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Show DYNAMITER SMITH DIES. Preerring- Death to a Long Term In Prison lie Take a Fatal Dose of Morphine. Salt Lake, Dec. 19. John Smith, convicted con-victed in Judge Norrell's court lasl Friday of having sent infernal machines ma-chines to Judg-e O. V. Powers and Warden Dow cf the penitentiary, containing con-taining dynamite enough to have blown a large building to atoms, is dead from an overdose of morphine administered by his own hand with suicidal Intent He Is said to have made a confession implicating Joe Iiiddleeomb in the conspiracy con-spiracy to kill Powers and Dow, but the ofllcers believe it was an attempt to even up for some fancied grievance, and attach little importance to the confession. con-fession. Smith stated in his confession that his real nameis James, and that he is a cousin to the noted James boys of Missouri, and to have been associated with them in some of their operations. He admitted that he was guilty of having hav-ing held up the passengers on a Cache county train, for which he served a term in the penitentiary, where he formed his hatred for Warden Dow but denied that he was guilty of the offense that he served ten years in the Idaho penitentiary for. He confessed to having constructed one of tho infernal in-fernal boxes sent to this city from Eu-ireka, Eu-ireka, for which he was convicted, but said Joe Biddlecomb made the other and took both to the express office. Sentence was to have been passed on Smith today, which, under the statutes, could have been from one to twenty years. LIEUTENANT BRUM BY DEAD. Was Dewey's Flaff Lieutenant at the Famous Fa-mous Battle of Manila. Washington, Dec. 18. Lieutenant Thomas M. Brumby, flag lieutenant to Admiral Dewey during the Manila campaign, who has been ill with typhoid ty-phoid fever for several weeks, died at Garfield hospital shortly after six o'clock last evening. The death of Lieutenant Brumby, while not unexpected, was a great shock to Admiral Dewey. The relations rela-tions of the two for several years past have been very intimate, and a strong friendship has grown up between them. Lieutenant Brumby went out to the Asiatic station with the admiral, and had been there with him until they both returned to the United States. In his oapacity as flag lieutenant Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Brumby was thrown with Dewey Dew-ey practically all the time, and acted as his personal representative in many matters of detail delegated to him by the commanding officer. He was regarded re-garded by Admiral Dewey as a bright, enerjetic and capable assistant, while the devotion of the latter to the admiral ad-miral was something marvelous. The burden of his thoughts during the latter lat-ter days of his illness, when his mind was wrecked with delermm, seemed to be regarding his work for the admiral. |