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Show HORSE-STEALING CHARGE PROVES TO BE MISTAKE Special to The Tribune. MODENA, Utah, Juno ll.-ln tho ox-change ox-change of horses which was mado her? on Tuesday morning by a youthful vender of books, who rodo off on one of D. J. Lund & Co.'s Horses, and for whom an officer of the law was dispatched, a case of menial abstraction was brouprht to light. County Attorney Ryan of Cedar City was ln town yesterday, having hoen called hero to try the case of apparent horsestealing. horse-stealing. After InvestlKatlni; the case, ho was satisfied that there was no evidence to Justify such a charge. Tho horso had been taken by mistake. Tho young man against whom the complaint was mado was discharged. Tljero Is a thrifty seotlon In Novada that will have to wait awhile beforo tho nort of tho Iron horso Is heard. This Is what Is known as "The White River country." Ono of the principal settlements is Lund. Nov , situated between Cherry creek nnd Little Cherry creek. This place boaHts.of two mercantile Institutions that rocoKo their freight at Modona. Outsldo of northern north-ern Idaho there aro few places In this country so remote from transportation linos. Tho freight haul Is 145 mlloa from Modena. and there Is no nearer railroad point barring Tonopah. Ely. Nov., Is forty for-ty miles to tho northward and Tonopah moro than 100 miles Tcst. Cholco fruits and excellent vegetables raised there And a roady market ln the awakening mining camps of Ely and Osceola, while hay, poultry, butter and eggs arc not Infrequently Infre-quently hauled as far as Tonopah for sale. Some meritorious copper-bearing claims havo been discovered ten miles west of Lund and on Chorry creek good gold prospects pros-pects arc found. Tho hope of the Bottlers In that district Isthat Ely will' soon bo reached by a rnllroad, and thus reduce Its team haul to forty miles. A. E Bevcrldgc of the Trent Engineering Engineer-ing and Machlnory company of Salt Lako City passed through hero yesterday cn route to Ploche, Nov. |