Show MILLIONS OF TIMBER benedict says there are feet in ashley forest awaiting the advent of the moffat road R E benedict former chief inspect or of district 4 who was waa recently in vernal exper exporting ting some land timber and irrigation interests suya that in the ashley forest there are feet of timber awaiting the advent of the moffat road ile he says the government w wants a ants a buyer for this timber as the forest conditions demand the cutting of the matured trees in speaking of mr benedicts benedicta visit through the reservation the intermountain inter mountain republican says bays amr mr benedict spent the fourth at v vernal ernal where the main feature of the celebrations celebration is consisted of an indian attack on a stage coach the scalping of the men und and the abduction of the women and the later rescue by cowboys in the true frontier style the spectacle says mr benedict was far and away better than the buffalo bill show and was witnessed by the settlers of the surrounding country there was also broncho busting and other features at theodore mr benedict was confronted with a story that the residents say bears directly on the utah national bank robbery it seems that around the fifteenth of january a well dressed man passed through the town with great secrecy carrying a suit case which never left lef t his hands it was seen to be very heavy and from the care taken of it much interest was aroused the man was armed with two guns and while he stopped at the saloon for a drink would say except that he had come from up country and was going on though well dressed his clothes bore evidence of long walking and as there is 13 no railroad through the country and no persons were found who aho had carried him by stage hla bill trip must have been a long one at the time tima of tits his visit the news of the robbery had not reached theodore and it was not until sometime later that it did with tho the report of the robbery the strange pedestrian with the suit case was connected with it at once and the people believe that part of the stolen from the utah national passed through their town |