Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-12-02
CIRCUIT COURT.
Its Work Completed and the Fall Term
Concluded.

session, and for the amount Of business
transacted, this terms discounts any pre-
vious one of similar length ever held in
Custer county. Night sessions were
he'd, and from the opening TO the clos
ing Of the term there were no idle at
torneys or officials around the cour
room.
We give below list Of the cases dis
posed Of and not included in our previ-
GUS reports of the court proceedings:
AT 2:l5 o'clock Friday afternoon. the
jury in the Horgan case came into court
and announced that X. B. Parish, one
member of the body, was seriously i'll,
and also that there was no probability
of the other eleven agreeing on yer
dict The jury was accordingly dis
charged
In the case Of the State VS.. Harry
Bayne, a verdict of guilty Of petit lsrc-
eny was returned, and the defendant
fined $50 aud costs, total Of SJ47 80.
Counsel for defendant gave motive Of
motion for new trial, and it will be
argued at Hot Springs. the first day of
the Fall River county term which will
be held next month. In the meantime
judgment is suspended.
Peter McGrath, who at the beginning
Of the term plead guilty to the charge of
horse stealing, was sentenced to one
years imprisonmentln the penitentiary.
Bowles vs. Thomas and Bernard Mullen.
An action to recover for services rend-
cred. Tried by jury and judgment for
S6S.35 found for Plaintiff.
Star & Bullock vs. Odo Reder Coll-
tinued over the term.
E. II. Flynn was appointed referee to
take the testimony in the action for
divorce brought by Carrie A. Colwell
against f. q. Colwell.
Browning & Wringrose rs. A. NJ.
Willard Continued on motion of de-
fendants attorney.
c. L. Crotford vs.. Fitzgerald Bros
Plaintiff given judgment for Sl6O.
W. o Richardson VS.. II. A. Albien
Judgment for defendant.
\. s. Tubbs VS.. j. p burst f. II.
Flynn appointed to referee the case.
The grand jury, which had been in
session since the opening of the term,
made it final report Saturday afternoon.
After receiving the report and before
discharging the jurors, the court highly
commended them for the thoroughness
with which they had performed their
duties. The final report of the grand
jury is given below:
GRAND JURY's REPORT
State Of South Dakota, County of Gus
ter, 80. In the Circuit Court Seventh
Judicial Circuit.
We. the grand jury, duly empsnnelled
and sworn according to law, herewith
rec sspectfully submit the following report:
That we have examined and thor
oughly investigated fifteen cases That
we have returned six true bills and nine
not true bills.
That We have examined all the conn
ty offices and the county court house
and Jail.
That we found the offices of the coun-
ty Kept in careful manner and in a way
that reflects unusual credit to the several
officers, and upon the careful and able
manner of conducting the public busi-
ness OF the county in their several
offices.
That we find that the county commits
sioners have charged and received for
their services and mileage from Oct /,
1892. to Sept. 30, 1898, the sum Of Seven
Hundred and Eighty-three dollars and
40 cents. That We are advised that said
commissioners are only entitled 20 re
ceiye for said services and mileage
travelled the sum of Four Hundred and
Twenty-Five dollars and twenty cents,
and that the sum of Three Hundred and
Sixty-one dollars and twenty-five cents
is in excess of legal charge for said SER
vices so done and performed.
That we find that warrants have been
issued for the period from Oct. LIST, 1892,
TO Sept. 30th, lS93 in the sum of Thirty
two Thousand Four Hundred and Thir-
ty-nine dollars and Ninety cents, and
that in addition there was paid
for interest on bonds and on warrants
during the same period the sum of
Eight Thousand Nine Hundred and two
a
Forty-one Thousand Three Hundred
and Forty-two dollars and forty.one
cents, leaving an excess of expenditures
over receipts of the sum of Eighteen
Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixty-four
dollars and eighty-eight cents for the
period named.
We find that in the period above nam
ed the board of county commissioners
h..x all raA 10 for sSia
paid on the sale of $4,000 worth of
county bonds to the amount of Sixteen
Hundred and Ninety Ave dollars, and
that we are informed that there is no
warrant in law for the payment of any
such sum, or any sum whatever.
We find from an examination of the
books Of the county treasurer that on
June rs, 1891, there was sold $4,000 of
six per cent bonds with coupons payable
semi annually. and that at the time of
such sale there WAS accrued interest on
said bonds TO the amount of $lSS.33.
That on June 80, 1891, there was sold
IS 900 Of six per cent bonds with coup
ons payable semi-annually, and that at
the time of such sale there was accrued
interest on the same to the amount of
$3.50. That on February 20, 1892, there
was sold 81 900 of six per cent bonds
with coupons as above. and that there
was at the time OF such sale accrued in
terest on the same to the amount of
$3.50. That on the 9TH day of March,
1898. there was sold $4,000 of six per
cent bonds with coupons as above, and
at the time Of snch sale there was ac-
crned interest on the same tn the amount
of Three Hundred and Twelve dollars,
making an aggregate Of Thirty Thousand
Five Hundred Thirty-nine dollars and
thirty three cents, which amount the
county should have received in cash as
the net proceeds of said bonds, while as
matter of fact we find that the county
has realized from the said sale Of said
bo.ds only the sum of Twenty eight
Thousand Three Hundred and Five
Awarded Highest II