The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-03
IT'S A BIG ONE.
Docket in District Court Con-
tains S26 Cases.
There Are SO State Cases
Among the Number.
TWO UP FOR MURDER.
Sixteen Have to Do With Viola-
tions of ProhibitOry Law.
Fewer Divorce Cases Than
Usual Are Scheduled.

What promises to be one of the
busiest court terms in the history of the
district court of this locality, and ono
which will keep A. W. Dana, the pre-
siding judge, working overtime, was in
augurated today when the trial and mo-
ton docket of the civil cases for this.
the September term of the court, was
called by the judge, as the pre-
urinary step for the arrangement of
the business of the court
The jury for this term of the court
will not assemble until the twenty third
OF the month. SO no jury trials. unless a
special emergency should demand, will
De held until that date. Between the
opening of the term today and the date
when the jury trials will begin, the at
tention of the court will be devoted to
nearing court cases, of which there
are many of as many varieties involv-
ing questions, technical and otherwise,
some even petty, but sufficient when
taken as whole to tax the judgment of
Solomon and his patience as well.
According to the docket for the en-
tire term, as prepared by r. l.. Thomas,
the clerk of the district court, there are
326 cases on it, including civil and
criminal AS the term progresses cases
will be added from time to time and the
chances are that $50 will be put on be-
fore the term ends about the first of
the year. OF course there will be a
number of cases on the docket which
Will be settled out of court or which
VIII not have the issues drawn suf-
hciently to permit of their going to trial.
This number will not be large, however.
There is a great array of state
cases, those where crimes are charged,
which are on the docket and which will
be the first ones to be taken up after
the Esd of the month when the jury as
sembles for work They number 55. OF
these two are cases where murder is
charged, Is where violations of the pro-
hibitory law are charged, two charging
criminal assaults, eleven charging theft
one case of contempt of court, one
gambling house case one libel case,
and two cases where forgery is the Of
Tense charged.
There are also other actions wherein
variety of other crimes is charged,
ing and several cases wherein the
charge of assault with intent to kill.
When these state" cases are dispos-
ed of the city cases. of which there
are 20 on the docket, will be taken up.
OF this number there are So gambling
cases appealed from the city court.
After the state. and Getty" cases
have been disposed of the civil cases
needing trial by jury, will be taken
up. Many of these are the most i'm
portant suits of their sort which have
been before the district court for years
Last but by no means least are the
divorce cases on the docket. These
seem to be looked on as hybrid sort of
affairs as they are doeketed all by
themselves, not being attached to
either the civil or Criminal end of
the court business. There are but 81
of these cases on the docket now but
this number will be doubled in all likeli-
hood before the term ends.