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Show POLICE ARE KEPT BUSY BY HALLOWEEN SPRITES until midnight. The complaints were nearly all the same. Fences were being be-ing demolished, gates lifted, and wagons wag-ons and buggies stolen from the places where they had been left by their owners. own-ers. Nearly every man on the police force was detailed to extra duty from 8 o'clock until midnight. In an effort to restrain the jubilance of the Irrepressible Irrepress-ible small boy. And every man thus detailed had all and more than he could attend to. The calls for help came from all sections sec-tions of the city. It was estimated that at least 1000 persons called' up the Had the Police department sent a man to answer every call that was sent to the department last night, to repress and suppress the vandalism of the small boy Intent upon a celebration of Halloween, the policemen would have been going yet, and the commander com-mander of the post at Fort Douglas might have been called upon for reinforcements rein-forcements and reserves. The telephones at the police station began to ring Just after dusk, and continued con-tinued a constant clamor for attention Police department during the evening. Two men were kept at the telephone desk for two hours. Then matters quieted down a bit. and after 11:30 o'clock there were but a few scattering calls. The greater part of the damage done was of the petty kind. Gates were ta-kn ta-kn from their hinges and were suspended sus-pended on telephone and ..telegraph poles. Several fences were demolished, and many barns are without thefr doors today. The only householders who were not molested were those who had bulldogs chained at both the front and the back doors of their residences. Some trouble was caused the crews of Center street and Poplar Grove cars early in the evening. At Seventh South and West Temple streets a large electric elec-tric light or telephone pole was thrown across the street car track, and one car bumped Into this. Fortunately no one was Injured. The car was put out of business for an hour and a half. On the Cenater street line, near the northern north-ern terminus, a wagon was backed across the track. This was easily removed re-moved by the crew of -the car. One of the fine new delivery wagons of the McDonald Candy company was "kidnaped" by a crowd of boys, and the wagon was slightly damaged when found this morning at Fourth South and West Tpmple streets. There were few bonfires built without with-out the permission of the chief of the fire department, and there was but little lit-tle firing of shotguns and pistols, much less, in fact, than In past years. In some parts of the city the cele-brator cele-brator found yards with the green sod partly SDaded up to give plumbers a chance to connect with the sewers. In pursuit of "fun" these young mischiefs set upon the sod and tearing the squares Into small bits, threw It back Into the open cuts or scattered it upon the street. At 435 East Fifth South street the "kids" were driven away, but they vowed they would finish their Job later. Only the calling of the police deterred them. Several other owners along the same street were sufferers. In one place the boys got a shovel and filled nn eight-foot trench with the earth lifted out the day before. |