Show WAS A VERY BUS MINER Joseph Smith Insisted on Being Well Beaten Before He Surrendered Made Things Lively Around State Street Saloon Joseph Smith a young miner had tho time of his life ycuterday afternoon and It Is due to a series of fortunate circumstances that he IB in Jail rather than in the morgue Among other things Smith got several raps over the head with a heavy revolver and was knocked down several times by police officers During this lime however ho gave some little account of himself bruising one of the policemen kicking in a door smashing In a window and shuttering the tran quillity In the vicinity of the Mirror saloon on Stale all cot where the trouble occurred The trouble started in that place when Smith threatened to enter the apartments apart-ments of Pioprlctpr JeiBS in the rear of the place and insult two women He started to carry out that threat but changed his mind when the saloon man seized a hcaxy jevolvcr and struck him a hard blow over tit head with the voapon Fortunately the skull was not fractured Smith staggered into the street kicking In a door on the way and when he reached the street picked up a rock and threw It through a 1 pliteglnss window in the front of the saloon It Is said that at this Juncture the saloonkeeper was about to open lire on the belligerent Smith when the two women clung to him and ixjgfied l him not to I spill any gore Feminine persuasion J procd effective and Smith Btlll lives About this time Officers Sperry and Olson got to the firing line and charged I I on Smith The light that followed wan a lively one Smith bit clawed Kicked struck was knocked down got up again was knocked down a second and a I third time got up and kept up the fight as pluckily as if he were playing football foot-ball He fought until exhausted and then the officers carried him to the police station where he fought again He was quickly subdued this time two officers I holding him down while a third used his head as a chair After he had been searched he wa deposited In the drunkhouse on charges of resisting arrest drunkenness and destroying properly |