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Show muniis HHVT OVER Flffi EPISODE Sunnyside Residents Seeking Seek-ing Redress for Alleged Desecration. Kxcitenient. which at times threatened threat-ened to result in a lynching, has heen rife in the Italian portion of Sunny-rd.le, Sunny-rd.le, a coal earn;, youthwept of Salt Lake on the Denver 4 Kio Grande milroa.i. for the pa.t two d:is. It is said to have resulted from the aJIoce,! desecration of tho Italian flan by V.r-r.est V.r-r.est I.areker, A sul.jeet of Austria. .Inl.ilant over loo success of the (ice roan trops in Italy and to show his contempt con-tempt for the ret renting armies, I.areker is alleged to have torn down the Italian f!a whi.'h float".! over his plaee of lu'sino-s a", I to have trampled on it. This infuriated the l.V'1 residents resi-dents of tli" seeti.in and had it not been for R few eool Ilea, Is. it is said, l.ar.-ker rniht have lnon the vietim of roiih usae. l.ar. k"r domes that he tore down the flap; or that he did anything to rn-ceri,,T rn-ceri,,T the oninitv of the niemherii of the ltalinri ,oli,ny. and he has aked for an inveM iar ion iv F. Anselnre. Italian .onr-ul in Salt Lake, who will make a trip to Sjr.ny-ido for that purpose pur-pose tomorrow. P. 'fenders of the Italian flaj called Mr. An"lnio hv telephone yesterday, telliiii; him of the trouble. Mr. An solirio nt once wired O. Mavella. Italian consul general at. Leaver, by whom he was a,lis"d to report tlie matter to (bnernor Bmnlio! cr and the federal authorities. lie was advised by the coiernor that an in estimation would be made. Mr. An-elmo then took the matter up with the baited Slates district nt-tornev's nt-tornev's office, and wns advised bv Lavid S. l ook, asistant 1'nited States attornev. that there was no pro ision for the punishment of persons guilty of desecral inn the flai: of any foreign nation, but that nnylhin; winch could be done townr.l bntlH' the alleged offender to in-dico would be done. After niaKinir a personal investifn-tion investifn-tion of tho niatler, and if he finds that I.areker is tuilly of ha ine. insiilt e.l the Italian flai;.'Mr. Anselmo will orrseiit the matter lo the Italian litn-liassa-lor. |