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Show A CONTltWl SKIPS. And Leaves all cf Eis Employes as Well as Eis Partnur to Whistle for iTheir Money. BUILDING A ROAD TO CENTEEVILLE The Big Blast of tba Utah Lime and Cement Ce-ment Company We?t Bide Racing Association Euilding Notes. This morning there wm a crowd of very indignant bricklayers congregated on th.) corner of State and Second South street on tho site of tho Suule-haker Suule-haker warehouse. They were men who had been employed by (iurnsey & Hridges, a tirm of conti actors, These men had not received their pay in time to blow it in on the celeliration of the natiou's birthday and they could not be consoled because of it. From Mr. (lurusey, one of the members of the firm, it was loarnod that his partner had received a check from J. 1. Folsout ou Friday for W.10 whicii should have been used in the payment of the wasies due tho mechanics, but was nut. Hridges had taketi it into his head that he needed money worse than his men, and so had Appropriated the check to his own use and skipped. The last seen of Bridges was on Friday when he mentioned something about going to the batik and getting tho money to pay off the help. He bad got to the batik aud cashed the check, but he did not return; instead he is supposed to have boarded a train and gave his workmen the cold laugh. Nothing has been heard from him since his departure, but it is supposed he has goue tow ard the Lillian Li-llian territory, where his wife is living. Nineteen men were employed ou the building, to whom Hridges ifc (iurnsey were indebted to the amount of ','()0. Mr. Gurnsev said he h?d made arrange-meiits arrange-meiits with J. D. Folsom for an advance of enough money with which to pay his men and that ne would liquidate all of tho debts to them sometime this afternoon. |