| Show BEFORE HIS HONOR TODAY A Chinese Doctor Run In and a Row Over Blngham Water Rights John Hastings for leaving his team untied on the street was fined 1 Austin OToole for being a lewd and dissolute character and being a common drunkard with no visible means of support sup-port was sent up for thirty days G F Simpson went on a woolgather ing spree on the public streets and used profane language towards the officers be fore and after he was placed under arrest He was fined 10 for jiis little idiosyncrasy idiosyn-crasy 1 I The case of Charley43hing one of the defendants in the opium joint raid was postponed until 3 oclock tomorrow The trial of See Lum Kee the Chinese medicine man who was arrested for keeping an opium joint on Commercial street came up before the police court at 2 oclock this afternoon From the evi dence adduced it seems that on the night of the IGth of the present month a young man by the name of John F Spencer entered en-tered the shop of the Chinese doctor and purchased from him twentyfive cents worth of opium and then went into the back room where the Doctor had his bed and opium layout He threw himself him-self on one side of the bed and the Doc tor on the other and they were surprised by the police in that oosition The Doctor having but one pipe it is supposed that they were taking turns hitting it although the testimony of the Chinese witness was positive that the doctor had merely bought the opium for his own use and he had refused to sell Spencer any of it There were circumstances circum-stances connected with the affair that settled the guilt of the doctor conclusively The fact that the doctor would not keep silent while the witness Ah Soo was being examined and would continually continu-ally prompt him and the interpreter in his own language was enough to convince con-vince the spectators that he was guilty The plea of weakness in his arms was his plea for allowing Spencer to take possession of the pipe and opium The Judge found him guilty as charged and will sentence him tomorrow The good people of the lower part of Bingham canyon who live by farming and stockraising have been indulging in a jolly little row by themselves which has landed the two families of Butchers and Stringhams before the police court On the 11th of this month Ammond Stringham a boy 16 years of age was I I instructed by his father George String ham to go to the head of their irrigating ditch and turn the water upon their tater patch When he arrived at the ditch a young man by the name of George Butcher who lives on the adjoining ranch made some objections to the boy turning on the water as he wanted to use it himself George Butcher being the stronger knocked the Stiingham boy down and kicked him and as both fumi liesrwere watching the outeoine drJHfe trouble they soon came upon the scene and became involved in a general broil It is alleged that pistols were drawn and threats of killing somebody indulged in pretty freely By complaint of the Stringham faction two of the Butcher boys and a young man named Harris were arrested and are having a hearing this afternoon It is hard to tell what the outcome will be but as the reputation of the whole outfit is rather unsavory there isnt much choice between their testimony testi-mony The trial was still in progress when we went to press i |
