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Show CURED A COLD BUT LANDED IN JAIL "Why didn't j'ou make It a hundred?" asked James Johnson, a prominent member of the alcohol club after ho had been sentenced to servo sixty I days in the city jail for habitual drunkenness, by Judge Reeder this morning Ho has been arrested twelvo times for drunkenness within less than two months and tho heavy sentence was given because It seemed the only way of keeping him off the streets Reforc being sentencod, he hinted to the courc that a ticket to California would bo a good way to get rid of him, but from all appearances he Is satisfied with the assurance that he will be fed and housed through tho greator part of the wintor J C Napprcss was one of the lucky ones this morning, receiving a suspended sus-pended sentence after pleading guilty to tho charge of drunkenness Napprcss Nap-prcss has had a bad cold, and since he does not like to take nasty mod!- I cine, he tried to cure it with pleasant remedies. After going down the list of curatives recommended for such Illness, he decided that whisky possessed pos-sessed more curative powers than any other remedy To provo the value val-ue of that remedy In. cases of colds, he did not wish to have It said that 'It failed to cure because ho did not take enough, so he Invested freely, with the rcsuty that his cold was cured and ho was arrested. Such -was the stor ho told In court this morning and it won him a suspended sentence. |