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Show "SPOTTER" PECK'S LITTLE GAME. The Provo Thin? Who ives Saloon Men Away His ISsistic Octeclive Skill. " Spotter" Peck of Provo is in the city, plying his favorite pastime of informing on licensed saloon men. Last Saturday he pried around several First South Street bars and side rooms, endeavoring to make a few dollars by spying a poker game or the unlawful" sale of liquor. The proprietor of one of the places caught the unprincipled spy prowling prowl-ing around the upstairs of his establishment and ordered the ambitious informant down and out. Peck went to the Theatre and unconsciously took a seat beside a bartender unknown to him. He at once enlightened the bartender bar-tender about his wonderful detective abilities, and how he would "catch" some of the saloon men he then had spotted. spot-ted. The bartender was greatly amused at the greenhorn's talk, and leaving liim between acts, he went to the saloons Peck had named and told the proprietors the scheme of the would-be Pinkerton, which stopped his manoeuvers short, and prepared a warm reception for him when he called later. The saloon-keepers kick about these underhanded spotters doing the work belonging to the regular officers, and no fair-minded person is at all sorry when some irate saloonist gets mad enough and just gives a "spotter" a thumping for luck. |