Show THE DEAD MAYS MAAL S NINE MINE another mixed up story of the recent shooting scrape the following story etory in IB taken from the muscatine iowa mail and is published in orbet papers in that section beati on wo the story eim ply to lot let our leaders see how bow badly itis tangled in colls colla of the utah penitentiary two men sit and think of the opening of another monto monte cristo whorl when their terms expire the men are known as matt warnor warner alias ras baa lewis alias ras lias and william wall A charge of manslaughter was proved against the two convicts and they were ordered imprisoned for a term of five years nearly a half century ago according to utah legends it a great gold field was discovered in one of the hidden canyons of the uintah mountains the claim was operated for one vs ft ock eek and by order of brigham young the owner left the mine which he be never again behold beheld early in the fifties so goes the story one thomas kanom Kno knowles les an old california tamer miner came to the city of balt bait loke lake ile he called upon president young who then thea acted as governor of the beato of deseret the mormon received knowles in a very hospitable manner and before the interview ended a bargain was waa made by which the miner was to do de liner iner his weight in gold to the mor mon president within throe three weeks from that date on a bright june morning old man know lea and his son a 11 ear old boy stained from the mormon city for the deep canyo canyons rit of the snow crowned uintah mountains man and boy accompanied by a train of burros or little pack mules traveled trae led tor for ue lle days to the southeast and camped at night on the banks of a small rippling mountain stream NN hen bon daa da light dawned they discover ed cd in the water at their feet largo large nuggets shining gold they soon constructed home sluice boxes aiom the mountain pines anc und I 1 began the woi k of NN washing ashing gold from the sand in loss less than a week we ek aie man and the boy returned without their pack aich had bad been stolen by the indians diakis but N with ith two sacks sachs vi weighing 6 8 pounds filled with nith native go gold id ahe gold was delivered to young according to contract and knowels was wade made to swear that he would never again enen the canyon except with the consent of the gov milor years passed and knowles died without re his rich d de of precious metal when brigham young passed away young knowlys ONOs feeling no further farther fostr restraint reh amt decided to find the golden ci chuon ada oil accompanied byn by ft young man named knoch enoch davis ha be started started for the place whore hero lie he had behold beheld the glittering nuggets camped beside the old sluices coa and began making preparations pa rations for foi taking out the gold A bund band of indians indiana cooing their territory j being encroached on fired arod into the camp and killed young youn knowles know les duvis davis escaped in it a few months art after or making the ficht attempt davis nned with the aid of a map to leato the pie precious pi ocious cious can 3 on all effal efforts is proved ed futile as the indians dious white nien men away anday from the ti eassi e held field at last davis re mui mood ed with his family to vernal and at the trad of a black blacksmith sinith thin thinking hing that some day the indiana ludi alis would bo be coni compelled polled to surrender thou t claim ou oil the mountains and ho he could then lacato tho gold placers years passed away and dalis became a drunkard and abused his wife and family in one of lis drunken brawls lie he inui dered hw his wife and cast her body into a potato pit A trial on quod and was convicted and sentenced to be shot while thu tho doomed man was lying in a cell awaiting the executioner ho he determined deter mind to unfold the m mastery story of the knowles mine the old map was wag produced and the pr prisoner ioner re the history of the rich placer nelds fields his life m was as spared spa dor it a liia son while avro sent into the mountains to follon his directions and disco ds coer er the golden treasure after many weeks of diligent the miners returned with a sack of ore which upon being assayed ed only a trace iraco of gold the search was aas given up lip and the prisoner oner was waa ppe speet tily executed an aigist friend received the satch of the mino mine and for a time all thought of wealth in the uintah mountains seemed boomed to be banished As an tle snows of spring niela ed away and made the high canyons accessible ces sible ible some daring tit at to enter the forbidden gorge to lot locate the tha knowles wine two companies pitched tents near the supposed spot an unpleasantness ya flaa its created by the factions failing to agree on the division of the property the desperadoes imprisoned imprison oti in the utah penitentiary according to the evidence produced in court were employed to assist in ousting one camp of prospectors from the canyon A morning attack resulted in a pitched battle which ended in the killing of two and the wounding of another |