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Show RUSHING AT PROVO Garden City Is Leading All Points In Registration; Regis-tration; Crooks leave. (Special to The Telearam.) jpROVO, Utah, Aug. 2. The total registration reg-istration of homeseekers at Provo up to noon today is: Proctor's academy, 436; Parker's school, 257; total for the day, 6)3. This makes a total at this place since the bureau was thrown open yesterday yes-terday of 3543. . Heavy arrivals by train are expected tonight and tomorrow. It li also certain from the sale of tickets Eastern , homeseekers ' that the last two days of registration will in all likelihood like-lihood be heaviest. Six alleged crooks, well-dressed and wearing panama hats, came down from Salt Lake this morning. No sooner had they Jumped off the train than they we.re spotted by the secret service men placed Mere for the protection of the unwary. They did not stay long enough to give the officers any trouble but immediately decided to leave for Grand Junction. The officers there will be warned and the enterprising crooks will doubtless And that town too warm for them. Three of the men are well-known well-known "dips," while fouf are said to be expert pickpockets. |