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Show RUMORS STIR SHERIFF o b Baa m. z a BSC c i ! VIOLENT DEA THS HINTED b V33Z a f i a aaa THEN RELIEF ARRIVES Dame Rumor had her fling at gdcn this morning and for severnl liours batted an average that made Babe liuih look like a newcomer In : a bush league. The rumor, or rumors, for fiere i were plenty of them, came as an after-. after-. ninth of a telephone call which I reached the sheriff's office ut midnight mid-night last nlrht. The voice said sonic-I sonic-I thing teirlble had happened In lieaver canyon and officers should come at once. There was no further In forma -! tlon. bert Trltes of the sheriff's depait-ment depait-ment Jumped Into an automobile and streaked up the canyon to he scene I of action. At 10 o'clock this morning he had not returned and rumors began fll- irlng around igden One rumor had it that an automobile had turned oxer I and killed several people. Another said that a man had been killed while , dynamiting fish. Still another bore the news that the game warden had shot a man. Tho least probable was that a man had been electrocuted while trying to play the same trick on the poor fish. At 11 o clock the tension vs gr :it and Sbrriff Peterson was ; r parliuj to take a trip to the canyon and determine de-termine the truth. The entire di was relieved, however, how-ever, when a telephone call brought the news that an automobllist had driven up a road leading from tho main highway and continued on his bumpy ride until the canyon trail had become too narrow for his ear and two wheels went Into a ditch where It stuck. The car Is still vacationing in the canyon. But tho city h.iiJLa good lime while the rumor lasted. |