The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-12


broad import may ill the year s
81 "front pages, top column, but
M il is in "the shadows of 4
shade,' often "buricd' way
back among the real estate items and
the classified ads that is usually TO be
found tho trucst human interest. And
some Of thcso 'unconsidercd tritics :
telling of the JOYS and sorrows, oddl-
ties and drolliticS of the now-closlng
elve.month-havc hero been gath
cred.
With Januarvs initial week, Joseph
Osborne. contractor of Des Moincs.
found Il forgotten balance of % cents
on an old savings account. lie added
II cents to it and entered into a con-
tract with a local trust company that
the dollar should not be removed for
90 years. Interest is to be compounded
ahnually-and in zoos the oldest sur
vivinr Osborne. in direct line of de
scent from Joseph, is TO have the total
A fortnight later the vision of st
Peters record book, with S4.90 stand
ing black against his name, caused
Frank Jones to walk l45 miles out from
Chicago to the plant OF the American
Car and Foundry company, that he
might refund that sum and be rid OF
q pricking conscience.
Dollars and Cents.
That same filthy lucre. which plays so
large 4 part in present day news, hg-
ured. in March and April. in two other
out OF -the-way happenings. the hrst
telling of the opening OF n miscr s
grave at Epinal, France, with the re,
suiting discovery of some $3.50 in small
coins lying amid the bones of the dead
man, who had presumably swauowed
the money 10 carry at least SO much
of his worShipped treasure out OF the
world with him; and the second record
ing "A genuine April FOOLS Joke. just
because the day was the first of the
fourth month, Los Angeles pedestrians
allowed TO lie on the sidewalk uninves-
ticatcd dilapidated old wallet. AT
last il was kicked carelessly into the
gutter. where NJ. J. Alschuler, the dis
tressed owner, discovered IT in his
scarch-and recovered SIS in good
currency,
A Columbus (Ohio) woman has left
500. TO be invested by the court, the
income 10 be used TO keep IN sound
repair grandfather S clock 10 which
she had long been attached, and Judge
Ecncsaw Mountain Lands of Chicago,
who gained international fame by his
500 600. 900 fine of the Standard OIL
has swung TO the other end
of the are. fining n. II. Tebbets, de-
creDit civil war pensioncr, one penny
for making a false affidavit.
Freaks in Law.
Another fine worth tho mention was
referred TO in July telegram from
which related that MagIs.
trate Williams, presiding, assessed
himself 50 and costs for driving his
auto at a nineteen mile rate when the
law limited him 10 eight. Just after
that, Judge Trcgoning of Evans, Colo, |
came within an ace of sentencing nm
self 10 iail for thirty days. by mad |
n mittimus under his judicial hand, !
The sheriff discovered the error in the
nick Of time.
TIP in Canada, again, at Windsor, |
Ont, the governor of the Jail. having
come into conflict with a Judge, has
been declared guilty of contempt and
sent 70 his own prison for ten days.
An Omaha court has decided IL costs
sl00 TO swear into a telephone, and
f" liar has been legally defined in
Atlanta AS IA breach Of the peace and
most generally n fight - "Therc may
be exceptions to the rule. the de |
cision goes on 10 declare. "but they are
cXotics and find little nourishment on
Georgia soil and under southern skies, -
Two other oddly Just sentences have
come out of Pittsburg and Chicago |
In the ono city (Nov.) Judge Joshua
Cohen has decreed that three BOYS, ac-
cpsed Of Tetty larceny, are TO go TO (
church every Sunday, or take n term
in prison: in the other. 1S-year-oId |
Joseph Masterson, arrested for the theft |
OF a pair Of trousers, has been directed |
to 90 home and read "David Copper |
field, poudering its lesson
Just About Women.
Last May this advertisement an. |
peared in certniu Colorado papers. in. |
serted by the school board Of the little |
town of Virginia Dale:
SCHOOL DIST, 70 A
teacher with glass eye and a cork |