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Show DT5PME(1Tl CAUSE OFRIOIG I W. W. SPEAKER AND OFFICER CLASH IN STREET ANO SEVEN PEOPLE ARE INJURED. Fire Department Called to Disperse Crowd After Gunman Had Started Street Fighting In Business Section Sec-tion of Utah Capital. Halt l.nke City. Hinting occurred In the heart of thU city Tuesday night, seven people being Injured by t.uHits, and it being necessary to tiill out the tire di part incut to Knitter Knit-ter the crowd follow lug the outbreak. Oratory denouncing the American government, the Htars and Hirlpes nml the "guards of corporate interests," iXouii(!e by an I- XV. W. speaker, led to the street light Ing. ! Tom Murphy, fni years of iu;e, who has followed the banner of the I. W. W. over all the west, is alleged to bo lesjoimlblo for the bloodi-lnd. When J.'nies P. Morgan, I. W. W. orntor, i released only lo days ago iioui, the 1 lull county jail after serving a sen-ti sen-ti neu In connection w ith the strike a, Tucker, Waved a red handkerchief In tho ulr mid ch.ill'iiKed, it I said, anyone to appear with the Shirs ami Stripes, Axil II. Stctle. deputy sheriff, sher-iff, but more recently u 1 u. ker eu.n l, lock the challenge ami with a tiu..U American i!ag in li 1:4 band walked l.il-i tbe crowd Morgan u ad'hesaiiiK. At sight of Steele, the spm'ur leaped down 1 1 cut his stand wltU ileiichcd fist but William Cony, a (Hipenter, was too quick fur him, lauding a heavy Tight to .Morgan a Jaw. I roin u poult ion nearl y Murphy whipped nut i lie f the lati t model t ol revolvers and cpcuttl lire. Die llrhl bullet li dg d ill a wallfat . hlch the former d-puty sheriff a licd in lila 1 1;;. it hip pocket, 'ice ir,aet tf the euot knocked Steely to Ills kticctt. The n.liie ray that .Murphy lin d nil (he flint. i in the Iracas tuat tot-low tot-low ill, six pei pie being shot, while the speaker who nun I espoiiH. h- fur the outbrtnU wus baiily dentin At least one of the injured in n may die. Street imethiM of the I. V. W., or similar or. an rations may not again be pirii'littil within the corpotatti limits of Suit I use, according to a KluU'iiicnt made by the chief ot police biter the rlet had been quelled. He i-ii Id It would bit the dut) in the future fu-ture of every patrolman to break up I. V. W. street meetings wherever found. |