Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-08-21 | Page 12 | Negroes Have Mixup on Commercial Street

NEGROES RAVE MIXUP OX COMMERCIAL STREET Two revolver shots, lots of nhuslvo talk. nml one swift punch In the Jaw. with no arrests, was the procrammn of a mlxup between two colored men Thursday morning morn-ing about H o'clock, in "Candy Bill" Mc-Kcnr.le'n Mc-Kcnr.le'n saloon at 3:t Coinnirclal street. When the trouble, happened thoro wns a crowd of colored men In the saloon listening lis-tening lo John Taylor piny a plnno. when .lohn 'Wheeler rambled In well llllcd with booze. lie objected to Taylor llckllnfr the Ivories, Ivor-ies, and as a result he whs given a reminder re-minder that he was butting In by John Howell. Wheeler pulled n revolver and trlod to put a "lead pill" In Howell, his plan be-ins be-ins interrupted by Taylor and Tommy Oakley. They took the revolver from tho angered an-gered "man after two shots had been discharged dis-charged Into the lloor. Howell and Wheeler bent It out of the saloon as soon us the men let go, and tho police, who know their Identity, are on the trail. Little blame attaches to Howell, the police .ny.