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Show BE HAD FUN WITH THE BOYS Broke, because he gave his last twenty-five cents to seo boys dive from the top of tho Southern Pacific Weber river bridge. Leslie Rogers, a colored man. wns arraigned In police court this morning on a chargo of vagrancy. Robers told a rathor humorous story of how he happened to be found by the officers without funds. Ho testified that ho Is an employe in the Harrlman dining car service and thnt he was stopping over in this city between be-tween runs. Yesterday afternoon ho strolled out to the river bridge and sat wotching the hoys who were swimming. swim-ming. After some bantering of the boys regarding their ability to dive off the railroad bridge, the colored man offered to pay five cents to soc any boy make the dive. Five of them accopted the challenge and when Rogers had paid for the exhibition ho found himself broko. While Rogers was returning to the Union depot ho was accosted by an officer, who, when he learned that the rolored man was without funds, placed him under arrest. Rogers was re leased lry the court, nn |