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Show Youngsters End Long Journey on -Pilot of Engine fs RANK ALLEN and Lawrence Mick-i Mick-i ' sell, each 16 years old and both hailing from Canon City, Colo., were taken into custody yesterday yester-day morning by Juvenile Officer J. E. Shields as they stepped from the pilot of an engine at the Denver & Rio Grande depot. The boys had made the long trip from Canon City to Salt Lake on the front of the engine without being discovered along the road. Neither of them was supplied with a coat, and they are said to have been almost frozen in the chill morn-ing air. Allen told the officers that his mother, a widow, is the proprietress of a weekly newspaper at Canon City, while Mick-sell's Mick-sell's father is a wealthy rancher. Tiring Tir-ing of the monotony of home life and desirous of sharing in the general excitement ex-citement of the times, they decided to make their way to this city and enlist In the navy. They are being held pending pend-ing word from their parents. |