The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1898-09-13

cd friends i'm Lehi last week
Nir and Mrs. G. w. Ramsey OF Provo
visited friends in Lehi Thursday.
w. j. Ridd, Travelling Passenger
Agent for the II. q. W., was in Lehi on
business last Wednesday
The gang OF men employed in laying
heavy steel rails on the r. G. w. have
reached Lehi in their work.
The last Millenial Star notes the ar
rival in England, on August "a, OF j. w.
Booth of Alpine and states that he is
assigned to labor in the Turkish Mis-
sion
Provo river has claimed another VIC
tim. The ten-year-old son of III. r.
North OF Heber was drowned Wednes-
day, while bathing in the river near
Charleston.
Henry Evans came down from Wilson,
near Ogden, where he has been working
in the Weber Sugar Factory, to attend
the wedding ball last Tuesday evening.
He returned to the scene OF his labor
Wednesday morning.
Fred Meakin of the Salt Lake and
Western Railway, was brought to Lehi
"Wednesday evening suffering from
severe illness. He was placed under
medical care and at last reports was on
the road to recovery.
The Board OF County mmissioners
met at Provo Thursday and appointed
Alphonso NJ. Davis to ill the vacancy
caused by the death OF VIM. VIM. MIR.
Davis is practical man and his selec-
ton not only is approved by the party
but Is satisfactory to the people OF this
end OF the county.
A certain young attorney was talking
up his probably candidacy for the
county attorneyship on the Repu blican
ticket with an old farmer the other day
and was answered in this wise. "O.II
guess you'd be alright, but it strikes me
the comfy attorney ought to know a
little about law"
j. Wadsworth was arrested Friday
on complaint OF David Hitesman for
selling bottle of beer to the com plain
ing witness on the morning of Sept. 6.
The trial was held before Justice Wood
house Friday afternoon and occupied
most of the afternoon and evening. 1t
was jury trial, Fred Merrill, Thad
Powell, Edward Edwards and Dave
Losee acting as jurors. Mahlon Warner,
OF the firm OF Warner and Houtz of
Provo, represented Wadsworth, and
Evans and Thurman of this plac
prosecuted. Hitesman, the complain
ing witness, testified that on the day in
question he entered the drug store of
defendant and that no other person was
present. He threw down q dollar and
asked defendant for five cents worth OF
sulphur and telling him to take out { (
the amount the price OF bottle of beer.
The defendant gave him the sulphur
and seventy cents in change at the same
time telling him he must go around to
the back door for the beer. On going to
the rear door few moments afterwards
the defendant gave him the bottle OF |
beer which he at once took to the
Court House and gave to Marshal
Thomas. Marshal Thomas corrobo-
rated certain parts OF the testimony and |
said Hitesman had been employed for
detective duty to especially ferret out |
cases violating the ordinance prohibit
ing the sale of into xicating beverages. |
Robert Taylor for the defense stated
that he with hrs brother entered the
drug store at the time Htesman bought |
the sulphur aud that they were in the
back room talking with Wadsworth |
when Hitesman came to the rear door.
He was positive Wadsworth did not
pass anything out of the rear door and |