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Show ARMED HAN RUNS AMUCKJT UINTAH The announcement received at the fberiff's office hero last eeuing that an Insane man, heavily armed, was running loose among the hills near Uintah, sent two deputy sheriffs hurrying hur-rying In that direction but a telephone message received at 11 o'clock stated that the wild man had not been located. lo-cated. If their further search was rewarded, re-warded, the man was not brought to thJs city. According to the message the man had been seen wandering aimlessly about among the scrub oak of tho flat, and was declared to have displayed dis-played unmistakable signs of Insanity. Tie was armed with a rifle and re-voher. re-voher. The report, which was tele phoned in by a man named Burns, further fur-ther alleged' that the residents of that locality were badly frightened and could not be Induced to emerge out of their houses. ' Deputy Sheriffs Tom Burk and Tom DeVlne were dispatched to the scene and a careful search of the locality in which tho demented man wa3 supposed sup-posed to bo hiding failed to reveal a trace of him. They continued tbeir search until midnight and then returned re-turned to this city. |