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Show THE BLACKHAND RENDEZVOUS TO THE NORTH The long reign of terror in Ogden should come to an eud. even though drastic means be employed to gain that point. By thorough organization, organiza-tion, tho work can be accomplished. For instance, there is a district north of the Ogden bridge which has been the ecene of all the blackmail deliveries de-liveries Five blocks north and south and as many east and wt-st will I cover the field of operation Many hold to the opinion that the black-bandera black-bandera live within that district or i have their rendezvous there Why not cover that area with a searching search-ing party and disarm the good aud the bad alike? Those who are orderly or-derly would not be offended by tm disarming process and a majority of them would feel as secure without deadly weapons as with them. Besides Be-sides -onie valuable Information or significant evidence mislu be obtained. ob-tained. By this method of elimination, elimina-tion, the officers might be assisted Of course, this dragging of a fine comb through a larg territory would involve work and call for some expense, but there must be both energy en-ergy and money put into the trailing trail-ing of the bandits, if they are to be caught. The blackhandf rs so far have maneuvered o shrewdly that to catch them in one of their acts cl receiving blackmail money seems a task most discouraging. On three occasions they have laid their pirns aud the I'lnkertons and our local officers of-ficers have formed counter plots and each time the bandits have out-gen-eraled, outclassed and outfought the men who have been sent after them. Why continue to trust to the capture cap-ture of them red-hruid. i ' By a clean up of Ogden, or a part of Ogden, some tangible eidence may be obtained. The clean up would be a good thing, regardless of the presence of the blnckhanders |