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Show WAS IT A Ml HOUR? The llody of An Old Man Found In a fan-you fan-you By Miners. . A couple of miners by tho names of L. V. Kennedy and David Fenster-maker, Fenster-maker, who have, for tho past six mouths, been engaged in the Lake Side mountains near Grantsvillc, returned to Salt Lake yesterday and told of the finding of the body of a man who had presumably been murdered. Last fall tho miners' attention was called to several abandoned miues in Vindication canyon, a short distauco from w hero they had been working. Things seemed mysterious about tho place, and about a week ago the men determined to solve the mystery if a mystery there was. And they did. Au Investigation was made, and after going down a shaft they discovered some of the old picks and shovels which had evidently evi-dently been there for years. At the junction of the Vindicator and Cranor canyons tho two men noticed a pile of loose stonu with deer brush protruding through the rocks. Tho stones were removed re-moved and the skeleton of a man was found. Tho head was wrapped in an old army overcoat, which alter beiug removed, disclosed the amazing fact that the dead man's hair was as intact as if ho had but recently been murdered. mur-dered. When the announcement at Grantsvillc Grants-villc was made of the discovery of the dead man's remains, au old man of that place said that ho believed the skeleton was that of his brother who had gone up into the mountains two years ago, and who was never heard of afterwards. |