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Idiosyncrasies
Of the Bench
It I§ narrated of Lord Ellenborough.
who gas lord chief justice of the king’s
benoh early to the preceding cet.turv,
tbatr, ‘‘The bias which chie3v carried
Ellenborough's mind astray waa a sus
picion of fraud. Be bad a very indif
ferent opinion of human natnre. Me
delighted in discovering wljat he con
sidered a fraudulent contrivance on the
part of the pontiff or of the defendant
and tn unraveling it. I have beard
Scarlett jocularly boast that he had got
many,a verdict by humoring this pro
penalty, just giving the hint very re
motely to the chief justice and allowing
his lordship all the pleasure and eolat
of exposing and - reprobating the
cheat,”
One of the judges wbcgost on the
bencl^ of the Fourth divlafji within my
time had a very pronounced idiosyn
crasy, in that be was never willing to
give a decision which rested solelv
upon the law as put forth in the brief
and argument* of counsel but must
find soma omitted point which would
afford the opportunity for it to appear
that be bad given the cane closer study
than had counsel
This idiosyncrasy was early noticed,
and humored, not that, so far as known.
Haver won or lost a case, but if. as did
occasionally happen, we wished to post
pone the handing down of a decision
i we labored mightily to produce and to
- presept every possible point and au
I thority, both important and trivial, and
I then ”shot the works.rr The judge in
Machine, Black
smith and
Sheet Metal Work
; All Kinds of Repairs
«
Stoves Built
arm Repaired
\ ;
Robt. 1* kpwrie
[Tokotna, A tasks
variably came back, in time, either
with the desired overlooked point or
some decidedly different slant to an old
one, but we sometimes had him up a
tree for months.
And what about the idiosyncrasies of
the present presiding judge? Well,
we have not vet bad the opportunity of
w Tki,ng before him enough to know
what they are—and wouldn’t tell if we
did, for we hope to practice before him
for many years yet.
But we have learned some of hi*
traits. For instance, we have learned
Coat when he has a case in hand he i*
an indefatigable worker and that it
will not do to assume that because you
have the opposing counsel beaten you
have vour case won—the judge may j
b'at you. And, also, he is not afraid
& > change his mind, as we have found
to our some time sorrow. Neverthe
less, both of these traits are most ex
Calient ones in a judge.
Geo. W, albreqpt.
Doctors Cut Out Heart:
Squeeze Bullet From It
Chicago.—County hospital surgeons
today cut out Max Peck’s heart,
squeezed a bullet from It, put It back
into position and sewed him up. And,
though little interested in present af
fairs, Max Peck was alive tonight and
probably will recover At the same
time Max’s abilitv as e. .manufacturer
of firearms was disclosed.
Thursday eve Max sat, in his dreary
room, in a West Adams atreat rooming,
house and brooded. He decided to end
it all. He had plenty o? bullets, but
bo gun. So ha took a piece of. lead j
pipe, a haadful.oS powder and a bullet
inset,with a bit of spike. He set the
contraption,on the table and set,. e3 the
powder with a red hot wire. .
W hen the police were called they
took him to the hospital. The sur
geons, with not too high hopes of suc
cess, started operating. Dr. Carl Me>er
did the major work. He opened the
Chest, then cut through the sac around
the heart and allowed the accumulated
blood to Sow out. Then he took the
heart in bis haod and stopped its beat
ing. Max then was technically dead.
Pressure forced out the spiked bullet.
Then the heart was relaxed back into
position and it resumed business at the
old stand. __
Unmolested Moose At
tacks Dawson Hunter
Dawson News.
The rare case of an unmolested moose
attacking a man is reported from
Quartz creek. Chris Olsen, unexperi
enced hunter and trapper, a man thor
oughly at home in the woods, wa9 hoot
ing in the neighborhood of Steel fee k,
at the head of Montana creek. He was
looking for moose, but had seen none.
Suddenly, he reports, he heard a crash
ing of brush, and, looking in the direc
tion, he saw a bull moose charging
through the green timber straight for
him. It was coming on him like a rail
way train nod no more than twenty
! feet a wav
"It looked a bit terrifying,” ac
knowledfied Ghi t*. "I had only about
a second to aoi. and instinctively the
gun flew to m? shoulder and I fired. I
hit the moose in the head, but still be
came on. The next moment he waa on
top of me, and down I went in a lump.
He pinned me to the ground with bis
antlers, goring me through the thigh
and hand, and pawing at me fiercely. I
thought the jig was up. The blood
from the wound in hi9 head was gush
ing all over me and be was maddened
with pain, i figured my only chance
was to lie still. Then I tat him begin
to reel. He swayed from aide to side.
I wriggled away, and. as he came down
with a crash, I rolled out from under
him.
.took me a minute or eo to collect
myself.” went on Chris. “My cun hud j
been hurled from me by the impact,
and it was buried in the snow. When
I fouop it I felt better, and I turned to
meet Mr. Moose and let him bare an
other. Then, to ray surprise, I saw a
second bull heading for me out of the
timber. Howuver. 1 got hint, and thon
finished toy first opponent.
“It is not often that a moose will go
for a man without.being wounded or
trapped in & corner where he has to
fight, and the only explanation I can
give for this fight.is that the two bulls
we.ie challenging each other to baula
and .1 happened to get in between
them.”
Fivfc-Pound Sleigh >
in-Dog Derby Rate
The Pas.—Steve Bjostaan. former
owner of the Winnipeg Kennel, has
had constructed, for his entry in the
do^ derby to be run next month, * five
pound sJeigh similar, to the one used by
Waiter Govcu, famous Alaskan-inusher,
who after winning the derby met a
tragic death, in the North oouctry a
few year* ago.
..* " J J"' >«l WOTULdlw—
Notice cf Lu-f*iutio«><
Notice is hereby given that on Janu
ary 21st. 1825. the partnership hereto
fore exisuog between Waiter W.
Johnson, H. G., Peaite and Thomas P.
Aitken, under the name of Kuskokwitn
Dredging Company, was ..dissolved bv
mutual coosent, the said Thomas P.
Aitken withdrawing from said part
nership and its .miniag operations.
(Signed; ,, Teonas P. A:tk*N,
W. w. Johnson, .
H G. Psake
In the Probate Court for Otter Pre
cinct, Fourth Division. Territory
of Alaska, before Hon. E J. Stier,
commissioner and ex-officio probate
fudge*
In the matter of the estate of Fred E. (
Soule. deceased*—Probate No. 42.
Notice ct Yltab Peering.
Notice is hereby given that the near
ing of objections* to the final report and
account of Ira fcV Wood, as ad minis
trator of the estate of Fred E..Soule,
deceased, will be held in the probate
court room at Fiat. Alaska/ on Satur
day, March I4tij. 1825, at two o'clock*
in r lie afternoon.
Dated at Flat, Alaska. Deo. 24,* 18241
[Seal} E. J Stuck,
Probate Judge.
PROFESSIONAL
Albrecht and' Taylor
Id its rod, Alaska,*
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Tckotna, Alaska
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Tokotoa, Alaska
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