Ready For The Fray

Lansing, June 4. - The trial of Attorney General Ellis on a charge of forgery will be commenced at Mason this afternoon. Judge Person said last night that the consideration of the case would not be taken np until 2 o'clock p. 111. as other business would occupy the attention of the court during the forenoon. The case is radically different from the one recently tried in this uounty, in whieh ex-Secretary of State Jochim was the defendant and in which the jury was unable to agree upon a verdict. Jochiin was tried for inaking a false record, and the prosecution was obligod to rest its case after baring endeavored to establish proof of the respondent's knowledge of the crime which, if fully made out, under the charge of the court, would have been a sufficient case. Mr. Ellis is charged with forging and falsely uttering a public record, the same being the county clerk's return of the vote cast in Gogebic county upon the constitutional amendment of 1891, which increased his salary from 8800 to 2,500 per anuni. He is not charged with having made a false record in the year 1893, and in the present case the fraud qJ the last named year will not be eohsidered. The trial will be an important one. Both sjdes are ready for tUe fray and from the array of legal talent employed it is fair to presume that the battle will be vigorously fonght. The trial of the case may consume at least 10 days.