Arizona republican., 1913-05-10
GREAT RECORD
 OF U. $. COURT
Large Docket of Criminal and Civil Cases Handled in Short Term t United States S Wins Suit Against Chinese Medicine

me wonderful record of the Arizona federal court in it's session now draw Ing to a close has been commented upon very freely by many who know of what they speak. The expedition with which matters before Judga Morrow have been tried can nowhere be better illustrated thar by tbe fol- towing extract made from his official docket by William Hawkins. his sec retary.
 Criminal Cases
 Indictments returned by United
 State grand jury impaneled
 April 21, 1913 142 Pleas of guilty in cases returned
 by the grand jury ..117 Tried and found guilty - Q Tried and found not guilty 6 Otherwise disposed of .. 10
 There was one criminal case pend ing on the calendar which the court disposed of It was the Stewart murder case There were an even two dozen cases pending at the com mencement of the term. but of these only the one was brought up at the part of the term so far passed. Of the twenty -four indictments remain ing, the most interesting and import ant are those four against James B Alexander and the one against Alex ander and D. J. Lander together.
 Civil Cases
 Civil cases in which the United States was party were disposed of as follows:
 Cases finally disposed of on merits. 3 Cases disposed of by motions or de-
 murrers .-..-................-
 The United States not a party:
 Cases finally disposed of on merits 3 Cases disposed of by motions or de-
 murrers .....-............... Bankruptcy cases referred .3 Bankrupts discharged ...2
 Dope Will Be Burned
 The United States of America vs nine hundred and eighty-seven pack ages of Chinese medicine. That is the title of one of the strangest cases ever brought up before the fed eral court of Arizona. At least this is the first time a similar action has been sued out with all the formal legal and judicial procedure. The United States won the case
 The defendant is now at Nogales awaiting capital punishment. For it was the order of the court that the packages of highly morphinated opium cure" should be destroyed by the office of the United States mar shaL Having advertised for owners. and having received no claim, the court went on to take it's regular course. In the presence of the court officials, district attorney and his as sistant and a few newspaper men Judge Morrow yesterday condemned the boxes to be eXterminated. After pronouncing the sentence, Judge Nor row told story about a case in which the United States with its two legislative houses, it's supreme court, federal courts, federal mar shals, army, navy and all the para phernalia of the law proceeded against a single unstamped box of matches. At another time the fed eral court of California proceeded against and confiscated fifteen thous- and wooden cases, built, stamped and prepared for the packing of Cali fornia champagne under the brands and labels of imported French wine And strangely enough, said his honor the California papers never noticed the action, interesting though it was. The 9S7 boxes of Chinese medicine were captured by two customs in spectOrs riding the line at Alamo canyon near Nogales. Two men were seen riding across with a lot of bundles. on being chased by the of ficers, they dropped their loads and vanished. The medicine was taken to the customs office and a part of it analysed by the chemists in the l bureau of agriculture It was found 1 to be largely morphine, a derivative of opium, the craving for which it was guaranteed to cure This hap pened in January.
 | This action was the only one taken 1 before Judge Morrow yesterday. The l morning session was adjourned almost 1 as soon as it was called. The after noon session lasted just long enough l for the court to order the dope de- l stroyed and to tell the story. Judge Morrow Leaves Judge Morrow leaves tonight for San Francisco, arriving Sunday night. baffling pursuit At Bisbee, under the name of sam Novak he had