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Show ROUND ABOUT THE STATE. ' Items of Interest Gulled From Varl-; Varl-; ; ous SourceSi ' A SHOCKING FATALITY. ' Last Sunday morning James-B. Hays, grandson of Mr. James Twitchell, left' his home to go up above the. Rob Roy ..mine to carry a lamp to one of his" friends. Some young men had preceded him, arid in order to o ertake themt it is supposed sup-posed that he . rode quite fast ' In the evening parties coming down the road found the'laimp broken and . . reported at the Indian Creek settlement. settle-ment. Searchers were at once sent out to look for the young man, but their search was not successful. On Monday, morning - at, daybreak, the horse he rode came to the settlement riderless, arid at once Mr. Twitchell took the ' track of the horse, following it into the cedars, and a long distance' round, he finally discovered the young man's corpse, about three mile ..from -the town, lying with the clothing of the' upper part of the body drawn up oyer the ' head, and the back cut and skinned in a fearful . manner, the arms extended ex-tended over the head, and the body frozen stiff . From the position of a ; the body death must? have relieved ' : - poor Berr before r'herwasf!eft by'the horse; which had kicked him in several sev-eral plac The funeral services were held on Wednesday at 1 p. m. at the. cemetery ceme-tery . The deceased was born Feb. 11, 1879, and would have been 18 years old next Februaryr-Brown County News. ' " . stepped back, took off his gloves and picked up a hammer. Then seeing Moran had a revolver, he says he laid down the hammer and concluded he would not fight Moran. At this the tramp took courage and commenced calling Vance all sorts of names, when the latter started for him and was shot with a 38-calibre revolver. 1 The ball entered the left side,, about two inches from the center, between the 8th and .9th ribs, and lodged on the right , side, a little lower, on the 10th rib, about six inches from the backbone; where Dr. Allen cut it out. STABPING AT MKRCUJtl A Tribune special, dated at Mer-cur, Mer-cur, Dec. 10, says: ' James Hogan, superintendent of the Gladstone mine, was stabbed in the abdomen this afternoon by M. L. Gilligan, formerly a cook in the employ, em-ploy, of the' Gladstone company; When work was stopped oh the Gladstone last 'July some money! was due Gilligan, and Hogan had become, responsible for the former's bills. , Money was received from. the Gladstone this week to settle theif bills, and Hogan took ' the amount due Gilligan and .paid- the bills for which he had becdme Yesp6ri"sible7 Gilligan did not like this and demanded de-manded the money that was due . The two men got into an altercation in Caldwell's store; and Gifligan began be-gan to abuse Hogan. 1 The latter slapped Gilligan .in , the face, when the cook drew a sharp-pointed pocket pock-et knife and plunged it into Hogan's left side, through the" waistband of his trousers. He was taken to Luft's drug store, : where Drs. Brant and Castleman dressed the wound. It is too early to tell whether the wounc! will result fatally or not, but Hogan is in a precarious condition. He is an unmarried man and has no relatives rela-tives in this country. ..Gilligan was arrested and lodged in jail awaiting the result of the wound. Both men are well known here: arid were considered con-sidered peaceable;- ' 1 n ' ' " . ' . ; : . f PLEASANT VALLEY SHOOTING." James Vance, the. young man who r -was shot by Matt Moran near Pleasant Valley Junction a few days ago, is dead . . He died at Proyo at about 8:30 Sunday morning. ; '' The deceased was a married man, the ceremony having' been performed perform-ed just one month : prior to the day the fatal shot was fired. His home was in Fairview, Sanpete county,-to which the "body was shipped on Tuesday. He was 92 years of age and well thought of by. ; his associates. associ-ates. Through. a misunderstanding as to where the shooting occurred whether in Utah or in Carbon county coun-ty the man Moran ' is now very likely well out of the' way of the officers. .' Vance told the following story of the shooting: He 'and another man were off-bearing at Jenson's sawmill and Nathaniel Moran, a tramp, was hired t6 , burn the' slab.: Moran claimed that the' off-bearers did not bring the slabs far enough, and tatt he had to do work- they were'paid for doing. - He had been complaining complain-ing for a day or so,, and. on the morning was quite cross and quarrelsome. quar-relsome. Vance then threw some slabs as faras -Jie "could toward the fire, and Moran 'thought' tney were thrown at him arid started after Vance on the lumber pile. Vance |