The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-06-30
The District Court,

In district court ali last W ednesuay
was spent II suits against The santa
te railway company by Mr..
Clark aud his wife, each bringing
a separate suit, for damages sustained
in being asked to leave the train be-
cause they would not pay for the fare
of their fourteen year old son from
Hum bOldt to Kansas CITY. The at
lorneys for The plaiEtifls are Mr.. &
G.. Dale, of kaneas City, who makes
living suing for damages, ami w.
"A. Choguill, of Humboldt. One of
the first things brought out by Major
FOust, who IL the attorney for the
railroad, was the fact the plaintiffs
had agreed to give the attorneys half
of the damage money received from
the railroad. The suit of MIR. Clark
was finished by five o'clock and the
jury was sent out. and jury was i'm
panelled TO try the Mrs. CLARK suit.
The first jury came in during the
night, bringing In "A ve-dlct in favor
of the railroad company. The sec
ond case consumed all day Thursday
aud the arguments were finished and
the jury sent out about o'clock.
The case Of the four boys charged
with the robbery of John Wolf has
not yet been act for hearing. The
charge on which they were arrested
and TOR which they are being held is
grand larceny. This they propose to
| night, but it is reported that they are
willing to plead guilty to the charge
OF gambling under the Cubbison law
which would not lufiict penitentiary
sentence on them.
The district courts time was con.
sumed Saturday in the appeal case NJ
( Beamau a. Higinbotham We. s. d
Brandeuburg the case coming up from
| Justices court and having to do with
| the ownership of a threshing outfit
The jury i'm the case Of Mrs. Ida l.
| Clark vs. the Santa Fee railroad com
pany came In saturday evening just 8
few minutes before court adjourned
for sunday and announced that they
we're unable to agree. The vote stOOC
eleven for the defendant and one fol
the plaintiff, aud the vote had stood
thus for the past twenty-four hours
This mean' that another Jury will
have to he impanneled and the cas-,
tried over again.
Ihe suit i'm district court Saturday
Of Beamau N Higgin botham We. :. ID
Brandenburg was ended by the jury
finding for the plaintiffs in the sun
Ut S6 II. The suit was a cOmplicate C
affair for the lay spectator to get al
understanding of. Braudenburg haC
! his threshii done by "A machine
/ which he thought belonged to vii
/ liam Grimes while az a matter of fac
it had been bought by the plaintiffs
Braudenburg paid Crimes for tn,
work aud the plaintiffs sued to gel
their money from Brandenburg.
Monday morning court interested
itself in the troubles of Matt Daltor
who is bothered about a horse he
traded to Charlie ChTlsty. IL sound 5
! exceedingly proper to try a Dalton or
sucha charge, but there may be Il,
connection. Dalton Gays he traded
for dun pony with a one-eye camper
last April. Later he traded the pony
! to Bishop for horse, cold the horse
| and went to the Territory. There
seems to he not the least question but
that the pony was stolen from farmers
in Anderson county, and the question
before the house is to determine who
was the original dealer in the stolen
! property.
With the liquor cases out of the
! WhJ Nnt ulslTlCb tDuTl Is RdllOpluk
along at lively rate in the dispOsa
of the business which comes before II
William Ransom. now serving out
Jail sentence for neutrality-suspicious.
OF the provisions of the prohibitorJ
law, was indicted by the second
grand jury also and Tuesday morninG
pleaded guilty to the 18th, 18th and
| 10th counts aud the others were dis
missed.
The case of state vs. Jack Fergu
son, another liquor case, was con
tinued
The suit of James A Hen, the coloreC
man who complained OF being refused
food at the Our Way restaurant wa
continued by consent.
Mrs. Minnie Daugherty was grant
ed a divorce from her husband, Jacl
Daugherty.
Polly Downey sued her husband
Geo. W, Downey and was awarded
in fee simple the property mentioned