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Show COMPANY STRANDED, MANAGER IN JAIL Salt Lake, Oct. 28. C. H. Lewis, formerly manager of tho Quality Cheese company here, and later manager man-ager of the McKay-Stoln Stock company, com-pany, which was organized In Richmond, Rich-mond, Utah, last April, is held in the county jail In Great Falls, Mont., charged with larceny, according to telegraphic advices received lato last night. Lewis' stock company went on tlie rocks of financial adversity in tho Montana city and Lewis fled, leaving his irate players without the price of a T-bone steak, or oven a j doughnut. The members of the de- JR funct company declare that Lewis 1 1 owed them between $900 and $1,000 In i g back salary : I The stranded actors swore to .a I warrant charging Lewis with larceny ' I and he was arrested in Havre, ilont., J I near Great Falls. With the company s I are W. E. Dawes of Salt Lake, and ' I Mr and Mra. Wilfred McKay of I Ephraim, Utah. Miss Grayce Ray- 1 roond, another membor of the com- pany, had to be taken to a hospital I in Great Falls yesterday for a surgi- fl cal operation. 91 Lewis came to Salt Lake In April, $3 saying that he had bought tho right JM to manufacture and sell the Quality ml brand of cheese, which he claimed :is aH a patented article in Utah, Idaho and jfS Montana. He engaged a room at the Sij Linden hotel hero. He Is said to M have told his frlonds here that ho jfe was mnking uionoy in his new enture. Sh! Ho declared that he had been a rail- nS, road clerk in the northwest, but had 4T to glvo up the work on account of hi MD hoalth. $K |