The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-10-28
COURT ON
Only Two Civil Cases Are for
Trial BY Jury.
Session will Probably Not Last
the Week Out.
The Grand Jury Has but Little
Work Before II.
q "a A. n~~a,,au &o~ TnI~ rk a - a
Suit to Recover for Telephone
Supplies on Trial.
From Tuesdays Daily.

From Tuesdays Daily.
The October term of the United States
court convened at ten o'clock this fore
noon, with large attendance. Judge
Lochren is presiding, and other court
officials present are Clerk Charles L..
Spencer and Henry ID. Lang, United
Deputy United States Marshals T. j.
Sheehan and William Grimshaw Jr..
United States District Attorney AL. j..
Smith and Second Assistant United
States District Attorney j. M. Dickey. 1t
is two years sing Mr.. Lang has attended
the sessions of the court in this city,
owing to illness and travelling. His
friends are pleased to see him back. He
appears to have. perfectly recovered his
health.
The calendar of civil cases was called,
and the following disposition was made
of the cases upon it:
The Minnesota and Dakota Cattle
company VS.. the Chicago & Northwestern
Railway company, continued by con-
sent.
The Globe Automatic Telephone com
pany VS.. the Mutual Telephone company,
read for trial by jury.
I. L. Bratager VS.. Jacob Lampert,
ready for trial by jury.
Eugene Masterson VS.. Patrick j. Nc
Elroy, demurrer interposed by defendant,
and arguments to be heard or briefs
filed.
Albert L. Young, as trustee in bank
ruptcy for William Webster, bankrupt,
VS.. John Webster and A. w. Webster,
not for trial. A stipulation has been
made between the parties for judgment
against A. w. Webster, and as against
John Webster to be dismissed without
costs or disbursements.
There were no motions to be heard,
and the rolls of the grand and petit jur-
ors were cahed. j. H. O'Neil of Park
Rapids was appointed foreman of the
grand jury, and that body received it's
instructions and was sent out.
The following jurors answered to their
names:
Grand Jury-H. C. Kenward, Noun
tain Lake; NJ. B. Johnson, Brownsville !;
c. c. Crawford, Kasson; Geo. S. Harmon,
Rochester; H. NJ Fisk, Mapleton; F. A.
Walker, Pipestone; HI. o. Olson, Rollog;
Frank H. Kaiser, Watertown; George c.
Miles, Fergus Falls; Fred Beltz, Boyd !;
Albert Bollenbach, Claremont; j. HI.
O'Neil, Park Rapids; j. j. McNulty,
Manannah; Courtney Buell., La Prairie !;
c. 0. Henry Point Douglas; Henry o.
son, Lake Crystal; j. A. Harroun, Luz
verne; Frank Cummings, Blue Earth !;
Griffith o. Jones, Lake Crystal; John
Schaffer, st. Cloud; VIM. P. Lardner,
Duluth.
Petit Jury-Paul Iverson, Mankato;
E. X. Woodbury., Anoka; A. R. Flygare,
Sherburne; Henry A. Reed, Olivia; C. c.
Hetherington, Herman; Manuel B.
Hutchinson, jackson; Arthur J. Sisson,
Rochester; George w. Edison, Mantor-
vile; J. w. johnson, Waseca; j. H.
Lee, Kasson; Charles H. Porter, Morgan;
G.. d. Post, Lake City; James R. Alex
ander, Tracy; Fred H. Knox, Willmar;
Fred d. Perkins, Winona; II. w. Bailey,
Bemidji; Johnston Wagner, Moorhead
Fred Tomilson, LIE Sueur; Charles Kram-
er, Melrose; S. n. Wheaton, Caledonia !;
bert Lea; H. C. Strumnas, GAINESVILLE;
n. G. Poore, Bird Island; Henry NJ. Buck,
Waseca; o. w. Johnson, Amboy; John
+. Lamp, Stewartville; George F. Faber,
Chaska; Peter o. Hansen, Twin Valley;
George F. Constans, Blue Earth.
| The trial of the case of the Globe Au-
tomato Telephone company VS.. the Mu-
tual Telephone company was begun, NJ. E..
Fulda appearing for the plaintiff and d.
A. Stewart of Window for the defend
ant. The plaintiff is Chicago company
that deals in telephone supplies, and it
sold some automatic phones to the de-
PENDANT, which has a telephone line in
jackson and Cottonwood counties. The
defendant claims that the instruments
did not work satisfactorily, and the
plaintiff is seeking to recover for them.
The grand jury has commnced its
work, and will probably get through to.
day, as it does not seem to have very
much before it.
Charles A. Heath of Wells, who was to
have stood trial at this term on the
charge of having made fraudulent
pension affidavit and voucher, did not
appear today, but filed an affidavit of
his physician that he is sick abed. He is
over seventy years of age.
| 1t is not thought that the term will