Show to CONVERT FILIPINOS Ameri American an Tract Society Is Se ding Printed Matter Washington March ra h Wa Washington annual meeting l of the American Tract society wee held this thIa afternoon In St Johns ProteStant Episcopal chu church h The Rev Judson Swift field secretary at New York te IL a brief report ot of the Ule secretary work and the Rt Rev Alex B D preached the rmon ermon Dr Smith dwelt on the splendid work the S society Clety is 18 doing doin amon among the and In our island as wen well as 88 Its general lines of service Mr the he salvation of souls Th The secretary states that tb t n new iad d been added duri during the year ear twenty In Bo Uala the others In German Spa Spanish cud ad Dutch The nUMber of peri period lc fels l cIrculated during the past twelve twelvemonths months wa was f Four Foor hundred and el eighty thousand 1 im immigrants migrants on n our chores during and the Tract society t having nu pub ed the gospel truth In 63 languages l or er dialects Is prepared to reach this vast ut multitude During and ine the S war pages of Chri Christian tian literature In the Spanish lAft language alle have been die In our Island possessions and Spanish In sneaking countr countries making a total of f 83 pega In the SPanish language and pages have bet been n given to the arm army and aDd navy during the same period The distri button of Christian literature In the Mor Me Mormon Memon mon ho homes by means 11 of Jf r wagon and for tb the purpose of reach Inc u the children and youth have bf be bevery very erv L The demands far fer the publications and a additional are increasIng Its Ita resources are taxed to the ut utI utmost most and an e earnest appeal is made for I funds murder and I d n the ft fleet dispatch sent to tc 8 8 utah officer er on seek business The ted documents are full tUII pr pf history ly T Pacific had bad but recently ted the telegraph line to Uintah that time was the terminal of the road be being S rapidly westward to meet the Central Pacific building est The town ws full o of to t th stirring epoch of devel development One tel ter AUgust Sprouse by name shot and killed a a man named Martin Earl Sprouse escaped to the east but was not up to date HI He reckoned without the telegraph was captured at b by Deputy Marshal N K Boswell who wire l the sheriff at ISis Uin Uintah tah that he had and would hold the prisoner Boswell Is still alive and a prominent citizen of at Wyoming The cost of send the message was or almost 26 rants per word The same message no w be sent at atan an expense of oC not to ex ed 40 O cents The use of the telegraph In the capture ot of the man was deem d of such import that the message Was filed with the fe records lOrds in the subsequent quent trial and is here reproduced In tc simile The indictment ot or Sprouse e by the grand jury at the December 1810 term of the probate court followed and the indictment is in still on file with the other probate court records In the case The document covers little litile more than two pages of legal cap per ner neatly writ written ten but is full fuU of interest and of re reminders minders that methods and customs have hae changed wIth the advent of tel telegraph telegraph and raIlroad A Verbose Verbose inding The jurors after the usual preamble maintaining i that they aregood are goed and lawful men and duly authorized on their fo o nd p present ent enthat That hat Augustus Sprouse yeoman name otherwise to Ute the grand jurors unknown late of said county Jl stol having the fear felU of God before his eyes ees but being moved and seduced by bythe bythe the Instigation of the devil on the day y of October In the year of our Lord one thou Dd and sixty nine force feces and arms aetna at the town known as lu In said county and within the jurisdiction of said court courtin in and upon the body of one Martin Earl then and there being in the pe peace e of said ald territory g 8 human buman being un Unlawfully lawfully felonIously willfully prem premed premeditatedly d and of his aforethought did an l that the said saidA A ft c rain pistol of the value of five dollars then And there charged with gunpowder and one leaden bullet which said id pistol tol he the said s in hi his right hand then anath eel there re had and held as aforesaid alor ald he the said laid AugUstus l unlawfully f dY pee and of his malice afore aforethought t thought did dIscharge and shoot off at to upon and against him the said and that he the said gaid Au Augustus gustus Sp U Use e with the leaden bullet af out of and from the pistol aforesaid then and there theft by the force of the gun o af by the saId I Augustus d discharged and shot Ott oJ as 5 a al then th and there un on lawfully feloniously willfully del I and or of his malice aforethought did strike pt penetrate and wound him himI I the saltS Mid Martin Earl in and uPon th the forehead him the said Martin Earl I giving hiss him Um said Martin Earl or one mortal wound of the depth of ten tenI inches and of the breadth of nf I ot of one Inch loeh of which said mortal wound rad ad Martin Earl FAirl hn hen i there Instantly died Judging from th Ins of that time to shoot s man with i weapon valued at the um of carried with it an added degree felony so that the rom corn m attorn attorney and the grand jurors deemed it as an f part cart partI I of tIlt ta cri crime r leiting it tn In th tb hU hi hUI I idie nn nf 1 I Whether r thIs thI fat fad as inti 44 b by the trial uial jurors does doea Rot not appear from the papers In the case calle but certain it Is that the proceedings were ROt not delayed Sprouse was con convicted convicted and sentenced to be executed on Jan 14 but his was made more merry bIg the news of a stay of oC execution signed the previous daY by ASSOCIate SUpreme JUdge O 0 F Strick Strickland Strickland I land who at the same time ordered Sprouse turned over from Crom the custody of Sheriff Gilbert of Gilbert R H Belnap sherIff for many years the keeping of J JM JM M Orr United States marshal The pros prosecuting attorney in the pro probate probate bate court was A Miner Uner and Sprouse was represented bY E B P Johnson JohnsonA A J Shupe was foreman of the grand Jury F D RIchards later an apostle In the Mormon church and the I church bl historian ag probate F S Richards now an attorney in salt Lake was Wag court clerk and Wll Wil Slam jam Brown still a resident of Ogden and for a long time city marshal WIt was I deputy sheriff who served most of the be I subpoenas for which the Usual fee was wasi i 8 Witnesses examined by bJ the grand j jury ry were John Bybee soil George W lck Charles St Jack Jackson on Seagers eager Albert Tones Jones Horace HoraceE E Pine Dr E B G Williams and C F Middleton Reminiscences of the West Charles F Middleton now one of the pre presidency of Weber stake was a witnesS 8 for the state tte against Sprouse and wan also one of er the deputy sl sheriffs who went desperado He re remembers remembers members distinctly the events of the killing and the trial and especially of the use made of C the telegraph wires In the ease case Mr X and wn lIam Brown wi e the deputies who went to Rawlins and brought Sprouse back by train n The prisoner had many friends and to 0 them were or Of the m moat t desperate men mea la is tM the west Sprouse W was in when we found him at Rawlins and at almost every station tation pUlled passed on our return says Mr Middleton MIddlet n came JDee messages ages to the conductor of the train demanding to toI I know If Gus Sprouse was wa on his train in our charge These me sages messages were from Sprouses f friends who also made I use of the and were afraid that Brown would leave tile the train with the I prisoner before was reached I Some of the more desperate had a plan formed to take the prisoner oner from the I officers and Brown bad been urged to toI I get off at some way station but he hei i refused and at Uintah surprised ed the I rescuers by peaceably con COD CODI I to allow them t to go into the ear car and nd converse with the prisoner I J 1 stood at one door and h at the theother other VISitors entered by his hie door I And he took from every man his guns and knife before allowing hint him to en enI enter I tr ter Inside Sprouse counseled against i the attempt to deliVer him and the I plot collapsed I dt remember remembers s seeing eing one rough pal I of the prisoner cry tV like a child chUd at seeing Ing his comrade in custody tody I 1 became better acquainted with Sprouse during his hili confinement and after sentence ot Of death was passed pas ed he gave gaw me the pistol l with which he did the killing killingI I Sprouse Went Free I Sprouse got a stay siny of execution and anda a new trial on the gP ground und that the te court oart had no jurl jurisdiction over such sueh a ease 88 He served a term tenn in the forget how I saw him after his release and often heard of him in fn other otle parts or of the country I still have hae the pistol with which hp he killed poor Cole It is a small crude weapon but butI I k it ill iii my mv desk at home as a amm am mm m c r f theman th e man and of an exciting ing episode happening a generation ago The bundle of yellow l what stories trie they tell Stories s of hanges Hught within n the lives of f than thanh hj h P 11 A 11 names a re itt i I i ni in Ui n 0 f varied and In the course of a generation ch in methods and customs brought brou bt to pus pass by the chAnges in It is Interesting to speculate on the new Dew things to be proved during the next third of a con cen tury What works will the electric cur current current rent then do for man maa What ships will sail over the waters or under them What t will traverse the 1 land nd Or the air Surely it Is not idle to prophesy that criminals will soon be intercePted by messages flashed above the mountain chains along cur currents ruts rents Invisible And maybe too in that da day some vigorous active worker In the affairs of nowadays may pro pre preserve serve some pistol of oC modern make some automatic ck that hurls a score of missiles more rapidly than sense can note on the mere prom ur urd or of a pre preserve erve It as a memento of today when means meaD and n 0 th ds were ne new and aDd h as a sample of I i t crude firearms in use when the century came In W L WATTIS |