Show CONFLICT OVER A MEAT BILL Butcher Puts a Customers Eye iii Need of Beeksteak G R Day an ompolyee of the Rio Grande Western accompanied by a pair of blue glasses which hid a red and black eye went before Judge Tim I inony yesterday and swore to a complaint I plaint charging Ernest E Rich who runs a butchers shop at 771 West North Temple street with assault and battery ITlclis version of the case is that Gray had run a meat bill at his place under the statement that he was out of work and with the promise that as I soon as he obtained employment he i would liquidate Rich had also taken Gray to Frewetfs store near by and Introduced him to the proprietor on Ihe strength of which Day was allowed al-lowed credit to the tune of about S3Q Rich was not as rich as he should have been at the end of lie month and asked Day lo help him as much as lie could No attention was paid to the letters requesting a settlement and Rich paid Day a brotherly visit on Thursday evening Day refused to pay a cent Rich says and Rich charged him with planning go Into bankruptcy bankrupt-cy lo avoid paying the bill A mixup followed In which Day came out second sec-ond best and found it necessary to invest I in-vest in a pair of blue glasses befoie he came up town Day claims that the j assault was wholly unprovoked and did not see why any man should slug another an-other because of the fact that a measly meat bill was overdue It was altogether alto-gether beyond his comprehension and I lie wanted lo know Therefore was thin warrant issued and Rich I will have a j chauco to explain today what he thinks of the new method of collecting meat bills One of the policemen who gazed at Days discolored optic yesterday said It would only have been a mailer of qlmrily had Rich sent Day around j a small beefsteak In order that he might have made a more respectable appearance before his honor I |