The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-11
BRIGHAM BRIEFS.
The True Inwardness of the Opera House Dis
turbance and Its Consequences

In your issues of March and 2 you have COM
mnhications from this CITY, in which several
Measurements are made, which also come from
biased parties. In justice to all parties it will
be necessary to cover part, if not all, of the
ground covered by Little Jim," "a. n. R.) and
III. n. B."
The entertainment was given, as noted. by
some OF the most popular young ladies of brig
ham City, under the management of Mrs Min
ME j. Snow, in the opera house, February 26
and u. The performance of itself was very
creditable one AT previous performances the
front row OF seats were, RUE. empty, but on
this occasion the front seats were occupied by
the so styled Young Bloods." including Of
course, Little Jim" and H. N b. The cause
of this action was on account OF some of the
young ladies appearing IN male attire, and
othel dressed as fairies.
On Friday evening these young bloods made
themselves rather notorious by their noisy ap
plause, and at lnopportune times Noticing this
fact, the city marshal, ii. @. Boden, asked them
to deSiSt as 1T was against the rules of the
house.
Saturday afternoon several reports reached
your correspondent of determination of the
Y. bis. 10 go TO the opera house that evening
and break up the performance. Upon inquiry
we found that a meeting had been held at the
temperance nall with locked doors. Among
those present were two supposed lawyers UNI
doubtedly prest Mt TO advise the others how far
they could proceed in their actions and he
strictly within the law, as they were found
around trying to get the loan OF few canes
Evening came anG so did the young bloods
but not to give the performance The credit it
needed, but TO make IL mocKery and to dis.
concert the performers by occupying the front
seats and making noise wilh their borrowed
canes at 1nopportune times.
In the meantime the marshal having heard
of the rumors, thought it only right and lust
that those who attended The performance
should be protected and asked several of his
deputies to attend. The performance starred
and so did the y. BIS. 1t was soon evident that
they meant mischief, because when they were
asked to desist, they would do so for few
minutes and then start up again i n
| Bowring was asked by one of the officers 10 de.
J siSt and he promlSnd TO do so, but he evidently
| it in few seconds Another OF the officers
got rather impatient at this and told Bowrinp
| to come outside. Bowring went outside and Sc
! did his corwd, numbering between fifteen and
twenty The marshal told IA il he won d keer
! quiet ne could go back out this he would moi
90. His crowd urged him not to do So and
| consequently he was taken to the city Jail apd
subsequently taken before United States Com
miss oner j. L. Schaefer, where he gave bonds
The temper of the crowd was shown by the re
marks that were made by them One sa d
Hurry this thing along 80 that we can 90 uacl
and reak up the d. d thing" One of the EN-.
bryo lawyers was with the crowd and made
some yery offensive remarks, which causen thf
| marshal to remark that If he did not ston hf
would put him III also. The boys went back Il
the show, but they recognized the fact hat the,
/ must now act as gentlemen and not worse thar
| the gallery lmps.
/ On the Monday following B. H. Jones. M. n
Snow and @. e. Snow were arrested on the