Show ERS JOI cc HELD UP THE Q T TA A party of eighteen ci eastern persons mining district district district dis dis- Interested in a new copper in California passed through b Salt SaU Lake Cit City this morning on their wa way cast In tho the party are a number of and prominent pC of Baltimore Philadelphia They are arc the stockholders ers erg of the Copper Mining and of Death Smelting company com pan Smelting left Baltimore a R. week Valley val al They a ago o last Saturday Satur ny and went to within miles of their claims on a n train From there theS they went in automobiles and spent several cral days at tho the now smelters The holders of the stock in in tho the company company compan com com- pan pany claim that the they have havo one of the thet t greatest copper districts in tho the coun coun- try They have ha a n whole mountain located located lo 10 lo- lo cat d and it runs remarkably hl high h in copper Ono ledge of enormous size is exceptionally rich The Tho party will leave Ica tonight for the east visiting the lar large e cities on the way They The Theara are aro traveling tra in the special car Idle Idlewild ild Dr J. J Off Oil of Philadelphia one of the party told tol of a very amusing amusin incident which took place at a small town on tho the Salt Lake Route early this morn donned holdup holdup holdup hold hold- In lug ing Three of the party part up clothes put on masks and secured At small station station sta sta- u ugly looking revolvers re a l tion tiou they ther Jot got of off and as the train pulled out they boarded the rear platform of oC the a ectal car The They had the porters tipped and the they then immediately ran through h tho the car yelling for a n gun n The party rt in tho the car went into bye hys teri They lh y crawled under scats seats pleaded with tho the holdups and passed pa d over o el their watches and mone money without a n spark of resentment Tho They crawled under seats leafs and begged in in rending heard terms for their lives The holdups held up as long as at they tb could coul at the sight and when they tho could tat stand it no lon longer er they the pulled off oft with laugh laugh- their masks and ond collapsed ter The rest of the party crawled out from under seats cats and md the three jokers certainly had the thc laugh sh It is a jolly party part of tourists out for a good time and so so far they have Lave certainly had bad it |