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Show HORSE THIEVES CAUGHT BY PHONE b BV Denver. Colo, Aug. 20 one of the large live stock Insurance companies gg that hits heon writing insurance to jp protect against stealing horses and fl other li.e stool; has decided to with g. draw from the business in this sec- ut Co nnr iho wo-i Til.- stealing of aa horses, it is stated, has tallen off so gjfc that 'he demand lor Insurance of this 1 H character has i-oon .r. slight in the H past few years. "I attribute a great part of this to the wide spread use of the tele ,J phone." said an official of the insur- S an . on stool in Hie muim'ain states a horse thief usually 'ot away with j,. his prize. He was usually mounted 1 B on a nood a horse as those w;ho fol-followed fol-followed him and r;s he had several Mj hours Start, was seldom caught Now Tl' i' 's msv t(J aroii'f an entire state bv ! "J? telephone, and cause the arrest of ail RJ Buspects until the thief is found Since one telephone compan, covers "iT all the states in the inter-mountain ' S countn they pay special attention J"i to emervenev mcss.v--e Intended to I recapture stolen horses The own-ers own-ers of horses seem to have come to Jr the conclusion that it Is better to K spend their mom-, for telephone tolls J , than tu lay It out for Insurance. In he past year we have had manv own-ers own-ers of stock refuse to renew their JPJ the telephone in their house was a i practical form of insurance and that , ?P si '-a ling stock would soon be a thing "f past. V .niy all of them told I W of som.- Incident Rhere Unlen stock had been recaptured Im the use 0f the J11 telephone nnd at a cost considerably Ejj loss than our yoarh premium We T used to charge prdtv stiff rates but we have had to drop Ur.vor and lo y er as tho tHephm lias come Into more general use and now the own- BM ts oi stock have come to have a con-j R tempi for the tbh-v: knowing they can catch them easll) '.l: At the offices of i he .Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph com- fc pany the statement was made that J4 hundreds of capture- .,f horse thieves il who have been tniug to run off lhe stock are made even year through j MR their con telephone exchanges In the jjh .-even western state, in which (be Jfr compan) oprates, Mon'.m.i, Wyoming, 8 oompanv operates Montana Womln5 and Arizona, sto, k .Veiling has dl- nilnlsiie.l pere. ptii.N In :he pas' few ' years. The conipun seels In a gecc tUi oral alarm to all offi in the district idlj when notified or th. ih.-fi of -lock t aud notifies the live stock assoclS'i ions, thus affording a special and pe- Jjhn ciili.ii- service to tho . ouiinunit' slm- t liar to that given by rhr law oficer' flit In a great manv cases the stock tblef mmt does not get a dozen miles tmni the ranch where his (rime was . ornmi'- Ll ted before th" i.-iephone h i- warned the surrounding eo-.-ntry and mad his .-wo, escape impossible. Evidence agalnit j HE him Is secured by tho telephone also, j Kj making his convn i ion oe-t.iln. I ! ' 2 estlniHted tho stock recovered last gllj, year by use of the telephone amount- Plt ed to more than a minion dollars. |