Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-05-23
District Court

District Court.
!, Judge Frank ives, accompanied
81 stenographer B. A. Strawbridge,
arrived on Monday morning and ct
once proceeded to OPEN the Nay
term Of District Court. The follow.
Ing are the Grand and Petit Jurors
in attendance:
GRAND JURORS.
Adolf Carlson, George Paulson, Ed
ward Slice. John Hambert, Otto S
Hong, Halvor Harris, Christ John
son, Hans B. Engen, Edward Gull
seth, William J. Philcox, Ole O. by
rud, Fred Copp, J. p Lundin, MOI
ris Hanson, Lewis Olson, Erns
Glenn, Alfred Thomas, John Enden
John Whalen, Amund johnson
Charles Hunt, William Campbell
! Tuff Remillard.
PETIT JURORS.
| Algot' Rydberg, Nels Hanson
Erick o. Field, Hans Peterson, Pete
Blomsness, Bug. Riebau, Olof Brek
kestrand, E. F.. stromgren, Charlie,
Anderson, james Laury, John Graf
eek, George Benson, A. Berquist, n
j. Hamberg, Sam Sorenson, R. c. NJ
Nelson, +. A. Green. Nels Roam, Ale,
Stewart, NJ. Amundson, C. E. Smith
J. T. Imsdahl, Michael Peterson
Christ Rasmussen.
The following are the most i'm
portant transactions of the cour1
thus far: VIM. Oman, who va.
tried for larceny at the last term o
court, but owing to SOME irregular
ity at the trial making it necessary
to try the case again, appeared ant
plead guilty to the charge in the in
dictment and was fined 500 by tht
court.
Henry Audett was indicted fol
selling liquor illegally, plead guilty
to the charge, and was fined 800
which he paid.
Steiner Odegaard was indicted fol
sellingliquor unlawfully, pleadguilty
and had a fine of 500 imposed on
him.
Benjamin Bouette and Lewis OF
son, accused Of cutting timber on
railroad lands, have been indicted
but have not yet been tried.
The most prominent case before
this term is that OF The First Ma.
tional Bank Of DEBORAH, Iowa, VS.,
Peder j. Holan, ct AL, or in other
words an aggregation OF farmers, II
in number, OF the town OF Nelson
Park and surrounding towns. A. A,
Miller, OF Crookston, was the attor.
ney for the plaintiff. and Fl. Steener.
son and A. Grindeland handled the
case for the farmers. The suit was
brought to recover on a promissory
note of $4,000, alleged to have been
given to Klngsland Brothers, o.
Grand Forks, in 1890, for the pur.
chase If d stallion, A. j. Preston
then of this city, was the agent fol
Kingsland brothers and made the
supposed sale. The defendants ont
after another testified that, the.
were not aware that they were sign
ing a note, that Mr.. Preston repre-
scented to them that he wanted sim
ply collection of names of farmer!
who might be induced to take shares
at 500 each, in ~ horse company tt
be organized later for the purchas
OF this stallion, that III signing thei
names they did so on what appear
ed to them to be a blank page in
book, Of the form OF On order o
memorandum book, opening at til
end, and that they did not motto
any promissory note above thei
said names, and il a note was ther
the book was held in such a name
by the said Preston us to concea
that fact. The note, according t
their testimony, had been obtnine
by deceit and fraud. At n subst
quently held meeting when the sal
WAS to be consummtted, they wel
asked by Preston to sign joint note
which they refused to do and tn
meeting broke up in II row. Presto
then told them that he already lla
q note good enough and starte
AWAY leaving the stallion. Til
mote was afterwards transferred
Rawlins, Perry 4 Co., and by ther
to the First National Bank OF d.
cOrah, which claimed to be an innt
cent purchaser. This case occupie
the attention of the court about
day and a half, and when the jur
brought in their verdict it was
favor of the farmers.
\ A full report Of all other cases wi
appear next week.
A Valuable Find.
1 After years OF study and labo
there has ut last been discovered
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