Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-10

place, said that Hawkins was OF a
Quarrelsome disposition and continu-
ously antagonized various persons on
the street.
No arrangements have been made
for the funeral of the dead man. 1t
relatives This evening. at ODon-
nell's. County Physician Calderwood
Will hold an autopsy. The bullet that
ended the career OF Hawkins struck
him in the abdomen below the heart,
and caused almost instant death.
THIRD SHOOTING AFFRAY.
This mornings affair Is the third
shooting that has occurred in Nc
kenzie's place. Several months ago q,
jockey named Jerry Chorn shot n
5colored man in the back and nearly
Killed him. Just few weeks ago an
other "hop-head" colored man attempt
ed to murder a man in tho dive. Last
Tuesday evening two colored men en-
gagged in a row over the ownership
of dime and one stabbed the other
several times and then escaped. The
stabbing occurred while the city coun-
ell was in session discussing the official
request of Chief of Police Tom D.
Pitt to revoke the license issued to
Candy BILL While the matter was
being argued Chief Pitt telephoned to
the council that a cutting ARRAY had
just occurred In the notorious saloon.
II have tried to run the place decent
ly," said Mckenzie today. Every
time the boys get into squabble l
try to restore peace. I do not permit
place but 1t seems that every time
these fellows get into mix up they
come in here
CoLORED PEOPLE INDIGNANT.
A prominent and respectable colored
man said this morning:
lust rs long as the city authorities
permit this class of men to live in
Salt Lake just SO long will there be
fights and murders. These parasites
of white women parasites was not eX-
actly the word he used) are nearly all
hop-heads. They do no work at all but
manage to wear better clothes than US
! hard working people can afford. There
is scarcely one OF this gang that does
not carry a big gun. Why don't the
these worthless fellows out of town?
Why don't they at least round them up
and disarm them? When one of these
no-nccount fellows is full of hop no
mans life is worth dime.
Commercial street. Victoria Alley and
Franklin avenue are streets virtually
alive with this class Of the underworld.
They swarm from place to place. fire.
qncnt the so-called clubs that are II,
reality gambling hells. They hang
ilfluul HOUSES VI lll-ldll1 ioeil ~
lcw dives. The place where the row first
started this morning is the one for
merry run by Bruce Johnson.
Justice Smith said today that, in all
probability. an inquest vii, be held
over the body of Hawkins following
tie post mortem. Every effort is being
made to locate Logan and arrest hin
on the charge of murder. 1t is not un-
likely that, IL he is located, he will
resist arrest and there may be another
shooting before many hours
Logon. the murderer, has the reputa.-
ton in Salt Lake among the colored
population as being u dangerous man.
Prominent colored men say that he
has long been addicted to the use OF
opium and that he will draw a gun
and shoot on the slightest provocation.
lie has boasted. It is said. that he
killed two men in gun fights and 1t Is
known that he belonged In Kansas City
t. what was known as the Eighteenth
street gang" q band Of desperadoess
aud touShs.