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Show H ) POLICE FORCE IS ON H , THE JOB. B ; Our police department, under Thom- H ! as E. Browning, is being reconstruct- H ed and new life is being put in to tho H ' force, which is a source of general H congratulation. H ! Tho rounding up of the gang which H , threw Patrick Quigley's dead body on H ' a snow bank, after the man had been H ; doped in a rooming bouse, is the first H evidence of a more vigorous policj'. B Had Quigley's' death been passed Hl as of no consequence, because the H man had no friends to concern them- H selves over his murder, the gang H would have escaped as did. the thugs H who doped A. E. Ashby witb chloral M ' and carted his lifeless body to a pond B on the outskirts of the city. M . The probing of this one murder H with all the energy at the command H i of the police and sheriff departments, H ! promises to disclose other crimes and H to end with a cleaning up of the 1 : criminal element of which the city H I bas been sorely in need, j There are rooming houses of ill H repute, opium joints, gambling dens H and illicit liquor resorts to bo inves- M -ligated, and we predict disclosure H which will surprise tho good people B of Ogden. H Joseph Silver of Salt lake tells us that eight months- ago h& was. Ja Ogden Og-den on, his waj". to-.Devil's Slido. Passing Pass-ing through thogatowayat the.TJnion depot, a stranger gavo him a sharp glance. Ar he 'proceeded- with a grip in eachVhand to -get aboard theTJnion Pacific train, the man jostledvhim and he remarked to a, friend, "I'll vonturo to say somo ono is going to be robbed." rob-bed." Placing his grips on tho car platform he folt for his pocketbook in his hip pockot, "I'm the ono whoso been Tobbed," ho exclaimed, and without with-out further words made direct for the man who had been elbowing him a big, vicious-looking, six-footer grabbed grab-bed him by the collar and landed two blows on the fellow's face as hard as ho could drivo. The attack was such a surprise that the thug threw tho pocketbook on to tho cement walk, pullod a gun and then doparted. Mr. Silver said an officer, frcKi within with-in the iron railing, saw the mlxup- but made no move. The Salt LRkor spoka to the man with tho stnV who advised him to go slow as the thief had all tho earmarks of a desperato criminal. If there aro any officers of that kind now on tho police force, Chief Browning, in his house cleaning, should got rid of them. |