The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-14
GRAND JURY is CALLED
Gambling, Prizefghting Etc, to
Be Investigated.
TRIAL JURY DISMISSED
The $4,000 Note Case Continued to
Jan IL = Committees Appointed
Upon the Death of Justice
Buck and Mr. Robinson.

After a weeks adjournment the dis
| trlct court was again convened yester-
/ day morning. The most important
! business of the day was the drawing OF
a grand jury to examine into the
affairs of the county. Service had been
| made upon eight persons TO serve as
Jurors. Peter Walton of Deer Lodge
had also been drawn, but on account
OF illness he was excused Charles
LindquiSt was also excused. The jury
as now onstituted is as follows: Rob
ert {. G.. Birdseye of Avon, foreman
M. kiley of Washington gulch; A. W.
Sager, Race Track; Peter Curley, Rob
ert, Templeton, w. j. Matthews and
John Corey of Anaconda.
Judge Brantly instructed the jury as
to its duties ana powers, and said that
reports mad been received stating that
gambling was being carried on In the
county. 1t was the duty of the jury 10
investigate these reports. The prize
lighting question was touched on and
the jury instructed that should indict-
mentS be found against any one they
should only be brought against the
principals, as the spectators were only
guilty of misdemeanors, and not of fell
onies. Reports had been received that
whiskey had been sold to Indians. The
jury should inquire into this matter
also.
The affairs of the jails and of the
different county offices were to be
looked into. Judge Brantly said that if
the services OF an expert accountant
were required to assist the jury in its
examinations; they would be provided
the jurors We're then given in charge
of the sheriff'S office and immediately
began their sittings.
The case of Joseph A. Hyde and
James II. King VS.. Frank Durand was
then ga He'd and I'M
rand to recover the principal and inter
est on a $50, 600 note, alleged to have
been made by Durand. The latter sets
up several counter claims in the way OF
mining claim transactions, etc, made
during a number of years past The
suit was originally instituted in Gran
lite county. The attorneys for the re-
spectiVe sides to the case asked mat,
should such action be agreeable to the
court, the trial of the case be contin-
ued. The attorney for the plaintiff,
Judge ID. M Durfee, stated that james
w. Forbis, one of his associates, could
not be present at this time owing to the
tact that he was compelled to be in at
tendance upon the district court OF Sill
Yer Bow county, and that Judge Dur
fee and w. b. Rodgers, another associ-
ate, were unwilling to proceed without
the presence of Mr.. Forbis.
Counsel for Durand, John w Cotter
and M. l.. Wines, had similar reasons
for not wishing 10 proceed win the
trial of the case, and they also wished
further time TO amend their answer as
they stated that an additional counter
claim had been discovered.
Upon these representations Judge
Brantly agreed to. continue the case,
and JAN Ii was set as the date of the |
trial. Five days were allowed the de-
fendant to make the amendment to
their answer. The trial jury was then !
dismissed, and the jurors returned to
their homes.
Upon motion of II. r. Whitehill, at /
-orney for plaintiff, the case of the An /
lconda Mining company against 2. S. I
Fancy was dismissed as settled.
After the close of court Judge Brant- |
y called attention to the death of j. c. |
Robinson, a member of the Deer Lodge !
county bar and to the death of Justice |
Horace II. Buck, and appointed w. II. /
rrippet, c. j. Walsh ana j. III. A.eyer
Is committee upon the death of Mr.. |
Robinson and H. X. Whitehill, J. II.
3oarman and T. O'Leary as a com
nittee upon the death Of Justice Buck,
md instructed them to report to the
,ourt on Wednesday, the 18th inst, at
,'clock p. M, such action as they
ieemed proper for the court to take in
no premises.