Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-04-26
A Batch of Offenders Sentenced for
Various Otfenses in United
States Court.
Several Illegal Liquor Sellers and
Timber Cutters Get Fines and
Imprisonment.
A. J. Smith Gets Five Days and $50
and Bert Heath Thirty Days
and a $25 Fine.
Offenders Sentenced.

At the opening OF United States cou
Tuesday thirteen candidates for
sentence for various ~offenses we're ar
ranged for sentence. At 1890 court con.
yened, and District Attorney Tracy
Bangs moved the passing of sentence on
the several offenders.
Patrice Laframbois, John Jerome,
Chas. S. Amman and Louis Jarvis
were arraigned and plead guilty
to a charge of cutting tim
Der on government land. Jarvis was
sentenced to 10 days in the Rolette
county Jail, Jerome 10 days in the Cava-
lier county Jail at Langdon, Armand to
IS days in the county Jail at Langdon
and Laframbois to Is days in the Rolette
county Jail.
Geo. Latrace and Chas. Bemisch of
Rolla and Murdoch Mckenzie of Wheat
land admitted having aold liquor with
out posting a government license. The
first two were given $50 fine each to
work out in the Rolette county Jail, and
the latter a $50 fine to serve out at Grand
Forks.
Andrew Rosenc-auz had sold liquor
without a license. He said he had Sc
cured the liquor from Moorhead, but
there we're suspicious circumstances in
his procuring of the liquor, and he got a
$50 fine and 60 days in the Ramsey
county jail at Devils Lake. John Har-
rington sold liquor at Grafton without
his license properly posted, and he got
$50 fine, to be served cut in the Walsh
county Jail.
Frank Smikel, a rather wild eyed Ger.
man from Minot, pleaded guilty to hav-
ing sent q threatening postal card
through the mails. Smikel, it is said
has been rather prolific of threats of
violence, ana he was given a $50 fine, or
imprisonment in the Ward county Jail,
and warned to be careful in future.
Eugene Lee, the young fellow who
plead guilty to horse stealing on the
Standing Rock reservation, was
given some good advice, and warned
against a life Of crime. He was SEN
fenced to three months in the Burleigh
county Jail and given a $50 fine.
A. j. Smith was then called, for SEN
tence. He was found guilty at Grand
Forks Of completely in the Mandau
strike troubles. Judge Thomas referred
to the recommendation of the jury for
mercy, and also the fact that he had
numerous letters from good citizens of
the state, in Smiths behalf. Had he i'm
posed sentence at Grand Forks, he
would have given a six months Jail SEN
tence, but Smith had been in Jail more
than that length of time already. He
would consider all these facts IN impos-
fined in the Burleigh county Jail five
days and pay a fine of $50.
This afternoon, Bert Heath of Man.
dan was arraigned for sentence. Judge
Thomas said he was satisfied the defend
ant was not of an evil disposition, but
was rather impetuous and rash, and al
lowed these characteristics to overmaster
his good judgment. He regretted that
he had to sentence him, but the enforce
ment OF the law was imperative, and
courts must take cognizance of such
actions as those at Maudan. He then
sentenced the defendant to thirty days
imprisonment in the Morton county Jail,
and a fine of S225.
This closed the business Of the term
Dining and Sleeping Cars.
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