| Show i BOY IS SAVED FROM DEATH BY STREET CAR FENDER question of pool belling on horse races in the courts note given for A gambling debt declared void i the life of a little boy 6 or 6 years old was saved yesterday moraln by the fender on a state street car joe davis v the circus parade in front ottic knutsford hotel and did not notice the approaching car he stepped oft the track and before the bystanders could reach bini wag atreo by the side fender and thrown aside ho wa taken to his home at fourth east and seventh south in a carriage but he wa not hurt the fender undoubtedly kept him from being ground to pieces under the wheela 1 DEBTS OF HONOR VOID A debt incurred in a gambling game Is not a legal obligation and the creditor cannot collect the same was the nucleus of a decision handed down by district judge hall yesterday the case in question was that of ceorge B dodge against matthew cullen brought to recover on a promissory note for alleged to have been given by the defendant january 18 1899 in favor of 6 C kinsey and assigned by him to the plaintiff the defendant in his cross complaint alleged that be had lost the above amount in a game of stud poker with kinsey and a third party and that tl e r te he gave was un collectable judge hall in rendering his decision decided that the note wa fraudulent and void and perpetually enjoined the plaintiff from prosecuting any action against the defendant for or on account of said note SALT LAKE COURT NOTES judgment in the sum of was rendered by judge hall yesterday in favor of in the suit of R B whittemore against mabel calkins the suit was instituted for the foreclosure of a chattel mortgage william C staines brought suit in the district court yesterday against tha utah and trust company et al to quiet title to some valuable mining properties in the west mountain mining district W J bryan who wag recently bound overto the district court on the charge of assault with a deadly weapon was released under bonds yesterday TORE UP THE CHECKS because he tore up checks representing frank hanley a messenger for the A D T spent last night in the city jail hanley was sent out last evening wath a message enclosed in the same envelope with which were the checks and when he was unable to find the person to whom the message was sent instead of returning it to the office he tore it to pieces checks and all the police were notified of the occurrence I by manager moulton and a short time later the boy was arrested and lodged in jail it ia hardly likely however that the case will be pushed against him as there teems little evidence that the act was prompted by anything more serious than thoughtlessness the checks were recovered i cloudburst IN LAMBS CANYON A cloudburst occurred in lambs canyon a few miles above the hallway house at 5 thursday afternoon that for a timo threatened the lives and the home of the family of william bullock the cloudburst came with auch Budjen neBS and fury that thousands of tons of rock tarth and trees were torn from the mountain side and hurled into the stream the water rushed down between the narrow walls of lambs canyon with such force as to carry every thing before it the wall of water swept within ten feet of the bullock home and for a time it was feared it would be completely demolished young william bullock made a perilous ride to the halfway house with the newa of ahe deluge and stated that all the members of the family had escaped injury bullocks ride was full of danger as the creek was almost breast high and all bridges were pone logs and debria being carried by the stream jeopardized his life every time he bad to cross the I 1 creek BETTING ON TEE RACES city judge diehl yesterday listened to arguments on the question of whether or not the selling of pools on horse races is prohibited by law in this states the case is that of salt lake city vs F 31 nelson charged with unlawfully conducting a gambling game in selling pools on races the defendant is alleged to have conducted a place in this city where pools were sold on races in cities other than salt lake the defendant having a private wire to those places where important races were in progress court was hela in the cily attorneys office in the city and county building yesterday afternoon where a large number of interested people gathered to hear the arguments in the case after the complaint had been read by assistant city attorney the counsel for the defense demurred on tho ground that it doe not state facts sufficient to constitute a public offense the demurrer was argued at length by judge 0 W powers for the defense and R G for the prosecution court adjourned at 5 to 10 today when attorney will make the closing inthe police court in support 0 the demurrer ALLEGED TO BE A HOLDUP HOLD UP fred arnold one of the three men who was badly beaten up in the corian ton saloon on west south temple street salt lake thursday night when the place was held up by five masked men ii confident that in one of the holdups hold ups he recognized his ald time friend bert gardner the sport who trained tony maher for his fight in ogden last new yeats arnold was the trainer of kid adwards and lie says be has known gardner for fifteen years and could not be mistaken in his man even though he did wear a mask he claims gardner was the leader of thursday nighta holdup gang the police place little credence sn arnolds alleged identification mainly for the reason that gabiner has not been een in the caty for the last nine months and that he has good reasons for staying away A short timo before be deft salt lake gardner was charged with the robbery of tre castleton store second street and tho evidence against him seemed conclusive but he escaped because of some slight flaw in his identification the police are of the opinion that the perpetrator of the saloon halil up were a punch of bags ano had become desperate and sue acceded in getting hold of enough guna to make them game it is believed that toe gang got away on an early morning train for ogden WILD NIGHT ON THE LAKE dr J carroll of st marks hospital andmios and Miss mary miles a nurse at the institution returned thursday night from an experience on the waters ol 01 great salt laiq which will linger in their memories for the rest of their lives they left saltair for a row in a light skiff wednesday night and had proceeded only a short distance when a heavy gala sprang up from the southeast despite the strenuous efforts ot mr the skiff was blown rapidly away from the shore darkness came on and in the roaring of the wind and the splashing of tho waves all sense of direction became obliterated and the occupants of the frail craft did not know where they were being carried by the storm for six hours they drifted and worked almost frantically to keep the boat free of the water that splashed over the sides with each succeeding wave by some trick of wind or tide the skiff was finally cast upon the beach on the west side of antelope island unable to discover where they were and almost exhausted by the struggle hunger and thirst the couple started in search of a habitation they walked and walked fourteen miles in all and finally about 2 thursday afternoon the island farm of john H white was reached after partaking of refreshments and resting they continued their journey in a rig reaching salt lake city at 1130 at night DECREES OF DIVORCE IN FIVE CASES five unhappy couples were released from the bonds of in the district court yesterday of the decrees were granted by judge hall and the fifth by judge lewis albert II rogers wag divorced from lucy bog era on the ground of cruelty they were married in this city in february 1902 and in april 1003 the defendant is alleged to hare driven the plaintiff from home and ordered him not to return in language more forcible than polite A decree was granted to emma wallace from thomas wallace on the ground of failure to provide with the necessaries of life the parties were married in salt lake city on the ground just mentioned harriet brown obtained a divorce from james S fbrown the couple intermarried inter married at provo june 27 1898 the plaintiffs maiden name of harriet folland was restored to her the fourth decree of divorce was granted to electa johnson from john Johnso ir on the ground of nonsupport non support the custody of a minor child was awarded to the plaintiff the parties had been married since october 19 1891 the decree granted by judge lewis was to emma arnold divorcing her from the cruelty of james C arnold the defendant is alleged to have beaten his wife and to have threatened to shoot her the plaintiff was awarded the custody of their minor children and the defendant ordered to pay her the sum of per month as permanent alimony the couple were married in alt lake april 13 1898 |
