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Show Goal Dealers Quickly Gome To Grief Tour Men I'lnnl $10 l'.nch ami One Is li-.il. red t 1'aj $23 fr ('01,l Found tin Ills Farm. For some time the railroad people have been losing coal from their cars in transit through the towns from the mines t0 tln-lr final destination. The D. & R. O. company alone has to mnko up thousands of dollnrs annual, ly lo the shlppem because of loss from this source r Tuesday night ns the northbound rrelght came by American Fork tiiiw head on one of the cars was pulled out, so tho ciow wjnt on to the sugar factory with th Injured enr, leaving the balance of the train near Mils city. When they cnnio back th conductor was walking by the side ot the train when ho stumbled over f pile of coal He promptly phoned conditions Into Snlt Lake and Detective Detec-tive T. H. Hinge took n midnight Main Houth. ArrlWng hore nt 2 o'clock a. m., he found four men loading con' m a wagon Rurgo declares that vrhor Me threw a strong light on the mcr they wero s0 scared that they could not speak. The four men. Ren Condor. Hcbf Hiiggard. Joe Holey and II .lortcs, were nrralgned before Justice HuntoK Wednesday and pleaded gulltf" to r complaint that they, on tho "th day of December, 191ti, did commit tho crime of petit Inrceny by willfully and fcloiu lously stealing four tons ot coal of tlu value of $20, the personal property ol i Denver & Rio Orande Rallroai' company, Tho men wero fined $10 each, which hreo of them promptly paid, noley, who was unable to raise tho money, was taken to 1'rovo to Rorvc ten days In tho county Jail. Tho officers found five tons of coal m the Huggard farm near tho D. R. U O. that was hidden under some pea vines, and for which Huggard was rewired re-wired to pay the company $23. The men were required to gather up the 'our tons that they had thrown off Tuesday night nnd haul It to tho station sta-tion nt American Folk. It appears that Huggard has been disposing of considerable elder, and that men nra In tho habit of gathering gather-ing nt his place for this purpose. Thr county attorney extracted a promise hat this would cease and all four ex-pressed ex-pressed penltnco for their episode |