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Show 1 SHIP DEUYED MB J ! SUIT FOR DAMAGES ! IS 10 FOLLOW Because a certain Ogdon resident Played a stream from a water hose on Twentieth street, .near Grant avenue, last Sunday nipht. Corr l'ul', m the employ of the Hansen Livestock & Feeding compnny, indulged in nomf' proianuy, ana was Riven a Buspenaea sentence this morning by Judge George S. Barker of the municipal court, on a charge of disturbing the peace, and the man who turned the host- in the street will be sued for ?600 ! damages for delaying a band of sheep that were to be delivered at the stockyards stock-yards at a certain hour All the above facts were stated in evidence this morning, when Pulos ap peared in court and entered a plea of guilty. After he had explained wh3 he "cussed," Judge Barker stated that the circumstances were such as to make the average man become reckless reck-less with the king's English. According to the story told by Pulos, and substantiated by the foreman who was with him, the two men wore driv ing a bAd of sheep into the city over the only route allowed by city ordinance ordi-nance when they were halted near Twentieth street and Grant avenue by a business man who played a stream of uatpr hefore thp shf'pn and rpfusprl r to allow them to proceed because he could not endure the dust. Knowing that the sheep must be kept moving in order to reach the stockyards in time to fulfill the contract, which called for loading on cars between 8 and 9 o'clock that eening, Pulos, who v In the lead of the band, began to think in poetical terms and delivered himself him-self of some very strange words. He was arrested for disturbing the peace. And now the Hansen Livestock company com-pany announces that the man will have to pay for the loss on the contract con-tract The commission firm refused to accept the sheep when delivered-late. |