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Show i WONG till GETS . NINETY DAYS ISM Other Offenders Come Before Judge Dichl on Various Complaints. Ah Wong Hong, Chinese, "pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace and resisting an officer, in Judge C. B. Diehl's court Tuesday afternoon, and was sentenced to serve ninety days In the city Jail. An Interpreter explained the complaint against him. Wong Hong said he Just wanted to scaro somebouy with nourishing nourish-ing his Immense cleaver. The scare proves rather expensive for Hong. The case against Robert Jones, a negro, charged with kocplng a gambling house In tho rear part of the Headquarters saloon, sa-loon, 2'J Commercial street, was dismissed. dis-missed. Policeman Pierce, who arrosted Jones, testified that tho evidences were, when he got Into the room, that ten or twelve persons wore shooting "craps." Jones was behind the table and chips and another man was rattling the dice pre- j par.nory. to throwing them. A fifty-cent pleco was lying on tho table. The-court dismissod the case upon tho grounds of insufficient evidence. The case of tho city against tho Utah Light and Railway company, charged with violating the street ordinance by the alleged obstructing of the street on ! Fourth West, between Fifth and Sixth , South streets, was certified to the Dls-! Dls-! trlcl court. In a motion to dismiss, the defendant averred that the premises described de-scribed In the complaint have always been subject to private ownership and denies that the city or V R. Lester, whose name Is Joined in tho complaint. Is the owner or has any title in the property. The defendant de-fendant also averred that as the Issue raised can not be determined without testimony as to the ownership and possession pos-session of the real property. Judge Diehl's court hns no Jurisdiction J. B. Goodwin, driver for the Utah I Scavonger company, was lined $5 for I reckless driving. |