The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-05-14

the Fourth district court. but may bt
continued for day or Two, as there are
two cases before 1t on the calendar. Borel
is the sheepherder who killed George
Lewis on the street one Sabbath morning
in March.
KIDD FOUND GUILTY.
1t took the jury in the case of the Peo-
pie VS.. Charles S. Kidd, just ten minutes
30 find the defendant guilty of embeZzle-
ment, the prosecution having elected to
stand upon that count of the indictment.
Sentence viii be pronounced on Saturday
next.
When the district court convened this
morning the hearing of the case was re-
sumed and not finished until O'Clock
tonight. The defense put no witnesses
on the stand and confined themselves to
motion for dismissal, on the ground
that the crime was not embezzlement,
and that if the defendant was guilty of
any crime 1t was obtaining money under
false pretenses- A legal battle followed +,
the point of law being the application of
the penal code. The court ruled that the
count was correct and the case went to
the jury.
A NATURAL GAS REVIVAL.
Operations at the gas well will be re-
sumed on Monday, and the company in
The machinery formerly used by the Utah
and Wyoming Natural Gas company has
been moved out TO the derricks of the
Utah and Ohio company, and the interests
OF the two companies viii be consolidated.
The gentlemen st the head of the enter
prise have every confidence of striking
gas within 500 feet, and are prepared to
go down that distance, or even more, If
necessary.
While boring for water last fall a flow
OF pure gas was struck at depth of sixty
feet, but as the experts who examined the
well considered that the flow was only
from assure, the well was abandoned
and allowed to close up. The fact that
gas was encountered SO close to the sur
face, however, would seem to indicate
that the main body of the Illuminating
fluid is not far below and will be easy of
access. Several gentlemen are in Ogden
looking over the field with a view OF
establishing glass works and if gas is
found will locate here.
THE HENDERsoN-BRIN COMPANY.
On Tuesday meeting of the directors
and stockholders of the Henderson
Brinker Electric Street Railway company
will be held for the purpose of effecting
an organization of the company, look
ing to the completion of the system ac-
cording to the original plans. The di-
rectorate of the company is at present
made up of II. II. Henderson, Joseph
Brinker, w. S. Garretson, H. G. Bigelow
and George H. Burgitt. Three of these
gentlemen will resign and make room for
c. e. Wayne and two Others There is
now pending before the city council an
ordinance granting an eighteen months
extension on the franchise of the COM
pany and indications point to its imme-
date passage. Public sympathy has now
I'D av-If
council will not defeat Ogden IS chances
for securing competing street railroad
system by taking adverse action on the
ordinance.
At meeting of the directors of the
Henderson Brinker Street Railway com
pany, held privately late tonight, H. II.
Henderson resigned as president aud di-
rector, and E. Il. Ridgely was elected to
fill the vacancy. Joseph Brinker also re-
signed as secretary and director, and c.
e. Mayne was elected director and George
IL. Burgitt secretary.
THE ICE PLANT.
The machinery for the ice plant has all
arrived and is being put in place. The
buildings are completed, and unless some
unforeseen delay occurs the plant will be
turning out ice within two weeks. There
is likely to be very lively ice war in Og
den this season, the last years schedule
of prices having already been smashed.
JUDGE SMITH RESIGNS.
AT a meeting of the Weber County
Democratic Central committee, held to-
night, the resignation of Judge H. w.
Smith as chairman was rendered and ac-
cepted with regret. This action was nee
essary on account of the Judges early
removal to Provo. The vacancy has not
been filed.
rrtrI f,0Tr.1Tv TIT curpq
The county teachers held their monthly
institute today. The attendance was
good and much information was impaired
to the teachers by Professor Page, County
Superintendent Peery and others.
DEATH OF E. D. FLANAGAN.
E. D. Flanagan, trusted employee of
the Western Union and q prominent
member ofIWeber Lodge No. 6. A. f. and
A. NJ, died at his residence this morning
and will be buried on Monday. De-
ceased was respected and loved by every
one of his acquaintance, and especially
was this the case with his telegraph asso-
ciates, to whom he had endeared himself
by many splendid qualities.
YOUNG WORLDS FAIR TOURISTS.
A party of youthful nomads struck
town tonight. There are eleven of them,
exclusively messengers and newsboys.
en- route from San Francisco to Chicago.
None of them are older than 13 wears.
while many are much younger, yet they
have the nerve and necessary ssget there''
of tourists of more mature years.
They travel on Drake-be tickets
which have been honored thus far over
the road. Notwithstanding their tender
years, all Of them have aliases and brag
of their dexterity with cards and other
gambling devices. They have been two
weeks making the distance between San
Francisco and Ogden, but are confident
that the rest OF the journey will be
covered in shorter time. They are con-
WINGED that California is not properly
represented without them and are bound
TO attend to her proper representation.
They left for the WINDY City, late to-
night.
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