Show MUCH WANTED NEGRO HE I 1 ARRESTED LAST EVENING BY THE POLICE OFFICERS some of his friends take revenge for his arrest by pummelling Pum melling a supposed informer who however fa innocent cornelius carper a gentleman of color and a porter on an oregon short line train 13 under arrest and will be arraigned this evening on a charge of lewd and lascivious conduct he is one of the colored men who were under surveillance veil lance of the police for some time because of weir associations with a couple of white girls ono of the ne gerocs and one of the young girls named beiting Kei ting were arrested two weeks ago and alio negro was heavily fined while the girl was sent to the crittenton home where she is now since then the police have been looking for carper but he was out on the road and was not located until last evening lie was arrested at the assembly saloon which was crowded with colored people at the time carper made some damaging to the arresting officers As a result of the arrest a case of assault and battery has developed some of carpers friends imagined that hii whereabouts had been given the police by doc tanner and accordingly they assaulted doc and badly bruised him up it seems however doc was entirely innocent and did not know the cause of the assault upon him one of his assailants sai lants william st lewis was arrested and furnished bonds for his appearance for trial october |