The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-05-24
DISTRICT COURT Is
SET FOR JUNE 20
ONE LAWSUIT INVOLVES BANK
ER PIPES AND ANOTHER a
QUEEN AND a KING IN LER-
~ COUNTY.

GH FtFE0 AM AM ' TEN -
QUEEN AND A KING IN Lem
~ COUNTY.
the court have been advised thaf
Judge Cowen viii not be able TO hold
the May srssion of the district court
i in Salmon next Tuesday but has
/ postponed Il 10 June 80, when Judge
Ensign viii be present 20 preside.
At that time Judge Cowen viii sit ON
The bench for Judge Ensign in the
laitFT's district JaTiRs may be cali
ed on open venire.
The district court Is expected to
convene In Salmon on May 28. Ii ii
not presumed there viii be a jury
called, though important litigation
is TO come on for trial.
Judge Cowen has not yet indicar.
ed whether he himself win be pres
ent or secure the services OF anOth-
er iuFist 10 preside az the session. II
another Judge be assigned here lt Is
believed judge Ensign may come as
he has In hand the custer proceed
tngs pending against the board OF
county commissioners. which. as un-
lderstood, will come up not later than
June.
Probably the most important III.
igation Immediately Ia sight ~ the
damage suit against the Pioneer
Bank q Trust company. OF which A.
w Pipes is the controlling factor.
Pipes bank Ii sued BY q. G. Beebee.
cashier 0f Salt Lake banking instt-
4 tuition for damages for the alleged
removal of a vault door and fmrni-
bHttpt fRfFe4 h,a Il sYss4fF ette HatkfN.
ing In salmon at the time OF the re-
imoyal of the Pioneer bank therefrom
II was claimed by Pipes that his
bank had bought the vault door and
furniture 10 question but the oppus-
ing contention Is that the articles re-
moved were parts Of the real estate
and belonged 20 the f.angsdlrif bank
and should have been left In the
building when II was sold under
mortgage foreclosure Cherry rep
rcsents tho plaintiff ia the action
land Whlteomb the Pipes bank, The
! amount Of damages claimed Il put a.
: $4,000,
Then there are some OF the per
ennial sheep cases 20 come on again.
one of these inynlveg charge
against the sheep queen of Lerhi
county and another Of a fotn,ar rat
tie king who embarked In the sheep
business not long agu. thus bring
ing down upon his kingly head the
wrath OF his erstwhile associates IN
the use OF the range. Surely In these
trnublous times there Is no divinity
thR, doth hedge about royalty, al
though Bill Shakespeare said there
was. And whether king or clown be
engaged in the important industry ~
ranging sheep nowadays, II N folly
for the prosecutors In these cases
, ever 10 expect a conviction even "
. the nockmasterE do run sheep occas-
ionaily where cattle used 10 roam In
ages past aud gone II all the cases
are not laughed out of court II win
be surprising. with nothing ~ a re-
! minder Of them but long trail Of
costs 10 lead 10 every mans door aS
taxpayer.
with reference 10 the court case
against the board OF county commits.
Rioncrs the taxpayers behind ie say
that aa soon aR this matter shall be
disposed Of another suit will be en-,
tered against the Pioneer bank and
: Keeler Bros. the purchasers of the
issue OF county bonds last year In
tended for highway Improvement. tn
recover the fuil proceeds of the sale,
! In which Il II claimed. the county
. WAS short changed 90 a very ronsid
! orabie amount when the bonds were
: transferred for actual cash through
Z the Pioneer bank. n the custer pro
2 lccedinas against the commissioner
. shall 70 against them they would h.
deprived ~ their Office NJ once all
8 though siili having the right Of ap
e peal II "a said that other contem
plated suits involving the recoyerS
of Illegal salary allowances viii hs
obyiafed by the return Of The sums
wronRfuily drawn. while certain ap
pcais from allowances made by the
commissioners are stiil pending IN
court