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Show A Grussoinc Find by Surveying Party H A gruesome discovery of what Is no H doubt a foul inurdur was made last Sat- M urday by a party of Rio Grand Western i H surveyors at a pojnt not far from Cii- H Tho skeleton of a man, packed in a H Silver Oloss starch box lUxlfi, Inche.t ! H nnd burled in tho loose rocks on tho '' H mountain side four hundred feet from H the track, was the dlbcovery which hor- H rifled the Anders and brought before H them the scene of a bloody crime com- H mlted hi this lonely spot. H A pair of No. ." boots, which were cvl- H dcutly new when their owner wusmur- H dercd, lying on the mountainside, wus H what first attracted the attention of H one of the party and led to the discovery H of theskclcton. M When tho boots were found by Mr. H Uoodrldgo of tho party ho commenced H to look around, and a few feet front H where the boots lay ho spied a piece ot H board sticking up out of the rocks. ? H He gave it a kick with his foot, when I it broke loose, proving to bo the lid of H tho box, nnd oxposlnir to the. horrlflctl H view of Mr. Goodrldge tho skeleton ot H a man, with the exception of thefh'ead, hands and feet. ?fJ The huiuls and feet hath been am pit- H tated at the wrist and anlue joints and H had been disconnected close to tho H trunk In the box with the body-was part H of a blue llanncl shirt with four but- H tons, and burled down at the sklejof tho box was a pair of overalls. The boot:: H had the letters G. W. C, tacked In tho I soles with round headed tacks. H The bonea looked as if they had lain. H there for two or thrco years. Tho an- H count of the discovery was mado by S, . S. Scov.llle 'and Ernest Wlgnall oi, H Syrlngrllle, two memhera of tho parti H Eaatera Utah' Advocate. H |