The Alaska daily empire., 1921-03-22
TWO JUDGES ARE PRESIDING OVER
 DISTRICT COURT
Criminal Cases Are Given to Judge Brown-Four Men
 Are Sentenced.

dlt lOudy pIeStuluS ONeT ztue DiSti ic' Court, Judge Fred NJ. Brown of the Third Division, who arrived last night from his headquarterss at Val dez, holding court in the former grand jury room. and Judge Robert Jennings presiding in the regular trial court room.
 At the opening of the days ses- sion, Judge Jennings, in a written opinion, overrhled the demurrer Of Attorney J. Hellenthal, in the case of Mary Koski against the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company in which the plaintiff IS suing for Sl0,000 damages for death of her husband. Mir llellenethal demurred, holding thatthe verdict ofa jury in a previous case decided the status of the $10,000 damage case. Var ious authorities were submitted last Saturday afternoon and Judge Jen- nin2s took the matter under advise men:. making his decision this morning in open court.
 Judge Jennings then announced that the criminal cases would be tried before Judge Brown.
 Goldstein Case Starts.
 Judge Jennings, by agreement of attorneys of both sides, then an nounced that drawing of jury in the case of Isadore Goldstein against the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co would start This case is for $21,- 800 damages growing out of the slide on January ?, 1920.
 Thirty names were drawn from the box sand the owrk of securing jury started at ? o'clock.
 At II o'clock today, four men were taken into Court and se1- tences were passed by Judge Jen- nings.
 II. E. Fenning, recently convicted of petit larceny and also for having material in his possession for manu- facture of intoxicating liquor, was the first called. The Judge inter- rogated Fenning, who said, he was 22 years of age, and tried to draw out from his reasons for doing crim inal things.
 Fenning admitted he had been in jail before, and after serving his sentence in the local Federal jail had tried to secure jobs but had been pointed out as a man who could not be trusted.
 Judge Jennings said he must get rid of the idea that he amounted so much as to be pointed out" and must abandon his criminal career. Fenning was then sentenced tol three months in jail on each cQnvic- tion, sentence to run concurrent, but Judge Jennings said the sen tence was only tentative depending upon Fennings conduct in jail whether the sentence would be changed to a penitentiary sentence.
 Joe Smith, Frank Neel and Harry Baker, who recently pleaded guilty tothe charge of larceny, purloining the gasboat Nugget and other arti- cles were then called before Judge Jennings and quizzed separately. Judge Jennings then gave each sentence of six months in the Fed eral jail, this only to be tentative, and resting solely upon the conduct Of the men while remaining in GUS tody If their conduct was such as to change his opinion the men would be again brought before the Judge and sentenced to the peniten' tiary.
 Judge Brown Holds Court.
 At II o'clock, Judge Fred M Brown convened court in the grand jury room and work on securing jury started. The case before Judge Brown is that of the United States ys. Pete Carlson and Nels Peterson, recently indicted by the Federal Grand Jury on four counts, alleg- ing violations of the liquor laws. Many prospective jurors were call ed this forenoon and were found to be disqualified. An open venire vas issued for 23 more men return able at o'clock this afternoon when the work of securing the jury was resumed.
 The Lest of job work, of all kinds