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Show MEATS IT; HE CARES NOT Officers Have Tables Turned When They Impart News to Negro Prisoner Billy C'lark. colored, at present a I guest In the county Jail for having ; i.e. n caught with a nnlque still on I his kitchen stove, is probably one of ; tho most unemotional persons in the . west. When the officers arrested him and ! jdaced him in fall for violation of the prohibition law .some time ago. he expressed ex-pressed no great amount of surprise or chagrin and appeared to accept his new hoardinghouse aa n matter of course. But when it was discovered yesterday yester-day that the young bride of Clark I had cast her husb.tnd Into tho dls- : card by '"beating ft" to California to j h'-r lormer sweetheart, the officer 1 felt they would Kel a ' risr" out of I Billy when they broke the news. The1 offleers, however received the shock Instead of Billy. When the startling facts were explained to him, he sim-1 ply raised his eyebrows and said ' ' Ah wouldn't bj: surprised. You caln't never tell what them there women' are gwlne to do." Billy will soon come before the court to answer the charge against 1 him He is charged with having, manufactured a still from a pressure cooker and is said to have obtained wonderful results until the officers appeared. |