Show COW AROl T TI UPON 1 GAMBLER I Spokane Simmons Stabbed by Fiend Fi nd Whom He Would Not Stake Victim Refuses to Divulge Iden Identity Identity Identity of His Assailant Po Police lice Investigating Case C se seI I Ills His refusal to stake e a former pal resulted last night In the stabbing of oC ofA oCA ofA A G Simmons a u i gambler g who is bet bel bettor belter betton ton tor known in this city as Spokane Simmons received a n gash gashon on tho left lert side of o the tho face race and neck but the Injury Injun is III not considered serl seri serious ous and lie he will recover Tho name of or the mans assailant Is 16 not DOt known to tho the police pollee and Sim Simp Simmons SimI SimpI I mons moos refused last night to reveal the tho I I identity of tho ho mar man staling stating to tho officers that he did not Dot wish to prose prosecute prosecute cute Detectives aro are at al work on tho the case but no arrests had hall l been oon eD made mOllo up tip to the time Lime of going to press this morning Tho The stabbing took tool place in the tho White Whilo Elephant saloon on Twenty fifth street about a out 10 last lost even oven evenIng evenIng I Ing Simmons claims to have had hall about GOO in gold and anti paper money In his possession at tho lie time Ume but af after aftel tel ter the UIe trouble le ho lie could locate only about in gold the paper money mono having disappeared Simmons and several friends t In the lie saloon together when the thc for formers formers mers mens pal whom Spokane claims to have havo staked for the tho post past three months came In and attempted to se secure secure I cure a sum of or money mone from the gam gain gambler bIer bler Simmons refused to let the thc theman theman man have the money mone and before the bystanders could Interfere he drew a a L knife and slashed at his friend After the thc trouble Simmons assail assailant assailant ant made mode no immediate effort to lo es cs escape escape cape hut bin later laler could not be bo found foun bv bc tho the officers The Injured man was re removed removed removed moved to the Uio office omee of a 1 physician where it Il was found that ho knife had penetrated the flesh just In front of the thc and passed down don across I tho the cheek check to lo the thc nock neck A facial ar artery artery tery cry was severed d butt but the tho knife did dh didI I I not touch the Ule jU lar vein In the neck I After the wound had been temporarily dressed the tho man was removed to the tho I I Ogden general hospital In an nn automO automObile bile Ho Ht i still showed signs sl s of Intoxication intoxication cation after being removed to tho ho hos hios hospital hospItal pital All efforts to get a detailed state stale statement ment meni from Simmons as to the tho Identity of his hili assailant proved futile He claimed to have hac paid for the mans mons room and lK hoard ard for the vast past three months but refused to tell his hits name Simmons has been In the city for fOI I tho thio past Imst year coming hero from Spa Spokane i kane kanc Washington and he Is 15 said to have hao won several thousand dollars at atthe atthe atthe I the gambling tables during the past few weeks eels He claimed to have hac a sum null of money other oilier titan limn the tho COO which ho lie carried In hit biff pockets at the time timo of o tho hue trouble I |