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Show MANY STRANGE THINGA STO'-eN Lighted Stoves, Cemeteries and Rlv- . ers Among Them. Tho thoft of tho ashes of Columbus ' was attempted in Chicago during tho world's fair," Raid l.osocn, tho detective. detec-tive. "Thanks to a friend of mlnu the attempt failed. Stranger thlng3 have succeeded, though. I "Tlio theft of n lighted stove' con I stltutod my first case. A man, having hav-ing deserted his wife, returned homo half drunk and In the good womnn's absence put tho stove on n push enrt and started off with It. He had set up, It scorns, an ostiibllBhmeut of his own fnrthcr down tho Rtrcet. "Two vlllluns once Btolo n Wisconsin Wiscon-sin cemetery. First, they looted the graves, soiling tho skeletons to nnnt-oinlsts. nnnt-oinlsts. Then they stole the tombstones, tomb-stones, getting, naturally, n good price for tho granite and marble. Tlio place wasn't a cemetery by tho tlmo tho theft was discovered. It was only n torn-up fluid. "Men have stolen rivers often. To Irrigate their land they chnngo n stream's course. They dig u channol through their own property nnd tho river, lenvlng Its natural bod, follows this channel. It Is stolon a stolen river and bitterly does such n theft enrngo tho man who suffers from It." |