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Show I: GIRLS HUE MS16 ; Fil THEIR 11$ Authorities Asked to Look for Three Young Misses Under Sixteen. BELIEVED TWO ARE BOUND FOR NEVADA i , j The Other Girl, Dora Harper, Has Performed the Same j j Stunt Before. 4- Dora Harper, 16 years old, I r Twelfth Sontb nnd Main streets. Temple Bryer, 15, 350 East i -r Eighth South street. r J - Floronco Stevenson, 13. Sixth 4- South and Main streets. y :: : y-h-vv Three girls of tender ages arc miss- ing from their homes in this city, and their relatives, aided by tho county sheriff's office-, the police and the ju- vanile court authorities, aro frantically searching far and wido for them. That one of tho girls, Dora Harper, is a runaway there is no doubt, and this is believed to be the case with the other two, Tomple Bryer and Florence Flor-ence Stevenson. The Harper girl disappeared dis-appeared Monday, the Bryer' girl Wednesday Wed-nesday and the Stevenson girl Frida-, tt is teared that tho Bryer and Stevenson Steven-son girls have been enticed out of the city, to Nevada possibty, by two men who were seen with them on tho streets Iui can U.lHU VjilJ. This is the second disappearance of the Harper girl. Her mother is in the State Mental hospital at Provo, nnd her father, Robert Harper, is a steam-fitter! steam-fitter! On account of her mother's affliction af-fliction the girl has spent most of her life, with hor aunt. Mrs. Emma Nelson, Nel-son, at Twelfth South and Main streets. While Mrs. Nelson was at a neigh-t neigh-t bor's'homo Monda' a week ago tho 1 Harper girl disappeared. Sho returned Saturday afternoon with conflicting stories as to where sho had been. One of these stories was to the oliect that she had been to Pocatollo and the I other that she had been ' working in a. private family here. She refused to toll the name of the family, however, and no credit was given cither story. Leaves Homo Again. That night the girl left homo again, announcing her decision beforehand, but j as Mrs. Nelson was in bod ill, she -was powerless to keep her from going. Tho girl was last seen in Salt Lake 1 City Wednesday in tho company of another woman, whose character the ' authorities question. Miss Harper took nothing with her except the clothes she ! was wearing. She was dressed in a brown suit, with a black velvet hat, and is rather stout, with light hair. Her completion is light. There is no connection between the disappearance of tho Harper girl and ! rho other two girls. The Bryer girl j failed to return from the Sumner i school, which she attended, Wednesday afternoon. Two youths, who admitted committing statutory offenses against both her and the StcvensoD girl, said rhey had seen the girls up town together to-gether Wednesday night. The Bryer girl is tall and slender and wore a dark blue coat, but no hat. She is j j, of dark complexion. She has been liv- j ing with her sister, Mrs. J. Calvert, ! at 350 East Eighth South street, who k takes care of the girl's invalid father. n1' also. t The other girl's mother is Mrs. L. j Stevenson, a dressmaker, who stays at : y the Metropole hotel, boarding hor 1 daughter at Sixth South and Main i ? streets, to place her near the Sumner ' school, which sho also attended. When the Stevenson girl started for school '. Friday afternoon it was observed thai i she placed her hair brush and comb in her blonse. This was commented on, but she gavo an evasivo and unsatis-( unsatis-( factory answer. When she failed to ; return home Saturday, her absence was reported to the authorities. She is f, short and rather chubby and has a 1 light complexion. She wore a dark n blue suit and a blue hat. I |