Show r r v T. T Y f Ji t If i I t r 11 f t i 7 t. t tf-rr- tf J r 1 i I t t J Y f 4 d- d west Drummer D Finds nd's Far W West Still Wild S S S 5 5 t kS k 1 S S S S S S S 9 S S 'S S SS SS S S I S SS 5 i S tc IE HAD A RAISING HAIR-RAISING EXPERIENCE OUT WEST VEST arry rrY Ra Rankle kle the guns six spoke but not his language What rankles with Larry Rankle is is' is that out west they apparently read too many detective magazines or listen to too many of those crime crime-b crime busting sting programs they think up back east Mr Rankle who is from the middle west st would choose a middle ground A hardware salesman from Kansas City Mr Rankle took little a vaca vaca- ion tion n in Reno just leaving his samples in the back of his pis coupe On his way back east Wednesday night he picked up tip a couple of hitch-hikers hitch west of Ely Nev Arriving at Ely about 1030 p. p m. m he stopped to gas up and when he got his overcoat out of the back the at attendant attendant at- at Earl Miller noticed all the hardware Hot stuff he thought after the manner of Butch Cassidy H He sneaked in a call to Sheriff Gene Orrock and then around giving his circle service Until until until un un- til the officer showed up If the three men in the coupe looked suspicious to the gas station man the sheriff likewise looked sus suspicious us- us to Mr Rankle when he tapped on the coupe window Mr Rankle gave her the gas and got gat out of there and when the sheriff began blazing S away with his six gun Mr Rankle e really really real real- ly did step on it it They laughed about h how w wild the west had actually become but when they pulled into a service station at af West Temple and South Temple streets about a. a m. m Thursday they stopped laughing Three police cars bore down Clown upon th thin them n having been warned by Sheriff Orrock what was up S Mr Rankle proved to the satisfaction satisfaction tion of police that he was just a drummer drummer drum drum- iner mer but when they h y got to looking over the hit hitch hikers hikers they identified one as James Chambers who Police Sergeant L L. C C. Crowther says admitted d he he was a deserter from the U. U S S. S army Ninth field artillery at Camp Ord Cal He was turned over to Fort Douglas authorities |