Show F BOYS IN BLUE disgracing undo uncle sams sains cloth noth salt lake city last saturday had a row ag as was a row we the S L herald describes the disgraceful occur ence ance as follows A couple of soldiers about noon had gone into a house of ill tame fame on second south street they were both full enough to bo be on the fight and the they y coni commenced i encee abusing some of the girls the tile proprietress sq em johnson interposed and they in n and abused her the police were called in and john smith and mr thomas went to the rescue the soldiers told them not to meddle and told the officers there were not enough police in salt lake to take them and dared the officers to try tho the arrest the officers toek took the daro dare and tho the fun commenced the soldier which sir smith started for was a strapping young toung fellow and the officer having on a heavy overcoat was at a disadvantage however r ho bogot got his man to the head lead ot of the stairs and it was nip and tuck who should go down fi first rt the next instant afo the soldier loosened his grip and fell headlong down the stairs he ile was struck in the back of the head with tho the handle of a pistol and the healthy blow was administered by em johnson Jo linson officer thomas having a club cooled the ardor ot his roan man in in a rather brief period the statements of citizens were that they never heard men ue use such vile and abusive language as these soldiers applied to the police it is stated that tho case was so aggravated ag grava ararat ted e that the officers wound would dav have o b been c e n justified in going to almost any extreme some sonic citizens were called on by tha tile officers for assistance and responded while others one in in particular after three thren direct sun summons inions stood and laughed ho he is liable to laugh in I in a dif different direction if ho he is arrested and punished as lie can be for refusing to aid an officer in the discharge of his duty ailer after an appeal has been made to liim him one of the soldiers crawled into a car and started for the fort the other who was tile worse of the two was as taken to the city hall what with the falling down stair stairs and the encounter with the officer lie lias has a well developed and highly colored countenance on him the soldiers had bad just enough whisky in them to make them as mean asble as blue blu blazes and knowing that it was waa not in the power of the city to punish them concluded they would do just about as they pleased general af mccook ccook is understood as having expressed a desire that the city should punish offending ending soldiers as althey ta edid did citizens butali but the judge ut I abyo tf ec places these nod noble soldiers aavo above tho the reach of a civil law aw |