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Show GUILTY OF SMOKING OPIUM WORTHLESS FELLOW SENTENCED SENTENC-ED TO THE CHAIN GANG. Dick Powers, a Miner From Nevada With An Unbalanced Load, Gets Out of Town. The morning docket of police court contained but two names, those of a "hop-head" and a vagrant. John S. Smith was the name given by the first offender and he was charged charg-ed with smoking opium. The prisoner prison-er meekly entered a plea of not guilty and Detectlvo Pender was called upon for testimony in the case. The officer stated that Smith was better known ns Scott and that he was a worthless fellow who seemed to spend most of his time around gambling houses and whose means of support were a mystery to the police. The officer Introduced, as evidence in the case, the smoking outfit which had been confiscated at the time of Smith's arrest, and the vile smelling paraphernalia, including the pipe, peanut-oil lamp, "dope pot" and the dozen doz-en or more articles which usually compose a "hop" outfit, were presented present-ed for examination by the court. The judge viewed them from a distance, but, catching a stray whiff of the dls gusting odor, promptly sentenced Smith to twenty days in the work house. Dick Powers, a giant miner from Nevada, was charged with vagrancy. The big fellow, whOBO proportions would make those of Champion Jeffries Jef-fries pale Into Insignificance, entered a plea of not guilty. Detective Pender Pen-der stated that he had arrested tho man in a saloon on lower Twenty-fifth street more on account of the langungo with which he had addressed the officers offi-cers than because he was drunk. He stated that a little too much whiskey was probably the cause of It all and that in other respects he did not think the man was a subject for suspicion. sus-picion. The court asked Powers if he wanted want-ed to leave town, and, when the latter replied In the affirmative, a suspended sentence of 00 days was given with instructions to leave town at once. |