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Show TWO WOMEN SMOKED OPIUM - THEY FAIL TO APPEAR IN THE POLICE COURT. One Colored and One White. Man Fin-ed Fin-ed For Drunkenness Bingham Miner Allowed to Go. The morning session of police court included a number of petty cases which varied from that of a drunken miner to a weak-faced clothes thief. John Doe Boda was the name of the first-mentioned individual and he was charged with vagrancy. Officer Layno testified that he had discovered Boda In company with some suspicious characters who were trying to dispose dis-pose of some clothing. .The prisoner, who admitted that his real name was Carl Boda, slated that he had been in town for a few days, having come from Bingham Junction, where he had been following the vocation of a miner. He stated that he was a drinking man and that he had squandered most of $40 or SO. since his arrival. In drlnklntr. He admitted that he had been arrested ar-rested in Salt Lake some years ago and then stated that ho had spent ten .years in Jail. This was soon changed to ten "days," however, when he was reminded that the sentence was rather rath-er a severe one for mere drunkenness. The court thought the matter a plain case of "drunken miner," his connection connec-tion with the suspicious persons referred re-ferred to being but an unlucky acquaintance ac-quaintance picked up about town. The man was, therefore, discharged. Allen Houser was arraigned on tho charge of petit larceny, having stolen a suit of clothes valued at $20. Houser pleaded guilty and the court sentenced hira to 40 days on the rock pile. Archie Browning was to have appeared ap-peared for trial for violating the automobile au-tomobile ordinance, but as the defendant defend-ant was not present in court, the court asked that he be notified when to appear for trial. Samuel Hazelwood, colored, forfeited forfeit-ed $5 bail on the charge of drunk-eness, drunk-eness, as did R. J. O'Connor and some other -individual who preferred to give his name as "John Doe." : Emma Thompson and Eusle Jones were charged with smoking .' opium. Neither of the women appeared for trial, however, and their bail of $10 each was declared forfeited. |