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Show REeRO WANTS IIP: UlllSJH JAIL Charles Graham, a negro waiter In the dlulng car service, Is $Ti short this morning, jnt because he endeavored endeav-ored to add -o cents to his store of wealth. The negro assisted in the search frir h purse that hnd been lost by au ehleily man at the Union deiot, and when the wallet was found ami returned in the owner by some other person, thU industrious waiter sought the tip that he has learned to demand of people. He asked the owner of the purse for a tip as a reward of bis asslstMnce, and thereby got himself him-self In trouble. One of the depot police observed the whole pror-eedlug. and Immediately Immediate-ly had the fellow arrested, on the ! charge of mendicancy. The negro was liken to the police station anj locked up. When .searched It w as found that he pojsecised almost ?'V He sent for assistance, and soon an official of the dlnlmf car service ser-vice inlerce.led hi his In-half. It was explalnel that tho man was supposed sup-posed to leave Ogden on the S: Ifi tialn in the morning, and that his failure to appear in hi white uniform for duty wo ild cost hint hi3 Job That he "begged" was denied, R being asserted that he simply requested request-ed a reward for services rendered. It was decided that a dejioslt of $3 as bail would satisfy the city, and tho negro was released. It Is safe to say that Graham's "requests for rewards" will In tho future i,e confined to the patrons of the dining car in which he serves. |