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Show COWBOYS CHARGED WITH HORSE STEALING Belated Message Asking for Their Arrest Arrives Just Beforo Their Release. Glenn I-ampson nml VS'arren Douglas, cowboys of the Teton basin covin trv of Klaho. yesterday .expressed a difie'rent view from the average opinion hurled at "wire trouble.'" If the trouble on the telegraph lines had continued but four or five minutes longer they would not now be held captive on tho charge of horse stealing. The two young men. clad in the fanciful fanci-ful shirt adopted by the cowboy ajid the wide-brimmed, high -peaked hat. were picked up a couple of days ago by Deputies Depu-ties Charles E. Wood, hen "Harris and Ken Harmon of the sheriff's office after i they had disposed of lour horses and two , saddles at a price that aroused, first, the suspicions of the buyer and then of the officers. After a detention In Jail the men were taken into the sheriffs office for further questioning, which resulted in bringing out nothing that would Justify holding them. The officers were Just . about to release the men when a belated message from Sheriff Haines of Teton county, Idaho, was handed to Sheriff Corless askim? that the very men taken 1 In by the deputies on suspicion be held ; on a charge of horse stealing. Yesterday Sheriff Haines arrived in Salt Lake and a continued Investigation brought out the fact that the prisoners had sold two alleged stolen horses in Ogden and also a stolen buggy In full Lake. In addition to four horses and two saddles. The men. when cornered by the sheriff, sher-iff, professed a willingness to return to Teton without extradition papers and they will be taken back today. |