Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-06-09
THE FREE PRESS.
GRANGEvILLE. IDAHO.
FRIDAY. I: :. June ., 1885,
District Court.

Judge W.G.Piper presiding. At
torneys j. II. Forney, GIG. Pickett,
Of Moscow, J.W Reid, J.W. Poe and
Jasper Rand, ofLewiston, were in
attendance from abroad.
After preliminary call of the
docket to ascertain the condition
of cases, the grand jury was en-
paneled, consisting of the follow
ing persons:
Geo. D.Smith Foreman, Geo. Rice,
Lafayette Yates, Jacob Matthieson,
J.B.Crea, DIP Sanders, Victor Gal
loway, Ed. Liston, Geo. Schubert,
T.B.Allen, Chas. Stewart, Henry
Ray, A. d. BARLEY, Fred w Rogge,
+. G. Sherwin.
The Judge then delivered the
charge to the jury, the principal
points of which are as follows:
ut is my duty to give you such
information as is required by law
relating to your duties, and as to
any charges for public offenses re-
turned to the Court, or likely to
come before you as Grand Jurors.
at is your duty to inquire into
all public offenses committed or
triable within Idaho county, and
present them to the court by pre-
sentiment or indictment. You must
be satisfied there is reasonable
ground for believing a particular
individual, named or described
therein has committed it. An in
dictment is an accusation in writ
ing presented by you to the court,
charging person with public Of
Tense. Your foreman may admins
ter the oath to any witness APP
pearing before you.
"The Grand Jury can receive
none but legal evidence, to the ex-
clusion of hearsay or secondary
evidence, but no witness whose
testimony has been taken and re-
duced to writing on a preliminary
examination must be required to
appear before you until you have
first duly considered such testimo-
ny; but if it has been lost, or if
after considering the same you de-
sire the presence of any such wit
nesses they may be subpened.
"You are not bound to hear evil
dence for the defendant, but it is
your duty to weigh all the evidence
submitted to you, and when you
believe that other evidence will
explain away the charge or charges
you should order such evidence to
be produced, and require the Dist
riot Attorney to issue process for
the witnesses you think should be
brought before you. You ought to
find an indictment when all the
evidence before you would, in your
Judgment, warrant conviction by
Trial jury. 1t is not every trivial
offense or neighborhod quarrel that
You are to investigate, but accusa-
tions of substantial nature and
serious character it is your duty to
investigate.
lit Is your duty to inquire into
the case Of every person in prison
in the county Jail on a criminal
charge and not indicted; into the
condition and management of the
public prison, and into wilful and
corrupt misconduct in Office of all
public officers within this county,
and to demand of such officers a
strict account of their stewardship.
1t is a matter of great Importance
to the Taxpayers that those in
charge of the public funds should
apply them strictly in accordance
with law, and that there should be
no application of these funds thro'
fear or favoritism. You are enti-
tied to free access to the public Of
fees of this county and to the ex-
animation of all public records
therein, to see that they are pro-
perly kept. X
After the delivery of the charge
the court adjourned until $50 a.
m. Tuesday.
SECOND DAY, TUESDAY, JUNE 6.
On Tuesday the following civil
business was disposed of:
Fleckenstein & Mayer VS.. II. F.
Shissler. Suit on account. Judg-
ment for plaintiff by default.
Vollmer g. Scott VS.. .Shugard.
Foreclosure. Continued for service.
A. II. Cummings VS.. California
Mining Co. Foreclosure of miners
lien. Judgment by default.
Jay o. Rhoades vs.. Justin C.
Sears ct al. Foreclosure. Settled
and dismissed.
P. Fl. Ready VS.. T. w. Nickel ct
al; foreclosure; judgment by de-
fault VS. II. w. Nickel, w. p. Hunt
and Martha +. Hunt. Demur of
M. A. Nickel overruled.
ID. M. Osborne & Co. VS. O.P. Mo-
berg; foreclosure of chattel mort
gage; Judgment by default.
Rector VS. Rector; divorce; de-
fault of defendant entered, referred
to j. w. Bonebrake to take testi-
mony.
THIRD DAY, WEDNESDAY JUNE 7.
In the case of Chas. Chase VS..
Hagood, motion to quash sum-
mons sustained and case dismissed.
This was damage suit for hogs