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Show THE SPANISH AMDRKW FORK PRESS JENSEN, Publisher SPANISH FORK UTAH STATE . IJMVALL' UTAH NEWS I MIL The nonpartisan candidates were victorious In tho Heel Urn fur members of the school board held In Suit Lake City last week. Tho total number of arrests ftr violations of the fish iind same lawn in tho mate during the past year wan JC8; tho numlipr of conviction, 229. Reiicl Greaves, while out. hunting a ducks near Hphrulm. sustained reBiilt ns tho Ms cheek la deep gash of the inu.zlo being Mown off his shot-;un- . SXERY I IjM By DR. GEORGE F. BUTLER and HERBERT ILSLEY f Insane Hospital Houses Lad IVhile Unjustly Accused Are Released rom Jail on Findings of Great Detective. ' bad men who A couplo of would-buttenipted to "shoot up" tho town or Green Wver recently were foaled a magistrate and lined 2' and costs. George A. Boyd, a ranchman, living near Plain City, was thrown from his wuKon when his team became frightened at a passing train find injured. Thomas Vance, the Salt Uke man tinder conviction for the murder or his wife, has not been sentenced, and probably will not hear his sentence tll'some time next month. DoBplte tho efforts of tho health of caes of officers the number smallpox In Salt like City are on the Increase, there now being thirty patients under quarantine. C. Woodland, the Willard man who was Injured by falling from a platform while working on the dam, is in Woodland Mr. (. crltcol condition. fell about tweuty feet on to a cement floor. There Is enough wax In Clan to Bays Charles supply the world, Schwager of New York, a wax expert. Samples of Utah earth show that It Is tho richest known in the production of wax. The next annual exhibit of tiro Utah Toultry association will be held In Salt Lake City on January 25, when It is expected that tho exhibit will he the largest and best ever conducted ty the association. Edward Doyle, a conductor on tho Union Pacific, who resides In Ogden, slipped on the ice ono day last week nnd fell with his hand on the rail, the wheels of the car passing over it, amputation being necessary. Already arrangements are being made for the entertainment of visitors to Salt Lake City during the national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, which will bo held la the capital city next year. The state fish and game warden will advocate the abolishment of duck and ether hunting clubs in Utah, before the next legislature. The claim Is made that these clubs work a hardship to the sportsmen In general. The body of the unknown man found near Bountiful badly mangled by a train on the Oregon Short Line lallroad, was burled, after being held three days for Identification, no clue leaving been found to identify him. A case will be brought before the supreme court to decide whether or rot cigar slot machines are gambling devices, a cigar dealer of Salt Lake having been fined $5 for permitting the use of a slot machine In his place it business. Considerable excitement has been aroused In Sprlngvllle by the receipt of a postal card which threatens the life of John Reynolds, who is a clerk mploycd by II. T. Reynolds & Co., tnd his brother, II. T. Reyonlds. who It-- the head of the firm. The Btate flan and game warden reports that for the expired part of liHiS, 23,085 hunting licenses were Issued, which, with fines, brought the receipts of tho department for the year to $21,643.80. The expenditures amounted to about fM.OOO. James Kindred, about SO years old, whoso home is thought to have been 1n Davenport, la., committed suicide City In a lodging house in Salt by taking two ounces of strychnine, washing the poison down his throat by taking a drink of port wine. Arrangements will shortly be perfected to send a committee of three persons, acting under the directions of the Civic Improvement league of Salt I.ake, to Dos Moines, Iowa, to make a thorough Investigation of the plan of clfj government at that place. "Grandma" Kofford," one of Spring City's pioneers, met with a serious Accident a few days ago, which may result In her death. Mrs. Kofford was a Burvlvor of Haun's Mill massacre, where Bho saw! the Indians shoot her fithcr and throw Ms body into a well. Louis Arnold, aged ?0 years, died from exhaustion, superinduced by hiccoughs at his home In Salt Lake. Prior to his death Mr. Arnold had been In ill health for about four months. Last August he was attacked with hiccoughs, which lasted eight , days. The Ogden chamoer of commerce has shown Its determination to take steps toward securing a reduction of the electric light rates In Ogden city an ly passing a resolution employing what legal attorney to Investigate rights the city has to regulate the ex- vbMJlL LUTE0M OF foe-lor- e seri-oiiHl- y isting rates. Maddened with drink, and in a Jealous rage, Roy Anderson, a negro with a strain of Indian blood In his veins, shot Isadore Baptlste, In Salt Lake City. Baptlste attempted to take the tin away from Anderson, when it was rtlBcharged, the ball entering body. ' Bap-Uste- 'a ' VERY short, stout, Bailor- a I I I - appearing man, shaven and wearing n fit- l., on -- !,... !,., ....It .,,,--- , If nii,rpnw, mill, wi Ml,,. with a runty stovepipe hat on his head and a canvas bag in his band, came rolling up the street, and after looking hesitatingly around at tho numerous will ever know the difference. He bad no friends to come asking for him." "Lud's sake alive, w hut's all this?" "The the cap'n!" he stammered, "We was playln' cards In his room me and Jim. He said Jim nigged on purpose, and Jim hit hlin." "Was he looking, Jlst, whin Jim struck?" she asked, cynically. "We didn't think at first he was hurt much." he replied whlnlngly. In lodging-housthe Bigns windows of the neighbor "But he didn't get up, and when we hood, started briskly up went to lift him we saw he was gone the steps of No. 112 and pressed the and" button. "Sjop!" Sho put out one of her great raw- "Mum," he said to the elderly woman who opened the door, "I see by " hese here notices that you hev rooms to let, and as. that's what I'm arter I pOM5 kinder cal'lated I'd gin ye a call. How much be they?" He abstracted a huge roll of bills from his trousers pocket and thrust thsm bungliugly into her hand. "Do what ye can for me on tnet," he continued. "Count it out and see what's in It. 'Twas 300 when I skinned her over, and I cal'lated under 'twould do. Stow the ditty-bothe berth and 'long 'bout eight bells I'll drift back and kinder tidy things mum!" up a bit for night. Good-day- , He gave his hat an awkward pull and waddled off hurriedly, leaving the lodging-mistresred in the fare and short of breath with the surprise of her life. "Save us, there's wan man for youse!" she gasped, following him with amazed eyes as he stumped down the street on his short legs, the huge trousers flopping In the wind, the rusty hat pulled down to his cars and the coatsleeves dangling to within an inch of the tips of his stubby fingers. At noon the queer lodger returned, received his key and was shown to his Pausing on the threshold quarters. he turned to Mrs. Tull. the flesh of his face packed like hard putty, as Immobile as a board, his unwinking eyes staring Into her own. "Mum," he said In voice like a foghorn, "my name is Colter, Cap'n Joshua S. Colter. This here is my cabin. D'ye see? Tis mine for one Ontil thet time is up twelvemonth. i I cal late I'm the size myself to load ' It clean to the skylight, and I don't never 'low to hev no petticoats fussin' up any vessel o mine. I'll swab the docks and trim satis myself, and now there. you c'n go below and stay Show jour flggerhead on my companions ny agin without orders and I'll hove ye plumb overboard through the j porthole." At 11 o'clock the next morning, when she beard him bulkily descendr ing the stairs, she stood in the doorway to observe him, but had the doughty captain chanced to look that way he could have seen nothing but the tip of an Inquisitive nose and the toe of a large boot. It was the same on the second and third .mornings, but on the fourth the captain did not appear at 11 o'clock as usual. She felt some uneasiness over this fact, which grew greater when the next day also he remained Invisible. For more than 48 hours not a sound had Issued from his room. She waited until the next noon, and then, all remaining as quiet as the houses of tho dead, she ventured up to the head of the stairs and stood a moment gazing steadfastly at tho closed floor of the mysterious "cabin." Always at this stage of reflection, with persons of Ann Toll's grade of mind nnd experience, the police begin to figure. And within ten minutes afterward she was standing on tho stairs pointing out to an Inspector and man the door behind a which lurked some dark secret, she was sure. "Looks to me as if he had run," said "How much wag he the Inspector. Into you, .Mrs. Tull?" boned powerful hands and forced him "Not wan cint. I know me business. Into a chair. Then ho noiselessly 'Tis In advance I always do be getting closed the kitchen door nnd returning It from strange wans." stood ponderous and threatening be"Well, I don t boo as there s any fore him. "What at all d'yees mane by 'gone?' " tlng for us here," remarked the In spector taking a last look around. she asked In a voice that frightened "Lock up the room and keep the key Mm with its strength of repressed till his time Is out, or till he comes ferocity. back. But if anything more turns up lie he was dead!" he "I let us know at the station." Then he stammered, his face as white as chalk. went away with his man. "What did yees do wld It?" Her At eight o'clock a young lithograph- body was trembling now. her voice , broke huskily, and the black eyes er, who with his brother, a occupied the room directly blazed. "We took him down stairs and over the captain's, came Jumping down the stairs, and tearing the kitchen door and over to the the river" With grim-se- t lips and without a open rushed upon Mrs. Tull, and putting his hands on her shoulders began word she threw a shawl over her head and marched the to sob, crying brokenly: It criminal to the police station. There "Oh, I am sorry, I am sorry! was Jim and me that done It. I told he told his story again, In greater de4lm we'd bo found out, and now It's tail, but essentially as he had given come. What shall we do? Can't you It to her. As he was finishing Jim hide us, Mrs. Tull. and say nothing? was brought In by the two office men Then It will be all right, for nobody who bad been hastily dispatched for e lilm. Physically he was a good duplicate of his brother, of slight build, with a faee of average intelligence now distorted with He looked at the speaker fear. shrlnkhiKly, and as the last words of the confession left his lips and he, became silent, tald to his brother: "For God's sake, ISrltt, what have you been saying?" "I couldn't help t, Jim." answered Iliitt, miserably. "1 was goln' crazy, and had to let It out. Something forced me to. I don't know what. I had to speak. But I thought she'd hide us. I didn't suppose she'd go ' Cj' "Not as ever I heard on," he an man of 60, with shrewd black and snappy eyes, evidently a farmer In his bwered. . The bars of the loomed In Sunday clothes, called on Dr. Furnl-vailexoraoiy between tnem, but the oliE "Wnl," he aald, his eyes searching mini iiuvuui't-u- , BueiiKiiicncu perhaps the lloor as If for words, "my name is ny a inougnt or tne gray old motherf Alfred Greely.and I live In Winchester. and wife at home, and stoutly thrtistl I've got two boys in this here city, ing his arm to the elbow between tlx and one on 'em says they they killed cold iron rods wrung his boy's hand a man, and t'other says they didn't. "You needn't open the door It don't look noways reasonable to Ukcary, sam ur. Furnlvall to thif me Hint either on 'em could do sech a turnkey. "At any rate not yet. Ue thing, they hed sech a good brlngln' main here and remember what passes, up by their mother, but they've ben Brltt, If that is your name, mine for away from home a purty considerable ward where we can see you. There! tlmo now, and p'aps they got Inter Now tell us when you first saw ('apt colter? ' "I saw him Tuesday night, the firs! time and then again Friday nightJ That was when we done it." "How did your brother come ra cell-doo- strike him?" rrom tne moment wnen bis eyes first became Bottled In those of Br hurnlvaii the expression of his fa J began to change rrom ness to nervousness, to perplexity, t: surprise, to earnestness, and finally as he interrupted himself to ask th question, to deep and absorbed thoui;li s And almost instantly he continued in the in fleet lonless tones of a Ions deaf man: "I life!" s back-parlo- plain-clothe- never sav Cnp'n Colter nut In The father uttered an exelamatiot of eagerness mingled with amaze ment, but Dr. Furnlvall motioned fort silence. "Tell me," he said to the prisoner "why you said you and your brother had done this thing?" "I don't know." "Did you ever do violence to any body, you or your brother either?" "No sir we never hurt anybody.' "You like to read about people being hurt. In the accident columns, and lr r.torles. don't you? ' . . : such things distasteful to you?" "I read all I can get ubout them." "Do you ever feel ouner in the heac depressed or confused, or as if yoi. wanted to get away from yourself?' "I'm whlrlyheaded often, and I My heall can't think sometimes. . vtt out in tlir aches a gor.d dea' night and run It oft ' "That's all. Come. Air. Greely. we';: have them out of here sooner or later There's a large ball of red tape t unwind and we'll begin ut once." "But." faltered th- i. wildeied oil ' man, his mind torn Ih w n relief an puzzlement, "if they never done' nothln' how-w- hat ikiMu of the kind how in did he say so for?" Dr. Furnlvall did not wish just yei to Inform this loyal old father that hh son wns afflicted w1h Insane errabund ' elf tendencies, of a class to v.!.' i Inculpative confessions, win y falsa, are so common that Qnlntllain hold a suspicion of Insanity to be inherent in all confessions. He wished to see again and decide what would best be done with him. He bad suspectei from thn flrnt Ihnt this brother ami not the other was the afflicted one, H eithr of them were, the fit of Jim lrn the police, station being merely natural faint Induced by the horror o! his position. WRS Two nights later Ann startled out of her sleep In the back over parlor by a sound In the room Her feet hosui Mm .ntin ,,f tnvuterv. struck the floor with the suddenness of thought, and goaded by the multltudin ous superstitions honestly inherited from coneiutlons of wild headed an cestrv. she nluneed Into her clothes and flew around the corner to thf her; police station. Two officers heard ner news and hastily accompanied back. They crept Boftly tip the stairs, tho door of the "cabin" was wide open and the captain stood shaving before the mirror. The captain looked at the policemen On tho con He showed no surprise. at trary he began to address themthi? once as if he had been expecting visit, explaining In short, vigorous ami forceful phrases that his daugmr. wished Mm to live on the farm with her nnd her husbnnd, while he wished to continue going to sea a little longer. A compromise had been effected oy his taking this room near the watsr where he could get a sight of It when he liked, and Inhale its odors, and nevertheless might bo whirled In half hour by train to his daughter In the couutry. That was where he bad Just been. The next morning Dr. Funlvall called on the captain and accompanied hltn to the district attorney's office. TW result was that before night the Greeif Brltt, nowevsf. boys were released. only exehunged the Jail for an Insan hospital, where he remains thf-bo- s kliiSmlmSoiier! kVusJinkuMiiirkKit' house-painter- r i back on us this way and get us Into bad comp'ny. I dunno. They was trouble." allers goods boys to home. Anyways, The brother turned frantically to the mother has sent me here to kinder desk-man- . look out for 'em, and And out the "We didn't do It!" he shouted at the iruin or what they done, and atnn' by top of Ms voice. "It Is all a lie. I 'cm whatever It was." He never saw the man In my life. I don't Httlng his head with a shade paused. of sternbelieve Brltt ever did either. We ly repressed hIihiiio In his never was In his room. We didn't world Is wicked." ho went eyes. "The on, with an know he was missing until effort, "and 1 dunno. None of us ain't when we came home. They told us on perfect. P'aps they was led the street, and he was as much sur- somebody. P'aps they wa9wrong by wrong thehselves. prised as I was." But I Kt ,0 do wnat , his head sorrowfully can. I reckon It'll cost a Brltt shook master sight with a fulm smile. of money-- but there's the His brother gazed at him In terror, sunthln' like four thousan', farm, wuth and there's his face as white as a sheet, His Hps a little In the bank" his hands to twitch, Is "It the case of ('apt. Colter. Isn't began opened and shut spasmodically, his body trembled It. affirmed rather than asked Dr violently, his knees bent suddenly, Furnlvall. eying the visitor Interest: In floor a the to dead faint. edly through his colored and he fell spectacles said the desk-man- . "Yes, sir." "Kpllepsy!" It. an He's settles "Was there ever a case of "That epllectlc, with homicidal tendencies, very likely, in the family, that you know epilepy ack Just the kind to do a Job like this one." to, say. your grandparents or reat. Tl next day a small, fork, nervous grandparents?" of-b- to-da- (Copyright, 1908, (Copyright by W. O. ChapmIn tirtat Britslo.) - |