The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-07
APRIL COURT TERM
Quite an Amount of Criminal and
Civil Business to Be Disposed OF.
THE INFoRMATIONs FILED
Cuff to Be Tried for FeIony-Sixty
Saloon Men In the County Who
Are Reminded of the SUI
preme Court Decision.

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
~ Deer Lodge, April 6.-To-day was
the commencement of the April term
of the district court, and but little bus
mess was up for consideration. An
adjournment was taken to 10 O'Clock
tomorrow when both the civil and
criminal calendars will be called and
attorneys will be given an opportunity
to have cases in which they are inter-
ested set down for trial The criminal
business before the court in this coun-
ty is very different to what Ii was a
few years ago. 1t was quite uncom-
mon then for juries to be in continuous
attendance upon court, trying criminal
cases, for six months in the year, while
at this term all the criminal cases can
be tried in about three days. In the
item of court expenses, there is also a
vast difference. The total cost of main
tanning the districts court for the past
year was $3.50, while only a few years
ago several murder cases were tried
here that cost the county, in each case.
double this amount.
County Attorney w. II. Trippet to-
day filed an information against each
of the three men held to the district
court. The information against George
Burke charges that on the Sth day of
March, 1896, the defendant did, with a
certain dangerous and deadly weapon.
wilfully, feloniously and wrongfully
make an assault on one Thomas Mar
shall, and he, the said Thomas Mar
shall, did then and there with the said
deadly weapon, feloniously, wilfully
and wrongfully shoot and grievously
wound. contrary to the form of the
statute In such case. made and provid-
ed. The second information is against
John Cuff and accuses him of felony In
the second degree, committed as fol-
lows: The said John Cuff on the 18th
day of January, did, with a deadly
weapon, which he then and there held
in his hands, to-wit: an iron door lock,
feloniously make an assault upon one
Christopher ]. Welsh, and did feloni-
ously beat. bruise and ill-treat him,
contrary to law. The third informa-
ton is filed against Joseph P. Devine
and he is accused in the information
of the crime of escaping from the state
prison on the 18th day of July, 1895.
Devine was held to the district court
by Justice of the Peace j. NJ Hart
well, and his bonds were fixed at 81 500.
He was unable to procure the bail re-
quired and was sent to the county Jail
to await trial.
Edward N. Kennedy, who lost his
right foot while trying to steal a ride
on a Montana Union freight train,
ycSlcIudy, TeSllHS at the
hospital to-day. He is a respectable
looking fellow and cannot be classed
with the tramp element who are al
ways at home riding a brake BEAM
He says he is a miner and has worked
in mines for the past 10 years. He left
San Francisco on the 18th of February,
and was making his way to Butte,
where he expected to find employment
His mother and sister reside in San
Francisco.
The county treasurer expects to COL
lect about $4,000 in licenses this month
on account of the supreme court sus-
tanning the constitutionality of the Ii
cense law. There were about so saloon
men in the county who refused to pay
their licenses pending the supreme
court decision.
III. r. Whitehill and w. B. Rodgers
were In attendance upon court to-day
Phil Harrington and George S. Mil
Ter drove out to the LION mine in
Champion district this forenoon