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Show SMART BILL SMILEY. On Hie Way to Ogden. But iu Jell MaalJ tou Spring. A man who f ives the name of John Doe lies in jail at Manitou. Tho other day he appeared at the springs and meeting W. E. Smiley, introduced himself him-self as William Smiley. The north of Ireland was his birthplace and he waB journeying to meet his two brothers in Ogden. Stranger Smiley was short of cash and he requested W. E. Smiley to lend him $25. The latter supplied him with the money. Supposing he had struck a place full of soft people with plenty of money he went to C. L. Smith, to whom Smiley said his name was Smith. The genuine Smith gave the stranger $'-!5. James R. Craham gave him $l-,.o0 on the same story. Charles Grant was approached, ap-proached, but his cash was not so easily secured. In a short time two of the men who had aided Smiley met and discovered th.y had been "skinued." The fellow was given a hearing before a marshal Smiley acted as his own lawyer, and elliciently too. Ha will spend sixty days in jail on the charge of vagrancy. |