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Show ARGUMENT OVER WAR RESULTS II MURDER Special to The Tribune. BIXGHAM, June 1 Salle Begin, 30 years of age, an Armenian employed at the Boston Consolidated mine here, vjas slabbed to death tonight by B. Zekir, another Armenian, in the mine bunk-house bunk-house following a war argument, which developed into a fight. The slayer Immediately Im-mediately ran down the canyon. He was captured within a few minutes by P. Bjjsone, a clerk employed in the Boston store, who witnessed the killing and pursued pur-sued and captured him single-handed. The murder occurred shortly after 6 o'clock. Zekir was lodged In jail and will be taki to the county jail at Salt , Lake tomorrow morning. According to witnesses, several In- mates of the bunkhouse had assaulted i Resin a few minutes before the killing for the stand he took regarding the European Eu-ropean war. The man continued to talk, they said, and Zekir, becoming enraged, ii ran after him with a knife. He caught ' hi in just outside the door of the bunk-house bunk-house and quickly stabbed him four times In the back. Besin sank to the ground and died almost instantly. Basone, who was standing In the door of the store, grabbed a gun and took after the murderer, who had disappeared down the canyon. Ho overtook him about a mile down the road and the man surrendered sur-rendered his knife. They were met there by Deputy Sheriff Smith, who placed the murderer under arrest and took him to Jail. Besin was -unmarried and came to l-'lngham only a few days ago. He is said to have a father in Europe. Zekir is also single. |