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Show DISGRACEFUL PROCEEDINGS. Within the past two weeks, proceedings of a most disgraceful character have occurred in several settlements of this valley. It seems as if the spirit of deviltry had become epidemic. We have heard from several sources, of the destruction, perpetrated a few days ago in Smithfield, of property belonging to the city marshal and justice of the peace of that place. In front of the residence of each of these officers was a nice row of shade trees and these have been ruthlessly cut down. The culprits are supposed to be parties whom the marshal had arrested and whom the justice had fined. We were not informed as to whether suspicion rested upon any particular person or persons, or not. The total value of the trees thus destroyed we have heard estimated at two or three hundred dollars. In Hyrum, about two weeks ago, a number of roughs engaged in a row. Several of them, so we are informed, were drunk, and a most disgraceful scene occurred. Mayor Liljenquist ordered the crowd to disperse when one of them used insulting language to him. He then ordered the city marshal to arrest the offender. The marshal approached the culprit to arrest him when the latter knocked the officer down. The officer then drew a pistol, but was prevented from using it by parties who interfered. The affair resulted in the arrest of five or six young men who were engaged in it. In Wellsville a few days since, another melee occurred in which several persons were arrested. The particulars of the affair we have been unable to learn up to the present writing, but understand that two or three of the young men who were arrested were to have been committed to the care of Sheriff Crocket, and imprisoned in Logan, on account of there being no jail in Wellsville. Richmond was the next town struck with the "hoodlum boom." Just outside of the city limits lives a man named Plant. He sells home brewed beer, and a few evenings since a crowd gathered at his place, when stuff stronger than home brewed, was freely imbibed. A disgraceful orgy was the sequel, the details of which up to the present time, we have been unable to learn. We understand, however, that several arrests have been made. |