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Show CHINESE OPIUM STORE 11 MED By j DFFiGERS Sail Lake Officers Milner and Clayton Clay-ton have sent the following letter in reply to a criticism of their raid on a Chinese opium store in Ogden: "Editor Standard, i "Ogden, Utah. "There seems to have been considerable consid-erable criticism published of late about the Salt Lake officers, Milner and Clayton, who participated in the, raid of the' Chinese opium store a: Ogden. Og-den. The public docs not know whatj the officers have to contend with in such raids. The fact that one of the Chinamen wanted for violating the anti-drug law escaped, shows that they were desperate to get away. The only thine we did was to use every effort to stop the Chinamen from escaping and 1 in order to do that we had to use' force You will find by examining the ; Chinamen that theyhave no marks of Chinamen displayed on them. We tried to do our duty by not allowing any ono i to get away from us and, to do Uiat.j we had, to shpw signs of harshness and we did not tako any more libetties 1 than those to which we are entitled as peace officers in making arrests of ! people who are in violation of the state law as well as the federal law. Appreciating the fact that the presence pres-ence of officers in discharge of their duty antagonizes those subject to arrest ar-rest will alone be means by which unwarranted un-warranted reflection is made against an officer. Officers who are called j upon for services of which they know' nothing of the ultimato results, after' all is over are not given much credit. 1 The fact that opium was found on the ' premises and opium pipes that were still warm showed that they were flagrantly flag-rantly violating the law and that they ' would use every possible means to es- j cape the hands of the law- The !arge , assemblage of people on the outside 1 also mndo it difficult to keep them separated from the main violators. (Signed) DAVID H. CLAYTON, THOMAS W. MILNER. |