Show DISTRICT COURT Colonel Do dec on tho Relations of the Rio Grande W extern to 1rovo The First district opened at 10 oclock yesterday The jury in the case of Joseph Page sued on his bends for making false returns from the Mount Pleasant post office returned a verdict in favor of the Defendant The case against J Clark was dismissed for want of prosecution Annio Lahoru camo to trial for practicing prac-ticing forgery to defraud tho Fairview Coop Sophia Christensen was called and testified testi-fied to being a clerk in the Fairviow Coop Am acquainted with tho defendant She was at tho store last September doing some trading I gave her six one dollar duebills at her request Have never seen the orders since The witness identified one of the orders which was changed to S It had been otherwise defaced Crossexamined by King It is frequent that people ask for small duebills for convenience Dont think this duebill of a was over presented at our store I Annio Andersen a clerk in Neilsens store testified P Potorsen is a clerk in j the store and not the proprietor 1 saw j the defendant at our store on the 10th of September last She presented an48 order in payment tf goods The same order was identified as by the former witness Peter Sunwall superintendent of the Fairview Coop saw tile defendant at his store September 10 with a due bill There was no language of a threatening character used but I told her it would be easier on her if she would confers King moved lor a dismissal of tho case on grounds that there is no evidence to show that Mr Peterson was defrauded as was alleged in the complaint The judge instructed the jury to return a verdict of not guilty Some of the attorneys observed that the prosecution must have been somewhat impressed im-pressed with the young ladys charms or it would have pressed the case more AX INTERVIEW WITH COLONEL DODGE An interview with Judge W N Dusen berry disclosed the result of a meeting of a committee from the Provo chamber of commerce with Colonel Dodge and J H I Bennett of the Rio Grande Western held in Salt Lako yesterday The committee is W N Dusenberry I Reed Smoot Ben R Eldredge S S Jones and R A Barney The subject first discussed was that of I the Rio Grande eating house at Provo I There had been rumor of a removal but it was learned by this committee that the railroad company will within a few months dispose of eating houses entirely and put I upon the read an elaborately furnished timing tim-ing car for tho accommodation of its customers cus-tomers but during the interim trains will stop Ion meals at Provo as before The conversation then drifted upon the small differences that were supposed sup-posed to exist between Provo City and tho Rio Grande Railway company brought about through former negotiations negotia-tions Colonel Dodge expressed himself as friendly toward Provo and would give her all tho assistance in the way of railway facilities that the company could afford within the bounds of consistency Tho Colonel also spoke of the junction of the Tintic roan and stated that more than likely his road would be extended through Provo euiion which would necessarily make tho junction of both brancbes of the road at Provo The railroad officials exhibited no animosity toward Provo but rather look upon her as a point of special interest The committee will render its report at the chamber of commerce mooting tonight NOTES The report that Lon Smith had received bonds was a false one He is now in custody cus-tody on account of failure to procure bondsmen Edward H Harper a juror from Payson was called to Payson today on account of the death of a niece Annie Harper Mrs Dr Sbipp is in Payson and is giving i I giv-ing a series of lectures ladies aid society has been formed to work in connection with the Congregational Congrega-tional chnroh An organizaton was affected af-fected last night Estella Mayne was committed to the insane asylum for melancholia A fire broke out on the farm of John Chase near Provo yesterday and did considerable I con-siderable damage to tho fences stacks and other property |