The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-20
COURT AT PANGUITcH.
Judge Dusenberry Presides-Matters
Well Under Way.
Especial Correspondence.J

Especial Correspondence
Panguitch, April 1.-THE April term of
the district court convened here today
with Warren n. Dusenberry, judge OF
the Fourth judicial district, on the
BENCH serving instead OF Judge w. M.
McCarty, judge of this, the sixth dis
trlct, VINO Is nearing q big water case at
Provo in Which JudSe Dusenberry Is per-
sonally interested and in which he mas
acted as attorney and is therefore dis
qualified from hearing.
A large amount OF business has been
transacted today and the work of the
term is we'll under way. Prospects are
that the calendar will be cleared with
much dispatch and the term OF court
Will adjourn some considerable time be-
fore the week is ended.
In brief, the following is a synopsis of
the business transacted today:
A large number OF motions, orders, ETC..
in estate and probate matters were at
tended to and disposed OF. a panel OF
twenty-five jurors were examined and
found quaiined. Defendants in three
criminal cases were arralgned and took
time to plead. Defendants Ernest Green
and Franklin L. Pierce are transients &C
cused of horseStealing. Defendant Er-
nest Accord is a Pangultch boy accused of
assault with deadly weapon on another
some weeks ago. Defendant was in a
barbershop, under the influence of liquor,
when the trouble in which the alleged as
sault occurred, and il is alleged that he
picked up razor and used it as a
weapon.
A suit entitled John Bertleson ct al. VS..
Caroline Mccormick ct al was tried and
disposed of, plaintiffs being awarded re-
lief as prayed for. The suit was to quiet
title to certain real estate in Coyote and
was not contested Mrs. Mccormick,
widow of Edward Savage and admins
| tratrix of his estate, testified in behalf of
plaintiffs, and deed for thirteen and one
third acres of land was ordered issued to
each plaintiff, Bertleson and Clarence E.
Rowan, they having purchased from and
paid deceased for the land before. his
death.
Belle Johnson of Tropic was awarded a
divorce from her husband, Joel Johnson,
on the ground of failure to provide The
decree was granted subject to further or
der of court respecting alimony and Gus
tody of two minor children. Defendant
has been running. a butchershop in De
Lamar and teaching school in other
places since his desertion of his wife, and
while he has failed and refused to sup
port her he has given plaintiff some as
surance that in the event of suit for
divorce. if alimony was awarded and GUS
tody of the children left without action
thereon by the court, he would see to and
pay for the proper education of the chill
dren, and defendant therefore asked for
no alimony ror for the custody of the
children, In view of this showing. the
court expressly ordered that the decree
provide subject to further order, as above
stated.
By o'clock. counsel for defendant in
the Ernest Green DEMONSTRATING case,
having procured an order for the sub
poenaeing of his witnesses at the expense
of the state and an order requiring the
prosecution to get. if possible. the animals
alleged to have been stolen, for exhibition
before experts to testify as to value. an
nounced that he was ready to proceed to
trial. A plea of not guilty was entered
and a jury obtained and adjournment had
until o'clock am. tomorrow
w. F. Knox of Beaver is representing
all the defendants in criminal cases. John
T. Chidester prosecutes.