Show COWBOY CAPERS A hand band of brawling Brawl ln bullies cause a tumult about six last evening fifth street was the tile scene of a tremendous excitement which continued for moro more than an tin hour some tramps who arrived in town thought they were monarchs of all they s surveyed cd and could rule the juna junction tl 0 city ity and whip every inan t there h ere is is in it after imbibing sufficient crookedness to in make ake them feel oh bedoy be joyful they went into the street and alid commenced to quarrel with the first persons they saw which happened to be some som eloys boys these they attacked and abused in a rascally cowardly manner and the fi adult person ersson that interfered was cither either knocked knocked down or received a brutal blow which met with retaliation A riot was soon inaugurated the tile tramps trump ga gathering th n clubs pistol I 1 knives raz razors and it mineral in missiles which latter they threw indiscriminately in all directions direct ins the tramps brandished brandishes bran dished their clubs and other weapons and boasted that there ther ewas was nog no G dd d d n ii nd d daou son of a b ch in this gd G d 1 d nd n d town that could either arrest or lick them they intended I 1 to run the town mr charles welch had bad just t entered the meat market 0 of f mus I 1 mr r biel on business when a stone hurled b by one of the rabble passed through the wire gauze door and struck mr hr welch on the nose cutting and fracturing his proboscis very severely it is pr probable bable that it the force of the missile had not been broken in its progress mr welch would have been fatall fatally y wounded I 1 he lc went outside to remonstrate with the perpetrator of the dastardly act when he be received a vicious blow in the face from the fist of the tramp A young man mr chas butz stepped up to protect mr welch from further violence when the brute struck at butz the latter warded off the blow and struck the tile tramp a stu stunner uner on his eye which drew blood but butz immediate immediately received a blow from behind by another tramp who struck him on the head with a a stone or piece of brick making a very painful wound the scene now became tumultuous and threatening to the peace of the city many hundreds of people had gathered to the alace place between the chamberlin house 0 use and the catholic church and several citizens stepped forward to arrest the rioters the rioters resisted arkeat and other conflicts ensued but after much struggling glin kicking d dealing caling and parrying ing b blows lows officer J al brown parrys and in citizens dick mccarty livingston J 11 and others arrested three odthe of the roughs boughs and locked them up in jail we expect the examination will be fieldin held in the justices court on thursday me morning ruing we have before expressed the opinion that these those fellows are too numerous nume rons in and around our city and that their numbers should be reduced and made beautifully less lesi we now reiterate those views if it requires more force and the action adoption of Tig vigorous orous measures let us have c them and let the town be cleared of this dangerous element or they may become so numerous as to cause more trouble to subdue them than it will now let this turbulent clement element be squelched squelch pd in ita its inception they are already too bold and imp impudent in their demands two nights ago some efthem of them are reported to have stopped a gentleman on fifth street and demanded of him a dollar he ile g gave a ve them tile money and then got out of their reach as quick as possible gather them up put them under tinder lock and key and then let them be dealt with as the laws and ordinances of f the municipality direct make them earn their living or clear out of the country |