| Show FLFElNG O TrTiIiiSf The Tale of a Pair of Shoes and 8 Writer on the Qemoerat A couple of weeks ago dapper young fellow whose name has been given as Riley appeared in Salt Lake and a short time after was seen circulating circu-lating among the business men of the city soliciting favors in the shape of advertisements to be written up by him at their dictation and appear in the evening luminary of Second South Street andwhichwere toform a grand and comprehensive review of the prominent business houses of Salt Lake or words to that effect Time went oy and the sheet came forth with 6 pages and proudly and defiantly flaunted in the face of society the semblance of a big thing on ice There were those who believed that some of the names appearing in the review had been published without the little formality having been gone through by the publisher of obtaining the con pnt of the firms so to do and subsequent events would seem to go far towards carrying out this idea The dapper youth aforesaid called on the firm of Solomon Brother Gold with a bill for 350 claimed as compensation for the trouble he had been to in writing uu their house Payment was refused the firm claiming that they had never authorized au-thorized the youth to publish anything for them Time went on and yesterday yester-day the youth appeared at the store of Solomon Brothers < fc Gold and asked to look at some shoes His request was granted and a pair valued at 4 was selected as being of the necessary quality qual-ity and texture desired He cast aside his old brogans stood upright admired the fit of the shoes and walking over to the counter laid down the receipted bill for 350 tqgethpr with a 50 cent silver pi ce remarking at the time This Is 1 how I am going to pay for them Mr James Solomon protested when the youth made a break for the door He was closely followed by Solomon who grabbed the fleeing coat tails splitting the garment up the backS back-S eing that he was nabbed the youth endeavored to slip off his coat but just at that moment another member of the firm appeared upon the scene and a tew seconds later the purchaser of the shoes was escorted to the City Hall Here he began to think better of the matter and readily agreed to pay the balance due on the sho S provide i lie was givan his liberty He did so and was released Messrs Gold and Solomon from whom we gleaned the above information assure as-sure us that thny never authorized any pubication of their card in the Democrat Demo-crat And further said Mr Gold last evening I told the man that instead in-stead of paying him foracard I had figured that he should pay us u It is understood that the young man threatens a suit for damages |
