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Show IN HORROR'S HAUNTS. The "Dark Continents" of Salt Lake Held Up to the Light of Day by the Officers. 1. REFUGES FOR CROOK AND THUG. Hyde the Missing Highwayman Overtaken Over-taken and Brought In Police Pickings. Tho jungles of the dark continent were again penetrated by tho sleuths late yesterday afternoon and Ollicer Donovan came forth with a pair of its duaky natives who were detained on, a charge of deliberately purchasing stolen goods from an organization of beardless beard-less thieves who are systematically robbing rob-bing tho dealer who has been temporarily tempor-arily thrown off his guard by their youthful appearance. juite an inventory invent-ory of small articles such as could be easily secreted beueath tho juvenile coat was unearthed and these with the sable denizens of tho dark continent went down below to await identiliea-tion. 'T want this source of annoyance nnd lawlessness plugged up," "remarked Marshal Young in the presence of his vigilant cabinet "and I'm determined that it shall be done if we have to shut up every avenue that leads to tho ugly haunts. It is a source of perpetual menace men-ace to tho wayfarer tenderfoot .or patriarch and an harbor for the most dangerous variety of thieves. When 1 say thieves I mean to appiy it to both sexes who infest, tho darkdoms of the city. PoBsiby the gentler is tho more to be avoided of tho two. The one accomplishes ac-complishes its nefarious work by a sort of serpentine stealth; the other by reckless reck-less violence. In the one place lying avarice goes forth cloaked iu the subtle wiles of a soulless woman; in tho other it is bare knuckles and blind desperation. despera-tion. Nor is this state of affairs confined con-fined to i m locality. There is a Bister-hood Bister-hood of triein. The dark recesses of one opens its warm embrace to the fugitive fugi-tive who has been treed in tho other. Thus it is that the law is balked and justice defied. The enigma that now confronts tho department is how to break up this state of affairs and to engraft en-graft tho laws where crime now reigns. It will call for heroic measures. You can't do it by taking hold of only well developed cases. The blow must bo directed at the germs and there is a germ under every roof iu these colonies. colo-nies. "Again we have had a great deal of trouble with the junk dealers. It has been tho most difficult thing to get them to register articles that have been sold to them at their mere fractional value, aiid the thief for a long time found a ready market for his plunder. There is a marked improvement among this class and we have but little complaint com-plaint to lodge against them. The work now is to rout out the inequities of tho dark continent that has fastened itself upon Ziou, and if it be necessary we shall apply a remedy that will simply depopulate it." The department is tip in arms and a raid may be ordered at any time. The interior of many blocks is a refuge for these characters, and while the work of weeding them is slow, the oflicers are doing everything within their power to accomplish it. rot lee Ticking!. A warrant at Commissioner Green-man's Green-man's chambers reveals the fact that Hyde alias Perkins who participated in tho street car hold up, was yesterday apprehended and arrested by Sheriff Hurt while he was on his way into the Deep Creek country. He will have an examination before Commissioner Greoninan tomorrow. The effort of a morning paper to parade its skill at badinage at the expense ex-pense of Officer Jenkins comes forth in bad tosto. The attention of the officer had been called to a matter us a serious circumstance in a long standing feud between the parties, and thought It worth a few moments to satisfy suspicion. Jt is the microscopic micro-scopic features of a case that elnde the sleuth; any man can detect a mountain and for this reason tho olMcer is to be congratulated, not ridiculed, upon his vigilance, Harry Lvons is doing some excellent work on the crossings and thoroughfares thorough-fares with his troop of warriors, who are furnished by Judge Laney. I). C. Johnson, charged with assisting a prisoner to escape, was discharged. |