Show LOOKING FOR A LOST BOY SAD MISSION OF A I 1 lad lett left home three years tears ago numerous rumors but nothing Dell delimits mits as to ills his whereabouts A heavy heavyset set weather beaten man who ho looked as though he had experienced irlen ced some borne pretty hard knocks in life called at the police station yesterday afternoon on oil a rather delicate ion lie ho was looking tor for a lost son and told between sighs of regret at tile the boys waywardness the of his sol row the fathers name Is john J jost and he li Is a well to do hailing from its haw ling wyo lie ile came here upon the he receipt ora ofa te telegram legrain from a salt I 1 lake ake detec the and on being told on the way here that ahat he rely on every detective lit in the country he called at the station to lo ho be set art right lie he exhibited as 03 an aid to lo the officers I 1 a dim old style photograph of a thir teen year old boy with A a frank manly face and a shock of 0 light hair this Is my son bon johnny he said lies iles the youngest of a family of 0 eight children the older children all went to school or helped lic lpyd nie me on the sheep ranch and johnny was left in town with his mother now rawlins haw lans Is not the most moral place in the west and what with inith associations inith ith cow punchers and lall road men the boy got it into his head that lie he was destined to be tough he began by playing all sorts of mean tricks on lit hla friends then ho he began to steal small things and convert them allu m into cash he go away from home it to do this but would take thinas from home and dispose of 0 them thinking no more ot of it than of eating a meal ile he would steal sheep aielts pelts and wool sacks and all kinds bf 0 tools and would report that the things had been lost when ullen in reality lie he had sold them finally 1 one day just three years ago last thursday he took a reul vcr belonging to me from my room and sold it by somo some chance one of ilia his brothern bro thein theis found it out and reported it to tits ills mother I 1 myself being absent on oil business at tile the time ills in other mother told him that he had better go and get the gun before I 1 got back and lie he went and the last we have seen een of him since then I 1 hane hae been searching ear ching tor for him I 1 came to salt lake shortly after and left a descar description eption of him I 1 heard that he was waa living with fill a woman namie named d marshall in peoa geoa summit county going by the name of harry nelll neill and that lie ile was nas observed at one time lime to read an advertisement in the tribune tor for him and then remarked well they can advertise tor for me but they wont get me coming down on the train Y yesterday eat erday I 1 met a railroad man who said he thought be boy was nas down south in one of his camps campa and so it goes and theres no certainty of his big being in any of these places mr jost then displayed a western union telegram of a recent date which read as follows fol to w a will boert lacato a hoy boy for loo seni send 50 in advance together with portrait trait and full MANS particular E 11 A FRANKS detective it was this missive that sir mr jost w mas as in doubt abo about ut 1 I hesitated about bell sending ding on any money he sald said until unfit I 1 found out who nho this man franks franki la Is I 1 heard about him through a saloonkeeper named con quinlan in rawlins raw una and was told that hat I 1 would find him at the cullen hotel in salt lake mr jost was in a predicament chief pratt took the boys boya description and promised the that IL all 11 efforts m would be mado made to locate the miming in 1 s boy mr fr jost leaves this morning tor for peon to continue his search ills his position Is somewhat pitiful ile he realizes the rascality of his son on b but u t 1 Is willing filing to kill ill the fasted tatted calf and receive the avay wayward ward boy with open arms an and d unqualified forer lens ill have him he said as lie he left the station it if it takes the last sheep V le e got 1 |