Show SHERIFF GETS ES Daring Band of Rustlers Op Operating Operating Operating in Eastern Utah Are Caught in Colorado TRIED TO BLOT OUT BRAND NINETEEN HORSES ARE SAID TO HAVE BEEN STOLEN BY GANG GANGA A daring band of horse thieves thieve headed beaded by b the tile notorious Tex Brown and who have been operating in eastern astern Utah have been captured near Grand Junction Colo gob by b Sheriff and Under Sheriff Wallis The capture was as made at the instance or of the sheriff at Vernal Utah and two men and end a boy were placed plad arrest The story of the capture is told In the Grand Junction Sentinel of Nov No 11 as follows A few days da s ago the sheriffs office In Inthis Inthis Inthis this city received a letter from the sheriff at Vernal Utah stating that two or 0 three men and a boy bo the leader being Tex rex Brown Drown quite a notorious character from all accounts had been detected in inthe Inthe inthe the act net of or rounding up a band of horses and ponies p on the White bite river rl r These ponies panics and horses had evidently been originally branded some kind of a abrand abrand abrand brand of which three links were compo component component component nent parts However the Vernal officers officers cers charge charse the men who had rounded up the horses hOnes and ponies had burned a abar abar abar bar across the three links link in order to de deface deface deface face the brand and to blot the brands out It was thought that there were about twenty animals In the bunch every everyone one of which it is alleged had been stolen The officers here were asi a watch out for tor the animals aia ala t nen aen Yesterday afternoon Under Sheriff Sherif Wallis noticed some suspicious looking individuals with some suspicious looking horses near the city ctt He kept them un under der surveillance Today Toda he arrested the themen themen themen men after examining the horses and having confirmed his suspicions to the th effect that the animals were the ones that had been rounded up on White river I and driven from that country count He tracked i ithe the men to their camp on the tIle desert near the city and took possession of or the nine nineteen nineteen nineteen teen horses they had Every horse bore the tile mutilated three links brand and every eve one of ot the brands gave evidence of or Just jut recently been mutilated or burned over The big band of or horses was taken to the Free Corral for keeping and the two men and the boy bo the latter only about 15 years of or age ase are arc In Jail The Vernal sheriff was notified and lie he wires that he has started for Grand Junction to get the pen ien and the horses One of the men admitted that his name Is Tex Text Brown The two men claim that the horses horse and ponies are rightfully theirs |