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Show BE THIEVES ARE SAID TO SHIP BY THE CARLOAD NOW Information baa reached th authorities of Tooele county of tha existence of A band of tha boldest horse thieve that have Infested thla part of tha country for a long time. Tha Information given to 8 her i IT II. M. Bush la that a consignment of twenty-three stolen horse had been hipped from Wendover. Utah, by way of tha Western Pacific, the Oregon Short I,lne and tha Union Pat-1 fit. to Orand island. Neb., on- August 1. Kffort are now being made to get tha shipper of the horse, who are salt! ta be members of an extensive gang operating In outheat-rn outheat-rn Idaho, waatern L'tah and eaatern Ne vada. Complaint of stockmen t ha t horse have -been stolen from them have been given connlderable attention by the authorities au-thorities In the sections of the three late Infested by th gang, for tke last two years, but the operations of tha gang .have been so adroit that thy have, thus far escaped arrest. Whit pin county. Nevada, has been truck particularly hard by the outlaw, who have made large Inroads Inte the band Hf half wild animal that afraca the foothill away from ta ranches In the valleys, r Tire same character of loaaea ha been reported from many other count le. and the traffic ha apparently grown to large proportions. Tha methods of tha horse thieves have been to collect the animal from the range and drive then Into an adjoining tate, and hlp them from points remote from where they were stolen. Taa evov)ee 4esjrWs)ip4wai4 en4tpe?vavn live etork to five notlra tu the ehertff of the county from wtilrh an I mala are ahtpped. and tha eharlfT or a deputy In epevte tha ahtpmante hafora thay leave tha county. Detailed daecrlptlona of all brand., and of all anlrhala. are required with ttia notlcaa, and tha offlciala chack ovar thaaa Mala with tha llata of mlaalng anlmala baforatha hrapectlon. Tha llata aa ?:lvan ara than chackad with the anlmala o ba ahlpped. and In tha avant of dla-craptuiclaa dla-craptuiclaa batwaan tha anlmala and tha daacrlptlona. tha antlra ahlpmant la haM up for Inapactlon., Thla law la enforced rfrtdly, but avan with aWh a law In affect, tha shipment of ' anlmala atolen from other countlea would not ba particularly particu-larly haxardous unlaaa llata of tha atolen anlmala had . bean Riven to tha sheriff or other offlciala. . Sheriff Ruatv who ta lnveatlgatlns; the alleacd actloha of tha aanic. will meat with a number of atock ownera'at .tha Cullen hotel at ( o'clock tonlitht to a:o ovar tha aituatlon with them, with a view to or-canlslnir or-canlslnir for tha protection of the afock. and for the running down of tha alleged horse thtevea. |