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Show Horse The) ves Doing Business Four Valuable Horses Mysteriously Disappear Ofllcers Unable To Secure Se-cure Any Trace ofThcm. Last Friday somo ono visited tho ranch of Hans Chrlstonscn, located on tho bench north pf American Fork, nnd took one. of his finest teams, consisting con-sisting of a bay horso nnd'brown mare, each bolng four years oldr iho coming spring, nnd each wolghlng about 1400 Thoy wero branded II. C. on the thigh, nnd had been recently broke to work. Tho snmo night James Spratley lost n brown riding pony, weight nhout 100 pounds, from his pnsturo. The presumption Is thnt tho same party stolo all threo animals, rldlng tho Spratloy horse and lending the Chrlstonscn Chrlst-onscn team. All the omcers of surrouuuing counties have boon notified, but so far 1 no traco of thu mlsBing animals has been found. Not long Blnce, Marlon Pnrker lost a valunblo 3-year-old, ft 1200 pound horse nnd no direct traco of It hns beon found. Suspicions, howovcr, In ' this case potnt to n mnn who wont to Cnnadn about this tlmo nnd. sold n team of horses to n party In" Idaho whllo on his wny. In nil four cases tho nnlmals woro rnUod and grown up hero, knowing no other range. Curlstensen Horses Not Stolen Just us wo aro going to press with this pngo Councllmen Chrlsenson Informs In-forms ub his horses 'have, bcii found. Aftor Bpcndlng n vfho'k' looking for I them, going nH far as Stilt Lako and I Lnyton, etc., to aeo thnt thoy worp not I shipped out ot tho country with horso I shipments now bolng mndc ho was Informed his lost nnlmals woro quiet. I ly feeding In tho old creek bod, sur-I sur-I rounded by bltfi brush, n Bhort dls-iltance dls-iltance from Ills Held. |