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Show ECHO OF THE WAR IS HEARD IN LOCAL POLICE COURT At the morning session of the municipal mu-nicipal court today, Bobby Grant, an English youth was sentenced to remain re-main in the city jail for the next fit-teen fit-teen days, unless prospects of his securing se-curing work on the grading for the, new Union Pacific track, east of Ogden, Og-den, become bright before that time. According to his story, young Grant emigrated to Canada from England, last summer, with his brother When the European war broke out tho brother enlisted with the Canadian volunteers, but Bobby was too short of Mature to pass the examination, and was left alono and virtually friendleas In Canada when the olun teers went to England. He worked as an unskilled laborer for several weeks and then crossed the border into the United States. Since that time his lot has been a hard one as he has been able to get only an occasional oc-casional job. Hearing, while in tho east, of the work to be done by the Union Pacific near Ogden, Grant came to Ogden and was picked up by the police as a vagrant last night. In passing the fifteen-day sentence, the judge said he did it for Grant's own good and hoped that a job would show up for him before the entire time was served. W. R. Shreve, a transient, pleaded not guilty to a charge of drunkenness. The arresting officer. D?sk Sergeant Ilaghart Anderson, stated that the defendant de-fendant had been coming to the station sta-tion for several nights to obtain lodging. lodg-ing. He had been drinking more or less each day, but yesterday it was excessive and the officer locked him up. Shreve contradicted the officer's testimony, but when his "honor said "three dollars or three days." ho said "Thanks, your honor, I assure you I'll never do It again.'' August Bolt was given the aJterna-uve aJterna-uve of paying a $15 fine or of serv inc 15 days m jail. lie was found guilty Wednesday of "beating" a local lo-cal Japanese restaurant keeper out. of two Tecks board Phil Brown a negro, was given a suspended sentence after pleading guilty to a charge of drunkenness. nn |