The Beaumont enterprise. [volume] (Beaumont, Tex.) 1904-current, 1904-10-14
NEWS OF THE COURTS.
BIDS WERE OPENED BY The CON-
MlssloNERs.
AYRICA BROS. THE LOWEST
ireland & Co, Were sK Cents Too
tiish-oldes, Case on the
Doekst he Settled.


Several Important judgments and
DEGREES were ti,ed yesterday with the
district oaurt for recording, The
judgments had been rendered before,
as chrOnlcled in these columns, The
Mona Mills company rs Kirby Lumber
company represented perhaps the
largest Judgment ever granted In these
courts. The suit was over the posses
sion II large quantity Of pine land,
IN. Judgment amounts To sl65,UoO and
the award OF the laad, The decree Is
quite lengthy. giving The field notes OF
all the property In question,
The ease Of Texas Tram aud l.um-
her company vs. Donaldson a Hines,
ia" oldest civil action on the docket,
has al last been sctllcd by agreement,
Tho Judgment rccitcs that the plalnlln
shall have Judgment against j. d.,
Hines In the sum of SilIll and inter.
est. and that the defendant trustees
q; the church shall pay all the costs Of
court. This case involves the amount
due 10 the company for lumber FUR
nishcd Donaldson .- Hines, with which
thcy partially constructed the large
negro church ON Wall street The ium-
her was furnished back In 1896. and |
tho suit was filed then. II IS the old
est suit for damages on the district
court docket
q. H. Bowen. trustee, rs. Texas d
New Orleans Railway company is set.
tied by agreement and dismissed.
As stated elsewhere in these col.
umns. the county commissioners met
In special session 10 open bids for the
furnishing of shell or stone 10 Jefcr-
sen county. one quantity being wanted
nj Beaumont and the other at Port
Arthur. Two bids were received, the
lowest being Myrick Bros. for the
Beaumont work. while al PORT Arthur
the bids were tied. While the com
missiOners were in session they dis
cnsscd informally the letter of II. Il.
Betty, candidate for county judge, and
the members decided that they would
answer the charges and show the err
rcnCous and misleading features of the
letter to the entire satisfaction Of the ,
peop'e of jefferson county. The
statement will probably be signed by
ali the commissioners and perhaps
Judge Wheat.
Wednesday afternoon before Judge
Pope the hearing in the matter of the
contempt proceedings brought against ,
Constable machen, Deputy Constable
81 al '
Sam Cunningham, all OF ~'rr Lake
was cG.lled. ana on account of the I
court being engaged in another matter I
the hearing was postponed until this 5
Iuorning at 9 o'clock. The bench war |
rant for contempt against Flores was t
oily issued Wednesday morning, and L
The defendant was not in court, Meth
er was Constable Machen. The court t
ordered Freeman and Cunningham a
placed under bonds in the sum of $500 {
zach for their appearance before the "
court, and warrants were issued for C
Machen and Flores. The contempt h.
grew out of an alleged 81
of an injunction issued by
Judge Pope last week relating to an +
Ill well at Sour Lake. Il
In the Fifty-eighth district court ar e
,ument on the plea of privilege brought il
" the defendants in the case of w. ". IA
sell VS.. Wilson ID. Wing ct al. was c,
gain up before the court. The plea of
excerpts to the jurisdiction Of
he court on the ground that the de-
are non-residents and cannot I,
,c legally sued in the district court y
a tnn Of III E,t haap
lade by the court. -
Other orders made in cases on the
ury civil docket for the day were: Is
o. Sudano VS.. S. Geraci; reset for ~
october p. "
Chicago Texas Syndicate VS.. Thomas
'ronin ct al: continued by order Of ri
he court. no counsel appearing for d;
ithcr side al
+. c. Collins ct al VS. John McKin. N
cy: withdrawn from jury docket ry
mutual consent. and jury fees ordered an
, be returned to plaintiff Case reset cl
Or November is next. d,
In the county court all cases save =,
nc were continued on account of the ~.
vet that the county attorney and
ssistant county attorney are engaged f.t
I the criminal district court Mr.. &.
I. Howth represented the state as
-sistant county attorney in the only ~
iso that went TO trial. which was that '"
cainst T. Pipes. charged with mlaw-
lily killing a dog The complaint a
aainst fIpcs was me- lc 10y G. VI. Mich. 20
Us Justice G. : Brown was r,jainr1I '"'
v the accused. and tho ryidenc, was
one into n length and argued hv thal "p
IunSoL u seems that pipes accused sl'
lc Nichols dog of killing his chick.
rs. and one day bo GOT gun and -hH. Cd
lc dog An interesting f,a'ur, Of. Nn
.o trial was the TESTIMONY cot Tflr .P.
lfonzo Nichols. Tho child is hardly Ga
ore than six wears oi age and y,.. h"l
I've "a very coherent statement .f 81
hat had occurred az o.. tim, fH.. .aa
ichpli- dog met his death Justice |a
: Brown read 3D.. law and SUBJ. Fr
l'fod his case while g. vs. HuH nU
AIDE quite an address in fh, matter
be- case was tried lr a HpHaf -rr. .f. q
3 "a veterans in fhs irrr .r-.r.a. hH
boz returned a verdict bon short fine ff.
nof guilty H'r
Other cases FOR The day H.r. ..rf1r.. Er
a. including the case of Pm O.. .a r..
arced vIh rhe rhaf #f .H-. .ifr.-
90 -r uI sch case A-rH-r.F War Ora. :
~ De- engaged c..
ln +hr ease aF % o. ra-- -. On
ira- Fa Hlng Hfo. Mullins l.-.rarr. .a-r,
which afIae. .I.ra rf rfH.a-.." .f .r. .a
80. Hr.s. rHH.+ HHH.. Ha.. Odd. .a." 80.