The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1895-04-06
a BRUT AL ASSAULT.

| three games of pool. While playing,
the editor Was accosted by q fellow be
had never seen before who said TO him,
You had something in your paper
about lady" you had no right to
\ say Looking at the fellow and judg-
| Ing that he was one of the class of pimps
| who infest the tough district further
down the street, the reply was given
/ him that it was the province of the pa
per to criticise such people. The fell
How walked away and the incident was
forgotten and the party went on play
| ing. Subsequent events, however, de-
Iveloped the fact that this fellow and
four or FIVE more had met down at one
Iofthe dens and put up the job TO do
us up,'i aud when, half an hour later,
| the game broke up, the mob was watt
ing in the bar-room, and as We Went
out 10 settle for the games and return
home, the brute, who was behind the
door, struck the editor with something
knocking him down and then brutaily
kicking him in the face, the victim
not even seeing by whom be wasstruck.
! It was a most cowardly deed, the editor
being an old man aud his assailant d
young brute who was put up to the act
by three or four assassins and muir
derers. The fellow, who is known
among his associates as "Lee the Kid
was arrested, pleaded guilty to charge
of battery and was fined $50, the gang
chipping in the money, doubtless, to
pay the fine. The victim considered it
not worth his trouble to appear against
him.
This is the entire story, briefly told
and sll of which can be substantiated.
The gang assembled SO quietly in re-
spectacle place that the proprietor and
EN- ployees and the people who were in
the room never had suspicion of their
purpose or it never would have occurred.
The lower town saloon keepers and
business men are, with one or two ex-
ceptions, men who bear excellent char
acters and the place where the incident
occurred is exceptionally orderly and
well kept. No blame can attach to the
house and had the same thing happened
in three or four of the other bar.rooms
down there the same thing would be
said. These saloon men do their best
to keep orderly places and, as much as
other good people down there, deplore
the fact that the laws are not put in
force to rid that portion Of the town Of
gangs who have collected there from
the lowest purlieus of other towns, and
made the place a terror to decent peo-
Pile. Deprayed women and worse men
bid defiance to every form or decency
down there and the better people seem
helpless TO defend themselves, and it is
because the NUGGET has exposed this
condition of affairs that the editor ''got
it.u Now, the saloon keepers and 9TH
er business men, realising that the bet
ter people are keeping away, are ready
to join in clearing these people out.
1t can readily be done if the forty or
more depraved characters were to be
dealt with by law. There are at least
that many down there who do not eat
an honestly earned meal once month;
but they all manage to exist. How do
they do it?
Here are the incidents of the day
and night following the above occur
renee:
On Sunday, woman who has made
herself notorious as a blackmailer and
brawler, and by whose machinatinns at
least one good man lost his life, met
another woman, an invalid, and the
mother OF four small children upon one
of the foot bridges, threw her down and
beat her head with rocks, injuring her
SO badly that she is still confined to her
house.
On the same day sheep herder
came up from the valley with years.
savings in his pocket, got on wild gsr
had quarrel aud was landed in the
lock -up, to be let out at 1890 at mig t.
He was steered up against the gang,
held ~ and robbed of $2l5, within an
hour after he was let out.
These things go on SO continually
and SO openly that decent people are
Kept away from the better gclass Of re-
Iorts much to the detriment Of their
and the proprietors are, APP
oarently, powerless to change the con
lition of affairs. If these better class
IF business men would consult their
,wn interests, they would organize
themselves to rid the community of the
- 80. M LIZ 1919. Il.