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Show INTERESTING LIQUOR TRIAL IN HYRUM. Hyrum is a prohibition town, and the city government, leading citizens and in fact the vast majority of the residents, are temperance people in theory and practice, and approve of the prohibition ordinance of the city. On Saturday evening the 24th ult. four men drove from Logan to Hyrum and on the way the subject of getting some liquor was talked of, and two of them said they could get it at Haus Olsen's. On reaching Hyrum they drove to Olsen's place, when two of the men entered his house, and in a few minutes returned. As they appeared, one of the men remaining in the wagon asked them if they had got the liquor. They replied that they had. "If you can get it, I'll have some too," said the questioner, and he went to the house but Olsen refused to sell him any liquor on account, it would seem, of an old quarrel between them. A row was the result, and it was overheard by one Moroni Benson, who complained before city justice C. C. Shaw, alleging the illegal sale of the liquor. The trial occupied the 26th and 27th and seems to have created a good deal of excitement in Hyrum. Mr. C. H. Bevans acted ast prosecutor and Mr. Lehi Curtis as counsel for the defense. Olsen was convicted and fined $80 and costs, $91 in all, which he paid, but a petition has since been circulated for signatures, asking the Mayor to remit the fine on the ground that he did not have a fair show at his trial. What action the Mayor will take remains to be seen. |