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Show To the man who hits given any attention at-tention to the armtomy of the 'article" in question the description of the typical typ-ical tin horn is decidedly striking. The many varieties so closely resemble each other as to enable the man who sees one to recognize the other through a sheet of Egyptian darkness. A Chock riad. A warrant was sworn out yesterday for the arrest of P. D. Yeisser who has been temporarily employed as typo-writer typo-writer in the office of Carroll S. Hardy In the Wasatch block, charging the defendant de-fendant with uttering aud attempting to pass forged checks above the signature signa-ture of his employer. It was while Mr. Hardy was absent on some mission that Yeisser resorted to the check book and toro from it Nos. 1180 and 1181, the former calling for 112, which he succeeded suc-ceeded in imposiug on an acquaintance, Prof. Uvedale, in exchange for a watch. The professor proceeded to thn Utah National bank at which the check was made payable and where Paying Teller Iiawley quickly Detected the Fraud, the marked contrast between the genuine gen-uine and the forgery being in the fact that the former is Invariably stamped with the automatic bank punch. Mr. Hardy was promptly notified and confirmed con-firmed the judgment of the paying teller. Check 11S1 has not yet reached the portals of Mammon in this locality, but the nefarious typewriter has flown to Ogden or Provo, where he will doubtless doubt-less undertake to negotiate it. The citizens in both places are cautioned, and will recognize the check easily as containing the name of Mr. Hardy engraved en-graved on its marginal end with the special printed Mo. 1 1 Hi. rollea ricking. There were six drunks to open an account ac-count with Judge Iraney this morning, each of whom drew a $3 tab. Henry Walters, alias Frank Blanch-ard, Blanch-ard, who is already held to the grand jury for forgery, was bound over in the sum of $3000 to answer the second chargo. Sam Vance was run in during the night for vagrancy. John Janseti and Thomas McDale for stealing a ride on the Kio Grande Western forfeited 115 each to the city. THE TYPICAL VAG. An Old Timer Fresents a Faithful Portrait Por-trait of the Gentry in all Its Varieties, UNCLE JOSH AND BR0THEB BUNK. The Check Tiend Makes a Leap for Mr. Hardy's Lucre- The Police Record. "J wish yon would point out one of those vags and con. men who are campaigning cam-paigning here," remarked a patrolman as he turned down the altitudious collar to his big overcoat and paused to make an Invetitory of the streets at midnight. "I guess we can't bo on to their earmarks." ear-marks." "What; never saw a vag or a skin man?" chimed a well known milling man who has seen both in all his endless end-less varieties. "The easiest thing in the world to detect. The corner clock knows that much. What does humanity human-ity engaged in the pursuit of honest occupation oc-cupation want out here in festive turn while the clock pipes 8, 4, 5 and fl o'clock in the morning. It is not dispensing dis-pensing the elixir on a night shift for thon their moorings would be behind the bar. It Is not spotting the crook in behalf of Moral Renovation if it was it would not appeal to the bartender bar-tender for a life preserver or hound the chevalliers of the local gamingtable for a spielmark on which to feed. It is not lavishing its attention on tho rural gentleman with the plowshare gait because be-cause it has suddenly determined to engage en-gage in agricultural pursuits. Now what a happy, consistent mating that is. Poor, unwary, Uncle Josh and dashing, elfish lirother Bunko. Now there's a pole team for you. The one in homespun, home-spun, a greasy shirt aud boots that demand de-mand a whole, undivided rotunda. The other a fashion plate, his apparel faultless fault-less in its superb lit. His toothpick shoes aud nonchalant swagger. Ye gods! what a mating at the founts of conviviality. Cau't tell A Vaic or a Skin Man? Why, they both carry their signs that are as plain and as numerous as 'for rent' among the Denver tenements." "There goes a Hock of 'em now," remarked re-marked thu ubiquitous cabbio, who had been drawn into the group. "Right you are and in all their festive glory too. Why my dear sir, a blind man can detect a tin horn. Ileavons, hear him talk. lie has pulled a sucker's suck-er's leg and is exulting over it. Mow there's wiiere the vag bobs up with his brazen serenity. Ho sees a meal in sight, and how they fraternize. Why sir Antony and CUopatra. were never more charmed with each other than the hero of the skin winning and the parasites who are cackling their congratulations in his ear. His vanity is tickled. See how he swells up and with the extravagance of a sovereign orders the bartender to repeat the dose." "Well there won't any of it wear a hole in his pocket," volunteered the cabman. Oh, he's generous; too generous in fact for his financial security. But who pays for it? lie can't because work is as foreign to him as an oyster is to a church festival. I'ncle Josh just advanced him that, aud it is Undo josh who now I'sys the Fiddler. I could aft'ord tho same extravagance any day on similar terms. Don't know what a con. man and vag resembles? Well, you want to go back to tho study of oology. There are people in this valley who never saw an elephant, but having got a look at his portentious form will never forget it." "There's a group for you" cried the hackman as he leveled his finger at the corner for which the reporter was pushing. It was a mixed assemblage, however. The Aristocratic Lounger was compounded with th 1 aristocratic rounder who had bis hands full of tribulation. trib-ulation. "Hey dere, Frank!" he shrieks as he detects a familiar, "I'm goin to shake de camp, see? Some of dese Johnny Knockers 'round here has been givin' dat girl 0' mino de conspiel an' tellin her to slough off on mo cu. I'm on do rollers, but I'm dead on to de whole game, an' I'll git at him wid dis greased gun. He? Let everybody be good fellers, bran new; let's mix: around de bar," and the circle adjourned to "wet their whistle" at the most convenient bar. 1 |