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
Is not known whether he has any
relatives. This evening, at O'Don-
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
Ekenzie's place. Several months ago Il
jockey named Jerry Chorn shot II
colored man in the back and nearly
killed him. Just few weeks ago an
other 'hop-head' colored man attempt
ed TO murder man in the 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-
ciEWas 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 III LIE liOtOElOuS SdlOOIl..
II have tried to run the place decent
ly," said Mckenzie today. Every
time the boys get into a squabble |
try to restore peace. l doEnot permit
women to enter the front door of my
place but it 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:
".Just as 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 n big gun. Why don't the
police get busy? Why don't they run
these worthless fellows out of town.
and lisarm them? Wher one of these
.no-iccount 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.
qucnt the so-called clubs that are III
reality gambling hells. They hang
about houses of ill-fame and loaf in
low dives The place where the row first
started this morning is the one for
merly run by Bruce Johnson.
Justice Smith said today that, in all
probability, an inquest will be held
over the body of Hawkins following
tie post mortem. Every effort is being
made to locate Logan and arrest him
on the charge of murder 1t is not un-
likely that, If he is located, he will
resist arrest and there may be another
shooting before many hours
Logan, the murderer, has the reputa
tinn in Salt Lake among the colored
as being a dangerous man.
Prominent colored men say that he
hns long been addicted to the use Of
opiupi 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 it Is
known that he belonged in Kansas City
ta4vil.it was known as the Eighteenth
street gang band of desperadoes
and toushs.