Show w SLOT MACHINES IN USE WHilE ACTION 4 BY CITY AIN 4 Municipal Legal Adviser to toI toj j I Decide Today Whether I Wait Is Necessary 1 The fate of the th slot machines In Iii Salt c Lake L' now hangs In the balance and I today after a n consultation between th tho city attorney and chief of ot police It j will be determined whether immediate I action will vIll be taken toward their dim cUm or whether further wait will willbe willbe r be deemed necessary The decision of the tho supreme court courtIn f In the test case against ag B. B F. F Doran Dran J was as that slot are gambling gambling- i devices and as such arc are under the law J re regarding gambling Mr Doran has D been given twenty days In which to ask Ho intends to petition and the whole mator matter mattor mat mat- ter tor or mo may be thrown open and the machines machines machines ma ma- chines given a new lease of life Meantime the question arises as to tho life I of ot the machines during the twenty 1 The rho chief of ot police was ns to have held helda 8 a conference with the elt city attorney V yesterday but meeting was sas postponed post post- t till toda today Meantime the nickels still sUll Jingled Jed merrily Into the machines last night and no evidence of ot nervousness nervous nervous- ness neBS was as displayed b by tobacco dealers although It was consistently maintained main maln- tamed that the elimination of ot machines machines machines ma ma- chines means means' a n reduction or trade both bothIn bothIn In tobacco and candles candies and a general g I tI 11 cutting cuttIngS of or the staffs stata of cigar ar stores store I I do not Intend to take out my machines machines mat ma ma- t chines till I have to said Mr Doran i last night and I believe the other if Ii cl cigar nr dealers are also waiting Tak- Tak f lug Ing them out will hurt the business j universally c especially among among- the k 4 smaller dealers ft The decision of or the supreme court affects atU af- af U from to OO machines Various Var- Var ious bus estimates of the cigar dealers place lace the possible falling off oft of ot busl- busl 1 ness at from 35 to CO GO per cent with a ait it r corresponding lessening of employ employ- i mont The cigar business of ot Salt Lake JAke the they estimate Is worth more than 5 per year and If the slot machines machines ma- ma li chines are cut off orr It means 11 i le less lesE business for Salt Lake |