Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-06-01
COURT OPENS
NEXT MONDAY
Judge Cheadle Calls the Calendar
and Sets the Cases for Trial
at Coming Term.
THE CALENDAR is A LONG ONE
Seven Criminal Cases and Sixteen
Civil Cases Will be Heard
Many Cases Are Dismissed.

JuuBe r.. Il. Cheadle last thursday
afternoon called the calendar OF cases
now pending before the district court
and set the dates for the trial of
those which are to be heard at the
coming term. AS previously stated,
the regular jury term of court will
open next Monday and from the list
OF cases which have been docketed
for trial, the term will be a long one,
extending well into July. One case is
set for hearing July 9Th and 1t is not
expected that the term will close be-
fore that date.
There are five cases on the Grim
lnal docket which will be disposed Of
at the beginning of the term. The
case Of state VS.. Grunwald will open
the session on the 9th. Grunwald.
who is well known here and in Ken.
dali, having run hotels in both places,
is charged with a statutory crime and
certain features of his trial promise
to be more or less tropical. Elsie
Quinn, OF Kendall. is the complaining
witness and the crime with which
Grunwald Is charged is alleged to
have been committed while he was
proprietor of the Shaules hotel in the
North Moccasin camp.
After Grunwald has had his inning.
for which one day is allowed, Harry
Koch pronounced Cook will go on
trial on the charge of murder. | the
afternoon of the 18th of February
last, Koch fired a rifle shot through
the door of Joseph Vander's saloon
in Stanford, striking Wander in the
head and killing him instantly. In
a preliminary hearing, conducted be-
fore Justice Korell, a few days after
the shooting occurred, Koch was held
for trial before the district court on
the charge of murder. Four days
were allotted for the trial of this case
and it will probably consume that
time, as the state alone has thirteen
witnesses endorsed on the complaint
Huntoon, Worden & Smith are the
attorneys for the defense.
The trial of Frank Biglen on the
charge of stealing some horses be
longing to James p. Henderson, oil
Gilt Edge, will be called June 18th
In October of last year Henderson
missed five head of horses from the
pasture In which they were being
kept. Several weeks later Tug" Will
son found the horses in a deep and
unfrequented coulee near the place
where they had been kept. The Off
GERS worked on the case until aboui
the middlesof April. when Frank Big
len and Barney Hedigan were arrest
ed on the charge of stealing thu
horses. The men will be tried sep
arately. although the charges agains
them are the same. Two days are al
lowed for each trial.
The last cases on the criminal dock
ct are those against Johua Rawtoi
and James Hill, who are charged will
having b~urglarized Ed. Taylor's sheel
camp on the 10th of last March. The,
will have separate trials on the 1Gtl
and 18th days of June.
The following cases were dismiss
ed:
Kruse VS.. Kruse, Woolsey VS.. Han
son and Stone, Donovan VS.. Sherwood
Hurvitch VS.. France, Atkinson VS.
Rafter; Judith Hardware company VS.
Rafter, Morrison VS.. Matthews, Tai
lor VS.. Moshner, Lehe VS.. Simons, Nc
Kechnie VS.. Smith, Speer VS.. Green
Magallon VS.. Magallon, Smith VS.. La
void, Judith Hardware company VS.
Thompson. Roberts VS.. Bright, Dav
ids VS.. Bright, Holman VS.. Montan;
Mines company, Smith vs.. Smith ant
Ledeaux VS.. Matthews.
The civil set for trial and tn,
dates of each are as follows: Tail
Ion VS.. Mears, June 18th; Jones VS.
Won Tobel, July 6; Dewitt VS.. Bran
son, June 20; Christensen Us. Lind
strand, July 2; COIN VS.. Slater, sher
III, June 81; Pulec VS.. Cohn, June %
Shepard VS.. Slater, June %; Barnes
VS.. Cort ct al, July 8; Deranleau VS.
Montana r. r. Co.. June 81; Cox VS.
Hamilton. June "a; Riser VS.. Stuart
ct al. July Z; Riser VS.. Long, Jul.
s: Zilisch VS.. Zilisch, June rs; Leh
man VS.. Knapp, June 80; Thompson
VS.. Edwards, June 80; Anderson VS.
Harmon. July l.