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Show 0111 SMITH FACES FEDERAIJHARGE The man Owen Smith, who was ar-! ar-! rested here some thre weeks ago, on ' an I. W. W. charge has already been ' claimed by a presidential warrant and is now in Jail awaiting a hearing in the , United States court j ' This case created quite a little inter- est here and elsewhere in the state Smith came here it appears for the purpose of collecting money for the Ideff-nse of his friends and masters in Chicago. Hie landed in this town with a multiplicity of names which h used tor various purposes. Whila in Bingham Bing-ham he answered to the names of Owpn Smith. iEueene Smith. Owen -Kennen and Owen O'Hagen. 'He may have other names, but these are all that he made use of In Bingham so far as is known. . When first arraigned In the city court he appeared to think that he had been greatly wronged and made the st ement that he had ne.er violated vio-lated a town ordina ice or a statute In his whole i e. and that ht- win a good law abiding citlzi-n. and h; thought he ought to be turned loose. His cabe was twice continued n.d he was taken last week to the county Jail in Salt Lake, but he was by no means pleased with his residence there una iwsuay up-piled up-piled for a writ of habeaB corpuB V O. Cole, city attorney, was there to look r.ter the interest of Biintlmm, and whtn the case camu to a hear'ng his b.i.d wbh fixed ut 1'itO. On thiK Smith was cnnpratulatiuK himself because Iip hud un abundan" of ra:iiey t his tmi k, 1 1 1 befce ho was released 'he : 'ii!ed States mirn:il stepped forward bi.iI ead a prj'ltleniial warrntit to him. nd the lowi offence was dr(.pp'd. , Arcu'-ding to bjnlc book.- found ni the defendant U had much money stored away In the different banks in this section of the country, and it is said that he collected a handsome sum while in Bingham. |