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Show COLLEGE BOYS IN TOUGH LUCK i Five Arrested as Vags Tell Tale That Wins Them Freedom j Another episode of the adventures of the "Prune Pickers Quintette" was registered last night when Detectives Detec-tives Everett Noble and William Taylor Tay-lor arrested the five on a vagrancy charge. The quintette rendered pouplar melodies behind the bars and disturbed disturb-ed slumbers for other inmates of "Hotel de Gink" and they sang well, the late shift officers said. This morning, when hailed boforo i Judge D. R. Roberts of the city court, the boys looked like they might have been hoboes of tho worst description. Remnants of army clothing, a pair of bell bottom seaman's trousers, Just plain pants and condescript sweaters and overcoats wore worn by tho men. They were headed for "Uncle Henry's" Hen-ry's" ranch at Douglas, Wyo., and had started out from San Francisco with plenty of money, and a Ford car as a means of locomotion. Tho car progressed pro-gressed in an erratic fashion, one of the boys stated. "We would push the Ford up one .side of a hill and then coast down the other side." Finally the hills became too frequent so, abandoning aban-doning the Ford, they took to the I "bumpers." The boys were expecting money from home today. Three of them were students of the Santa Clara university in California. Califor-nia. TJpon recommendation of City Attorney Samuel Powell they were dismissed. Tho boys who started on the eventful event-ful joy ride wore as follows: A. Covert, JohnJ. Henn, Mike Henry, Claude Hall and Harold Halub. oo |