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Show AROUND THE TOWN I Prediction la made that an anttstnoklng bill will he Introduced In tha legislature Monday- The prediction la based on an Incident that occurred In the senate chamber cham-ber this morning. While the eenata prohibits pro-hibits m King during seaatons, tbara la na prohibition against tha practice during dur-ing committee meetings. During tba hearing of residents of Sanpete and Juab onuntles on the tjounoary line dispute before be-fore the joint committee appointed to set -tie that dispute, tf possible, aad fix a definite boundary Una, someone dropped a smoldsrlng cigarette stump Into a wests bssket filled with paper. The oratory of the wltnereea fanned the spark to a flame, and one of tha rap. reeentallvoe made himself a candldsts for the Carnegie hero medal by seising the basket and hurrying to tha tile floored hallway with his flaming burdon. No damage waa done, no one was injured, in-jured, but the evils of the lobe coo habit ware I 1 sivldlv upon the minds of some of the legislators. Senator Banner X. Smith was presiding over a committee meeting at the most remote re-mote part of the senate chamber from the scene of the Incident, so he cannot be blamed for the Incipient fire. s s A letter ss received today by the clerks of thai Hotel Utah from 1 -eland J Cassldy, a former clerk of the hotel, who Is now In New Zealand on a mission. mis-sion. Cassldy tn his Istter expounded freely on the "fine horse racing In New Zealand, ' and told many startling instances in-stances that occurred to him while playing play-ing the ponlea One time Cassldy waa refused admittance admit-tance to the racing course by the gatekeeper, gate-keeper, who declared he was too young. He said: "f hsd a clnoh tip and couldn't let It slip by," and so he triad to force his way In. and was badly mixed up before he got by, but he landed the bet and won. He declares the climate In New Zealand to be Ideal. He says there ate strict laws governing horse racing and that If any one looks the leaat Tike a minor he can never gel by the gatekeeper |