The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-16
CLASH BETWEEN
PEACE OFFICERS
Chief Hilton and PatrOlman
Price in a MiXup.
TROUBLE OCCURRED
IN PARLEY'S CANYON
Horse Was Staked Too Close to
the Creek.

Chief of Police Hilton and two of his
trusted aides were in Parley's canyon
! fishing yesterday morning. Their catch
/ was. small, very small. It was not be-
cause they lacked skill in the art of
angling nor that there were too few
fish in the stream that their strings of
trout were not the biggest of any that
were caught. The bad luck is attrib-
utable to other reasons, so eye witnesses
say.
As the story goes. Chief Hilton, ac-
companied by Policemen George Chase
and Joe Burt, drove up the canyon dur
ing the moonlight of Thursday night
to be on hand bright and early when
it would be lawful to cast a line for
rev millions of trout Along about
O'Clock, long after the sun was up, there
appeared on the scene Special officer
Fred w. Price, whose duty was to as
sist Land and Water Commissioner
Westerield and Patrolman Phineas
Young in enforcing the regulation that
horses must be kept at least sixty
feet away from the creek in order that
the waters which supply the inhabit-
ants OF this city might not be polluted.
Chlef Hilton and his companions were
sound asleep by the bank of the creek
about four miles up the canyon and
their animal was mighty close to the
stream. Officer Price says he had to
KICK the heels of the Policeman Chase
most vigorously before the sleeping cop
per came to life. When he got the
n0tICRTna n q
MIN he would have to move the horse
Dack TO the sixty-foot limit. Chase
droWsiiy consented to obey the order
but Chief Hilton had in the meantime (
awakened himself. Then there was a 4
clash of authority.
The Chief is Aroused.
What's that; move my horse?" de- I
manded the chief. I viii not until 1 ]
get good and ready"
Wen, you will get your horse out 4
OF TINS place or l viii report you and 4
make 1t mighty interesting for you"
was the special officers uItimatum.
WIN this exchange Of compliments.
mixed with some choice epithets. and
aIter chase had agreed to see that the
horse was moved back at once. the first
chapter in the incident which set All
the SOSsiplng tongues in the canyon
"aSglng, the special officer rode off in
Search OF other viOlaters Of the law.
After a little While Chief Hilton and /
ms companions moved down the can
yon but Officer Price hove in sight
again TO disturb their otherwise happy
frame of mind. The sight of the Re
publican boss of the Twenty-sixth vot- Z
ING district was ike Haunting a red
Tag before an Infatuated bovine. This
time Chief Hilton was the aggressor. I
so those who were near by say.
is your nname Price?" asked the
chief Of the special officer.
receiving an affirmative reply the
;hlet Jumped out of his wagon and an
preaching, declared TO Price, You are
he meanest blankety blank blank and
I you were a larger man 1 would slap
7our face"
Trouble Grows Intense.
Chief Hilton" Price is said to have :
epled, with a great deal Of emotion
am your superior every wav in
eHectually, but am no pugiIist But
nave a boy at home who can lick Won
n Two minutes in a nine-foot room. /
IS chief of police you ought to be the t
l ll;s man to set a good example to
liners IN obeying the regulations in :
MS canyon, and you viii have to obey +
IS long as l am here. I will report I
'ou and make it mighty interesting for i
-Ou." '
We'll, my young friend" retorted 1
;hier Hilton, you can't make it any I
aore interesting for me than 1 can for
ou."
Just then Patrolman Young rode ND
nd poured oil on the troubled waters. !
his IS only figuratively speaking. for
e did not have any oil nor were
here any waters that he saw -exceut
2 the creek, but he stopped the -qcket
hat was fast assuming ious Q
base, since Price braced . the a
hief like a rooster of tn anne G
reed. I
Many who vent up the ,s-.s-l to C
sh took along a liberal supp t-beer
nd other beverages to drin'- Sc as to
void the necessity of imbioing the
shy water. Some say that the chief
police had a keg of the best brew
nder the hay in his wagon, but Chief y
-iltOn says this is a grevious mistake
nd told around by people who want l.
} make trouble for him. o.
Only Took Ten Bottles Along. b
Chief Hilton's version of the affair ~
that he knew nothing about the m
anyon regulations, but as soon as he a
as warned that his horse must be n
loved from so near to the creek
compiled. Nevertheless he felt G
lgered at the manner Of Prices show g
authority but all the talk of the u
1-loOkers is gross exaggeration. He -
eciares that he had no key of beer g.,
it'll him and that all he had in this in
ne was ten bottles. He gave away al
ven Of the bottles of beer and be- fiji
yeen himself and his companions the p
'ntents of the other three bottles were ca
ed merely to moisten their lips. =
Chief Hilton also declares that no
,rsOn ever saw him intoxicated at any
me in his life, and if the crowd of
ihermen say that he was groggy
ey don't know what they are talking
TOUT. He was merely drowsy from
IS of sleep and enervated by the ex-
ton of staying out all night driving
} the canyon.
1T was simply misunde- standing"
id the chief and l most sincerely
greet the occurrence"