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Show I DESTROYING VACANT PROPERTY. Real estate men will toll you that n house In any part of Ogden Is no sooner vacated than the wiudowp ar smashed by boys with rocks or air-guns. air-guns. In one vacant house $8 worth of glass has been broken in the past month. Thip vandalism is growing in such proportions that a penalty must be inflicted on the perpetrators of sufficient suffi-cient severity to serve as a warning. Half a dozen boys haled before the Juvenile court and fined in double or ttvble the value of the windows they had broken would establish i precedent most salutary The breaking of windows is not the limit of thp depredations When easy ingress to a home is made by the knocking out of thf glass, the invader? proceed to destroy the interior in-terior woodwork and even carry off pieces of lumber pried from wall or flooring. Our officer:; should make an cx ample of a few of these boys |