| Show STOLE HIS TROUSERS Somelime late Thursday night a bungler broke into the residence of Bruce Boyle at 2758 Adams avenue and stole 3Ir Boyles trousers The Intruder was discovered before he had got through with his work of going through the house Bruce gave thasa but the burglar having the trowsers the owner could not put them on so he went just as he was in his nightshirt night-shirt It was a lively race because Mr Boyle wanted to recover the stolen property first because he knew he would want the trousers in the mornIng morn-Ing and then there was 1630 in the pocket of the garment The burglai was a sprinter and air Boyle was by no means plow but the burglar made tad nest time ana got away Mr Boyle returned home washed off the mud and went to bed Yesterday morning he found the trousers in a vacant lot but the 1680 was gone with the man who made the beat time Mr Boyle admits that the other fellow fel-low can beat him running and that it was a fine race yet he does not like to give up the stake money DISTRICT COURT Tn the case of Brooks vs Houtz which was tried Thursday afternoon before Judge King the jury returned yesterday afternoon with a verdiot in favor of the plaintiff for 42070 Brooks brought suit to recover commission com-mission on the sale of some sheep which he made for Mr Houtz Yesterday afternoon the case of W W Browning against the Standard was called for trial and occupied the attention of the court during the day This is a case where Mr Browning sues the Standard to recover damages for libel alleged to have been published publish-ed in the Standard in December 18D3 It grew out of the publication of the presidents message Browning it is claimed by the Standard published apart a-part of the message in the Sun which was then run by Browning before the document had been released by the Western Union There was quite A controversy at the time over the matter mat-ter and the two papers got quite personal in their reference to one another an-other the result being this libel uuit Judge Rhodes is prosecuting and Webber and Murphy are defending This is almost a complete reversal of counsel in the case which resulted in the conviction of the Standard sometime some-time ago LOCAL URIEFq About 4000 residents of this county have petitioned for the privilege of voting on the prohibition question The band concert this evening begins be-gins promptly at 7 oclock on the corner of Washington and Twenty fourth street W M Armstrong who came so near deaths door Thursday from the effects of morphine poisoning was much improved im-proved yesterday out of danger In fact Some time ago Mrs T A Smith of the Vendome had a seal skin cap stolen Yesterday it was found in some bushes behind the feather factory fac-tory An order was made in the probate court yesterday fixing Monday April 22 as the day for hearing the petition Jn the matter of the estate of John S Douglas on final distribution The question of woman suffrage agitated the minds of most all the people peo-ple in this city yesterday Several staunch supporters of the right of women to vote declared that if there was any question as to the matter endangering en-dangering statehood they would unite I Hti4nq eh I it out Word was received by the Central Pacific freight agent in this city to the effect that the Iron works machinery ma-chinery would be sent forward in a few days It goes by water to New Orleans and from there over the Southern South-ern Pacific and connections to Pueblo thence over the Rio Grande and Rio Grande Western to this city the rate by this roundabout way being much cheaper than by the direct route |
