Show HE WAS ALL WRONG whong not so BO very long ago a prancing young advance agent of prosperity called on the city council to inform them that he had a new game called checkers that it worked almost like a bunch board but was waa not a punch board and told the city that ho he had all kinds of recommendations from different judges doctors lawyers etc and that he was going to put the thorn m on tho the market regardless of what tho the city fathers hud had to say and 1 HE in KNEW ho he was waa sate gate bound and reliable roll ablo and that nothing could bothar hla his customers the game was skill not gambling lie ho evidently ox ex pecked to throw tho the fear into tho the city dads dade that he was bootin son eon of 0 a gun and feared earod neither man nor devil not even the big monster that roams roama around ta in panguitch Pan gultch lake but evidently lie he did not vary closely with tho the judge of the twin falls idaho district tor for tho the checker board wan man got a rap in the slats up tip there that will take him quite to figure out what it in that neighborhood following to la an article taken from the monday issue ot of the salt lake tribune which oi ex plains itself very emphatically judge W A babcock ruled against tile tho candy company ot of salt lake yesterday in its efforts to collect from oreno nelson a of tho the stage company at 0 rupert tho the price ot of a checkerboard punching device tor for which nelson had refused to pay bolcon admitted the charge but argued that the article was a lottery lotary or gambling device while the com corn pany defended it as aa a 0 legitimate game ot at belll depending on the players ability to solve problems concerned with the board according to t instructions explanation of 0 the mechanism convinced vin cd the judge that it involved the element at 0 chance more than the I 1 adeptness on the part ot of the player and therefore came within the meaning ot of the term gambling he absolved nelson from responsibility to pay ruling that the company should have realized the nature ot at the device it was trying to fo sell bell a V |