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Show PLANNED TO PAD HIS POCKET DOT WAS CAUGHT You arc interested in all the sick and suffering just now. So am I. So is every human being in Ogden Listen then to this . tale unfolded which, though It will not harrow up your bones, may make your hair stand on end. It will make your hair stand on end if you were born, educated, and received the state allowance of horse-sense horse-sense in the state of Kansas. John Smith conies from Kansas From Salina, Kansas. He is a railroad rail-road man doing what railroad men so often do here "running in and out of Ogden "We have occasion to believe be-lieve that these railroad men, some of them, run in and out with whiskey," said Judge Barker. Running in and out of Ogden, running run-ning in at night, and out in the morning morn-ing John Smith thought that as some of his folks were suffering from influenza in-fluenza "back homeland as they wanted want-ed money, and as he only had $30 which wouldn't be much help to them, he would buy a case of whiskey "back east ' and run in and sell it. Ho had never done It before. He only did it now in order to help the suffering. He could make twice as much as he paid for it he was told. Unfortunately Detective De-tective Syphers caught him "running in." Well. He paid thirty dollars for the whiskey, and Judge Barker thought he ought to pay S150 or spend ninety days in the city jail. So if he pays the money he might just as well have done what any sensible man with a character charac-ter to keep and friends to help would have done, he could havo gone to the bank and got the loan on his character and let his brain and muscle help him to pay off what his wrongful act now makes him pay in a bitterer way. "I would like to show mercy, but my judgment of bootleggers In Ogden is' sharper these days than over before," be-fore," said the judge. "If a man wishes to do good let him do it in nn honest waj ." j |