Show LIGHT PLANT OFFERED CITY the advisability of municipal ownership in salt lake at this time entered largely into the last 0 the proposition of garff conof losan to erect an electric lighting plant furnish salt lake city with 0 per cent more arc lights than it coy receives and at the present cost end at the end ot four years sell the blant to the city for one fourth ot the cozic of the plant the meeting was a secret one fid in one of the smaller dining froom sat the commercial club it was attended by C C garff his son C carff mayor morris fire chief by crater city engineer snow and coun balaes black martin nd hartenstein when the meeting adjourned it was to meet at the call ot the chairman councilman hartenstein in the mean alme the garft are to submit their plan with more minor and fuller details in writing the officials met with the logan promoters about and remained closeted with them until about 1030 at the conclusion of the session it was stated there was nothing tangible for publication information relative to the prospective cost of the plant or where the power a to come from was not given to the by the logan men and they refused to impart it to the press at this time those and other facts are expected to bek included in the written statement to be submitted after the session it was stated by the elder mr garff that ha and hla son are prepared to give the olty halt ao many more arc lights as they arenow receiving for the samo money and that the power will be 2000 candle should roo elve ana not lesa than 1000 as be declared it Is actually getting anjer tha 2000 candle contract ys 3 JELLY TO BE district attorney benner X denied emphatically yesterday atter that he contemplated dismissing ahe criminal proceedings against S J kelly saloon man and promoter of prize fights for some ume friends of the head official ot the shamrock athletic club have been circulating the story that the case against him was not to bo prosecuted owing to the lack ot evidence the caso la set or trial june 22 speaking ot the matter yesterday afternoon district attorney said 1 I most certainly intend to bring he man to trial there Is no truth in the statement that prosecution is to be dropped owing to lae lack 0 evidence while I 1 am not well acquainted with the case as I 1 have not been in the office long enough to familiarize myself with all the criminal cases besun before I 1 took charge I 1 know enough about it to say that there Is ah abundance of evidence against kelly and that he will be prosecuted the oregon short line is demanding that he bo punished for the alleged forgery and he will be I 1 asked that the case be set as far ahead as li was to give me an opportunity to look into the evidence and prepare the states case we will be ready for trial june 22 unless something unforeseen comes up in the meantime which I 1 do not now anticipate the case has been passed twice once upon the motion of the attorneys for kelly and the other time at the s ug gestson gest lon of the late district attorney elcanor Elch nor he asked for more time because he lad several murder cases on his bands and wanted to get them but of the way first the case was set tor trial feb 8 but was passed for the time being upon the motion of kellys attorneys which was not opposed by mr elcanor Elch nor april 25 it was set a sec ond time the oate being june 22 cankat COLLECT ON POKER DEBTS the supreme court of utah has held that gambling obligations are outside tonal the opinion WM handed idowu yesterday yeat erday in the caad of K E collet appellant v paul beutler th action was brought in devler county to recover 5 alleged to be nue or money loaned by plaintiff to defendant judgment was rendered in favor 0 plaintiff but a new trial wa granted by the lower court upon motion of defendant and it was shown at the second trial that the money sought to be recovered was due on a debt contracted in a game of poker the lower court then rendered judgment in favor ot defendant which judgment waa today affirmed by the decision of the supreme court MYSTERY OP LONGS DEATH SOLVED A victim of the green cloth would seem to bs a fitting epitaph for 0 J long tho telegraph lineman choso whoso dead body was found in the chaparral beside the jordan river tuesday morning gathered bv the members of sheriff emerys force proves conclusively that lone took hla own life and leaves little doubt that he was driven to the deed by the loss of company money in gambling learning that there was some suspicion of murder the sheriff sent deputy axel steele to murray yesterday to learn and report the facts mr staely returned last night and declared abo case to be one of suicide JAMES SCORES A POINT county clerk yesterday won tho first decision in the mandamus suit aice analyst him recently by ho truth publishing company him to make an order of publication ot a probate notice which the administrator of the estate requested to have published la troth tle attorneys tor mr janes denn to the petition tor a mandamus mac damus on the ground that the same did not state facts sufficient to consal gutc a cause ot action or to entitle the plaintiff to a writ of mandate this demurrer wea today by judge hall and plaintiff was given ten dys in which to amend the petition it Is believed that plaintiff will stand on his former petition and will not amend the sime in that event judgment will aca rendered in favor ot defendant and then plaintiff will probably appeal the case to the supreme court brewers HAPPY louis kemer secretary of the national brewers union made a tan for his people in this city yesterday by signing up an agreement with local brewers advancing the wages of every employed emp loye the bottlers by this abw schedule will receive from to 12 per week instead of 9 to 1060 as astore and their hours will bo from ten per day to nine drivers hlll receive wages by the weeks of monthly and their raise will mahe a difference of from W to 32 per year each the brewers will have their working hours reduced from nine to eight per day and an increase in wages amounting to about ai per year night em aloyes will receive an increase of 1 per week n |