The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-11
Ne VS. OF
THE COURTS
The Federal Grand
Jury Gathers a
Harvest. /
THE HON. JUDGE
s HUMPHREYS SPEAKS
Defines the Work to Be Done
by Himself and Judge
Gear.

| At the opening of the First Circuit
phreys delivered the following address:
Gentlemen of the bar: Judge Gear
and myself have arranged that Judge
Gear shall preside at common law trials
in this court, and I shall preside as
chancellor and as probate judge. Judge
Gear viii preside during this special
term and during the regular May term,
and after the expiration OF the regular
May term, special terms will be called
/ from time to time until the business
upon the calendar has been disposed Of.
Thereafter, regular terms of court will
be held as provided by law and special
terms will be called as often as neces-
sary to dispatch public business. Judge
Gear will take the jury criminal calen-
dar beginning tomorrow morning and
1 Will hear at chambers appeals in miti-
cation and criminal cases in which
Ijures have been waived. Upon inves-
litigation we find there are no bailiffs for
the Circuit Court of the First Judicial
Circuit. We find there is an appropria-
ton for Supreme officer under tn :
pointment being made by the Attorney
General or the High Sheriff. There is
no appropriation for bailiffs for the
Circuit Court, but there is an appro-
Ipriation to pay the running expenses of
the Supreme and Circuit Courts. By
virtue of the inherent power vested in
the Judges of this Court, the Judges in
tend to appoint their own bailiffs and
not be under any obligation to either
the Attorney-General or the High
Sheriff. 1t is accordingly ordered that
IChas. A. K. Hopkins be and he is here
by appointed bailiff of the Circuit Court
of the First Judicial Circuit. Territory
of Hawaii, and his salary is hereby fix
ed at the sum of SS5 per month, to be
paid out of the appropriation for run
ming expenses of the Supreme and Cir
cult Courts.
1T is further ordered that William
Sumner Ellis be and he is hereby ap-
pointed bailiff of the Circuit Court of
the First Circuit, and his salary is fix
ed at the sum of sS5 per month to be
paid out of the appropriation for meet
ing the running expenses of the SUI
preme and Circuit Courts
COURT NOTES.
|
mortgage action of locker VS.. Patzfg,
by their attorneys. Andrews. Peters &
Andrade, and Charles Creighton, have
filed stipulation allowing an extern
sion of ten days time in which the
defendant may plead to the complaint.
Return of summons was yesterday
made in the cases of Anna Goetz ct al.
VS.. ]. Alfred Magoon and Antoine
Bright VS.. David Kawananokoa ct al.
KIMBALL S. s. co. SUIT
The defendant in the action of the
Kimball Steamship Company VS.. The
Honolulu Market Company, has filed
an answer to the plaintiffs complaint,
denying all the allegations contained In
; such complaint. and stating that the
defendant further relies upon the de-
tense that payment IN full has been
made by it of all accounts due from
the defendant to plaintiff.
MINER DIVORCE CASE.
The Miner divorce action, with Its
many complications, yesterday made
its exit from the courts, through an
order of dismissal given by the judge
of the First Circuit Court. The order
dismissing the libel is as follows:
THE above entitled cause having
been remanded to this court by the Su-
preme Court of the Territory or Ha-
wall and the decree of divorce signed
and filed in said cause in this court
on the 18th day of December 1900, hav-
ing been reversed and plaintiff having
filed on the Sth day of March, 1901, In
this court q discontinuance of her libel
for divorce against the defendant
Frank L. Miner, and the costs IN SAID
action having been paid by said de-
PENDANT, it is hereby ordered, adjudged
and decreed that said libel be and Is
hereby dismissed"
DEBRIS CASE Appeal
An appeal bond was yesterday flee
by the defendant in the debris case OF
the Waikiki Sugar Company VS.. the
Hawaiian Commercial and sugar Com
pany, in the sum of $50. the bond De-
| ing signed by h p. Baldwin, president
of the defendant corporation, and by
Joseph p. Cooke, its treasurer, as sure
ty The costs were paid to the clerE
and stenographer's transcript in tn
case given over with request that the
appeal and all the papers in the cas'
be certified up by the clerk.
GRAND JURY AT WORK.
Six indictments were found by thu
before Judge Estee in open court. Th'
indictments were as follows:
Against Frank o. Sodergren for as
sault upon the high seas, upon th'
person of Edward Hamlin, sailor
while said Frank O. Sodergren wa!
acting as captain of the American YES
sci Hesper, within the admiralty an'
jurisdiction of the United States. Cap
tain Sodergren was arrested upon war
rant, but upon giving a bono IN IN
sum of $4,000, with John 5 walker am
Henry NJ. Whitney Jr., as sureties, wa
released. subject to daily appearance
at the Federal Court
Against Frank o. Sodergren ana Mel
) son E. Stuart, the captain and hrs
mate of the American vessel Hesper
for assault upon the person of on
Richard Carpenter. sailor, upon tn
high seas and within the admiralt,
and the jurisdiction of the Unite
!. states. Captain Sodergren also file
e a bond in this case, being in the sun
q of 81. 500. and with the same sureties.
Against Mike Moretta, for assault
with a dangerous weapon upon Mich
:, ael Mutually. while OF board the Am
lerican vessel Andrew Hicks.
r Against Pencil D. Day, for assault
}. upon a customs officer Gnterprete
r ~ Do- H.ov,