Show BEFORE JUSTICE CAHOON phil ford charred charged with stealing a chicken tie I 1 police court took on quite an aspect of business yesterday and in it addition to the tile case of the city va vs captain spivey justice cahoon disposed of a number of somewhat interesting cases ex dog catcher phil III I 1 ford was one of the first defendants call called ed before tire bar of tire court phil was charged with the serious offense of chicken stealing the complainant being william richarde Ric karde who alleged that ford caught and carried away one of his chickens cli ickens which was roaming altig around in the back yard of his restaurant the evidence showed that phil really did catch the lien and the witnesses for the prosecution said they saw him place it in ilia his sack and carry it away on the other hand liand phil stated to the court that ho he came out of a saloon on twenty fourth street oliero lie bad been on business and found several boys c chasing hasing chickens cli ickens which they stat stated ed had escaped from them ford joined in the chase and captured ono one aged fowl which he gave to one of the boys there was no evidence however to boar bear phil out in lits his story and the court made a ruling which would have made solomon green with envy the justice held that as there 11 had adb been en conflicting stories told those of the prosecution and defense not agre agreeing el ng in the main particulars as to tile d disappearance i p ea r ance of the lion lien he lie was ull unable b 1 to decide whether or not the defendant had been guilty or wilf wilfully tilly stealing the hen lien but it was very evident ahat that ho lie had been instrumental in arde losing his property and the order of the court was that phil pay the sum of 50 cents into court tile amount to go to Kic karda for the tile hen david jenkins was assessed 1 including costs for an assault committed upon n mrs elizabeth Bro broshinski akl ho ile ug will 11 take an appeal to the lie district court arrest waa wag the result of a dispute M a water dit it and jenina is said to 0 o have pushed the tile woman with a shovel J an old man was fined 15 5 for severely swanking soan span king kink a 5 vear year old on of mrs matilda colton the child brew threw stones at and called aim him a nasty old man the spanking which the latter administered was in ho the opinion of the tile court criminal in 1 ita its for fast driving richard moore was wa hied filled 45 5 when arraigned lie aleal plead bilty guilty and promised to in the future by the ordinance upon the record the n of and opp opposite mite it were endorsed the words fined 5 tor for leing being drauk and disturbing the peace judo was gloriously full on wednesday night at Kiv erade and it required the combined efforts of two men to get him to the his et tion the city authorities aro are basinga great deal of trouble with the property owners owner 8 on twenty fifth street regarding sewer connections the people are very slow and the paving of tile street is being delayed in consequence several d days a ago g J E Ilor rocks was arrested for viol violating acim tile ordinance providing for sewer co connections by not connecting up ti the 0 o large block on the corner of grant avenue and twenty fifth filth street ile pro promised m ased to attend to the tile work at once but yester day the tile limit allowed by the tile court camo came around and the connections are still pot liot made Ilor rocks was fined tle 10 anil or ordered dereAl to make the connections |