w. w. Hall,
]. N. Fairbanks, F. Tibbetts,
S. P. Wennerholm, /. E. McKusick,
A. w. Pattee, George A. Oliver
v. G.. Seward, James Alcorn,
William Pennington, George A. Fisk
F. J. Kelly. John Murphy
Charles A. Peterson, Theodore Jassoy,
James Armstrong, S. G.. Geer
Of the other names upon the list of grand
jurors r. II. BOxell, James Elliott, Jr., and
l.. c. Everett were not served, Andrew
Peterson was excused one day on account of
the death of his father, and Charles Burns,
being city alderman, was not required to
serve.
The judge appointed V. c. Seward as
foreman.
Judge McCluer then proceeded to instruct
the jury as to their labors, informing them
that it was usual for him to instuct them
should there be cases Of Importance to come
before them. and which might require con-
struction OF the law, but he was happy to
inform them that there were no
such cases as far as he knew,
and that their duties would be
consequently light. He then read the law
bearing on their general duties, and to the
visiting of the public institutions of the
county. The grand jury then proceeded to
examine into the criminal cases.
A preliminary calling of the calendar
was then proceeded with, and the attorneys
present made their requests as to what
should be done with the cases. Of the sew
enty-six cases. thirty-three will be tried by
jury, fifteen by the court, and the remain-
der OF the cases either dismissed, passed,
settled or partly tried, and had only to ba
submitted.
The following cases were set for trial:
June S-Elizabeth Luth ct al. VS.. Still
man Tyler and Freeman C. Tyler; also
Phillip Ranney VS.. Dwight NJ Sabin.
June 9GSt. John & Co. VS.. Charles
Bean.
June 10-Matt Clark VS.. C. N. Nelson
Lumber company.
June 11-P. NJ. Ladd VS.. J. r. NJ. Cas-
Kill; also, same VS.. same; also, same VS..
same; also, James, A. Lovejoy VS.. Clark
Lumber company
June 12-Julius Schroer VS.. Christian
Munkelwitz; also, August Munkelwitz VS..
Eugene Ide and Julius Schroer
June 13-Bernard Barkey VS.. Susan and
Herman Tepass.
The following cases were disposed of:
In the matter of the application of Jere-
miah Whalen to vacate lands in Baytown;
stricken out.
Edwin Peterson VS.. Patrick Sullivan;
settled.
E. G. Butts and C. P. Gregory VS.. R. NJ.
Coles and Margaret Coles; settled
Sarah A. Riley, plaintiff, VS.. NJ. A. Sar-
gent, defendant and the Union Depot,
Street Railway and Transfer company,
garnishee;. dismissed.
Norton & Page, plaintiffs, against same;
dismissed.
Walker, Judd & Veazie vs. Rose & Lob
man; dismissed.
Before the court adjourned the grand
jury brought in two indictments against
George Clark and William Lyons, one fol
larceny from Goecke's boarding house, and
the other for larceny from Mrs Terrence
Dunn's boarding house. They also indicted
Arthur Gould for larceny. The court ad-
journed until this morning at 10 o'clock.