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Show IHFUBIATED GREEKS ASSAULT ii Hold Him Responsible For Layoff, and Wreak Vengeance Venge-ance Upon Him. In a smalt, one-sided riot among Greeks employed on construction and repair work for th Utah .Light and Railway company com-pany on Water Btreet, bctweon Tenth and Eleventh South streets. Monday afternoon, after-noon, John Kokinakis. tho Greek forernnn of the gang, was severely dealt with by fifteen or twenty members of the gang, angered because of a lay-off ordered by the company and carried out by Kokl-nakls. Kokl-nakls. The company, Monday, ordered a layoff lay-off of thirty-five men employed under Ko-klnakls Ko-klnakls in improving the street railway track at the point designated. Monday afternoon Koklnakls laid the designated number of men off. This action angered the gang, and fifteen made for tho foreman, fore-man, holding him responsible, In their senseless anger, for tho lay-off order. Under their combined assault Koklnakls Koklna-kls retreated, but the Infuriated gang surrounded him, and Petro Colum cut hlra In the cheek with a knife. InJllctlng an ugly wound, and Lewis Pnppaa struck him over tho head with a shovel. Koklnakls Kokl-nakls escaped nnd notified tho police. Policemen Harris and BecKstead responded re-sponded to his call, and, accompanied by him, returned to tho scene of the affray, hue the mob Had dispersed. Escorted by Koklnakls, the policemen came up town, and on First South street, between Fourth and Fifth West streets, came upon four of the gang. They were arrested nnd placed In jail. They gave the names of Petro Colum. Lewis Pappas, Spero Lauderous and Thomas Calos. |