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Show Elko Officials Make Important Arrests Believe They Have in Prison tho Notorious Gates Brothers, Train Robbers. ELKO. Nev., June 18. Two men whom the authorities believe to be the notorious Gates brothers George and Edwin, of Alameda, who on March 31 blew up and robbed an express car and killed Messenger William Wil-liam O'Nlcl at Copley, Cal , are In jail at this place, having been arrested on the charge of hese stealing. They wero arrested by "W S. Griswold, eighteen miles south of Toano. He recognized horses alleged to have been stolen, from descriptions sent out from here. They were brought to Elko by Sheriff Clark -when it was found that they nearly tallied with the pictures and descriptions descrip-tions of the Gates brothers. The m?a give the names of H. T. Thomas and Ed Armstrong. "When interviewed they made a full confession of stealing the horses, but refuse to speak regarding their whereabouts previous to the rob-br-rv. |