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Show CIIICKKN TIIIKVKS AITltr'HK.MIKD For several weeks complaints h,ave been coming In alm'oBt dally to the city marshal telling or tho robbing or chicken coops. W, K. Hopkins, Mrs. Matt Kuudson, Hlshop Gardner, Geo. Davis, Alox. Chrlstensen. W. S. Evnns, Hyrum Evans nnd many others have loBt trom Ave to twenty of their flocks. At first It was thought Hint tho fowU wero used In "chlckerles," and no doubt Bomo wero used for this purpose. pur-pose. Rut when tho roporta came In so fiiBt tho chicken dealers were Interviewed, In-terviewed, At last one was found who had been buying freelcy from some youngsters rrom 1C to 17 jenra or age and n rurthcr Inquiry developed the Tact that theso youths had been stealing steal-ing on a wholesale plan, taking rrom sixteen to torty pounds to tho dealer In n singlo day. When the boya learned that they would bo taken -beioro the Juvenile court they boarded tho blind baggage or a westbound D. it R. 0 (ruin. Tho olllcera lost no tlmo In having ' them returned, and It Is thought that tho practlcu has been broken up, Judgo Lewis and II. F. Roper of the juvenllo court held a session In Lehl Wednesday. It developed that inanv others had been loosing chickens, among whom wore Thomas Webb, Hyrum Smith and James Drown, Quito a number of boys wero found to havo been Implicated In sellinc chickens, nnd at leaBt $10 worth that had been stolen were accounted for Tho boya aro now out on parole, and f they settle ror the chickens and keep out or mischief In tho future nothing further will bo dune. ' ii n. . |