Show SOUTHERN SHEEP STEALERS Two Convicted in the Court at BeaverTheir Crime Barlow Ferguson went south a few days ago While absent he enjoyed a little tilt with Judge Anderson at the lime the latter delivered his infamous decision denjing the rights of citizenship to members of the Mormon churchand prosecuted a couple of men who had stolen 227 sheep In September Sep-tember last the muttons were first missed and Ferguson gained knowledge that C E Harris and J H Whitlock knew something some-thing of their whereabouts The men Wore arrested and on their preliminary pre-liminary examination enough evidence was adduced to 3ustify their being held to await the action of the grand jury The grand jury in session at Beaver returned re-turned an indictment and the fellows wore tried at Beaver on Saturday last Judge Anderson holding a night session The Jury returned a verdict of guilty and the men wjll receive their sentences hereafter Harris is about sixty years of age Tho evidence adduced was to the effect that tho sheep bad strayed in the < direction of the defendants ranche They quietly took in the woolproducers sheared them cut off their ears closeto their beads and otherwise other-wise disfigured animals |