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Show CARL Johnson know Jim Lewis. They slept In tho selfsame bed, So Johnson was a vagrant Was what the policemen Bald. Carl Johnson knew Jim Lewis His troubles all started then. Now Carl is in tho lock-up And Lewis is In tho pen. For as they slept together This Is tho tale that Is told LcwIb got up at midnight And copped out another man's gold. Carl Johnson knew Jim Lewis This is the point that they raise. And that lo why they gave him Ono hundred and fifty days. They caught John Brown somewhere up town. Keep In the middle of the road! He did not heed where he drove his steed. Keen In the middle of the roadl He went astray where the sldwalk lay. Keep In tho mlddlo of tho road! The court did frown at Mr. Brown. Keep In tho middle of the road! Brown left the court two dollars short. Keep In tho middle of the roadl The trial of James Carroll, proprietor of tho Daly West saloon, for assault and battery' bat-tery' on Steven Canty, was a matter of grave Importance to Carroll, Inasmuch as a conviction may cOHt him his license. Ho was represented In court by Attorney Cyrus Cy-rus Gatrell. Canty, for some reason, cherishes cher-ishes no grudge against his alleged assailant. assail-ant. When called to tho witness stand ho assured tho court that ho remembered nothing that happened In tho saloon. His oyes were blackened and bloodshot and he looked, to use his own expression, as though a cyclono had struck him. Ho wont us far as to say that he thought, from the testimony, he deserved all he got. Olaf Nordstrom testified that ho went into the saloon and found the bartendor with Canty on the fioor beating him as hard as ho could. Carroll camo In, the witness said, pulled tho bartender off, and, after putting Canty in a slating position, kicked him twice In the face. Nordstrom said that he announced his Intention of going for tho police, whorcupon Carroll called him a vile name. J. R. Hamlin, a student at the L. D. S. university, said that Carroll pulled tho bartender away from Canty and asked what the trouble was. Tho bartender said jHH that Canty had hod a drink and refused IHfl to pay for IL Carroll, according to tho IH witness, then took hold of Canty saying, I rH "Get up, you !" Carroll raised E him up and slapped him twlco on tho B! back of the head, then drow off and kicked him twice In the face or on the side of IH tho head. After getting Canty to his feot, Hamlin said, Carroll led him to the water ft) IHI tap and washed the blood from his face f-t Jfl W. R, Dale, tho bartender, testified that Canty called for a drink and did nothy . w for It. Ho said he demanded tho mon iMfl and Canty struck him In the mouth. Vile j H knocked Canty down and beat him hium; I H face. Carroll camo In and pulled him 6,ff. j H Carroll then picked Canty up and took him back to the tap to wash the blood from H hlH face. Dale said ho did not see Carroll IH strike or kick the man. H Tho defendant was sworn and said: "I H heard the racket and came down to seu IH what It was about. When I saw, the men ' 1 on the fioor I was hotter at the bartender 1 than I was at the other man, for making 1 a disturbance in the place. I pulled the 1 bartender off. Canty hung to him and t may havo put ray foot against him to get H them apart. - I did not hit him or kick H him at all." lend ore Mendelsohn said that he saw tho 1 wholo transaction and was sure that Car- ll roll had not kicked; Canty.- IH Judge Dlohl took the case under advice t H ment. l H tM Sam Toooy, a slant-eyed Celestial, was askod If he was ready to plead to the H charge of keeping an opium den at 53 H Plum alloy. jH) "I can't talk," ho said. IBj "You seem to be doing pretty well," re- IKI marked tho court. BfM Tho officers said that Tooey was. a first- 3m rate English scholar, but ho did not choose Hrfl to know English just then, and, with a Hfla smilo that was childlike and bland, he Ig- Ufl nored everything that was said to him until the court called lo an Interpreter. BH Through tho interpreter Toooy communl- IRI cated nlH dcslro to employ counsel His IRH request was granted nnd tho case conlln- W'M ued until - this afternoon. ril ijH James Ray, Ed O'Neill and Ethel Cum- iH mlngs, tho three smokers who wore found ' 1 In Toooy's Joint, also asked for an oppor- tunlty to see their lawyers and their caset) 1 went |