The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-26
CONCLUDES ITSW0RK
District Court Proceedings Ended on
Honday After a Grind of
One Weeks Duration.
Resume of the Cases Disposed of Sub
sequent to the Issue of Last
Number of the Union.

W >f1oAooS S.OO r. LIZ CuO
court proceedings drew to close
after duration of one week. In ad-
dition to the indictments enumerated
in last weeks Z n i o the grand jury
also indicted Geo. E. Sloan of the
Wahkon Enterprise for libel, the CON-
plant having been made by T. F..
Norton. The alleged libel, according
to the Indictment, consists in the
printing and distributing by Mr..
Sloan Of a circular relating to the
actions of said Norton while be was a
member of the board of county CON-
missioners.
A synoptic report of the cases not
finished at the time the Union went
to press last week are hereunder given.
Joseph A. feathers VS.. Emmett Mark
Chas. A. Dickey for plaintiff, E. L:
Mcmillan for defendant. This case,
continued from the last term of court,
was an action to recover money ad-
vanced and for labor performed. De-
fendant Mark failed to appear and
judgment was ordered to be entered
for plaintiff.
". 3. Mitchell VS.. C. J. Pinkham
and E. f. Woodworth Stewart &
Brewer for plaintiff, 1. C. Buell. and
". B. Douglas for defendants. Action
for ejectment, defendants claiming
title by adverse possession. The jury,
which was out twenty-four hours,
failed to agree.
r. John Peterson VS.. Edwin Sand
berg ct al. G. F. J. Goebel for plain
tiff, Stewart & Brewer for defendants.
Suit to recover $4,000 damages for
false arrest and Imprisonment. The
case was called before jury, part of
evidence submitted and dismissed by
plaintiff for reason that evidence
sought to be introduced by plaintiff
could not be admitted under pleadings.
Anti Sillfors. alias Andrew Heiner,
who on Thursday pleaded not guilty
to assault in the first degree, withdrew
his plea and entered one of guilty in
0AC SCSOAo OCSIOS. O1l1lOTS crime
consisted of making an attack upon
Chas. Rose with a knife at Wahkon
on September Is and inf1icting upon
him serious injury. Chas. A. Dickey,
appointed by the court to defend Sill
fors, made plea for clemency in con-
sequence of mitigating circumstances
surrounding the case and the Judge
sentenced him to the reformatory.
Chris. Erickson of Milaca acted as in
terpreter for Sillfors, who is Fin
lander.
The case of the State OF Minnesota
against Fay Cravens for libel was
continued by consent of parties
George King. who was indicted for
petit larceny at the April, 1908, term
OF court. pleaded guilty to the charge
and was fined $40. Jos. A. Ross rep
resented the state and Chas. A. Dickey
the defendant. The charge against
King was that of appro priating a $40
bill belonging to Gilbert Clough to
his own use. King paid his fine.
In the personal property tax pro-
ceedings against Joe Sherman, Clara
Horstman, Andrew Nelson. Thompson
Cattle Co. and John Mattson, five
separate cases, there was no appear
ance of the defendants and Judgment
was ordered for amount OF the taxes,
penalties, interest and COSTS
In a oaSa nf similar pof,,ro
Henry Erickson the court heard the
evidence and took the matter under
advisement.
I. F. Norton, who was indicted by
the grand jury for criminal libel at
the last term of court, was tried
and the jury returned YER
dict OF not guilty. County Attorney
Ross was assisted in the prosecution
bye. 81. Mackenzie of Onamia and
Geo. W. Stewart of the firm of Stewart
IL Brewer, St. Cloud, was of counsel
for defendant.
This case grew out of an article
printed in the Mile Laos Pioneer, a
paper published by Norton, in which
he commented on the cutting of tele-
phone wires at the lake and the
character of the manager of the tele-
phone line, 81. F. Mann of Cove. The
article referred to, under the caption
S''Telephone Line Butchered-Main
Wires Cut in Forty-four Places" etc.,
said. among other things, that bitter
feeling toward Manager 81. F. Mann
was thought to be the cause of destruc-
ton: that there existed bitter feeling
on the part of frozen-out stockholders
and abused patrons of the line: that
Mann and others assumed unwarranted
management, took peoples money for
stock and used it to suit themselves:
that no intelligent statement had ever