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Show 35-CENT WHIP CAUSES TIGHT Owner of Jlfcapoii Fined For Beating Country Boy Who Took It. A quarrel over a J$-cent whip, a dance at Union and. a fight figured In a case heard 'before Justice of the Peace Williams at Bingham Junction Saturday Satur-day and resulted in Lyman Shurtllff, one of the young men of the smelter town, being fined 120 snd $10 costs for ornamentlnr Earl ' Aylett's face with his fists. The trouble occurred st the dance, and during the hearing a score or more enthusiasts for .both sides wa present to listen to the evidence. According to the story told by Aylett. he attended the dance, and in country tyle hitched hi horse to a near-by post. After the dance he started for home. He had gone but a short distance dis-tance when he was overtaken by Shurtllff, who demanded the return of his whip. Aylett asserted that he believed be-lieved he had his own whip. A match was lighted and It was discovered that the men had changed whips, snd that Aylett had BhurtlhT whip. The animal ani-mal prodder was returned atfd then It wss asserted that Shurtllff beat Aylett. Ay-lett. ,He Is slleged to have cut his head, bruised hls nose and colored his eyes. . After the trouble Aylett went before Justice Williams and secured a warrant war-rant for Shurtlllt's arrest on a. charge of assault. Then Shurtllff had Aylett arrested fir the theft of the whip. After bringing out the evidence In the case County Attorney P. P. Christen-sen Christen-sen ordered the case against Aylett dismissed dis-missed and ' 8hurtliff was fined as stated. |