Show POLICE CLEAN HOUSE I Opium Sets Guns and Billies of 1 I Long on Ago Placed o on Exhibition 7 MUSEUM GIVEN RELICS I Neatly concealed from public gaze inthe in inthe I Ithe I the office of Sterling B B. Talmage curator curator curator cura cura- tor of ot the Deseret museum museumS is an al almost almost al al- most priceless set of ot opium upturn tools When asked It If he had any of ot that Invaluable product called opium for tor a Mr 1 Talmage said that be he was just out the out the police department having helped themselves to the quantity be before before be- be fore tore turning the unique apparatus over overto overto overto to the museum We Ye were able to get the opium pipe the little scales that are or were used to measure out a but bu we did not care cate to keep the opium Its itself t. t That ThatIs Is contraband but we got the little Sox ox It came in said gaid the curator as he held a tiny box in his hand which when filled with opium Is said to be worth 50 10 wholesale and several times that amount retail Pistols Also Aiso Received The gift to the museum came from the pile of ot evidence contained In ta a locked room at the police station when the police cleaned house last week With the oP utensils the museum also abo received pistols and revolvers of ot all makes and brands It is the intention of ot the curator to show the evolution of ot the pistol in I S novel exhibit probably the only one of its kind In the world Through col- col i this mass of ot relics revolvers held In the hands of ot murderers scores I I of ot years ago when the Salt Lake po police police po- po lice department was only a village constabulary constabulary con con- and automatic pistols held in Sn the hands hand of ot safety first women of ot recent years the museum has nearly every type of ot gun manufactured manufacture The guns show the development of ot destructive invention from the long heavy muzzle-loaded muzzle contraption u used ed edin in the days of ot Kit Carson the old time pepper box the first type of ot ball gun the disk pistol the earliest revolver the more nore recent and the latest gun of ot all the deadly automatic All Have History Each gun has a history but inasmuch inasmuch inasmuch inas inas- I much as the museum is of ot Intent only the history has been ben erased and persons viewing them will only I be able to guess at what crime they may have figured In Another unique display is the primitive primitive primi primi- tive billie This consisted of ot a sandbag sandbag sandbag sand sand- bag type of ot leather neatly twined around a slug of ot lead or r a a. bunch of ot buckshot One of ot the earliest bean balls as they were then called was taken from a former acquaintance of ot Mr l Talmage but an acquaintance who never had the opportunity of ot wielding it on the head of Mr Talmage as he was seas pursuing his way homeward of ot an |