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Show Word of the Terrible Outrage1 Has Just Reached Here From SI. George. HAD GONE INTO CANYON j WITH HER SCHOOL BOOKS Neighborhood .Is Aroused and Dire. Threats Are Made of Vengeance. ,7 Special (o The Tribune. ST. GEORGE, Utah. April 24. News of a shocking murder has reached here bv telephone from Ordcrvillc, Kane county. A young lady named Mary Stevens of Mount Carinel had been staying at Ordcrvillc for some time at the home of her brother while she attended school. On Monday she left home after school and was ifot afterwards af-terwards seen alive by her friends. It appears that she went, up a canyon close to town, about throe-fourths of a mile to the .summit, when she wns shot three times in the back. After being shot tho body was dragged some little distance to a place where it could be hidden and was covered with brush and rocks were then placed on tho brush, evidently with a view to hide the body. The brother, while concerned at her non-appcaranco Monday evening, was not alarmed, as ho thought she had decided de-cided to stay tho night with some of her friends. On Tuesday morning, as sho did not appear, "ho went to the school, where- inquiry showed, sho had not been seen since the previous dn. He then learned that she had been seen going toward the canyon the previous day and went up the canyon until he came to the spot where his sister had been foully murdered, and further search led him .to where the bod3' had been secreted. The wholo country thereabouts is greatly excited over the tragic ending of the young lady, and every effort is being made to run down the murderer. The only clue to tho perpetrator of the foul deed is tracks of a man's shoes, about JS'o. 6, and tliesocould not be followed far on account of the rocky nature of the ground. It appears to bo customary for the school pupils to lako their books up Tho canyon mentioned for quiet study, and it is supposed that this is what tho young lady did who met such an untimely end. It is presumed that the 'fact of young ladies going alone to study ! in this quiet spot may Tiavc led some one to attempt to assault the unfor- j tunatc girl who met her death in an at- I tempt lo escape, the shots entering her back tending to prove this theory. , ' |