Show APPLAUSE IN COURT When Verdict of Not Guilty of Breaking the Sabbath Was Rendered Ren-dered in Case of West Weher Parties Par-ties The case of Joseph Hogge sr and other residents of West Weber was I heard before Justice Perrin yesterday i This is the somewhat startling case I where Robert McFarland swore out a complaint against Joseph Hogge srI sr-I Joseph Hogge jr Ephraim Hipwell Albert McFarland and Dan McFarland charging them with doing unnecessary j work on Sunday The testimony I brought out no material new facts j from those previously reported in The j Herald The defendants it seems hauled away a crop of wheat raised on land belonging to other parties but which at the time the cop was sown the defendants claimed to own The long litigation resulted in the defendants defend-ants losing the land but they claimed the crop of wheat thereon WhUe the bishop and most other devout West Weber people were at church the defendants de-fendants gathered in the sheaves They were discovered and warned to desist or there would be trouble but they gathered in the sheaves just the same There was a good deal of feel i ling in the matter every resident of the I precinct seeming to be either strongly for one or the other faction County Attorney Webers powers were delegated dele-gated to Howard Carp nter and W L Maginnis defended those charged The statute thus invoked for the first time so far as known in the history of Ogden reads a follows See 4519 18S4 Every person who performs any unnecessary labor or does any unnecessary business on Sunday is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined in any sum not exceeding 25 The jury retired about 5 oclock and I I I returned in a few minutes bringing in a verdictof not guilty No sooner had it been announced then the spectators I i broke out with hand clapping and cheers In vain the court rapped and called for order The courts dignity was disregarded for the moment A LITTLE UNPLKASAJTCTfESS A brief but lively scrimmage took place yesterday morning at the union depot just prior to the arrival of the Union Pacific train from the south Fred Dalton of the circulating depart ment of the Tribune and Edward Coolce were the principals The trouble started over a disputed account Cooke claiming that Dalton owed him 28 for papers furnished him when the former had charge of the Tribune circulation in this city Cooke claimed that Da to had denied the debt not only to the Tribune people but on Sunday ha refused fused to let Cookes boy have papers to I sell unless the boy should pay spot cash I for them The dispute was confined to words for the first few minutes and Cooke did most of the talking Cooke called the other man some unprintable un-printable names and seemed to be thoroughly thor-oughly exasperated while Dalton maintained a serene composure At this juncture the Cooke boy arrived and asked If such and such were the case On receiving an affirmative reply Cooke landed a smashing blow a Daltons eye Dalton is a vigorous fellow about 21 years of age while Cooke is at least I three times tnat age and not one whit J less vigorous However in the scuffle followed the man main that f lowe te young i tamed an equilibrium of temper though he lost that oS his body Bystanders By-standers say he persistently refused t strike his assailant The depot po Ice separated them Later Cooke plead guilty to assault and paid a fine of 5 |