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Show THE CONFI6ENCE GANG IN ZION If any man from Salt Lake invites you to bet on a horse race, tell him you are not ambitious to get rich quick, tell him to play his own tips. During the past year we have read of no less than a dozen robberies in which the victims have been separated ,from their money by a gang of sure-thing sure-thing men operating in and out of Salt Lake. Only yesterday a farmer from British Brit-ish Columbia reported to the police that he had lost $1,000 on a horse race, and his sto: proves that he is one more of many deluded mortals mor-tals who have been enticed to place their money in a. pool room that had no existence in fact, and on a horse race that was never run. This "horse race" swindle is so old that one wonders that new victims are to be found, but the clever deceivers deceiv-ers go on gathering in the credulous. Only one Ogden man has been fleeced fleec-ed by this bunco game, and that, perhaps per-haps is due more to the fact that Og-denites Og-denites are skeptical whenever a Salt Laker comes bearing gifts. |