| Show HEARD AND SEEN IN TiMMONYS LAKE I Jailer KimbuH will on Tuesday evening even-ing make requisition to the city council coun-cil for twenty umbrellas for use in i I the court room The court has ordered a full length i mackintosh doing ajvay with the old rtyJe vel et mantle and frock t The clerk Is laying in a stock of gutta r rercha hats and a grass of rubber boots I 1 for use of witnesses A downtown clothing store has offered f offer-ed a reduced rate onraincoats for the c benefit of police court reporters K Reference harine been made to the condition of the court room ceiling a r movement is now on foot to Install waterproof dockets The need of two dozen anchors for use in Judge Tinwnonjs court room Is I being seriously considered by the rain I rt and hail Committee of the city council Bids will be caHed for In the near future T fu-ture Chief Hilton has received numerous catalogues cdvertteing s andard brands of lifepreservers to be used by policemen police-men appearing In Timmonyls court It is understood that next years code of essentials to becoming u policeman wall contain a clause providing that all applicants must present diplomas from a swimming school James Crawford was the first to swim in yesterdaj Jim might have swum hr night previous but not in such dry water ee tfnnt into which he now plunged plung-ed Vagrancy or hto be more explicit as DSehl said begging and soliciting alms from a Salt Uake City councilman council-man was the chargewfcich Jim denied De-nied niedAlso t Also tihargefi with 1bingdrunk unlawfully un-lawfully said the clerk spitting out t a lungful of rain water Guilty I goiees said Jim 1 L I As to the first charge Officer Roberts said he had first laid eyes on Jim marching merrily down State street but that he Jim must have been seized with something suddenly for when he saw the brass buttons he put a crutch under his arm and could hardly ivalk A bunch of cards containing con-taining the announcement that Jim was a cripple and that if anybody threw a S20 gold piece at him he would turn the other side also was introduced in evidence and filed II I got me hip hurted me arm mashed mash-ed me head battered me eye bunged up me ribs broken liver fractured ear peeled nose broke face lacerated and a carbuncle in a Rock Springs coal mine said Jim In one breath And said the court gravely are we to presume this is your ghost Hairraisins silence How about being drunk Well my ears bad too I cant hear a word you say said Jim Eph Kelly floated from the room like a cork and returned with a megaphone mega-phone Things then progressed splendidly splen-didly and the accused was sent to prison for three days He thanked the court for selecting the Jail instead or the court room and made a high dive frpm thebench to the amusement ot the sro of faces Sirs Swanberg clad in a gracefully fitting bathing suit answered to a charge of drunkenness on the 13th day of October Tirtcen days she repeated tapping tap-ping her ear significantly as a whitecap white-cap Jjroko over the jury box Diehl smiled and read It again Oh Im sick to my head all de time she said Then Officer Knowlton was ungallant enough to say that Mrs S was dead to the world stretched at length on the east side of the Temple block with an empty whisjcy bottle by her side Witness Wit-ness was sure it was empty Had taken particular notice On this showing the lady was assigned as-signed to Kimball for ten days Charles Powell the liveryman admitted admit-ted that he had slapped George Pen rose for language he used one time on the left cheek with Ills left hand Diehl took this to mean a plea of guilty but desired to introduce some evidence Penrose said he was sittinG at a table In a State street establishment establish-ment talking horse He told Powell that Powells boy had told him Pen rose that his Penroses horse had not had any bread of horse life otherwise other-wise defined as haylast week because lie Powell Powells boy had said was out of hay This is all he Penrose said Whether the sentence was declarative de-clarative imperative exclamatory or interrogative didnt matter As soon as it was uttered according to Penrose Powell hit him and abused him and hit him Charles Fitzgerald said Penrose was right and Powell scorned the invitation invita-tion to ask questions Powell when given a chance said he had asked Penrose to treat Penrose he said kind o threatened him saying say-ing Do you think Im a chump Powell asserted that very belief and then the subject of the horse came up The liveryman said Penrose would have to prove that his horse had eaten no hay This being impracticable the lie was passed then the blow The defendant de-fendant admitted saying he would lick the packin out of his customer if the trial cost him a cent and the court with an eye to business imposed a fine of 10 The reporters waited around for awhile but Powell went away peaceably peace-ably and Penrose even earlier I |
