El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-02
The DAY In
The COURTS
Plenty Of Work For Judges
and Lawyers.
fEDESAL GRAND JURY
Charged BY Judge Maxey To Watch
For Counterfeiters and Thug
gle-s.

The federal court grand jury was or
gar'z-o -Ld charged yesterday after
noon. The grand Jurors names follow:
A p Coles, foreman: w b Fencblcr.
U s Stewart, Jsmes Buchanan,
Brock. William Putn am, j ID Smith,
X Brown, L F Cartwright, r Chan
dler, b A King, G 8 Ballinger, Cook
Gen, l. Durrell and James Evertie.
The charge delivered by Judge Max
ey was brief, but TO the point. Special
atten ton wss called to smuggling,
counterfeitirg and postal frauds.
w F Hempel was appointed crier
for the term.
Ex-Rsnger Mathews was appointed
deputy marshal to take charge OF the
grand jury.
manuel E Flores was appointed Off
cial Spanish Interpreter.
Joseph Putnam was designated as
court messenger.
U. S. COMMISSIONER S COURT.
Yu CHECK On, captured in this coun-
try without bis certificate, was before
United States Commissioner Howe last
evening for . Tearing. On alleged
that he had q certificate but had mis-
placed It and the com missioner allowed
him to 60 on bond and postponed the
hearing until On had been given q
chsnc 70 find his papers.
STATE DISTRICT COURT.
The district court. Judge Wslthsll
presiding, is in session today.
Early this morning the appearance
docket WAS called and the sheriff order
ed to summons the first jury OF the
term for Thursday. Today sevaral
non-impOrtsnt non jury cases we're
tried.
The criminal cases set are as follows:
Dionioio Grady, assault to murder;
Pascusl Mitre, theft of a horse; Mar
celino Pineds, burglary; @. C. Allen,
burglary.
TRANSFERRED TO JAIL.
Charles Weston, who - as arrested by
the police on the charge OF stealing q
pair of trousers, has been transfer red
to the county jail.
POLICE COURT
There was another case In police
court this morning for riding a blind
bike. In assessing the fine of 81 Judge
Patterson said, II want to give fair
warning rie ht now that when .
person is arrested she second time
for this offence the fine will be $40 and
bar 20 one in that either for this
IL al { Hence that must be stopped"
A hobo with a wooden leg was ar
rested lasJ night ara placed In lSll
for being drunk and disturbing the
peace. he was q very Ia.ge young
m ard VIXEN arrested resisted the
officer thinking u a, because he was q
cripple nCtS'rg would be done to him.
but the filcer bsd hardled several
men OF his c-liher aEd proce eded to
warm him up little. This morning
he asked permission to leave town
and was turoet ose with the under
standing that IL he was in town
tonight IL would so pretty hard with
him.
A COMPLICATED CASE
In the federal court the suit OF the
Evans, Snyder, Buell. Co, of ST. Louis
vs.. Tho Pecos Citv bank, is OCCUPYING
the attention of Judge Msxey and a
jury.
Tue suit was brought to recover the
value OF some wool clipped from .
flock OF sheep, which bad been mort
Gagged by q Mr.. King AMI others to the
st. Louis firm.
The firm alleges that after King
mortRsged the sheep be mortgaged
the wool to the Pcoos City bank and
that Institution afterwards got posses
sion of It. The firm in st Louie bases
its suit on the grounds shat since she
sheep we're mortRsged the wool Was
also mortgsRed and that the bank had
no right To It.