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Show HIKE' THEFTS CAUSETROUBLE Bicycle riding on somebody rise's wheel, is becoming a popular pop-ular pastime in this city, so much s that when one rides his wheel lo a place, much of the time he I walks home, and his wheel is f lound later, abandoned on some ! 0l" of the way street. ! The practice is becoming serious seri-ous and local officers are making a special effort to catch such rid-'ra rid-'ra and when caught will be given a 'ull extent of the law for such ! M offense. Bicycle owners have been warn-l warn-l by city police to lock the.v wheels and otherwise guard them 'rom bicycle thieves. Only Tuesday night, a wheel teionging to Andrew Pierce, was alien from the First ward chapel "inkling. While it may have eiven a young boy a lift for a few "locks toward home, its loss is depriving its owner, who is an ''Scd man, the inconvenience of walking- wherever he goes, uiitil l"c wheel is located. Anyone knowing of the where-"wuts where-"wuts of the wheel or of anyone who practices riding other peoples' yheols at any time are asked to nhfy local police officers. |