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Show fpROVO NEWS MOTES 1 Special to Tho Tribune. ITiOVO. .April 21. Tho Utah county horse show, held hero today, was up to the usual display and number of people In attendance. The show opened with a banqupl to tho visiting horsemen at the Provo Commercial Club rooms, on .1 ucsday evening. At 10 o'clock a. in. today to-day tho parade of horses and tine equipages equi-pages started from Acadeinv avenuo and ccntor street, marched north on Academy Acad-emy avenuo lo Fourth North and back to Center, then west on Center to Fifth West and back. Tho sidewalks and streets were crowded with people all along tho lino of march. It is estimated that moro than 100 horses -were on exhibit exhi-bit Ion. and 5000 Ticoplo wero gathered to witness tho show. After the parade speeches wero made by Prof. George If. JBrimhall and other members of the Commercial club. At 2 p. m. a program was given at tlio fair grounds, south of tho city, as follows: All exhibitors, half-mil", exhibitions by trotters, pacers and polo teams. Queen Pomona wuij driven twico around tho track against time. j11 In all tho fair was pronounced a success by those having charge. The city council mot last evening in regular session and .disposed of the following fol-lowing business: II. C. Sharp and "William "Wil-liam Probcrt appeared before the council and asked for the privilege of placing the proposed monument in honor of the Indian war veterans, cither at the intersection inter-section of Center street and Academy avenue, or on the west square. Tho matter mat-ter was referred to the. committee on streets and alleys and the committee on public grounds and city properly, and ' the mayor. The city attorney was Instructed lo prepare advertisements for bids for the construction of the sewer on Academy avenue. IVlay IS was fixed as the time for opening such bids, and the engineer was requested to prepare specifications for the work. The city physician reported two cases of smallpox, and asked that arrangements arrange-ments be made for the Isolation and care of such patients. Referred to the board of health. The council ordered that all artesian wells be shut off during the ditch cleaning clean-ing season. Tlio Jury panel was completed this morning in the district court to try tho case of the Slate of Utah vs. Charles Jjawhorn. Tho Iwelvo men who have been accepted and sworn are as follows: .lesse Bratlhwalte. George D. West. Walter Wal-ter Cox, ParIov P. Cloward. David Condor, Con-dor, V. E. Brockbank, lUark Cook. Joseph Jo-seph Y. Thome, William IWcCloud, Caleb Hone, Lorenzo Argyle and John Bryan. After a statement of the case, tho prosecution prose-cution called Liiicy Duncan to the witness stand. Miss Duncan testified that she was present at tho Duncan home, where the trouble occurred, AVhen young Law-horn Law-horn and Daniel Snow got Into a tight. Sho told of the events which occurred a few days prior to the light, and which led up to tho trouble between tho two young men. Three brothers of the defendant de-fendant were at the Duncan residence a few days before the fight took place and one iof these boys boasted that his brother. Charles, could whip the Snow boy.. Afterward, on the Ttli of Febru-arv, Febru-arv, Daniel Snow, the boy who was killed, and Charles Lawhoru, the defendant, defend-ant, met by accident at the same place, when Snow said to La whom. "I suppose von came hero to lick me." Law horn renlied, -'I hadn't thought anything about that." The next thing witness knew tho boys wero scufNIng, tho struggle lasting about ten minutes. Snow was on his back on the lounge and Lawhorn was on top of him. Joe Duncan and John Far-lev Far-lev separated them and put them both out of the house. Duncan and Farley followed fol-lowed them out. In a few minutes Snow came back in the house, staggering, and his mouth bleeding. Witness brought him some water and he washed the blood off; then ho went home. The case is not attracting much attention from the. public, but is being fought hard by both sides, and no point is lost sight of which will have any bearing on the outcome. out-come. James Slater has begun suit in the d istrict court for divorce from Sarah Slater and alleges in his complaint that tho defendant wilfully and without cause deserted him in l!)0fi. The parties wero married at American Vorh about 1S02 and there are three minor children. A marriage license has been issued to Roy Fercday and Emma Simons of Mammoth. |