| Show NEWS FROM UTAH TOWNS The Murderer of George Lewis to Be Tried at Ogden K1DD WILL BE SENT UP The HendcrsonBrinker Street Car Company to Be Reorganized Provo Lumber Employees Go en a Strike for Shorter Hours and a Regular PayDay Pay-Day Pa > sou Citizens Will Bold a Jlnss 31eetlnc OGDEN May 13The trial of the Borel murder case is set down for Monday in the Fourth district court but may be continued for a day or two as there are two cases before it on the calendar Borel is the sheepherder who killed George Lewis on the street one Sahbath morning in March KIDD FOUND GUILTY It tock the jury iu the case of the People Peo-ple vs Charles S JUdd just ten minutes to find the defendant guilty of embezzlement embezzle-ment the prosecution having elected to stand upon that count of the indictment Sentence will be pronounced on Saturday I nextWhen When the district court convened this morning the bearing of the case was resumed re-sumed and not finished until 5 oclock tonight The defense put no witnesses on the stand and confined themselves to It motion for dismissal on the ground that the crime was not embezzlement and that if the defendant was guilty of any crime it was obtaining money under false pretenses A legal battle followed I the point of law being the application of the penal code The court ruled that the count was correct and the case went to the jury A NATURAL GAB REVIVAL Operations at the gas well will be resumed re-sumed on Monday and the company intends in-tends to push the work until gas is found The machinery formerly used by the Utah and Wyoming Natural Gas company has been moved out to the derricks of the Utah and Ohio company and the interests of tho two companies will be consolidated The gentlemen at the head of the enterprise enter-prise have every confidence of striking gas within 800 feet and are prepared togo necessary to-go down that distance or even more i While boring for water last fall a flow of pure gas was struck at a depth of sixty feet but as the experts who examined the well oonsidered that the flow was only from a fissure the well was abandoned and allowed t close up The fact that gas was encountered so close to the surface sur-face however would seem t indicate that the main body of the illuminating fluid is not far below and will be easy of access Several gentlemen are in Ogden looking over the field with a view of establishing glass works and i gas is I found will locate here gs TIE HENDEBSONBRINKER COMPANY On Tuesday a meeting of the directors t and stockholders of the Henderson > Brinker Electric Street Railway company t will be held for tho purpose of effecting an organization of the company looking look-ing t the completion of the system according ac-cording the original plans The directorate di-rectorate of the company is at present made up l of H H Henderson Joseph Brinker W S Garretson H C Bigelow nd George H Burgitt Three of these gentlemen will resign and make room for C E Wayne and two others There is now pending before the city council ant an-t ordinance granting an eighteen months extension on the franchise of the company com-pany and indications point to its immediate imme-diate passage Public sympathy has now turned toward the embryo system and the council will not defeat Ocdens chances for securing a competing street railroad system ordinance by taking adverse action on the At a meeting of the directors of the HendersonBrinker Street Railway company com-pany held privately late tonight H H Henderson resigned as president and director di-rector and 13 11 Bidgely was elected to fill the vacancy Joseph Brinker also resigned re-signed a secretary and director and C E Mayne was elected director and George H Burgitt secretary TIE ICE PLANT The machinery for the ice plant has all arrive and is being put in place The buildings are completed and unless some unforseon delay occurs the plant will be turning out Ice within two weeks There is likely to be a very lively ice war in Og den this season the last years schedule of prices having already been smashed JUDGE SMITH RESIGNS At a meeting of the Weber County Democratic Central committee held tonight night the resignation of judge H W Smith as chairman was tendered and accepted ac-cepted with regret This action was necessary nec-essary on account of the Judges early removal to Provo The vacancy has not been ledTIE THE COUNTY TEACHER The county teachers held their monthly institute today The attendance was good and much information was imparted to the teachers by Professor Page County f Superintendent Peery and others r DEATH OF E D FLANAGAN E D Flanagan a trusted employee of the Western Union and a prominent f member of Weber Lodge No 6 A F and A M died at his residence this morning and will be buried on Monday Deceased De-ceased was respected and loved by everyone every-one of his acquaintances and especially was this the case with his telegraph associates asso-ciates to whom he hud endeared himself by many splendid qualities i YOUNG WORLDS FAIR TOURISTS A party of youthful nomads struck town tonight There are eleven of them exclusively messengers and newsboys en route from San Francisco to Chicago f None of them are older than 13 years while many are much younger yet they have the nerve and necessary get there of tourists of more mature years They travel on brakebeam tickets which have been honored thus far over the road Notwithstanding their tender years ail of them have aliases and brag of their dexterity with cards and other gambling devices They have been two r weeks making the distance between San f Francisco and Ogden but are confident f that the rest of the journey will be covered in shorter time They are convinced I Tlnced that California is not properly Tepresented without them and are bound to attend to her proper representation f They left for the Windy City late tonight 1 to-night |
