The Iola register., 1901-10-04
A. EWING IN THE CHAIR.
Elected Judge by Slight Margin Over
Major FOust-About Half the
Docket Continued by Consent.

Tuesday under unusual circumstances
the regular judge being absent and
the lawyers having 70 elect tempo
rary presiding officer.
Schuyler Brewster,clerk Of the court
opened court and occupied the bench
while the election was taking place.
There was an unusual attendance oi
lawy ers as there had been quite a
pretty bit OF campaigning by the
friends of II. A. Ewing and Oscar
Foust to secure their election to the
chair. No nominations we're made
but vote was taken and resulted in
Foust and Ewing getting Ia votes
each, and A. II. Campbell and Geo.
Amos, one each. A second ballot
gave Ewing II and Foust Is and Ew-
ing was declared elected. Heoccupied
the chair and the work of running
over the long docket and setting the
time of hearing the cases was begun.
u had been agreed that cases which
were going by default should be heard
that all criminal cases, of course,
must be heard, and that in civil cases
all should go over "under the rule"
adopted, whenever the attorney for
either side wished it. AS result the
docket was rapidly run through and
some fifty or more cases we're dropped
''under the the rules" the lawyers not
having to give any reason for not
trying them.
A number of divorce cases will be
tried and a good many of the cases
were passed temporarily and may be
beard or dropped later
In number of cases temporary
restraining order has been granted
and there was question whether it
was permissible to continue these
cases sunder the rule" thus continu-
ing the restraining order.
In the suit of DR.. Swan against the
Ft. Scott, lola & Western, asking to
have them enjoined from using Benton
street, nothing was done. 1t was tenn
porarily passed over, the attorneys
for Mr.. Swan announcing that they
expected to ask for Il temporary re-
straining order during the term.
Captain Ewing made a handsome
and dignifed presiding officer and it
is agreed that in one particular hewill
certainly not depart from the estab-
lished custom of Judge Stillwell. He
,r.i11 In 1A,lynt ,s;t 90
handwriting that he himself cannot
decipher when it is two days old
CASES TRIED TUESDAY.
John Hauley, thenegro who resisted
and assaulted Dan Gregg while the
latter was trying to arrest him on
West street, was brought into court.
Sam Gard was appointedto look after
his interests and saw to it that he
pleaded guilty and got only ninety
days in the county jail. The Judge
handed Hauley little lecture which
he took meekly and indifferently as
he did his sentence.
The two men who robbed the gas
Office some time ago were brought in
to court but nothing done. Harris,
the red headed one, will probably
plead guilty, and the crippled man
will probably be turned loose. Both
looked we'll fed and slicker than when
arrested.
Three divorces were granted. l. j.
Donham was released from Lola A.
Donham; Anna Layman was freed
from Ezra Layman, and Frank Par.
sons loosened from Emma Parsons.
George A. Fry, receiver appointed
in the oliver versus Christy case,
made his final report and was dis.
missed.
WEDNESDAY, PROCEEDINGS
District court devoted its time
Wednesday consideringIcriminal cases
and several of general interest we're
disposed Of
Sam Kelley, the nineteen-year-old
LaHarpe boy, who was mixed up in
the drunken row at recent pay day
and was the unlucky one who hit the
constable with a piece OF retort, was
arraigned in court. BY agreement OF
counsel he was permitted to plead
guilty to assault and was sentenced to
fifteen days in the county Jail and to
pay the costs in the case. He was ad-
monished that resisting an officer is a
very serious thing and that he only
escaped grave trouble by reason of
his youth, the fact that it is his first
offense and the mercy of the court.
At: 100 this afternoon Harris and
Montgomery, the two men who robbed
the gas Office last summer, were
arraigned. Harris pleaded guilty and
was sentenced TO year and 1alf in
the penitentiary. Montgomery was
turned loose with the admonition to
seek better company hereafter. Harris
was the red headed man, the one
who stole the box from the Office and
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