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Show YOUNG MISS SLEEPS WITH MUDDY BOOTS ON There is war at the city jail botweon Night Jailer Wilkinson and Bello Mel-len. Mel-len. a not too dainty miss from tho Colorado Colo-rado Industrial school at Morrison, tlf-teen tlf-teen miles east of Denver. Tho young woman, who Is being held here pending return to the industrial school, from which sho oscaped last December, insists upon climbing Into bed between the dalntv white sheets with her muddy boots on, to which tho Jailer strenuously objects, but to no avail sometimes. Wilkinson Wil-kinson says It Is Denver mud, too, sho carries on her boots. Ho declares, with forceful but not elegant emphasis, that he will be overjoyed when she is no longer an inmate of the city jail. Miss Belle, who has grown weary of wandering through the West since her escape, voluntarily approached Pollco-man Pollco-man "Billy" Hilton. Wednesday night, and told her story, saying she wished to go back to the Industrial school. She gavo Iter age as sixteen, although sho looks twenty, and said sho came here from Ogden, The Colorado Industrial school authorities have been notified to come after her. |