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Show CONFESSED DESERTER SURRENDERS SELF Declaring that he was a deserter from the Tivetitietli regiment, and that he left his eompanv last September. William Mereer surrendered to United States Marshal Aqtiila Nebeker late yesterday affrnoou. He will be handed over to the military authorities at Fort Douglas for eourt-martial. Mereer savs that upon leavins hi? companv com-panv last September he went into the eountrv seeking employment, and he finally" drii'te.i into Duchesne county, where he went to work. When pay day rame the man for whom he was working failed to pav him anil he was in dire traits. lie flnailv reported to the local draft board of Duchesne county, expressing express-ing a desire to return to Salt Lake. lie is an .American. |