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Show FLOTSAM OF TliE RACING SEASON Tho close of the racing season at Lagoon has begun to make Itself felt In Ogden pollco circles, as It did last year, a number of arrests having beon mndo in which tho culprits were touta. horse handlers and track followers of 1 all kinds. Throe unfortunates were arraigned In pollco court this morning on charges of trespass and vagrancy They gave the names of Henry Smith, Levi Weloh and John Johnson and pleaded not guilty. Smith had lost his boss, he said, and was troubled with tho foar that ho would bo unable to find him boforo tho car of horses to which he was attached at-tached as an exerciser left for Butte. "Welch wa3 willing to admit his presence In a horso car but asserted assert-ed his Innoccnco of having done anything any-thing worse than entertain a desire to gel out of Ogden. Johnson is a diminuIUvo colored man who had also lost his employor in some way and waa anxious to get away n ordor to ovortako tho horse train now enroute to Butte. Judge Rcedor finally decided that u the men would pot out of town at tho first opportunity they might be allowed their freedom. This they readily consented to do and hurried away. |