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Show ASSISTED OUT OF OGVEN After attempting to get out of Og den for three las and faillnR to catch ever passenger train bound for Pocatello, "Missouri rsill." a well known gambling character of Utah and Idaho, was assisted on. board an Oregon Short Line tiain this morning by Patrolman Joseph G. Cromptou, and is now in the Idaho city. ".Missouri Dill" came to this city about two weeks ao und had been paying his respects to liiends and acquaintances. The task at last became be-came more than he could stand, and instead of standing he wabbled. This morning he appealed to the officer at the Union depot and told him in stutences punctuated by hiccoughs that he had been trying to get out of Ogden for three days and that he 1-ad missed ecry train he had tried 10 catch. "Please, Mister Policeman, put mo 011 a train hie that Is going to Po-catello," Po-catello," he said. "I've got a ticket, all right, but I can't catch these blooming trains. I've been missing 'em for three days." Patrolman Crompton took the wabbly wab-bly passenger iu charge, and -when the OreKou Short Line passenger tiain drew Into the station "Missouri Dill'' was taken ou board and deposited deposit-ed iu a seat He was profuse in his thanks to the accommodating ofllcer. |