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District Court. The district court convened last Monday morning for the regular term, with Judge Rizer presiding. The jury summoned for the term did not make its appearance until Wednesday morning, and at that time was excused until next Tuesday morning, as the criminal cases that had been set for hearing were disposed of when the defendants entered a plea of guilty. Judge Rizer disposed of several petitions for naturalization as citizens of the United States, and Robert Glendenning a native of Canada, and Mary Ryan. of La Junta, and a native of Ireland, were made full fledged citizens of the United States. Louis Wilker. charged with stealing harness from a Japanese, barbed wire fence from Dick Dalton, and various and sundry articles from varlous and sundry persons, entered a plea of guilty. but sentence was deferred until the next term of court. Jose Lopez. who was arrested in April on a charge of bootlegging. within a week after completing a jail sentence on a similar charge, entered a plea of guilty and was sentenced to the reformatory at Buena Vista. Under the law Lopez was certain of a penitentiary sentence this time, it being a second offense. but rather than take a chance on a jury trial the prosecution consented to accept a plea of guilty with an agreement for a reformatory sentence. Puda Padilla and his brother. Dan Padilla. charged with stealing grain from the storehouse of the JJ ranch, entered a plea of guilty to petty larceny, and were given a sentence of sixty days in jail. G. M. Hall was discharged as receiver of the Rocky Ford State Bank, thus bringing to a close the affairs of an institution which has appeared ou the docket of the district court for a number of years. Some of the depositors have not as yet received the dividends to which they were entitled in closing up the affairs of the bank. but the amounts to which they were entitled have been paid into court and are available when called for. The case against J. P. Tracy, the Fort Morgan land locator. charged with obtaining money under false pretenses, was continued until the next term of court. A number of civil cases have been set for hearing next week, and when these are disposed of the business of the present term of the district court will be concluded, a record of about as near "nothing doing" as ever happened in the entire history of court circles in this county.
