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Show DAILY FRIDAY, MARCH 25, UTAH STATE JOURNAL, 1904. fly sdenverlpridgrande llflEfiAHDWE5irai Cost Anything EXPECTS TO STAY HISTORY OF THEIR DISCOVERY DENIES STORY SENT OUT FROM BY GEORGE SIMMONS. WASHINGTON. Pronounces it an "Absolute and Mr. Van qualified Lie Un- - Cott's Statement. The Discoverer Killed and Hia Murderer Acquitted on the Ground of Insanity. THE BOATRACE BETWEEN ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES. AT BE EXHIBITED WORLD'S FAIR. WILL "Boston is Fifty-Si- x Its TO GET OUR PRICES ON TIME CARO, In Ns LUMBER, SHINGLES, LATH MATERAND BUILDING depart. No. IALS OF ALL KINDS, AND cKvMJL,r8 and all pohu. Ban. THEREBY No. 1 nTfS!lU Lake City Nm- o- Attacked Timss by Stags Robbers. Rivalry for Aquatic Honors Back Nearly Seventy Years. Dates Intermediate To Save Yourself Money points, RiV on the 15th of October last a disto the dispatch Washington under yesterday's date patch was flashed over the wires that Deseret Xithe "Turquoise George Simmons, says: been assassinated in San had King. The attention of Senator Smoot was Bernardino county. Gala. By many Who was called to a dispatch in the Salt Lake was asked the question: It Turis In which called and why Simmons, this morning Tribune George A - Colorado will show at the Worlds Fair a stage coach which, if the strenuous experiences claimed for It be true, will rival Hank Monk's famous coach in the race for popular favor. "Boston is the name of this Colorado claimant, and it is said to be the oldest vehicle of the sort in the United States. It is claimed that Boston times by stage was attacked fifty-si- x of the robbers, and about robberies resulted In profit for the road agents. The other times the highwaymen were successfully fought by the stage driver and the passengers. The oach is literally riddled with bullets, and Its owner says that if he were to reduce the historic old wagon to ashes he is sure he could recover no fewer than twenty pounds of lead. Like the Hank Monk coacfi, which at the World's Fair will be Nevada's coach of state. "Boston once carried Horace Greeley. But as the account of the ride was not the subject for write-up- s by Mark Twain or Artemu Ward, "Boston does not lay claim to fame for carrying the distinguished It Is an Interesting quoise King? story. Stories of the finding of mines and of the finders of them are oft times absorbingly Interesting and fretwo-thirquently put in the shade tales of the Arabian Nights, especially so as they are the truth, and truth Is often stranger than fiction. A short sketch of the life of George will be appropriate as showSimmons Wnldemar Van Cott, attorney for what vicissitudes must sometimes Senator Smoot, returned to Salt Lake ing before success Is oblie encountered yesterday from Washington and in an tained. He wns born In Texas about Interview Is quoted by the "News" as the year 1855 and lived there until he follows: of age, when he "I do not cHre to talk for publica- was twenty years west to San Diego, Cala., where drifted tion. said Mr. Van Colt "Tou have two years. He then remained for he had full accounts of the proceedings fever and spent In the dispatches. Hut there Is one got the prospecting and New In Arizona many years thing I must state, in Justice to my for mines, fighting client. Any statement that Senator Mexico, hunting all kinds or and enduring Apaches or has Smoot expects to lie unseated,' an unsucaccompany that resigned himself to being unseated' Is hardships life. cessful prospector's Journalist. absolutely and unequivocally false, t He drifted back to Northern Calidon't care who say so, or who pubIt Is claimed that In the fifty-si- x enmined without suclishes It the assertion Is lihelously fornia and placer with the road agents more gagements acciuntrue. On the contrary. Senator cess. About ten years ago, luck, lives were lost Fifteen than thirty was sent him Into Smoot Is confident that he will retain dent or whatever It dead bodies have been removed from not far his sent. Thus far they have been the desert at Manvel, Cal., the Interior of the coach, while at least two where after unable to produce one atom of evi- from Death Valley, that many more have been killed from and almost dence against him Individually, and he years more of the deck and box. After "Bostons one occasion perishing from strenuous career In the Leadville and believes, quite properly, too, that he upon rewill not be made punishable for the thirst, he made one of the most California trade she was bought by a ever discoveries mineral markable acts of others. Denverite, who ran the coach as a "I wish to state, also, that the sensa-t- found on the American continent The tally-h- o. She Is still In commission. story of the discovery will follow After Is In the best of health. I understand there have been reports that he the sketch of his life has been con- adorn the walls of the porches of their was on the verge of a collapse. That cluded. houses, and they use them as money As above stated on October 15th, Is all rubbish. He Is In excellent through all the country. henlth and spirits, and making staunch while sitting In his wagon at Manvel, Coronado, who passed through the friends every day. That's the kind of a and on the point of leaving for his same territory, confirmed the above home twenty miles away where hla statement and said man he In." he obtained from Mr. Van Cott was asked If the sub- mines were situnted, he wns shot and the natives many turquoise ear-rinkilled by a man named Miller, who committee was coming to Utah. and tablets set with stones. When It "I do not know as to that," he re- had been In hla employ from 1897 until Is recalled that Montezuma presented I do know that there has been 1902. A discovery of treachery by Sim- beautiful specimens of turquoises to plied. no decision one way or the other as to mons cuused him to discharge Miller, the Conqulstadores nearly' 400 years that at least, there had been none although he had regarded him so high- ago, some of which are still among when I left. I cannot say whether any ly thnt In A will made by him In 1900 the crown Jewels of Spain, the quesmore witnesses have been summoned; he left him $5,000. The will was sub- tion arises, by whom was these mines I cannot even slnte, with assurance, sequently destroyed. formerly worked? This location Is sevMiller remained In Jail from October that any more will be summoned. eral hundred miles west of the New 15th until February 9th, when the trial Mexico turquoise district and In the CENTRAL ILLINOIS TEACHERS. began and continued until the 26th, driest desert in the whole country when he wns ncqultted on the ground and entirely out of the line of ex DANVILLE, 111., March 25. More of Insanity. Timber or wood there Is ploratlon. TURQUOISE MINE FOUND. than a thousand teachers ure here atlittle and water there was absolutely It wns during the period of Inaction none tending the twentieth annunl convenuntil a spring here and there the colnpse of mining excite- was following of tion the Central Illinois Teachers' developed by the prospectors from association. Every city and town In ment In the Crescent district, Lincoln time to time. It must have been when the territory embraced by the mem- county, southern Nevada, and som there were lakes of water. The genbership of the association Is repre- etlme during 1896 that George Sim- eral theory Is that they must have sented, and It Is said to be the largest mons. while prospecting on the slope been worked by the Aztecs, or the meeting ever held by the organisation. of Sugar I.onf Fenk. which lies Tolteca or even before their time. The opening session was held In the about three miles east of Crossmans TROUBLE TO FLOAT MIXES. opera house this morning and was de- spring, found a peculiarly stained After Mr. Slmmone had found his voted to addresses of welcome and re- piece of quarts which some of the wonderful mines his troubles comMr. sponses, the annual address of the proteotors pronounced copper. menced. In 1897 he took some of the president and the reports of the other Simmons put it In his pocket, by no gems to Denver, where he had them officers of the association. This af- means satisfied thnt It was copper. cut He sold a few there and then ternoon the convention divided Itself Upon reflecting upon It and after went on to New York where he sold Into sectlonnl conferences for the dis- closer examination of it he came to the some more. He endeavored to raise cussion of matters pertaining to the conclusion that he had seen similar money for development purposes, but different branches of school work. A quarts in the Burro mountains In New was met with doubts and fears. He Mexico, where the well known tur bonded his is to be eveheld this popular meeting property several times and ning. nt which addresses will be made quolse mines are situated, several every time the sale fell through. In by a number of educators of wide years before, and he concluded It was 1898 he went to London with his gripreputation. The convention will con- turquoise. Then began a long and sack containing gems of various sixes. weary search, and It was not until clude Its session tomorrow. They were found to be purer and eight months afterward that he found brighter than those even from Arabia what are probably the largest and most and ANNUAL DEBATE BETWEEN Persia, and he sold a few there. PRINCETON AND YALE valunble turquoise mines In the world. He brought back to New York his best SIGNS OF ANCIENT WORK. gems and sold a 68 carat stone to a PRINCETON. N. J.. March 25. For During his prospecting along the prominent New Yorker, after the the eleventh successive year choice de- mountain side he noticed depressions closest tests had been made, for baters of Vale and Princeton universi- in the ground for which he could not 81,000. That settled the question. He ties are to meet this evening in a con- account. Inasmuch as grass, cactus enlisted some of the most prominent test for supremacy. The Tale debaters, and sage brush covered them as they lapidaries In Malden Lane and the who arrived from New Haven last did the country surrounding. So much Toltec Gem wns Mining company evening are Jason Noble Pierce, Fred- was he Impressed with their pecu- formed which controlled practically erick Erastus Pierce and Louis otto liarity, however, that he began to dig the production and price of turHergh. The Princeton team 1s the same blindly without any Indication what- quoises. one that defeated Harvard last year ever on the surface as 'to the values From that time until his death and Is comjmsed of B. S. Hornblower, beneath. The first thing he came upon things come smoothly for him and alT. R. Good and A. F. Scott. was ancient tools made of stone, which though he was rapidly accumulating The subject chosen for the debate Is had evidently been thrown Into the wealth it did not turn his head and as "Resolved. That the United States was holes and covered up. They consisted an index to his character It may be waranted In recognizing the Indepen of stone hammers nnd smooth slabs of said that he never deserted hla friends donee of Panama. Princeton has the stone, which were used for polishing of former and poorer days. He lived affirmative and Yale the negative side the gems. Imliedded In the schist were with his wife, a most estimable lady, of the proposition. found pieces of charcoal, showing that up on the mountain side near his mine the mining had been done by fire. and kept open house for the miners CORNELL-COLUMBIDEBATE On the subject of turquoise found and prospectors in the vicinity. He by the enrly Spanish pioneers who wns exceedingly charitable and helped ITHACA. N. Y., March 25. The an- came up through Mexico, Friar Man-co- s many a comrade of former days, nnd nual debate between Cornell and Code Nlxn, who made an extensive It Is not too much to say that when lumbia takes place here this evening, trip through New Mexico and the Miller's bullet hit George Simmons ft and promises to be the event of southwest In 1539. mentions the tur removed from earth nn exceptional college year. The subject of debate quolse, In his report, and In writing ly good man and one who will nor embraced In the following: Resolved, of one of the pueblos, says: "The soon be forgotten. That the unionisation of non-unipeople are white and wear apparel and shops i for the best interest of lie In beds. Their weapons are bows All kinds of garden seeds; fresh laboring man. Cornell has the affirm they have emeralds Bnd other Jewels, stock; western Save grown. money by atlve side of the debate and Columbia although they esteem none so much buying in bulk of Skeen ft Co., 35a the negative. ns the turquoise. wherefith they Twenty-fourt- h street. alleged that he expects to be unseated and 1s preparing for that event "What have you to say, senator? asked the "News" correspondent:. "It is an aboslute and unqualified lie. without a shred of truth to lt. That Is all the comment Mr. Smoot would make. ds or gs A on March 25. Oxford and meet on the oarsmen Cambridge Thames tideway tomorrow to deter-me- n whether the dark blue or the light blue shall fly to victory. Connoisseurs of rowing, without exception, agree that Mr. Taylor, the celebrated Cambridge coach, has every reason to hope to win; yet Oxonians declare that their eight will make a heroic effort to snatch the laurels from the rivals' grasp. Much may depend on the toss. If Oxford wins It may gain a considerable advantage a sheltered position. by choosing k Then should a Cambridge oar or come to grief or should the coxswain momentarily lose his head the buoyant wearers of the pale blue might suffer defeat. However, accidents aside, Oxford is scarcely expected to do more than prove a re' spectable second. There is as much Interest In the event as In any previous year, and the contest between the picked oarsmen of the two universities promises to be witnessed by an Immense throng of spectators, although, owing to the court being In mourning for the' Duke of Cambridge, there will be no royal Itiee on the banks. Both crews took their final practice spin today, several thousand people, a goodly number belonging to the betting fraternity, turning out to form their final Judgments on the performances of the two crews. The races between Oxford and Cambridge date back to 1836, when they were rowed in tubs over the course from Westminster to Putney. 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