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Show COUNTY OFFICERS GET QUICK ACTION in the perpetration of fraud in connection con-nection with some advertising contracts con-tracts secured from business houses in Cedar City for the Times. F. H lloyt, self-styled newspaper man who drifted into town last week, wasj arrested, tried and lodged in ths; county jail for three months, before four o'clock yesterday aftcrm.on. j I lis method of operation was to s.. cure a contract for two weeks, tilling til-ling in the blank in his contract with the figure two. and then, after pet-; ting the signature cf the advert i--r. placing a 6 after It. or a 1 or a 5 b-fore b-fore it. making it read 26 weeks or 12 or 52 weeks as he desired, and collecting a commission on the changed amount. lie was rrraigned In .J:i!?iiv flot-tridg-i's court where he entered a plea of guilty and was fitvn! J""1 "'! eosts. or three recnihs. rarow.-r. ( times. |