The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-21
RAID ON DIVES
BY DEPUTIES TO
CLEAN THE CITY
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Korean boys well dressed and who say
they are students on the coast, another
Korean who lives in salt Lake and had
taken them there, two white men and
a white woman. All denied having
been smoking, but one OF the whlte
men ana the Chinaman We're smoking
when the officers entered. They We're
all arrested and taken TO the county
jail in the automobile.
The hop joint" was on the second
floor of the house at 1856 South Fifth
West street. Here were rude hunks and
all of the paraphernalia of real joint.
Surprise was written on every face
when the sheriffs forces walked into
the room and placed all OF the oeeu-
pants under arrest.
Dreams Are shattered.
Beautiful dreams of other lands and
great fortunes were rudely shattered
for several men and women in the hop
joint in the basement of "a Plum al
lev, run BY Joe Sing. On the hunks
were found three women and two men,
besides Jim and Joe, two Orientals.
In the house on Fifth West the
deputies found five pipes and opium
valued at about $500. In the one on
Plum alley there were four pipes tax
en- and opium worth about 1850. Jim
declared 10 the deputies that there
was no opium there, that his callers
brought their pills with them, but MS
word did not sound good and II was
later found that he had a whole
drawer of the dream making mixture
/ In the plumber carried TO the county
Jail from both Joints" the deputies
have a money value of about $1,000,
considering the pipes, the opium, yen
she, lamps and other paraphernalia. In
the cOnfiscated matter are several com
plete outfits.
Most OF those arrested claim they
were merely passing a few hours with
friends in the places and protested most
decidedly that they did not smoke
opium.
Embellishments Are Lavish
In the rounds OF the deputy sheriffs
some of the most lavish hop joints
imaginable We're found. All were locked
tightly, but were opened when the Of
ficers declared their purpose. Always
the pungent odOr Of opium smoke came
pouring through the creVice Wnen OH
entails pulled back the door Few
inches and peered sleepy-eyed out into
the darkness-fOr it was always dark
in the hallway, the subdued hight or
the smoking room seeming not TOO dark
after the dim light of the halls.
In some OF the Chinese homes IN
Plum alIey rooms where strangers
have been taken in during recent
times, there was nothing TO be found
except a number Of Orjentals smoking.
In some OF these the splendOr or the
Orient was seen in draperies and
hangings, this contrasting all the
more with the sQualOr just outside TIE
/ door. In most, however, there was
nothing Of splendOF-Only plain hunks,
lamps, pipes and the dreamy eyed
smokers of a Celestial cline.
Plum Alley Joint
The room raided in Plum alley was
one of the largest and most complete
/ In the city. There are fourteen hunks
I and a private room where Jim enter
I tanned his special friends. In this
/ was found a young girl last night, and
! in the main room were three other
girls and two white men. one China
man, his pipe lying at his side, was
sleeping heavily ans was walked from
I his slumbers TO be bundled into the
/ automobile and whirled off TO the
/ county Jail
Even while the officers were in the
place, three other prospective smokers
+ one a Chinaman and two whites, ap-
. peared, but were warned away and
/ left Immediately.