The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-10-01
COURT IS IN SESSION.
Judge Baxter Presiding at the Sep
TENDER Term == Not a Very
Heavy Calendar. =
Howard Indicted for Forgery and Al
so Grand Larceny-=He Gets
Reformatory Sentence.


and early last Monday morning and
opened the September term of the dis
trlct court at nine o'clock. There were
few attorneys present when court
opened, as most of them did not arrive
until the morning and afternoon trains
The first business taken up was the
calling of the grand jury and at roll
call there were just thirteen that an
sWered to their names, just three short
Of legal quorum to receive the Judges
charge and Instructions. Sheriff Clag-
gett was ordered to summon three ad-
ditional jurors and he soon returned
with A. Z. Norton O. J. Bergman and
Chauncey Brockman who were given
seats in the Jurors row and after being
charged by the court they were sworn
by Clerk of Court Briggs and placed in
charge Of Matt Ross. Frank Henschel
came in soon after and took the oath
before the clerk of court. j. D. Tam
appeared for duty but as he is hard of
hearing he asked to be excused and the
request was granted. John McCool
and 3. p. Price came in at the eleventh
hour and in time to accompany the
jurors to the jury room. L. w. Pier
son was appointed foreman by the court
and A. Z. Norton was chosen clerk.
When the grand jurors retired Judge
Baxter took up the calendar which was
not very voluminous affair." and it did
not require much time to run over the
cases and make a preliminary DISPOSE
ton OF the same. The first few cases
on the calendar were legal orders to
jack up some very dilatory tax payers
who have neglected to pay their per-
sonal property taxes, and two were
on hand during the day to ''render IN
to Cesar the things that are Caesars. -
Judgments were taken in the other
cases.
When court adjourned for the day
the following disposition had been made
of the calendar: 80 i ...-r..
Continued Cases-F. D. McMillen, VS..
NJ. S. Rutherford: Martin W. Hanks,
VS.. Geo. Locke, Alice Locke, his wife,
and John Bartlett: J. NJ. Stowe VS..
Mary J. Murphy, appellants: Donald
McCuaig VS.. John Neumann.
The case of Helen F. Cone and Eras-
tus H. Cone, VS.. Stephen Mccormick,
ct ais, fight over the division of some
real estate, a portion of an estate now
being probated, will be tried before
the court at the Benton county term.
Bessie G. Norton, in her action
against school district No. II, will be
allowed to amend her complaint.
The case of E Mark Live Stock Co.
against the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul Ry. Co., was settled out of court,
and the same treatment was given the
old-time case of the Plano Manufacture
ing Co. VS.. Frank Kaufert.
On motion of plaintiff the case OF
Mary q. Chadbourne against Kate Ke-
nelly, ct al. was dismissed.
There was a motion on the part OF
defendant made in the case of Gust
Sundvall VS.. P. P. Normo. to strike the
case from the calendar on the ground
that defendant who resides in Pope
county, had filed papers for a change
OF venue to that county, but MIR. Foster,
attorney for plaintiff, contended that
defendant had not properly filed proofs
OF service. The court took the matter
under advisement and denied the mo-
tion, the case being continued over the
term.
There were just two cases on the
criminal calendar, that against Frank
Goulding, and one against Louis Erick-
son, for selling liquor to a minor. Both
OF these cases were dismissed on mo-
ton of County Attorney Ross, and the
criminal calendar was in thetwinkling
of anoeye washed white as the driven
snow. It will be remembered that at
the April term of court the jury dis
ss2eed in the Goulding trial.
Tuesday morning Judge Baxter took
up the jury cases, and the first one
called was that of Martin Lynch, VS..
Foley Bean Lumber Co. Mr.. Lynch
brought an action for damages to his
meadow lands because OF flowage from
the trading post dam at the foot of
lower Rice lake or lake Onamia. He
asked for damages for the past six
years. His homestea d Of 100 acres lies
north of the lake short distance. and
he has seventy-fve acres of meadow
land, most of which he claimed was
damaged each year by the back water.
He estimated that the stumpage value
OF hay was worth from fifty cents to
Sl.5O per ton about the lake. and his
land would yield about two tons per
acre. The case consumed all the fore
noon and a part. of the afternoon. and