The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-16
GOSSIP in DEER LODGE
Topics Of Interest PatheFed By the
"~Standafd'S" Correspondent.
Effect sf the Decision nj the SupreNnc
Court RsgardiWg Establishments by 0rand
Juries-Whss the District C0art
VIII q Notes.
Special Corre~pondence Of the Standard.

Special Correspondence Of the Standard.
DEER LODGE, Jan. 1.-THE Deer Lodge
Dancing club will give . special enter
%nne and reception ON Friday even
ing, January 2lth, and through the STAND
ARDS correspondent, extends to the Low
land club Of Anaconda q cordial invita-
ton to he present.
A large lumber of our citizens will take
advantage Of the excursion tomorrow to
visit Butte and buy themselves rich.
The decision of the supreme court hold
ing that the clause Of the constitution pro-
viding that fclonies may he prosecuted by
In not self-executinR and that
"a law IL necessary to carry il out, came as
"a surprise To the bench and bar here. The
general opinion here was that no Law was
necessary to carry out the provision. es-
pecially as to crimes I'm since the
admission of the state % the union. and
consequently proceedings i'm several in
stances against persons charged with fell
onies had been instituted by Information.
The cases have been pending, ready for
trial, and had the horse stealing eases
been out OF the way, would have been
tried and, perhaps, some OF the DEFEND
ants duly sentenced. Luckily, none of
cases pending on have been
tried. As some OF the defendants are i'm
Jail the court will he compelled to call u
grand jury to pass upon their cases. More
than this, IL the Legislature does not get
to work and pass n law carrying into
ehttt HE BEoN iShptl vi VIC
the court will necessarily have to call the
grand jury together very frequently, n
practice which il was fondly hoped
had become u thing OF the
past. The supreme court. however,
holds that the constitution SO far as il
makes the grand jury to consist of seven.
instead OF sixteen, II self-executing, and
that will he the number of that body, five
of whom can concur i'm flnding an indict-
ment. The defendants against whom in
---n
Scott for killing deer, Robert Petty for AS
sault with intent to kill, Joel p. Catching
ct al for false Imprisonment, Thomas
Swift for grand larceny and Jack holland
for grand larceny. These cases thus dis
posed Of still leave several cases on i'm
dictmenty yet to be tried, notably The horse
stealing cases against Edwards, Graham
and Abbott, the charge of rape against
Frank Baudet, the charge of assault with
intent to murder against Cornelius ID.
Sullivan and the charge of grand larceny
against James Tighe who has abscOnded.
To-day has been occupied by the court
i'm hearing evidence for the defence i'm the
case of Matthew Graham, Jointly charged
with George Edwards with horse stealing.
This afternoon the evidence for the de-
fence was closed. and the case went to
the jury mt 4 o'clock without oh
the instructions of the court. The Jury
was out about 10 minutes and returned a
expected. While Graham was with Ed
wards at the time they were captured, and
they had the stolen horses in possession.
knowledge on Graham. He proved n
good character. Did a good story upon the
stand. and all told. he was perhaps the
victim OF circumstances.
The verdict in this case will i'm all prob
ability settle the other horse stealing cases
as against Matthew Graham and Frank
Abbott, as the same testimony exists
against each in all the cases. The at
torncys for the prosecution took until to-
sas,rrs.x- snsnrs.tsaav In flptArusnn Nvhnf fhaW
should do. To prove that Graham or Alb
bolt had knowledge that Inc horses were
and under which they will probably fail.
Immediately after the trial of the Graz
ham case WAS finished. the court then
found the new difficulties presented by the
decisions of tile supreme court on the sab
ject of inforNnatio,s. While u grand jury
had bs-cn drawn when we were yet n tor
ritory the list was misplaced, and taking
all things into consideration the court
concluded to have a new grand jury
n. Aylesworth were appointed jury conn
missioner . and they. together with the
clerk of the district court. will Tomorrow
morning. select 800 good and lawful
men, place them in a box and draw
thence u grand jury. The jury will he
convened as soon as the law will allow.
Duffy. defending in the Graham case, he
came too handy with his tonguc AMI the
court fined him i'm the sum of S25.
This morning u little after 3 O'clock n
difficulty, occurred between two men at N
cabin where they were rooming, some
where i'm the rear of the Salvation Army
barracks, and the result was that one Of
them, James White got his leg badly
broken. The story OF White is that he
went To the cabin about that hour, and as
he opened the door the other man jumped
on him and i'm the scutiie broke his leg.
The other maj contends that White came
to the cabin i'm a drunken condition and
tried To compel him to get up and pull
his tWhite's, boots of, and refusing n
fight eusiicd. in which Whites leg was
broken. Ii is difficult to get at tll, exact
facts Of the matter. White was sent to
the hospital this morning. Both
mel are comparatively in town.
Frightru, BOILER Explo.ion.