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Show FOREIGNERS DEVELOP A FEUD GREEKS AND ITALIANS NOT ON GOOD TERMS. Troubles Are Brought Into the Pollco Court Wrong Man Is Arrested by Police. The police grind today included a number of minor cases of drunkenness, disturbing the peace, etc., and another Greek quarrel, of which there have been a number of late. The Greeks and ItaJlans seem to have developed considerable friction with each other recently aa well as more or less bad blood between the members of the different dif-ferent factions themselves. It Is estimated esti-mated that there are from one to two hundred Greeks now living in this city and a conslrerably larger number of Italians. In view of the recent disturbances dis-turbances in other cities resulting from bad blood between these two peoples, the police department is keeping keep-ing close watch of the frequent quarrels, quar-rels, which find their way Into police court, so that the differences may grow into nothing more serious at least than a bar-room fight. Tuesday a number of Greeks became be-came involved in a fight over a matter mat-ter of employment which was aired in police court last week. It is stated that a knifo was used upon the face of one of the combatants and that a gun or two were waved threateningly. WTille tho case was being tried, one of the witnesses stated to the court that the men then before the bench had guns and knifes In their possession. but nothing was done to ascertain the facts. Eler Rackes and Bill Maleti were the individuals who were charged today with disturbing the peace, and neither could speak a word of English. At last John Contos was procured as interpreter, in-terpreter, but he objected to some extent ex-tent before acting in that capacity. He finally conversed with the defendants defend-ants and stated to the court that one of them claimed that he was not in the flght at all, while the other, he said, stated that ho was not guilty. The arresting officer was not present and the case was ordered continued until the afternoon session. It aftorward developed that, through a misunderstanding with the police, one of the men locked up and subsequently subse-quently charged with disturbing the peace, was really the prosecuting witness, wit-ness, who wished to get an officer and go out to arrest six or soven of his assaulters. He is still held, however, under bonds of $100, while the men he wishes arrested are making good their escape from the town. |