Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-14
! M. Harrison Wanted by Ogden
And San Francisco Firms
For Sharp Practise.
Utah EPISCOPAL ANNUAL
No. Railroad Contract is Lct--Wcd-
ding Bclls--Court Notes
News Briefs.

# ogden, Aug. IA complaint was
6lad IN the district court yesterday aft
srnoon by Dist. Atty. Halverson against
NJ Harrison, charging him with OBJ
4eiuing property by fraud a warrant
sfor the arrest of the man was also is
sred but the service of the same will
\ n, deferred until he is apprehended.
~ The complaint alleges that Harrison
rrote the John Scowcroft & Sons COM
lany from Winnemucca, New, on u
specialy printed letter head and or
dered a bill of goods amounting to
sss3,q6O The order included hats, caps,
Hkhoes and gents furnishings. He gave
"a number of references and claimed
fhat he had previously engaged in the
brokerage business at Rawnide and was
|formerly with the Alaska Commercial
Icompany at Fairbanks, Alaska.
From the information at hand it ap-
h,eals that Harrison also arranged for
Eanothsr bill of goods from California
k.and ghen these, together with those
3 from Scowcroft arrived, he placed them
In an old storeroom he had previously
Hrentad until he would have time to
Eyerack and express the goods to Salt
Flake City.
Upon arriving in the latter place
EliaIfison disposed of his goods to pawn
shops and others representing that he
Iras up against it with his creditors"
Hand to clinch the bargains he exhibited
#the original bills of lading and in this
|mamer succeeded in disposing of most
Han the goods that he had in his pos
session.
| As soon as the Scowcroft company
cot wind" of the man they started an
4 d.! foot Ion,
comIanicd by Detective Pender, went
4 10 Salt Lake City the fore part of the
week and succeeded In locating the
4 goods and recovering a greater part of
! Them 1t is stated that a wholesale
house of san Francisco Is also making
search for Harrison.
UTAH EPISCOPAL:
The annual session of the Utah mis-
! sion of the Utah Episcopal church will
be held at the First NJ. f. church in
| This city from Aug. 20 to %, Bishop
| ] W Basford presiding.
The Utah mission embraces all the
+ Work done by the church in Utah of
Which th,re are about % ministers and
sbOut 20 lady workers. Bishop Bas-
ktord has been resident bishop of Pekin.
gtna, for the past four years, and
hons over in Ogden on his way to the
ofent.
A The general conference boards will
Ia represented by their respective sec
hetaries, who will speak at the several
Evening sessions. An interesting pro-
Egram has been arranged and will be
EArried in the three sessions when
Esill be held morning. afternoon and
|tenng.
Il The members of the local church will
arrange for the entertainment of the
Pdeegates and visitors.
"a BIG RAILROAD CONTRACT.
81 \ railroad construction contract
kuat will call for the expenditure of
EabOul S11,000.000 has been awarded
Ia the Utah Construction company of
ffiis city by the Southern Pacific COM
Epany The contract practically calls
4 In the rebuilding of the line of the
|Southern Pacific between the stations
|G Clipper Gap and ColfaX, in the
|eerra Nevada mountains, and VIII
consume about two years.
The undertaking is said to be one