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Show lute person, or associate of known thieves, who wanders about the streets at late or unusual unu-sual hours of the night, or who lodges in any bam, shed, shop, outhouse, vessel or place other than Is kept for lodging purposes, without with-out the permission of the dwner or party entitled en-titled to the possession thereof; every lewd and dissolute person who lives In and about houses of Ill-fame, and every common prostitute prosti-tute and common drunkard Is a vagraut, and punishable by Imprisonment not exceeding three months. The abovo section, it strikes us, is sufficient authority for the police to gather in all the suspicious characters, and either imprison thorn or run them out of town. We hope Marshal toung will do his duty in this mailer, aud rid the city of bad and dangerous men. lie can do it in loss than a week's time. A KOUND-IP NKFltl). Salt Lake is just now infested with a lot of toughs, thieves ami vagabonds. While it is true that the police cannot completely prevent crime, they can certainly diminish it to a marked ex-teut ex-teut by making a complete round-up of all the suspicious characters in this city, and driving them out of town. This can easily be done under the vagrant act of the city ordinances. Suspicious characters char-acters can bo convicted as vagrants, aud the sentence suspended upon promise prom-ise of their leaving the city. Imprisonment Imprison-ment is provided for. not to exceed three mouths. In the handling of vagrancy va-grancy cases the police judge can of course exorcise his discretion according to the circumstances surrounding each case. Soctiou 118, of chapter XXXI1I. of the city ordinances, says: Kvery person lexivpt au lmllaui without any visible means of HvIuk, who hiUi tho physical ability to work, and who does not. for the space of ten days, seek employment, nor labor when employment Is offered him : every healthy liejr-gar liejr-gar who solfclta alms as a business ; every person per-son who roams about from place to place without with-out any law(u business; every. Idle, ordisso- i |