St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-06
A Number of Witnesses Examined in the
Trial of Fritz Blocking.
Lumbermen Encouraged by the Re-
cent Snowfall.
Work of the Commissioners--Ge
saltwater News

The preliminary trial OF Fritz Booking
drags slowly. Ii is not much nearer over
now than it was on Monday and nothing
new has been developed. Eight witnesses
were examined and croSs-eXamined yester-
day, whose testimony is identical with that
at the coroner's examination. The wit
nesSes examined yesterday were Henry
Cock, Albert Roberts. Albert Drews, G.
w. Halter, Joe Lukinger, Chief of Police
Shortall. Thomas Gilmartin, and Louis
Heffner, who is accused of being an acces-
sorry. Attorney Fayette Marsh is assisting
the county attorney, Ira W. Castle, in the
prosecution. The court room was well filed
during the entire day with a crowd consist
ing principally of Germans. Blocking, the
man accused of murder appeared in a re-
spectable-lOoking suit of clothes and sat be-
side his counsel all day and exhibited no
uneasiness. Mr.. Beardsley, the car
company's shorthand man, reported
the case, and Mr.. Pierce acted as
doorkeeper. AT the conclusion of Heff
ner's testimony, the last examined, the
prosecution asked for a continuance of the
hearing, as there are several witnesses out
of the city. The time was set for Friday
morning. at 10 o'clock.
Mr.. Gerhard Willrieh of st. Paul. the
counsel for Booking. is doing splendidly
To the GLOBE last night he stated that he
was well pleased with the prospects. He
said that he expects the judge to hold
Booking. but that no intelligent jury will
ever convict him. In reference to the
statement that he will attempt TO prove an
alibi on the grounds that the shooting
occurred between 4 and 5 o'clock on Friday.
and that Booking and Heffner were not in
the room at that time, he laughed and said:
This is the first have heard of it."
LUMBER OUTLOOK.
Reports from the woods are to the effect
that the fall of snow was much lighter than
here. On the upper Nimmocogan, the Toto
gallo and the Once rivers there is not over
four inches, while in the Eau Claire lake
country and on the Snake and Kettle rivers
and Moose river and vicinity they have only
two inches, and even less in some places.
In some parts of the upper river country no
snow fell at the time Of the recent heavy
fall here.
On this account some of the lumbermen
are not as happy as first supposed to be.
Quite number of them left for the woods
yesterday and more will 90 to-day. Teams
and teamsters are in demand. Many of the
lumbermen are of the opinion that the cut
Will aggregate 275, 900 feet which is nearly
as great as expected the early part of the
season. Up till last Saturday night 6, 00O,-
900 had been put in at the different camps
of Isaac Staples.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
AT meeting of the county commission
ers yesterday Mr.. Samuel Mathews was
elected chairman, who appointed the fol-
lowing committees for the ensuing year:
Taxes, Doe, Woodward and Mathews; pur-
chasing. Dornfeld. Woodward and Doe;
poor farm, Magnnson, Dornfeld and
Mathews.
The reports of T. P. James, county su-
perintendent of schools, board of auditor,
judge of probate and register Of deeds were
received and adopted
The application of John E. Nelson. John
Swenson and Burt Lord for the purchase
OF forfeited land was referred to the auditor
Of the state, and the applications were re-
jected.
The application of Susan Parker for
abatement was allowed
j. NJ. Durose and John Fink were
allowed IS per month from the poor fund,
and Lizzie Pehrson S. per month, and Ed
ward Keashke and Molina Elmstron's allow
ances increased to $40 per month. Wood
ward was authorized to extend relief to the
amount of $40 per month to Mr.. Busby,
Mr.. Strund and Mr.. Schellenberger.
The salary of county superintendent of
schools was fixed at $3.50 for the coming
year.
DR.. Merrill was reelected county physi-
clan for the coming year.
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