The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-12-05
S[D|T|0N|ST TO
CO ON TRIAL IN
FEDERAL COURT
Charge Against Kate Richards
0Hare of St. Louis First to
be Called Here
JIM JAM JEMS ACTION
SECOND ON CALENDAR
Early Hearing Promised-1m-
portant Civil Actions Seek
Heavy Damages


Heavy Damages
Kate Richards O'Hare, socialist lee
turer and author, indicted by fed
eral grand jury in Fargo last summer
for alleged seditious remarks made
during an address at Bowman, went
on trial in the United States district
court here this afternoon before Judge
Wade Of Iowa, called in for the spe.
cial term by Judge c. F. AmidOn.
Mrs. O'Hare arrived at noon from
the east, accompanied by her attor-
ney, V. r. Lowell, of Fargo. A large
number OF witnesses have been called,
principally people from Bowman and
vicinity who are alleged to have heard
the remarks against which complaint
was made.
Court Opened This Morning.
The adjourned March term opened
in the federal court room this morn
ing, with the call of the calendar,
which Judge Wade dispensed with in
a very little time The O'Hare sedi-
ton case was set first in order for
trial, and the two cases against S.
H. Clark and c. H. Crockard, charged
with misuse of the United States
mails in connection with the publica-
ton of Jim Jam Jems, are next on
the calendar. Fisk, Murphy & Linde
are representing the defendants, who
are in court a fourth time on this
charge, having once been acquitted,
once convicted and the jury in third
case disagreeing.
Claims Heavy Damages. f..
A civil action of much local interest
Is that of Ruth P. Johnson versus
the. Northern Pacific Railway Co., in
which Mrs. johnson claims damages
in the sum of $32,769 for the death of
her husband, killed on the Third
street crossing of the Northern Pa
cific last summer when fiat car be-
ing hacked eastward on the passing
track caught .Iohnson's automobile
broadside and, carried it half block,
wrecking the machine and instantly
killing the driver. 3D.
Another, civil action OF statewide
interest is Mrs. Annie G. Blake versus
the Great Northern Railway Co. Mrs.
Blake is the widow of William A.
Blake of Jamestown, for many years
state agent for various charities. In
the pursuit of his duties last summer
Blake was struck by Great North
ern train on the Surrey cutoff at
Juanita and killed. His widow al
leges that this public crossing was
not properly maintained by the rail
way company; that sand had oeen
allowed to collect, and that the SKID.
ding of Blake's car in this sand killed
his engine and left him helpless in
the path of the onrushing train.
Winters Case Goes Over.
The criminal action against Charles
F. (Kid) Winters of Mandan, charged
with selling intoxicating liquors to a
nartv of national guardsmen from Ft
Lincoln last summer, will be con
timed. inasmuch as the governments
most important witnesses now are
probably on the water en- route 70
france with the 164th U. S. infantry
Joseph Couture, a Standing ROCK
halfbreed, who has been tried several
times for horse stealing, is up again
with a number of witnesses from inc
reservation. There are two separate
cases on this calendar in which Cou
ture is the defendant. 1t was chargen
in former actions against Couture tha'
he was a member of gang OF rustlerS
which stole horses on this side OF the
line and disposed of them In Sour
Dakota. The jury in the case trlec
at the last term here disagreed.
Scott Case UP.
The case of r. A. Scott versus thf
Northern Pacific, suit to recover
damages for injuries sustained when
freight engine bumped way-car II
which Scott was travelling, accom-
nanying a train of livestock, will elth
or he settled or dismissed and recon
menced in the Morton county dis
trict court. Scott resiues at Judson
lanes Mcdowell of the Standin;
Rock country is up for perjury II
connection with the last Couture trla!
Axel Nelson, D. w. Enyart and Ralpl
shafer are to be tried on Charge
If introducing IulOAASoIi'o --1
indian reservations. The same charg
;s preferred against one Reo roao
ster which the United States is s"'"'
adm Fisk, Murphy and Linde de1end
ing in a civil action.
~ Jurors Here.
Jurors here for the term are: IRE
n pantheon, Flasher; c. d. Gov, LIZ
hon: VIM. ]. Morrow. Grand FORKS FORKS,
G. l., Williams, Colgate; Josep
FISCHER, Wales; w N. Nortz' De'll
Lake: Geo. Mcintyre, Grafton; A; l.
Peart. Chaffee; Herman Garbe' hra
mer: F.. E. Shaw, Sheldon; one Ness 1S
Steele: Fred Bangaste, Bowoells; w
F Ross, Steele; N. A. Graves Carr'n y
ton: c. A. Barrett, Watford Guy, r
r walker, Devils Lake; John r. Art.
Antler: william Gill. Wheatland;
steinecker, Ventura: D. A. cross
Minor: Geo. Dickinson, Brlnsmaae
r. W. Blaisdell, Williston: A. NJ Ret
don Mandan: G. r. Cook, Gardher