Show N MONT ANA Twelve Persons Arrested Fifteen Thousand in Goods Recovered Butte Mont Fob F b 6 A special from Livingston Mont to Iho the Minor Miner says sas sasAn An investigation by lW the sheriffs of office office fice flee that will probably prove tho the ex cx existence of or a conspiracy to commit wholesale thefts of merchandise In Hi transit led lod to the arrest today ot or 2 persons on oa the oC of o stealing from the tho Northern Pacific Railway company Although the investigation has just begun It Is alleged that moro more than worth of or merchandise has been recovered It Is stated by tho the officers that forty or 01 fifty persons will willI likely he be Implicated In tho the robberies I The authorities are said ald to bo pro Ino proceeding on the theory theof that an organ orsan I izel gang of or trainmen is Involved in iii inthe Inthe the conspiracy Today Toda Sheriff accompanied I by b throe three deputies raided a boarding boardinghouse boardinghouse house on East Calendar street and ar arrested arrested rested Samuel F Gibbs his wife and andI I eight firemen who have been em employed by hy the Northern Pacific in inthe Inthe the basement of or tho the house a quantity of f merchandise Including many nan vaIn alu valuable able furs fur was discovered i At a dwelling on North G street the tho occupants of oC the wore were D A Robinson an engineer In the employ of the Northern Pacific Mrs Maggie Malone and Andrew Androw Malone All were placed under arrest Tho The officers later found other mer mci merchandise merchandise chandise which had evidently been stolen from cars en route reute over oer tho the Northern Pacific I Tho The statement Is IB made that one of or ortho tho the women arrested has implicated several trainmen whom she claims are aro parties to tho the robberies Sho She also says that more goods goo B will be found lound in I various arlou parts of or the city I |