Show 1 SLOT MACHINE 4 GASE DISMISSED Oscar Hemenway Fails to Press Test Action to a Finish 1 CHIEFS HANDS NOW UNTIED 13 SEA Ire May In Now Go Ahead and Clean mho tho lyel of It Its limy I n Entin 14 DeI Cs 9 I Id d 6 j After fighting the case to the last I stage without success Oscar Olcar G Hem 2 envoy moved to have dismissed the tho 1 famoUs slot machine case caso against Chief tl of Police Samuel Barlow this morn mornIng t Ing In Judge court because ho ha haIse Ise was afraId to go to trial on the merits merit 1 of the case Barlow who has corn com since last August that thal his hilS hands have hao been tied by this appeal case can now go ahead and confIscate every slot machine In Salt Sail Lake Lako If lie he 1 wants to Up until late lato thIs after afternoon h noon lie he lied had not shown that hi his In Intentions r to keep the tho elt city freo from gambling and vice were sincere be beIr Ir cause the tho slot machines are aro still In ly operation t Cily Attorney II J who i pro prosecuted the tho CURe case had an axe to toI I grind In this case which helped thIngs i out ut considerably Tho Knights of thoi tho i S Royal Roal Arch composed of the liquor liquorI I 2 Interests knifed Dinnin In the last J X city election cutting his majority down downto I to 16 15 votes vot s where the other officials li received a majority of from to 1001 1000 li votes Dinnin has declared war upon the saloon men for fOl voting for George li N Lawrence the fUsion candidate li It From the time the case was appealed from the city court has taken chor charge e of It and directed the tho prose 16 or of the appeal until Hemenway S decided to ask for l a dismissal ot of the case As far as can bo be learned no t stipulation was made In the matter maller and Barlow Is now free to go o ahead and clean tho city or of slot machines ACTION IN REPLEVIN 1 The suit seas aM brought lust last August I b by Hemenway as a civil action to replevin a slot machine which Patrol man Thomas Simpson confiscated at the Moser Cigar store storo on west Vest Second South street when h ho 3 saw It was being played The action was brought In Justice Stanley A Hanks court where the elt city allowed the matter to go after aCter a general de demurrer demurrer hud had been overruled and de fault taken b by Hemenway because the tho city felled Called to answer Before Beloro this time Mayor Bransford had refused to concede to the de demands demands mands of the and the tho American party part ell city committee who hall had made n a deal with the saloon men It Is 15 alle alleged ed to aCc accept pt as campaign n funds und and allow the machines to run So this test case wa wor worked Cd up and runt put through to tic I up the situation until the case could bo be 0 of It Is alle alleged ed that the tho American party campaign com committee committee received the mone money and Mayor Branford was that ho he could do nothing until the case caso was settled In the district court Under this 11 flimsy S excuse the tho administration has allowed the slot machines to run hut but the dismissal of the lw by Mr Ir at his co cost t leaves th the wa way open for Chief Darlow Barlow to make his promIse good SUES THIS TIIS Phil S Witcher filed suit In the Third district court Thursday against Georgo w Eldredge an architect to recover In the tho sum o of because or of the tho alleged nolI ent manner In which he supervised sUI the construction of a hou house C for fOl him last June Witcher I that ho he paid Eldredge to draw plans for time the house hOJe and that he permitted defective material to be used and defective work to lo b be done IOAN LOA AGENT ANSWERS D H Tolman the tho loan agent ent filed an answer Thursday In the Third dis court In the suit Hull filed against him by Charles Charlls T J Hamill In iii which he asks Hamill to pa pay him the mone money that he borroWed of him last December and gave gIe his note noto for Hamill brought the tho suit sull alleging that he her bor borrowed rowed 60 and that Tolman charged him he claims Is tant Interest CITY SUED Thomas Smith Is s seeking to recover damages against Murray City for per personal personal Injuries In an action filed Thurs da day In the Third distrIct court Ho was thrown Irma his buSS buggy on account of f a d deep ep rut ut In the road and painfully Injured The accident occurred on the niGht ot of No Nov 25 last on State street between Murray anti and Ho asks for or i 90 SETTLES Judgment was entered by stipulation Thursday by Judge M L Ritchie In favor o of Sarah A GIbbs W S Burton and others against the Oregon Short Line Railroad company compan for or 2000 The Tho suit wn was brought to recover damages to property on North Temple street b breason by reason of the tho construction of the North Temple viaduct STATE CASES CALLED W A Willard known as Red Hackett who was arrested while rob robbing bing a room In n the Belmont hotel on Jan 26 was arraigned In the criminal divIsion of the city court this morning on the charge of burglary In the third degree deree He pl pleaded ded not guilty and waived pr preliminary examinatIon In default of hall ball In the sum of he was ms removed to the tho count county jail to await the tho action of ff the district court George one of the two hold holdup holdup up men arres arrested ed north or of Bountiful early Wednesday V morning was brought Into court ourt this morning to plead to a charge of robbery robber Radcliff pleaded not guilty waived preliminary hearing and was hound over to the tho district court Stewart Johnson the ar rested for breaking Into the Brice drug drugstore drugstore store and stealing 12 bottles or of cough syrup on Jan 25 pleaded not gUilty to burglary In the second degree and was held to the district court Tony the Italian who seriously seri seriously stabbed John W Jones on Jan 21 was arral arraigned ed on the tho charge or of assault with a deadly weapon The Tho Thoman Theman man refused to plead this morning and took until Monday lit lil which to enter his plea He was unable to give 1000 ball bail and was given Into the custody of the sheriff Jones the Injured injure man la is still at St Marks arks hospital and Is recovering re recovering covering John Dunn charged with stealing 3 worth north of from the Utah Light Railway company by using a jumper at PIerpont street plead pleM pleaded ed not guilty guilt and the tho ca case c Wes was set for Feb 25 Dunn was released on his own recognizance |