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Show REWARD OF $5,090 FOR CHICKEN THIEF Kansas City, Feb. 24. Aroused by i tho activity of a gaDg of chicken thieves that is frald to havo chloroformed chlor-oformed and stolen 5.000 chickens In Wyandotte county, Kaneas, since last Christmas, the Wyandotte county horticultural society has offered $C,O0O reward for the arrest and conviction con-viction of the perpetrators of tho crimes. If the reward of $5,000 Is not inducement in-ducement enough to cause sleuths to f-t out and capture the thieves, tho size of the purtse will be raised, sav member of the society. They want tiie thieves at any cost. "Get the thieves and we will pay you your price," is what the promoters promot-ers of tho war gainst tho purloin-ers purloin-ers tell Inquisitive detectives." It is said that the thieves use drugs cpplled to the nostrils of the chlck-i-iis, put them to sleep and removo them from the roosts without even &o much as a squawk. |