| Show EYE bilay i friday Ilay afternoons Afler altair in fit the firm restaurant yesterday day afternoon a bad affair took place in tho the gem Res restaurant t on r fourth street near the postoffice Post office As premature and partly high colored accounts of the sad occurrence had been written and wired ab abroad r oa dour our reporter today to day took special pains to get at the TRUE of tho aclair it appears that goud R mayfield a telegraph operator native of jacksonville Illi illinois noie 23 years of age was in tho the gem restaurant in company with a friend I 1 mr mayfield we will here premise had ben employed in the W IT telegraph COB cos office in this city p since last august until only three weeks eek sago ago bich u time he lie spent in the employ of mr frank giles aa as night operator in the salt lake city office of tho the W V U T co he ile had come up from the capital on the thil ev evening ening 1 of thursday having been SUMMONED HOME by a telegram from his parents to attend to some land matters in nebraska while in the eating establishment li lish ment before mentioned so he lie told cold our reporter it occurred to him that he had a meal ticket of that institution left on which 21 meals were due he asked mr joel E whatley the proprietor of the place who was reading behind the counter to return to him the amount of tickets coming to him in cash whereupon the restaurateur demanded ded of his guest claiming fiat fifty cents per meal used aa ali the chofe athole ticket is worth 7 this feature of the trouble LOOKS A LITTLE QUEER and as wo we have only one version of it we ie leave it undecided certain it ia is that a dispute arose over a balance alleged to be due by the ono or the other on a meal ticket the isit next thing was that mr mayfield called mr whatley a damned stinking knef according to one report i another nother account though ieta retaining ining the epithet thief modifies the harshness of the invective babat bet hat as it may the host of the place jumped up and hit the guest with his fiat fist following this u up as challenged him to t thump ump him with throwing a large heavy glass tunic tumbler ler at the operator which T h I 1 c h t 81 BUCK THE EYE fyd V s i and broke to pieces the lid was split aguare across and the eyeball cut so badly as to produce copious bleda bleeding iville followed li by the evacuation I 1 of the aqueous humor amor of the i ophic no sooner did whatley perceive the terrible effect ot of his rash deed of rage than regret and find re him and he ili himself C ass kited the victim of his vin I 1 to dr J D carnahan who with the assistance of dr A S condon attended to man juan the latter was taken to his former lodging place at mrs ham ilam monas roond i on third Si street treet west of mrs idols and made as comfortable as possible under the painful circumstances there is no doubt that the unfortunate man has LOST TUB TIM SIGHT BIGHT OF or THAT TUAT EYE L 1 lt ut the reports of danger to liis his life aro not only unfounded but appear to have been originated in order to inflame pi prejudice audice and undue hatred acra against p irist whatley What loy who committed I 1 alib he deplorable deed evidently only in a fit excitement as its we have it it from his victims on own mouth that they never entertained but the tile most amicable relations with each other whatley indeed was so much mitch agitated by tho the occurrence that ho he disappeared after his victim was in the hands of the surgeons bons eons and nurses at noon today to day flis his whereabouts were not ascertained thau though h it was stated that he be had fled to salt alt lake city and there been captured JOEL r WHATLEY is a native of st louig 25 year tears of agy restaurant k keeper ee er in in which capacity he has been ting living in several placed of atie west two years ago he I 1 e married his present wife mary in butte INI T ailt has been running the gem restaurant for several severi a I 1 months and it ia not known to have had tin any y serious trouble baior this |
