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Show iug the action. The bitiia of the actioa is ailogod cruelty aud inhuman treatment.' treat-ment.' Plaintiff rites that defendant own property of the value of $10,000. The Salt Lake Transfer company has commenced suit against the .Salt Lake City Railway company to recover dam-apes dam-apes for injury to au animal that plaiu-titf plaiu-titf alleges was run into by oue of defendant's de-fendant's earn. Judgment In the sum of iOO. The district court will convene the September term a week from Monday and in the meantime its minions are up to their armpits in work. The empsnnelment of a grand jury will begin with the opening of the district dis-trict court on September 14. HARRY GLENN'S TRIAL He is Charged With Entering the Tribune Composing Boom and Taking Proofs of Tour GaUj of Type- A DEAD MAN'S DEBTS IN GOUEX Dick Jonnirgs Lands a Protested Check at Coloosl Zelley's Divoroa Matters Mat-ters Before Judge Zac- The feature of today's docket in the courts was the trial of Harry Glenn on a charge of having smuggled from the composing room of tho Tribune four galleys of printed matter of the alleged value of t'-.'j. The dotention ot Mr. Glenn was occasioned by Editor Goodwin Good-win of the Tribune, to whom the da-parture da-parture of cortain proof shoets was reported. re-ported. The case has already been ventilated. The defendant's brother is sergeant of the police force, and was respondent in an investigation upon charges preferred by certain members of the department. 'J he inquisition closed, the reporters made efforts to secure a copy of the testimony. tes-timony. Legitimate channels were closed against them under the plea , that unless the testimony was sufficient to sustain tho charges it would not be divulged. A leak was sprung aud it became known that a Tribune representative had a garbled report, doing great in justice to the uflicers before the committee. Mr. Glenn, tho dufendent, learning thisvis-ited thisvis-ited the composing room and securing proof sheets departed. His arrest followed. fol-lowed. At tho trial which Is now in progress Judge Hileg represented the prosecution and Judge Sara Lewis for the defense. The esse was opened before be-fore a jury of six, Captain Greenman presiding. Maltoloue Hiichler. I) It Oninn of the Acme Art Co.. with parlors in the Progress block, was ordered to appear before Judge Gee this afternoon to answer a complaint charging him with malicious mischief The defeudant had secured a photograph photo-graph of the prosecuting witnesses which was to be enlarged. The work of art failed to tickle tne subjects' vanity van-ity and refusing to accept or pay for it he demanded the photo. Quiuo thereupon there-upon tore it in tatters and cast it to the winds. He is now called on to answer a charge of malicious mischief. The Cooaly Court. The county court met this forenoon. Up to 12 o'clock the following business was transacted: C. P. Brooks, county surveyor, presented pre-sented a map of the territorial road leading west from the city to Great Bait Lake. Approval of it was deferred until the committee could have time to inspect the road and report. i.sraet apui preseuteu uie uouu ue road supervisor oi district No. 7, which was approved by the probate judge. Petition of Fcter Loshris et al.. asking ask-ing for the appointment of G. E. I'oage as road supervisor of district No. 11 was denied. Keport of A. F. Cummings, superintendent superin-tendent of county infirmary was received re-ceived and ordered hied. r T. G. Hardy presented a statement of li oa sheep collectod from various irwefiiuties, returas made to this county as per assessment roll. The total territorial, ter-ritorial, territorial school and county taxes amounted to $1410.13, of which the various counties received re-ceived the following amounts: Millard comity, 106.114; Tooele county, $0.) 67; Juab county, $07.42; Beaver county, $J.4o; Summit county, n.'US; Salt Lake county, $205.77; total, $411.61 as portions for various counties. coun-ties. Kate 2 mills. Keport accepted and collector authorized to transmit the above named amounts to the various va-rious counties diroct iu accordance with the statute. J. W. Donnellan and W. S. McCor-nick McCor-nick appeared in behalf of the Irrigation Irriga-tion congress to be held in this city this month and asked for an appropriation appropria-tion from the county to aid iu defraying defray-ing eipentes. Probata Court. The following business was transacted trans-acted today: Estate of George Butcher, deceased; order made allowing final account. . ti... xr:it: A ,,..1. JSIHLB VI UUI1U TI llliBJiS, nucn.i, order made making .September Kith as time to hear petition for letters of administration. ad-ministration. Before the beuimlssloners. The attention of Commissioner Nor-rell Nor-rell is today occupied by a hearing in the case of Hess & Co. vs. Margaret A. White administratrix of the estate of John M. White in which plaintiffs seek to recover $85 on a claim that was disallowed dis-allowed in probate court. As a defense de-fense it is set up that deceased at the time of the transaction was not competent compe-tent to contract accounts owing to mental men-tal iub'rmaties caused by ao accident that resulted in the loss of a large portion por-tion of his skull. Deceased was well known in Salt Lake having resided in this valley for years. Me Playad renl. An action has been brought before Commissioner Norrell in which Mrs, Ed Kelley seeks to compel Richard Jennings to redeem a check jssued by him in the sum of &J00. From depositions it appears that the defendant engaged iu a pool contest at the Knutsford with William Magner, a barber from Omaha. The game was for J30 a corner, ten games to be played, and at the conclusion of the contest Jennings found that he had lost $300. To pay himself out of the "pocket" ho drew his check which was aocepted by his opponent, wno siiose-quently siiose-quently went to Colonel Kelley to cash it. The colonel referred the paper to bis wife and the face value was turned over to Magner. The check was deposited, de-posited, but payment was stopped and action was begun in the courts. The answer sets up that tho check was issued is-sued in settlement of a gambling debt and consequently invalid. Court Natee. Clara S. and Henry Graves have commenced an action against the Salt Lake City Railway company, in which they soek to recover damages in the sum of $1500 for injuries sustained by Clara S. Graves in a collision between aconveyance occupied by plaintiffs and a car belonging to and operated by defendant's road. Judgment in the sum of ) 1440 05 was entered in tho case of Thomas Larsen vs. The Utah Central Kailroad. the demurrer having been withdrawn. Iu the cast) of Father M. Wilkinson vs. John V. Wilkinson for divorce, are-nraiuing are-nraiuing order was issued forbidding the sale or mortgaging of anv property Oi iottufareuce with tho childi'wu. pend- |