Show SEARGHING FOR SHOES Tracing Missing Goods From Boston Store BRANCH WAS NOT STARTED Four Thousand Dollars Worth of Merchandise Shipped From Boston Store to Sconeld Just Before tho Crash Earnestly Wanted by the Receiver and Search Being Made for Balance Prosecution Under Provisions of Bankruptcy Act Contemplated Con-templated Offlcero Work on Caco Down In Carbon county there Is goIng go-Ing on a very anxious and earncat search for shoes This Is not because the Inhabitants arc barefooted or because be-cause the stores are unable to supply the demand Tho shoos In question are neatly packed up In Been heM y boxes and are sought by the receiver of the Boston Store who claims them as part of the assets under his Jurisdiction They were shipped out from the store a few clays before the grand collapse The manner of It was this The Boston i Bos-ton Store management let it become known to a frvorcd few that they ero going to start a branch establish ment In Scofield of which Guy C Gilbert Gil-bert assistant manager of the Bonton was to be the manager Accordingly bout 1000 worth of dry good shoes crockery and notions were sent doWn to Srotleld consigned to G C Gilbert About the time the goods reached their destination a writ of attachment was served by Swofford Bros of Kansas I City and the events quickly followed which led to the petition In bankruptcy I and the appointment of Gould B Blake ly as receiver TRIED TO INTERCEPT GOODS Mr Blakely at once telegraphed to tho station agent at Sconeld to hold tho goods but the telegram arrived too late One Albert Balrd had appeared with the bill of lading claimed the goods and carted them off Then Mr Blakely instructed his attorneys Booth Lee nitchlc to find the commodities On Wednesday Mr Ritchie went to Scofleld He learned of the removal of the goods and enlisted the aid of Marshal Mar-shal Hunter in tracing them He then went on to Price to continue tho cearch but wau unsucccnful On Friday Fri-day he returned to Scofitld and found that Marshal Hunter had located about threcfbui of the mlaslng packing eases somo In Ecclcss planing mill others In Eccless house and yet others In an old deserted barn Which of these locations was designed to be the alto of the new mercantile establishment establish-ment could not be determined DUMPED ON THE GROUND Then Judge Ritchie did a little sleuthing sleuth-ing on his own account and learned that two wagon loads of the plunder had been taken across the mountains towai Price The two drivers camped Tuesday night In Flat canyon the following fol-lowing night on Gordon creek They drove until 11 oclock Thursday mornIng morn-Ing when a man supposed to be Balrd drove out from Price and met them One ot tho teamsters had become suspicious sus-picious by this time and he flatly refused re-fused to go any further Accordingly he dumped his load upon the ground and drove back to Scofleld The other driver whose name Is NlcholR stayed with Baird and nothing noth-ing has been seen of them since Yesterday Yes-terday Judge Ritchie returned to Salt Lake after Instructing County Attorney Attor-ney Lee to continue the search for the men and the missing goods which Include In-clude seven boxeR supposedly I filled with shoes It Is i believed the men have started for Vernal or some other distant point whore they might dispose of the merchandise WILL PROSECUTE BAIRD If the man BaIrd Is caught he probably proba-bly 11 be prosecuted for the felonious offense of concealing goods under tho bankruptcy net and of assisting one who la about to become bankrupt Soon after tho shipment of the goods was discovered Manager Hoagland of the Boston Store was confronted with the fact and admitted that he had sold 1000 worth of goods to Albert Baird and L C Morris who he said were going to start a store In Scofield Assistant As-sistant Manager Gilbert has not been seen for several days and tho receiver and his attorneys do not know where he Is The recovered portion of the stock Is In the hands oC Marshal Hunter at Sco field and will be sent back to Salt Lake as soon as possible In Justlc to Mr Ecclcs It should be said that howas not aware of the circumstances cir-cumstances when he rented his property prop-erty for storage purposes to Baird and when the matter wag made clear he freely gave his time to the quest for the missing merchandise |