Show BATTERY WHILE AWHEEL Hen Smurthwaite Tined for Rung Ru-ng Into aXittle Girl Henry Smurthwaite wasfined 5 yesterday yes-terday C a charge of assault and battery bat-tery The case wis a peculiar one the assault and battery consisting In Smurthwaitfes running into a little girt named Hutten The complaint was made by the girls father who seemed angered over the alleged fact that Smurthwaite showed Indifference to the consequence of h11 mishap The accident occurred on the sidewalk but In a portion of the city where there Is no ordinance against rfdlnET there As there is no ordinance against fast riding the charge of assault and battery bat-tery was placed The defendant claimed that he was riding along and that the little girl darted in front of his wheel Two of the girls playmates denied this and the judge fined the rider 5 for assault and battery leaving him the alternative alterna-tive of appealing to the district court or paying the fine The Tents of Main The Walter L Main shows yesterday folded their tents and silently stole from Ogden It was just a circus better than some perhaps and worse than others that have been here If some of the men with the show did act like brutes then on the other hand some of its animals acted like men A countryman coun-tryman who makes it a point to see every circus expressed himself about as follows Its just a circus There is nothing new under the tents The trained lions were good but they like most of the other animals looked poor and mangy I felt sorry for the whole menagerie of em But the pictures on the cages and on the bill boards were great The Telephone Tangle The hearing of Manager W W Cross man of the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Tele-phone company will come up a week next Thursday before Police Justice Hulanski The city officials will endeavor en-deavor to have him convicted and fined for maintaining a telephone without a license and in the event of his being fined as is expected the company will appeal to the district court and make a est case of his one |