The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-29
a0NE IN THE COURTS.
81 Nay Go Ahead With Depot
Street Trestle.
,oocE WILL PLEAD INSANITY.
=. Gull Libei-Trespassers Enjoined
Criminal Arraignments-A Theat-
rIcal Case-Biotter.

s-.rtiou of Banner street, on the pro-
- vrsde. A temporary restraining or
- x,s Granted BY the court last week
s.,ding the hearing. The grade of the
fe..st ~ Elliott bay, as established by or
s,r,nee Of August Is. was forty feet above
= s-,rm line at the intersection OF Banner
-s,..t The peadings of the plaintiff al
Z ,.r.d thst the council last May, by resolu-
q. 6xed the grade at this point al thirty
tbree feet above datum line. and relying
mon this be subsequently built expensive
J xharyes on bis water front. lying south
rsr,i from Depot street, for the erection of
:. ] hrevers. The line OF the bluff lntersects
! nsnot street just east of Banner
The only access TO the plaintiffs
sharf Is By the proposed Depot street
~ trste. there being az present no access for
kams The raise in the grade. from thirty
tbree to forty feet. by the ordinance OF Al
!. 8 eust i5 1t was shown, would make Is per
eent ersde in the trestle between Banner
sfrees and Railroad avenue. Afidavifs
rare Submitted by the plaintiff alleging
nat the change of grade had been made
uoelv for the benefit of the West Street
md North End electric railway. City At
brney Shepard showed BY the City Clerk
Ferris that an ordinance had been passed
mr. b the city in May, 1888. establishing the
rsde of Depot street at forty-two feet
Il 1bcye the datum line at this point City
~ Enxineer Thompson testified that the pro-
POSED electric railway could not construct
i It's line through this point at the necessary
curve with the grade at this point lower
&. than forty feet. The court held that the
j property of the plaintiff would not be dam
seed BY the establishment of the grade, as
4 q present there is no access BY the way of
naxo en- md led he
r. ZION.
WILL PLEAD INSANITY.
81 Judge Lichtenberg signed an order re-
- curing attendance OF ]. w Waughop, SUI
perinsendent OF Steilacoom insane asylum.
md Assistant Superintendent Redpath as
Witnesses in the trial of Charles III. Hodge.
charged with forgery. An affidavit was
fled alleging that the accused was confined
b the insane asylum in 1889, and the be-
BET that the superintendent and assistant
papsrintendent will testify that he is now
Insane
IN THE UNITED STATES COURTS.
Judge Hanford convened the United
etatss district court in the morning, and
after short session adjourned to Septem-
Der 49, when Judge Knowles will sit
Orders were made allowing the claims of
James C. Horr, SIG and G. NJ. Moore,
pcs, on the libel of the steamer Detroit
Assistant United States District Attorney
s kallivan fled Iibels in causes of forfeiture
Tor violation of United States statutes
agsinst the sloops Sea Gull and Alert now
held under seizure at Port Townsend by
Collector Bradshaw. The Sea Gull, the
hbel alleges, licensed under American reg
her. was sold to Nil kundson. an alien,
- }nt July. The Alert was seized last July
EP0rt Townsend for smuggling Chinese
3 coolies from Victoria Her owner is un-
r. Known. The hearing of the libels was set
- if October 2
Charles II. Kittinger, claimant, filed his
answer in the libel of the sloop-yacht
~ Annie
- TREsPAssERs EyJoIyED.
- W. NJ. Maxwell obtained temporary
tTder before Judge Lichenberg restraining
William Johnson and C. +. Miller from
r. building road through the property of the
- Plaintiff pending hearing of a suit
Tor perpetual injunction. The COM
paint alleges that the defendants tore
down thirty rods of fence on plaintiff IS
r. land, leaving his field unprotected.
CRIMINAL MATTERs.
Il There were two more criminal arraign-
S. nents before Judge Humes yesterday.
PJ. Pratt, charged with the murder of
Bennett. charged with robbery, was given
n anil September 2 to plead. The prisoners
arfsiened the preceding day were called to
plead. and their trials set as will be found
r in the hlotter
John Smith. charged with robbery.
pleaded guilty. and was sentenced to one
year in the penitentiary.
SUIT OVER REAL ESTATE GAME.
Samuel NJ. Irwan, who paid $3.50 down
on bond for three lots in Detroit before
ths boom collapsed, filed suit against the
Detroit Land and Improvement Company
Tor the recovery of his money and decree
= Declaring the bonds void. and compelling
The surrender of the duplicate. The
= plaintiff alleges that the company prom
ised TO build railroad across the penin-
4 fula and also cut a canal from Hoods
! canal to Cases inlet, which it has not full
filed
coRr AND ARIZONA JOE AT LAW.
Emma Rodgers, of the Arizona Joe COM
~ hnation, dramatic and trained dog show.
has sued John Cort, the theatrical mana
~ ger. Tor 5000 for breach of contract. She
{ alleges that last April she signed a con-
track with the defendant for a ten weeks
engagement at $3.50 per week, in the thea
'ers OF Cort's circuit. On July "A defend
ant notified her that the contract had been
Cancelled and the National theater, of Ia
coma, IN which she was engaged 10 appear
iof the week, had been closed. Four weeks
OF her engagement were uufulfilled and she
4 pings snit for the contract price for the
lost time.
MISCELLANEOUS FILINGS.
Christna Schaefer VS.. ID. Graham-Suit
II sof foreclosure of mortgage for 5000.
Nat Hogan VS.. G. 81. Blackman ct al
II attachment suit for $500 for labor in log
II gng camp.
ii Nyman Partridge & CO., of Minneap-
.as obtained judgment by confession for
Wis against Walter D. Bailey.
a. Tell ct al. VS.. Charles IL. Kittinger-
Suit for $500.
81 ). b. jscomimi vs.. j. NJ. Britt-Attach-
men, suit for Ssh.
" r. Wegener VS.. Henry Mcbride ct al.
Suit for sisS.
n PROBATE VACATION.
al Judge Richard Osborn. OF the probate
court, yesterday went TO SnoquaImie to re-
pon
THE BLOTTER.