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Show Wanderlust of Bountiful Lads Gets Abrupt Jar as Boys Are Lodged In Jail i Armed with an ugly revolver each, huge pocket knives with long, rusty blades, two plugs of chewing tobac-! tobac-! co a package of Chesterfields and an j ample supply of cartridges, two J -youthful wayfarers who gave their I ages as 13, and their homes at j Bountiful, were taken from the j Orem car by Chief of Police Wren Wilkins at 10 o'clock Moudny evening, even-ing, at the request of the Salt Lake officers. The pair were held In the juvenile ward of the county jail where they spent the night in solid comfort nud dreamed of a happy hunting ground far away where they might find plenty of jack rabbits and other forms of wild life upon which they might show their dexterity with the old war relics they carried. When taken before Chief Wilkins Tuesday morning they were not backward in telling of their dream. They admitted, too, that they had heard that chewing tobacco would stave off the pangs of hunger and so with sonic of their hard earned cash they had saved for their journey they each purchased a plug of Piper Heidsieek and took a hearty chew, which, they declared, almost proved their undoing. But it performed the function for which it was purchased that of preventing prevent-ing hunger. "But," one of them Intercepted, as they were relating details of their journey, "it made us both drunk, we were so dizzy we didn't know which way we were going." The two boys, clean-cut, fine loking, and withal well trained and polite little fellows, said they were going to Payson, where they hoped to get work, but If they were unsuccessful un-successful there they would travel on and on until they found something some-thing to do, for they were used to work and had earned enough money which they had saved for their trip. They were returned to their homes at Bountiful Tuesday afternoon feeling thnt they had had an adventure ad-venture well worth while. |