The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-06-03


Joseph Nichols has Judgment against
George J. Wiley On a promissory note
for Fs5 and costs.
workmer have begun putting IN the
steel wire screens in thu north sanN VIII
sows AT the couaty jail.
Default was entered yesterday in the
case Of Harold Preston. as assignee OF j.
". George VS.. c. E. Bowman
Ike LURE has Judgment for $40 against
II Rosenthal on promissory note OK
November ?, lsss. with execution.
Hubbard & Norton yesterday obtained
si3sn on a promissory note of June 81
1885.
The motions for new trials of the two
suits of A Mehihorn and John Manlon
against the city were argued yesterday
before Judge Jacobs, VINO look them OA4-
der Amusement
Rufus II. Park has Judgment By default
against Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Borella
for 81 OF * on a proInlssory note OF ApTH
H. isss, with decree OF foreclosure on the
Hortgaged premises.
Articles of Incorporation were filed yes
terday for the Sound Lumber Company;
capital stock, 10000, in 100 shares or slo.
trustees Charles A. Dean, E. Holster Guie
and Thomas W. Tressidder.
Elizabeth c. Norton was yesterday
granted judgment against Martha Il.
Webb for 500. plus the interest and costs.
on a I,romissory note of May .. 1885. De-
cree of foreclosure followed.
f. b. Palmer and George Fowler yester.
Warner and others to recover possession
of the Wichita and Emporia mining
claims. in the Miller river district.
Articles of incorporation were filed yes
terday for the Scandal Mining Company;
capital stock. sao,1e in 81 shares
trustees j. 3. Rawlings, William Clark.
G. l.. Christy, Thomas F'rew and John
Willard.
The suit % the National Cash Register
Company against Sheriff Meyer; nied yes
terday, WAS 70 recover cash register
levied on by the sheriff under cnattel
mortgage given by +. h. Mayberfy to t..
". Clark, valued at 500.
The case of Harold Preston, assignee.
vs. c. r.. Bowman, occupied the greater
part of the day in the civil department.
yesterday AT o'clock Judge Benson took
the case from the jury and entered 1adg-
ment in the plaintiffs favor. thus revivins
an old Judgment against bowman ior
some 1900.
Writ OF assistance was issued yesterday
in the case of the Washington National
Building Loan and Investment Company
vs.. Herman Anderson, directing the sher-
III TO put the plaintiff in possession of the
premises, lot 6, block IL. Sarah "A. Bell
addition. Mr.. Anderson having refused 10
give them up.
One OF the oldest cases recently appear
iug in the superior court was up yester-
day On the court calendar the number
of the case is o.l54, and its title Is The
Territory OF Washington VS.. George I'll.
Miller" 1t is now brought into court on
motion of r. Il. Warren. who, as assignee
of George III. Miller moves for Judgment
for costs against King county in accord
anoe with the remittitur from the SUI
preme court The case is a famous one in
the criminal annals OF King county. Miller
having been convicted of the murder OF
j. Manning Colman, a member of the
grand jury, and of a young man who was
returning with Colman from the latter
home, across the lake, to the city. The
bodies of both men were found in shall
low water near Mercer island and the
boat in which they were crossing had
drifted ashore on the island. Miller was
convicted in the superior court, but the
supreme court reversed the court below,
holding that Mliors proof of an alibi was
conclusive and that the testimony in the
case did not connect him with the muir
der.