The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1909-02-12
Judge A. @. Sc 'vened BottIneau
County o':trIct 'enday.
AMDERs0Ns ARE NOW ON TRIAL
Charged With Stealing Wheat on
6ergeron Farm.--odegaard
Convicted.

the February term of the dis
trict court at 1Oo'clock Monday
morning. The docket is a long
one and will probably take
several weeks to complete. AS
Judge Burr has appeared as
attorney in a number of the
cases on the calendar, he will
exchange benches with other
judges in order that these
may be tried at this term.
Judge E. b. Goss will be here
March 1. This being a legal
holiday there are no sessions
of court today.
When court adjourned yes
terday the Anderson wheat
stealing case was on trial. At
it's conclusion the case of the
state VS. l.. K. Hoheim, charged
with the theft of wheat in the
west part of the county, will
be taken up.
The calendar was called and
the following criminal cases
stricken from the docket: State
VS.. August Voelcker, peace
bond; state VS.. Reece Ander-
son, grand larceny; state vs..
Clarence Erwin (should be
Irwin); state VS.. Addie 3.
Armstrong, adultery; state VS..
S. ]. Gibson. injunction.
The following criminal cases
were set for trial: state VS..
Henry -Zuleger, keeping and
maintaining common nui-
sance; state VS.. Thos. O'Neal,
keeping and maintaining a
common nuisance.
The following civil cases
were dismissed and stricken
off the calendar by order of the
court: VIM: E. Schroeder vs..
John Whitneir; James Balan-
tyne VS.. John Grim.
The following cases have
been settled and were dis
missed: w. ]. Armstrong VS..
Robert Armstrong. Sr.; Chas.
Welkos VS.. Robert Minkel;
Olson & Rekken VS.. VIC. Derby;
Rogers Lumber company vs..
Carl and Fred Hahn; Rogers
Rogers company VS.. Carl and
Fred Hahn ct al; Otto Schraeder
VS.. James Black more; State
bank of Souris VS.. Lloyd Wand
Kate Wells; Geo. w. Tilton
VS.. Samuel Gibson, defendant,
and Herman Oelschlager, garn-
ishee; E. l.. Mountjoy VS.. NJ.
b. Kortgaard; Patrons Ex-
change VS.. l. w. Collins, de-
fendant, and John Ve)lema,
garnishee; Robert A. Nc
Brayne VS.. Park H. Lille.
The case of the State vs..
Oscar Oustad, charged with
the crime of bastardy, has been
dismissed with the consent of
the parties. ~
The petit jurors reported
Tuesday morning. All those
drawn Ia list of whom was
published in last weeks Cou-
rant reported, except H. l..
Thomkins of Blaine township
who was not found by the
sheriff. r. J. Murphy of Rus
sell, being an attorney, was
excused from service and r. H.
Fairfield of Gardena was ex-
cused for two weeks.
The first case called for trial
was the state VS.. Hans A. Ode
gard, charged with assault
and battery with intent to kill.
Odegaard struck his wife with
a grub hoe a month ago. The
case was tried to the following
jurors: Peter Halvorson. B. F.
FELTON,, w. b. Nelson, Andrew
Olson, Chas Berg, VIM. Hep
pier, c. w. Doman, G. w.
Balsley, Jacob Henes, Ole
Nyhus, Jos. Croisettier, Jr.,
John Sem. 1t went to the jury
shortly after noon Wednesday.
They brought in a verdict of
guilty of assault with intent
to com NIT great bodily injury
A. Besancon appeared for the
defendant, and J. ]. Weeks for
the state.
The wheat stealing case was
next taken up and the follow
Jurors summoned: A. NJ. Ha-
gen, F. K. Inman, Jos. Rebel,