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Show T.HE UNDERGROUND OF OGDEN. The discovery of an underground in Ogden's Chinatown is a reminder re-minder that when San Francisco was destroyed by fire, a labyrinth of underground passages was exposed and a thousand talcs of mysterious mys-terious disappearances were based on the possibilities of the dark and mysterious tunnels. . The Chinaman, for some reason not fully understood," prefers dark to lig.t and an ill-smelling hovel to a plaee of sweetness. The opium smoker delights in whiling away the hours in a bunk in the underworld. When he gains a victim, particularly a white woman, he inveigle? her to these dark recesses and, too often, it is feared, terrible crimes have been committed against tho3e weak creatures where screams are muffled by dead walls and where the dark deeds, if need be, can be bnried. Orden should have no subterranean dens. ! |