Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-06-12 | Page 13 | Had a Very Bad Mix-Up

HAD A VERY BAD MIX-OP Officers and Japs In fierce fight. Three Policemen and Forty Brcvvn Men Have Trouble. Meanwhile a Customer Take3 a Hand and a Battle Takes Place. Soeclal to The Tribune LOS ANGELES. Cal.. Juno 11 A howl of noodles was the innocent cause of an Incipient riot at First and North San Pedro Pe-dro streets tonight, in which three police-tnen, police-tnen, about forty Japs and the purchaser of the noodles figured prominently. Over 100 spectators watched the struggling strug-gling mass of men as they fought like tigers before the policemen were able to quell tho r!lng tumult and arrest tho leaders. Jiu-jitsu was pitted ngalr.at slugging slug-ging on the part of the policemen, who finally routed their antagonists and placed five men under arrest Joe Kusl. M. Ko-Jlba. Ko-Jlba. K Mori and Henry Davis wero ar-r ar-r a ted. Davis had purchased a howl of noodles, which he rapidly consumed, and then paid his score, so he claims KbJItna disputed his won! and then the light started When It was over half a score of Japs wero nursing bleeding heads, but only Ave were raptured It took the police surgeons nearly near-ly two hours to patch up the heads of those who were taken to Central station.