, 1884-12-10
PETS OF the POLICE.
Various Sinners Gathered In by the
Officers Yesterday.

Tom Talbot was on it bigger'n a WOLF
He was "a bad man from Bitter Creek,
the higher up you go the worse they get
and he was from the head of it" He
was wild and woolly, hard to curry and
the calm ways Of bloodless peace disturbed
his mind and exasperated him to deeds of
"burlud." On his way down the street
he met a man whose appearance Of limo
cence vas so unnatural and atrocious that
Talbot fairly boiled with indignation, even
as a wild and untamed bull resents the
ostentatious fauntings of a red petticoat
flung over an alley fence. AHA, false
scoundrel, l have thee now within me
power, CHROME wild mel and forthwith
he dragged the man to the City Jail The
unoffending citizen whose innocence was
his guilt, protested but Talbot silenced
all his objections by declaring that he was
an officer of the law. The man thought
that Talbot must be a freshly imported
New York policeman and SO permitted
himself to be calmly led to the bastile.
Arriving at the outer walls Officer Nolan
was met on guard. Then was there hur-
rying in hot haste. The iron doors changed
and Talbot was wildly prancing on the
cold stone floor. But his thirst for car
mage and ruin was not appeased. Wild
eyed woe he must create, and his Unsuitable
banker for devastation might in a manner
be mitigated by an assault upon inanimate
objects. He hurled himself against the
stove like a cast-iron boot jack at a blonde
cat. Over went the stove and in a mo-
ment the room was filed with smoke and
the sitting gas of halfburned coal. Then
he began an assault on the plaid door of the
jail, and for a few moments the building
shook with resembling blows. But ex-
haustion came on in time and when a
modest reporter timidly looked into the
jail Talbot was sweetly sleeping on a pile
of ancient gunny sacks, while through the
fumes of stale liquor a wind-broken snore
struggled desperately for existence.
A number OF cowboys went II on a
lark the other night While full Of ami
NAL spirits, and some bottled varieties,
they inverted the calendar, and had q
small Fourth of July celebration. They
were brought before Justice Fisher yester-
day for discharging firearms, but the evil
dence was not sufficient to warrant a con-
Yiction, and the coterie was accordingly
discharged from custody.
James Hanson, the incorrigible and I'M
conquerable. was again brought before
Justice Lee yesterday. in whose Court the
old, old charge of vaVrancy was made
against james. The man has been in the
City Jail some fifteen or twenty times,
and the doors of the County Jail have
closed behind him upon some seven or
eight occasions. He is a strong, able
bodied man, some IS years of age, a Ger
man, and affects an inability to under
stand the English language when he finds
it convenient to wrap himself around with
q mantle Of ignorance. He has been sent
away from the citytimes without number,
but always returnsto his free lunch routes
and hallway sleeping retreats. One of
his favorite schemes is to prowl around
business blocks where there are sleeping
apartments. An unlocked door, an
empty bed, and Hanson is comfortably
fixed until rousted out. He is thought to
be a trihe silly, and therefore has been
punished for vagrancy only. Justice Lee
sent the fellow to the County Jail until
the first of the year, and the County
Commissioners will be asked 10 take some
action in the matter. Hanson has cost
the county about 5000, and the opinion
obtains that he should be sent West to
grow up with the sage-brush.