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Show I TRAMPS HAD MILKED THECOWS B. J, Spalding, M. Marks, Sam Flll- man and David Donahue were cscort- Ell 4 ed from tho Rlvcrdalo turnpike to the i county jail this afternoon by Deputy j Sheriffs Thomas DeVine and George II Leatham. h This morning residents of River- dale reported that a number of L tramps were living woll on straw - f berries and cream, chickon, new po- ;.! taioca and cherries and thnt they were ;l i not desirable residents of the dls- trlct Jll y The officers chartered an automo- III ;) bile and hastened to tho scene, where . they found four gentlemen hoboes en- y j joying the fat of the land. Tho farmers say that tho fellows II jf have taken it upon themselves to milk I i the cows at night so as to liayo good j fresh milk and cream with the 1 1 j strawberles they stole and that they 1lBl also raided tho chicken coops for spring chickens The cherry tioes and new potato patches also suffered from their depredations. ,( The men have been landed in jail, m 'j but they have nothing to say except li that they were traveling through the H j country and were attending to their i own business. |