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Show POLICEMEN RI 1ERIW HOUSE Twenty Suspicions Appearing Characters Are Taken ! Into Custody. Fntrolmen lMilllip.?, Egbert, Kkstcdt and lieynon. Sunday morning, raided the American house In Commercial street and tho Angelus rooming house in Second Sec-ond South street, and gathered In twenty suspicious looking characters. The men arn'stod were locked up on charges of vagrancy. In the American house, the police pay, they found a bad gang. In which were "Short-Fingered Jack" and "Poker" Davis, Da-vis, who nre said to be cx-eouvlcts from Folsom (Cal.) prison. A number of men taken out of this place are said to have been In private consult a lion when the police arrived, and It is believed they w;ere laying plans at the time to turn some big trick In this city. In one of the rooms in Hie establishment, tho police po-lice aver, they found mattresses that had been silt open apparently in order to be made the receptacle for stolen articles. ar-ticles. . ' Both the Angclus rooming house and the American house, the police say, are headquarters for many toughs. The po-llco po-llco declare that they will rid the city of this undesirable clement If every rooming house In town has to be raided. |