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Show GREEN RIVER RESIDENT TOLD TO HIT THE TRAIL Sam Carter, who halls from Green River, went out yesterday afternoon on what is sometimes termed a "high lonesome." and when he finally gathered gath-ered himself together he was before tho desk sergeant at the police station, sta-tion, to be booked for Bleeping quarters. quart-ers. No charge was preferred acnlust the man at the fdation, but he barely escaped being "charged" with a few thousand volts of electricity at the power plant near the mouth of Ogden canyon. Late In tho afternoon word came to the police station that a crazy man was cavorting around the power house. Officers were immediately dispatched to the place, where Ihey found Carter Car-ter on the bank of the power plant race carrying the waters of the Og-den Og-den river Into the big turbine wheels of the power house. He was ringing wet, due to the fact that he had fallen Into the stream . That he escaped electrocution Is a miracle in the judgment judg-ment of the officers who went after bim. In a drunken condition the fellow fell Into the race and when he scrambled out .of the . water he was within three or four Inches of the big wheel, which, if it had caught him. would have carried him to the dynamo dy-namo that would have so charged him with electricity that he would have never' known what struck him. After getting out of the water, the man, half frozen, was given a change ot clothes and immediately transported trans-ported in the patrol wagon to the police po-lice station. Carter acknowledged that he had been gloriously drunk, and had no idea where he was nor where he had been, and that he was perfectly willing to pass a few hours In the city bastile for the purpose of dryiug his clothing. cloth-ing. He was given this privilege wih the understanding that he would "hit the trail" this morning for Green River. |