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Show (Si (HANTS Pi. The Hazelgrove & Mullet Concentrator Completely Demoralized by an Unknown Horde. THE LOSS IS QUITE SERIOUS Deputy Marshall Bush Goes Into the Locality and Returns with tho Suspected Author. Deputy I'nited States Marshal Joe Hush, who rarely goes gunning without returning with a trophy of tho chase, came in this morning from Bingham with J. J. Gibbons, charged with hi ving v-ing dynamited the llaelgrade & Mullet Mul-let concentrating mill into total demolition. demo-lition. The act was one of the most diabolical diaboli-cal of which the avenging spirit is capable, cap-able, and tho author, whoever he may be. has aroused the .'laming indignation of an entire camp. Jt appears ap-pears from what Duputy Hush learned at the scene of wreckage that the own- ers of the property who have not had occasion to operate it for some time have had occasion to dismiss several parties recently and that Cihhons was among the list. It was made known that lie Had ftworn Vengeance and when tho explosion with its desolating results came suspicion a once leveled its strong finger at him. The explosion shook the camp to its innermost. It was while most of the deni.ens of the thriving little city were slumbering that a blast came that rattled rat-tled windows aud stirred up foundations founda-tions generally. Following the course of the bolt they found the mill that represents an outlay of several thousand thous-and dollars in utter ruin. The engine and boiler were blown to fragments while the walls of the mill had been reduced re-duced to a heap of debris. Intense indignation in-dignation ensued. Talk of lynching was freely indulged in but the dynamiter dynami-ter had Mate Hla Kacnpe and it was agreed to let the matter rest. A warrant was subsequently placed in the hands of Ueputy Hush who landed (Jibbons and brought him to this city together with the witnesses. At the time of his arrest ar-rest (iibbons told conflicting stories as to his whereabouts on the occasion of the offense but the evidence after being be-ing weighed by County Attorney Murphy Mur-phy induced him to believe that there was serious doubt as to the guilt of (iibbons and at his motion the prisoner was discharged. The search for the right party however will not be abandoned and other arrests are likely to follow. |