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Show Are Ton Going Kaat? When purchasing your tickets for any point in the east see that they read via the Chicago, Milwaukee it St. Paul railway. For time, excellence of equipment, etc., the "Milwaukee" is always in the lead. All through trains are Bolid vestibuled, heated j : heated with steam and lighted with elec- trlcity. Dining car service is the finest in j the world. All connections are made In I i union depots. Either of the undersigned I I will cheerfully furnish descriptive matter or any other information desired. Alex, i Mitchell, commercial agent ;Theo. P. Powell, traveling agent, Progress building, Salt Lake City, Utah. DOUTEE'S STORY. Ho Tells How Ho Murdered Old Man Stevens Ste-vens The (Junrrel Arose Over 11 Dispute ftr Water. Treffle Doutre, the man who shot Old Man Stevens at Warm (.'reek, Miliurd county, on the 10th of last month, was brought up to Provo from Fillmore last night. A reporter visited him in jail aud he told the story given below. He was arraigned today una charge of murder. Doutre is a French Canadian by birth. He came to Ctah from Nevada in 1883, and let- .1 tied ou a ranch on Warm creek, near the j scene of the shooting. At the. time he settled there, so he states, AJmon Khoades had a farm adjoining the place w here a dam, dividing the water of Warm creek, was built by Doutre. On part of this land some Indians had squatted, aud had made an irrigating ditch by which they watered their land. Iu 1SS3 Khoades persuaded per-suaded the Indians that he owned the entire tract of laud, and induced them to move onto a piece further west, promising to furnish fur-nish them water through his ditch. That same year Rhoades and the Doutre brothers agreed to build a dam and divide the water equally, one-third to he allowed Rhoadee, the other two-thirds the Doutre ' brothers claimed. The spot agreed upon for the dam is a narrow part of the creek, just above a wide part where about half of the water of the creek would sink into the ground. Both parties cut their canals, Doutre cutting his so as to evade the sink hole and coming back into the creek and then running west onto Doutre's land. Khoades did not keep his promise to the Indians, but told them that Doutre. had their Bhare of the water. In 1889 RhoaaeS told different parties that he intended to break the dam. He finally put that into effect and broke the dam, giving the water to the Indians, telling them that they owned half of Doutre's water. This is what led up lo' tho trouble which culminated In the shooting shoot-ing of Stevens. The rest of tho story was told in the words of Doutre last night He said: "I decided to lower the ditch so that the bottom would he level with the bottom of the canal. I commeeccd the work in December, 1801, and continued the work until January Kith last. At that time my brother, Alexander was working with me at a point 333 steps from the dam. The ditch at this point is on government gov-ernment laud, a few yards from Khoades' laud. About 6 o'clock in the afternoon my ; brother left me to go home and do the chores. About twenty minutes after he left' Stevens and Khoades came up to where I was aud ordered me to go back to the dam and stop the water. I had about half of my share of the water running in the ditch. "I had not been friendly with these me:i for years, had not spoken to Stevens for eight years, and had hot crossed words with Khoades for lour years past. Thevattempte 1 to force me to the dam by taking hold of me and pushing me backward and kept telling lue to go and turn the water hack. They threatened to knock iny two eyes into one if ! did not go to the dam and turn the water off. I told them I wanted no trouble over the affair, and asked them to leave me. alone. 1 further told them if they wanted the water stopped to iro and stop it themselves. Khoades said 1 was damaging him to the extent ex-tent of 1500. I told him If that was so I would pay him for it. lie answered by trying: try-ing: '(5 n you, I've had cnougli trovble with you, and the water is not l'oiii,' to stay in this ditch, for we'll go up and turn It oft' 1 told him, 'All right, I'll go with you and see you do it.' "Just a.-, we started, Khoades said: 'I have been to Salt Lake and found out thai you have no right to the water;" at that, I called him a d d liar; as I said that they botli attacked at-tacked me with their shovels; when they came after me 1 reached in 'my hip pocket and pulled a pistol and warned them not to come any nearer; 1 was about ten feet from Stevens at the time; Rhodes slopped, hut Stevens kept after me and soiJ, 'put up that pistol;' I was backing up hill at the time, and I again warned Stevens not to come any nearer; Khoades called to Stevens Stev-ens to look out, and at that moment mo-ment Stevens struck at mo with nil long handled -hovel. The blow landed on the handle of my shovel, winch I had on my left shoulder. W ith that I lired and bit Stevens below the left breast. H turned to Rhoades and exclaimed : "I am shot, I am a dead man." I was within arm's length of him when I tired, but he did not fall. He walked to Khoades' house, about a half mile distant and I heard he died next morn- I Ing. I had Intended going with them to the datDi an.! if they had interfered witli it, I would have had them arrosted. hut the row prevented that. 1 consider that I my action was purely self-defense, because ! he had struck me with a shovel. The olll-eers olll-eers were sent for to hold pn inquest, but when they arrived Khoades had taken the body over the line iuto Osceola, Nevada. The officers arrived about the IMst of January Janu-ary and I was taken to Oasis Where I bad an I examination und was bound over to await the action of the grand jury." |