"The Kansas City Journal" (Missouri) Sunday, January 3, 1904 TOOK OFF ITS SHOES. The sleet that fell late Friday afternoon and transformed the surface of the streets into sheets of ice accomplished some- thing the police had been trying to do all day unsuccessfully. Early in the day a boy stole a horse and wagon owned by a huckster, and with some youthful companions, drove the horse all over town. The police were unable to locate the youngsters, who kept up their revelry until the pavements became coated with ice. The horse was smooth shod, and was unable to stand on the slippery pavements. On Holmes street, between Twentieth and Twenty-first streets, it fell, and the boys, realizing their predicament, deserted the animal and ran away. Soon a policeman came along,and seeing the horse down in the street went to its rescue. After several efforts it regained its feet but every time it attempted to move, down it would go. Finally a number of citizens helped the policeman to put the horse on its feet, and the men taking firm holds on the animal, slid it to a friendly lamp post to which it was tied. The owner was sent for, and while he was trying to determine how to get the horse home over the slippery pavements, someone suggested that the smooth shoes be removed. Then somebody got a pair of blacksmith's pincers, the old shoes were ripped off and the shoeless horse made pretty fair progress to the barn. ======================================================