| Show industrial TRUSTEES MEET superintendent THOMAS REPORTS ON PROGRESS attorney christensen of Salt Lake declines to handle habeas corpus case of harry from fridays standard the board of trustees of the state industrial school held their regular monthly meeting yesterday afternoon at the school all of the members being present with the exception ot harry joseph who Is visiting in now york superintendent thomas submitted a report of the condition of the school and tho progress 0 the work on the improvements that are being made the additions to the the ice house are both practically completed and will be ready for uso within a short time ho called the attention of the board to the routine that had ben established tor the daily work of the school which assistant superintendent kneass has placed on a military footing there being calad for drills and other work to be done he also pointed out that the primary reabon for boys to ing to run away from the school was due to the paroling of inmates they had earned the necessary credit marks which mad the other boys feel that they were not being given the somo favor as were somo others mrs fred morse of salt lake the mother of eddie fitzglibbon and mrs grant franklin the mother of claude franklin two of the boys who nere sent to tho school last month by judge brown of salt lake appeared befaro the board and asked that their sons be paroled as they were both going to move out of the state airs morse is going to chicago and mrs franklin Is going to move to los angeles the request 0 the mothers was granted and the superintendent instructed to take tho boys to the train on the day of their parents departure mrs careswell whose son from the school two year ao and who was returned recently asked eliat her son be paroled the request was denied president conroy of the board reported that james liaa been employed as steward at the school the services of A E peterson who haa been employed as instructor in blacksmithing at the school were dispensed with it having been decided to close the shop except tor half of tha day issue no 4 of volume no 1 of the industrial school advance was presented for the inspection of th e board this issue is tho christmas number and Is tho work of the students of tho printing class the magazine compares favorably with any school paper in the state and the articles which appear are very good county attorney parley christensen of salt lake sent a cation to the board that ho would no longer appear for the board in the caso of harry benson in which a writ of habeas corpus hag been issued and which comes up for a hearing before judge howell in the district court m saturday the trustees therefore have requested attorney general breaden to handle the case for the board and the school officers FOR case of J P onella vs sammons hardware co or trial the case of J P oneall vs the sim icons hardware company a suit to recover damages for breach of contract Is now on trial before judge armstrong and a jury in the district court the action is a suit instituted by the plaintiff to recover damages in the sum of alleged to be due by reason of the plaintiff refusing to carry out the terms of a contract said to have been entered into between tho and the defendant the complaint alleges that the defendant company contracted with the plaintiff for the delivery of 45 carloads of stone to be used in the construction of their warehouse that after SO carloads bad been delivered the defendant company refused td carry out their contract that there is still due on the contract a balance of for which judgment is asked together with the costs of the proceedings tho following jury was secured C D tyree john J cortez william A harrop william H manning matthew dinsdale robert A crosbie Cros ble james P howell and C 0 folkman J P oneall was the first witness examined and waa on the stand at the time of adjourning court for the noon recess JENNING 8 BROUGHT BACK he Is held for the robbery of the knitting factory next wednesday carl jennings will be brought to ogden to stand trial tor tha robbery of the knitting factory one year ago sheriff dailey went to salt lake and served the warrant of arrest jennings has not served the time he was given for housebreaking house breaking in the capital shortly after his crime in ogden jennings Jen was apprehended through a description that was received at the time bo broke into tho knitting factory when ho was sent to the penitentiary at alon his description was sent as custom requires to the sheriffs and jailers in the country this tallied so wel with the description in the hands ot the county sheriff that he went to the penitentiary to investigate jennings baa a bad reputation he was one of tho ring leaders in the recent attempt escape from the penitentiary RAILROAD MUST REDUCE RATES topeka kas dec 15 tha state board of railroad commissioners baa decided to order a reduction of anve cpr cent in the freight rates on all classes of grain the order affects every railroad in the the formal order will probably oro bably bo issued today this ends tho kansas grain rate hearing which has been before the board for the past three lays |
