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Show J BIM pis." I I Last of a Notorious Outfit in the I I Hands of Deputy U. S. I I Marshals. J rODY CEAPTEES IN LITE 4J 11 Death Amid the Desolate Canyons f of the Blue Old Gihson Nil and Sons. I mng the "professional" celebrities I (return to the city on last tilght3 I liinderbolt from the south was John I Isonand Bill Bowen. They were l Iier the espionage of Deputy United iJJ lies Marshals Joseph Bush and A. G. I Icr and were mated by links of glit- I liDg steel and had just returned from I (involuntary trip to Beaver to con- lit the court on charges of grand lar- liy. The prisoners made their ap- J trance but owing to somo civoum- I fjtiai intervention the cases were 4 inferred to the third district, and the Ids were remanded to the penitenti- I-to await the setting of their .cases I IJudgeZaue. : I I liibson who was perforated with the I Icccontents of a shot gun at the time (his capture has entirely recovered lil gives good evidence of the excel- It discipline that prevails at the Ho-( Ho-( I Parsons up in the jaws of Emigrant lnyon. Ho has but little to say upon ! o tragedy that surrounded his arrest . he probably holds himself responsi-!n( responsi-!n( fi for it. The affair was one of 1 1 (e most desperate in the annals I I the frontier. He had been I laning off cattle and markct-( markct-( (g horses for some time and all Itirts to check his nefarious ex-I ex-I loitB having been unsuccessful the mat-j mat-j Ir was referred to U. S. Marshal Par-( Par-( Ins. The assignment fell to the I llentless Bush' and the trail was taken ( I. Gibson was followed to the rugged ( t.se of the Blue mountains where he ( Loitered himself in their dark and sin-J sin-J Iter confines. Into this wilderness the I plm'y marshal plunged and after a la Ireful reconnoiter the fugitive was J faced to a weather-beaten cabin on the J Inch of the bleak mountain. The '1 (nor of the prison was opening to him lid when the deputy ordered him to J lirrender the fugitive presented arms. 1 k'ith six-shooter uplifted he stood de-,,( de-,,( lantly in the door of the hut as the -I Ifficer drew a bead along the barre.s of I lis weapon. The report of the shotgun J las followed by the groans of the out-l out-l liv and his bleeding body was thrown I li the official game bag. He was in-I in-I Acted and now awaits trial. I I Gibson is a whig of a family that has I long terrorized the honest denizens of ( lie southern lattitudes of Utah and I I as tough as any chip from I I block, the religion of which was I tluuder and lawlessness. He was a I ireature of the Blue Mountains and I Ifpresented all the teachings of the I lawless and incorrigible horde that in-1 in-1 lested it. His brother Bill was equally I Igressive in his crusades against the I Irazing herds, and while attempting to 1 like a pony from an Indian met his I Beath. The Indians had been too wary I lor him and Bill Gibson fell from his I laddie dead as a ducat. No one I tuourned his departure but the old man I Ind brother, who made a sullen pledge I lo never let an Indian escape them if it I ras possible to riddle his hide. I I One of his classmates in this wild, ' Imtutored country was William liowen, who operated on the pn Juan river beyond the I'angeand who, having unloaded his t'lunder, sought refuge m the desolate f averns of the Blue mountains. He "as finally entrapped and will also ftand trial for stealing cattle and Iiorses. , I The old man, the wrinkled father pod devout instructor of the Gibson 1'oys.is also under indictment for grand larceny, and it looks now as if the last f 'ranches of the notorious family would f-nd their days in the gloomy confines of po penitentiary. They arc pretty good citizens sa long as they are bchiud the |