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Show Borse Thieves. The emigrating of a number of adventureiB and miners from this city to Salmon river and other places out of the territory has brought to the notice of several owners of horses that some of those who recently left have taken with them animals that were the property of residents of tbis city. We heard of a span of animals being left hitched to a wagon one evening last week, while tbe teamsler went iito a bouse in the Seventeenth ward to eat supper, and when he returned they bad been unhitched and driven off and have Lot been seen since by him. Another instance, which was published in the He bald, was the taking tak-ing of a Baddle and bridle from Captain Hooper's stable, a few days after which a borse was missing from tbe neighborhood. LaetFridoy night a couple of bay horses disappeared from Bishop Raleigh's Nineteenth ward pasture, and were tracked going northward. Yesterday, tbe gentleman who lost the last-mentioned animals made application at the estray pound, in the 7th ward, and there learned that, within the past few days, seven persons bad been there making inquiries in-quiries regarding lost horses. Now, that the exodus of men who have been around tbe city all winter waiting for good ronds, hns set in, owners of stock would come out (miners bv locking their stable deors btfre the horses to. . |