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Show The jurors and court people generally gener-ally are having an easy time of it today. to-day. Judge King is busy hearing eyidence and arguments of" counsel in the great Town of Vernal case. D. I). Houtz and Thurman & Wedgwood appearing for the residents of Vernal who are dissatisfied with the way the town is run and the manner in which the incorporation of the place was planned and effected, and Arthur Brown, Sam A. King and J. B. Davis appearing for the trustees and other officers of the town and those who desire to have the corporation declared de-clared a valid one, and the town organization organ-ization to continue as it is, or "the whisky ring" as the opposing clients are pleased to term them. This case was on all day yesterday and promises to consume the entire day today. In the meantime the jurors and oter court people not engaged in thia case are allowed to circulate about the city and give it a little more lite-like appearance ap-pearance than it has had of late. These, together with the sixty-seven republican republi-can delegates in judicial convention in Provo today and their following of wire workers and strikers, the "Jay Circus" band and the ueual crowd of youngsters following it, the blushing school maiden by the hundreds and the gallant pupil of the male persuasion by as many hundreds, all combine to make Provo today appear v as it was wont to appear in the Hustling days of the boom. Provo is realy metropolitan metropoli-tan today. The "moonshiners" did not go before be-fore Commissioner Dudley last evening for preliminary hearing. Their casr. was taken before the grand jury today. to-day. Marbiage license was issued today to Samuel W. Worthington, aged 21, of Pay son, and Maggie C. Borup, aged 21, of Goshen. A. C. Hatch of Heber got 48 ballotB and Whitecotton of Provo only 20, at the republican judicial convention to day. |