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Show TEll THE SPANISH PORK PRESS. AMliinV JK.VShN, YE MURDERERS OF A SALT LAKE MISER BEHIND THE BARS. lullli)ier. UTAH. SPANISH FORK. An Almost Forgotten Crime Brought to Light by the Betrayal by His Wife of One of the Murderers. north kst otes n v SKVMN Pittman of Portland suiFrancisco cided in San by gas asphyxMrs. Alice It Is believed t hat a murder myttery of seven years standing is about to tic iation. cleared up in Salt Lake City, three Representative Van Dusor of Nevada men, George W. Muncy, John Rice and Introduced a resolution last week in- Abe Hunter having been lodged in quiring if any supplies for tlu Jail, charged with the murder, on tho department are made by convict night of February 25, lS!t7, of Fred labor. Buetler, a miserly umbrella-mender- , At a meeting of the Albany county who was found strangled to death in a and Intermountain Fair association at cabin in Salt Lake. In a signed confession made before I.ararnie, Wyo., officers were selected, but the date of the next fair was not Sheriff Emory and County Attorney decidHi upon. Westorvelt, Muncy states that on the T. Mrs. John Mr. and night in question he and John Rice and The bodies of Brown wire found in the hills near Abe Hunter went to Iluetler's cabin old man Pendleton, Ore. The couple left notes for the purpose of robbing the which in they undermoney to relatives In Iowa saying they were of $1,000 tho house; in concealed had lie stood tired of life and had decided to die tothrow Ruotler on tho he that (Muncy) gether. and held him down while Rico dived h(d P. B. Motilthee of Poitlaml stuffed rags in his throat to stifle his Into a swimming tank without noticfor help, and that after proceedcries ing the water had been drained from thus far they wero frightened by the tank, striking his heal on the co- ing ntent bottom, inflicting probably fatal WHEN THE INDIAN Injuries. died at Mrs. Charles W. Thorpe Spokane. Sunday, succumbing to the effects of an operation performed a week ago. Site was a daughter of Colonel w. F. Cody, and married Dr. Charles Thorpo at Denver, January 1. Ifenry Alderman, sheriff of Tillamook county, Oregon, shot and instantly killed himself. The sheriff has been aerlously 111 for more than a month, and had some financial troubles, the worry evidently unsettling his mind. post-offic- e time oi tin murder, but was relcaajd RULE PEN IS OPENER from lack of direct ( vidcnce. Soon after his ilisi barge Joint Rice MARTIAL LAW ORDER REVOKED wont to Tooele county, where ho enBY COLORADOS GOVERNOR. i was an in the sheep business, gaged later married, having now a wife and several children, and with his depar- All the Prisoners Turned Over to the Civil Authorities For Trial Troopture the murder ot Iiueller was pracers Will Support Civil tically dropped as an impenetrable Authorities mystery. Doth Itlce ami Hunter deny ail Governor Peabody of Colorado has knowledge of the crime with which they are charged, tmt it is claimed revolted liis order of December 5 last that Itiee lias let fall several remarks declaring Teller county to be in a state of insurrection and rebellion, and prowhich It will he hard for him to satisIt that when said is claiming martial law. liy the executive factorily explain. he was found at Grantsville and in- authority Military Commander formed tiiat. Sheriff' Emery wanted to has issued a proclamation What in see him, he exclaimed: announcing that peace and good order does the sheriff want, with me; it must are being fully restored and it has been shown that the civil authorities are be about that Ruotler ease. Tho statement is made that Muncy aide and willing to control the situaand his wife frequently quarreled, and tion. perform their legal functions and that ho had threatened to have her to enforce tho laws. It is announced that a detachment sent, to the insane asylum. She, In a tin national guard will remain at a officers the of of revenge, gave spirit clue which led to Muncys arrest. Cripple Creek for a time, but will act In support ami i si suite nlination to the ALMOST A CYCLONE. legally const it tiled civil authorities. All tin prisoners in the bull-pehave High Winds Sweet Over Colorado and been delivered to the civil authorities. Wyoming Towns. Stephen Adams, W. F. Davis, Chas. High winds prevailed Monday along Kennison. Thomas Foster and Charles McKinney, charged by the military SENATOR TAKES HIS SEAT.. with Inning caused the Vindicator mine explosion, by which two men were Killed, and with having plotted to wreck a train on the Florence & Cripple Creek railroad, will be tried at this term of court. They have been confined in Dull pen. or jail for more than two months. gold. Past Year in Philippines NEWS SUMMARY. One of Much It is reported that the rebels in G man Southwest Africa are burying prisoners alive. One of the questions In the Russo Japanese trouble Is that there must b no Japanese settlements In Manchuria Two clergymen of Port Chester, N, Y., have been warned by letter t leave their charges, under penalty ot death. One hundred and twenty-fiv- e bodies have been taken from the Harwich mine at Pittsburg, Pa., and probably fifty more still remain in the mine Special prayers were offered In most of the churches of Los Angeles, Cal,, last Sunday, when pastors and eongro gatlons united In an appeal for rain. Fire started by an explosion of chemicals in the largo silk mill of Ashley & Bailey, Paterson, N. J.. do stroyed the entire plant. T.oss $1 50,000, President John Mitchell, Vice Brest-den- t Lewis and Seertary-Trcasure- r Wilson of the United Mine Workers have been without opposition. Fire at Progreso, the chief port ot Y'ucafati, destroyed an entire square of business houses and public buildings, Including the market. The loss 13 $!,. Suffering Among the People. The president on Monday sent to tho senate the annual report of the Philippine commission, Including the report of the civil governor of the Philippines and tho reports of the heads of the executive departments for the period ended December 23, 1003. The report of tho commission contains a detailed statement by the auditor for the Islands of expenditures under the appropriation of $3,000,000 for tho relief of distress In the islands. Governor Taft says the year was ono of much suffering among the people of the Philippines, on account of a short food supply, but that the worst is not consider he does While passed. the future as bright as It might be, he believes wo are beginning an era in the history of the islands which, with the assistant of proper tariff reduction in the 1'nited States and proper navigation laws for the islands, will be one of decided material developments. Speaking of the eonditons In tho Islands, Governor Taft says that at no time has there boon less ladronism than when the repot t was written, December 10, 11)03. INTRIGUES THE to Move Have IN COREA. 000,000. American-Educate- Two years Imprisonment and per petnal exile In Siberia is the sentence Imposed on a Moscow student named Andrieff for assaulting a Russian general In the streets of Kazan. During the week practically all th shingle mills on the Menominee river !n northern Wisconsin and the upper peninsula will resume operations after being shut down for three months. Charles Andette died shortly after boxing five rounds with Thomas Johnson In a saloon at Detroit. It is thought the exertion of fighting caused a blood vessel In his head to burst Johnson was arrested. Prince on toe Throne. One of tiio Intrigues at the Corean court about which Miss Scidmore writes to tec C'nieago Tribune centers around Irinee En. whom the emperors COLOMBIANS ARE ACTIVE. Reported to Have Attacked Indians on Panama Territory. A The coroners jury which Investigated the accident In the Stratton Independence mine at Victor, Colo., In which fifteen men lost their lives, brought In a verdict declaring that the accident was brought about through Frank T. GUlice losing control of the engine, and condemns the management for nogleotlng the usual precautions. Two well dressed robbers pried up the window of J. D. Goddard's house In Seattle and forced Goddard and another man to lie quiet while they searched the pockets of their trousers. They secured more than $500 in cash, Goddard begged them to leave the rest of bis money, and they did so. The cash they left behind was $1,400. The Jury In the case of J. W. Ryan, charged with victimizing two banks in Rallda, Coin., returned a verdict of guilty. Ryan, with several confederates, was charged with cashing two forged checks, amounting to several thousand dollars, drawn on two banks, after having them verified by a confederate over the telephone. Northern I aramie county, Wyoming Is In a tumult of excitement over a bonanza gold strike made in Muskrat canyon. Prospectors are flowing Into the district by scores and every foot of ground for miles around Is being staked. A true fissure vein of gold quartz was opened up and has shown values running over $2,000 a ton In TAFTS REPORT. report has reached the isthmus that Colombian troops are fighting with the Indians on the San Rlas coast, which is in Pauaman territory. It is impossible, however, to obtain reliable eentirmation of this. A letter was received in Panama some time ago from Captain Torres, commanding the Panama troops at Cltepo (on the south side of tlio isthmus and directly south of the San Bias count ry), saying he had decided to cross over to the Atlantic side. There is a possibility that the Indians fighting with Captain Torres command, mistaking them for Colombians. Since January 1, 723 cases of typhoid fever have been reported In Columbus, O., and there have been twenty-three new cases deaths. Eighty-onwere reported Sundav, the highest dally record for the month. e .e A section territorial bill provides that one of the senators representing the territory shall be of Indian descent. of Senator Quay's somo ono knocking on the door, when tho three would-brobbers made their escape, leaving their victim alone in his death struggles and without even looking for the mony which led them to commit tho crime. The man Muncy was never suspected of any connection with the murder of Buetler until very recently, when he let fall some slight allusion to it in conversation with his wife, who reported what ho had said to the officers. Muncy, tho man who makes tho confession, is 5ti years old and a Virginian by birth, and is said to come from a good family. When a young man ho emigrated to Illinois, and at tho breaking out of the civil war enlisted In tho Forty-eightIllinois rog Intent. At the close of tho war lie was discharged with the rank of sergeant, in the regular and at once Hires army, serving years. Following this service ho drifted to the far west and has lived In I'tah, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana. John Rice, one of the trio behind tho bars, was arrested on suspicion at tho h j Jacob I und. who has a large ranch and apple orchard on the Rig I. aramie river, Wyoming, had a frightful experience with a l.fiOfl.potind horse, lie was lending the animal to the drinking trough, when the horse became frightened and Jumped cn Mr. Lund, knocking him down and cutting a long gash In this leg, bruising his hand nnd wrist, and making a dozen other ahrnlslous and bruises on his person. Mrs. Alice Hooper, convicted at Seattle of counterfeiting silver colnR, has been sentenced to serve five years In the penitentiary. Chari a Johnson, her 10 year-elson. who plead guilty to the offense, hut who Is believed to have become a party to the crime through the Infience of his mother, was sentenced to one year. The concert schedule! for Mme Tattl and company In Hutto dl I not como off ns expei tod. the muuui'ouicnt refusing to alb w her t appear, saying that the lii.-l-i altitude and sued-tosmoke ha I nfieito! tlm diva's voice. I'd ward Sultvan was shot through the heart In the town of Momo. mg to rid tlm Wash., while hto.-own. d ' y! general mm bandi-The tnavor tr:u I the Mayor Mrlnt man moving a'sett the stoic d tired through a thin In ur.i p.i'iiilem Senator W. Vail. of Montana, who recently tin i ... nt it sot Ions sur gtral opeiai ii nud woe has ter some time been e. ti'ined to ins residence has arrange d to go to the IVtmudns for a cliungo of lunate and reeupetalien. The Park Mio-- public m bool, the second most Impottant public Institution of learning in poitlaml was do troye.J by fire last week und about 700 children who wire enrolled at tho school will have to tie cured for In other school: of the rpy the pastern slope of tho Rocky mountains In Colorado and Wyoming and considerable damage to property was wrought. In Denver two men lost their lives as a dinct result of the gale. TAFT New AT THE HELM. Secretary of War Takes the Oath of Office. At noon Monday William II. Taft of Ohio took tho oath of cilice as secretary of war. in tho piesence of the members of the abinet, the general staff of the army and a number of personal friends. The ecronn ny occurred at the war department. He immeliate-lentered upon his new duties. Tho ceremony tcok place in the large reception ri om attached to the secretary's office in the war d partnient and tho tiansfer of authority from Elihu Root, the retiring secretary, to Governor Taft, while simply made, was more Impressive than any similar event In many vars. y writer, Entire City of Stockholm Rejoices with the Ruier. The fest Uities Iti honor of the seventy fifth birth 'nv of King Oscar were inaugurated at Stockholm Jan. 21 with special sen ;ns la all the Would Pull Down the Flag. Freest Birch, governor of British North Borneo, who has arrived In London. says that General Leonard Wood, while recently at Sanhnkah, capital of North Borneo, informed him that the question of th mi mu ship of t!i Islands off the con-- of British North Borneo, over which a Ended Kta'es vessel had hoisted tlm An.eiiruu flag, would he amicably settled, as there e was no sttotig on the part of the Alltel leans to keep them. who declared that unless the Southern Pacific paid him $10 000 he would wreck every train from Stockton to Los Angeles. Senator Burton of Kansas has been Indicted by the fodeial grand Jury at St. Louis on a charge of accepting money from a grain company for Influencing postofflce authorities In respect to a recommendation concerning a possible fraud order. Frank Dawson has been convicted of murdering Anna Hartman In tho clr cult court at Paris. Mo., and sentenced to be hanged March 17. Dawson killed Miss Hartman as the result of a. broken engagement. The tragedy oo curred at a dance six weeks ago. Tlm president has appointed W. B. Martin to succeed Mrs. Minnie Cox as postmaster at Indlanola, Miss. This postofflce was closed some time ago, tho whito Inhabitants of the place refusing to accept their mall from Mrs Cox. who Is a negress. James and William Smith and Frank Marshall were arrested nnd counter felting machinery and dies seized nt firooklyn, N. Y. They were turning out Ended States half dollars from Mexican mins of the same dennmtna tlon. BIRTHDAY OF KING OSCAR. Out). j j j de-dr- I Should Have Tried Work. The wedding at Saginaw, Mich., last A Valid of week, of Gorpetai Clint tho Twenty sixth 1'nited States in f.mtry, und MnDi I H. Stein hud a tragic ending Tuesday when the voting collide touk poison in a ro u dug house. Mrs. Valois is dead and her husband Is In a crli leal condition. The much n et with disapproval by the parents of the young touple. They t. ft a letter saving mat their parents had turtle i them out and they hud no plan to go and deciiii d to die together. c ! i j Must Pay the Penalty. The supreme court of Missouri has affirmed tho Judgment of the lower court which found Fred Lewis, alius Fred Collins, tho Vnlem hank robber, who. with William Rudolph, murjered Charles J Schumacher. a Plnkciton Ren Worthington, who went to Wyodetective, in resisting arrest In Januming thirty years ago. Is deal at Haw pmn guilty of murder In the first ary, Hits. Ilo whs not a lawyer, hut shop degree, nnd fixed March 11 as the tint r his evs ution. ftur his arrival in the territory hf was elected county attorney of Carbon from tho St. Iznils Rudolph v lull und is still a fugitive from county, there not tmlng u lawyer at 'ic. that time In the county. X wife, Lady Om, seeks to make successor to the throne In place of th crown prince, who is regarded as a Tho subject Is mado more weakPng. Interesting to Americans by the fact that Prince Eu is being educated in this country, being now at the Ohio Wesleyan university, Delaware, O. Former Secretary of Navy Succumbs to Appendicitis. illbims Collins Whitney, former secretary of the navy, died nt his home Charles Ormsby and William Daniels In New Y'ork City, Tuesday, at tho age came in contact with a live electric of C.l, death being caused liy blood wire which had been blown from its poisoning following an operation for fastenings into the street and were appendieits. William Collins Whitney was horn In Conway. Mass., July B. instantly killed by the shock. Reports are being received from 1SH. and was a descendant of John points in northern Colorado telling of Whitney, one of the English Puritan the destruction of farm buildings and leaders, who settled at. Watertown. haystacks in the country districts, and Mass., in lf25. Mr. Whitney was made the falling of trees, small buildings, secretary of the navy by President ( levi land In IS''.!. He was the leader chimneys, etc., in tho towns. of the Cleveland forces in 1SP2. Mr. V hitney was often spoked of as a presFive Children Cremated. At 2 o'clock Tuesday morning the idential possibility. residence of Peter Christiansen, at WILL RATIFY PANAMA TREATY. Council Bluffs. Ii wa, was destroyed by fire. Ills live children, ranging in age Vote on the Measure is Expected About the Middle of the Month. from a babe in arms to 11 years ot It Is the general expectation In adago, burned to death, and Mis. Chris tiansen burned so that slm will die ministration circles that the Panama The husband was in the country at the time. No one knows how the tiro treaty will he ratified about the middle sarted. Tho dead: Edna, 11 years; or the present month, nnd In anticipaFrank. 8 years; Lila, I ycnis; Jane. 2 tion of that event Secretary Shaw will ears; baby, 5 mouths. soon take steps looking to a recall of a portion of the public funds now In the hands of the national hank depositories. Just what percentage of these public deposits will he called for has not yet been definitely determined, hut there Is reason to he'love that It will approximate 2i per cent, or f.Jdmm. ato-mp- j PPSKT WILLIAM WHITNEY DEAD. M. Bunau-Varillthe minister from Panama, through his attorneys, has made demands for retraction upon the Washington Post and the New York World similar to those made upon the New York Evening Post. Awakened by the harking of his dog. Paul Deiclinian ran from his sleeping room into his drug store In St. Louis and there fought a pistol duel with one burglar and killed another. Fight shots were exchanged at close rang According to a report submitted by Dean George F. Vincent to President Harper of the University of Chicago, the experiment of segregating tha sexes In the Junior college work dim Ing the past year has been a success. Fresno. Cal., Is flooded with Pinker ton and railroad detectives, who are letter looking for an anonymous Fell Dead at Sweetheart's Door. Henry Schmidt, Jr., pnrtner In an upholstering firm, dropped dead nt tho door of his sweethenrts home In New York City, In his pocket was found a wedding ring. Schmidt plnnncd to be married somo time ago, but the wed ding did not take plage, ow ing to rellg ions differences, lie was determined, however, to mntry tho girl, and air. several days (tilled again at her home At tho door ho was told she had gone out for a dtlve with another suitor Schmidt started hack and fell dead. Father Suicides While Daughter Dances. While his daughter's guests were being Introduced at a dancing party at his home B st. Louis, Henry llage-t.- l If committed Hlieide In all adj. ! ting rioin by taking catholic ar id llage- tticlr had enjoying the festivities lor ft time and then xuddentv stepped Into n vacant room and swnllowel i it acid. His groans led to tin dlsiovery and the pu:;,. i nun to an abrupt let The dentil of n h m and bus! ness reverses led to tlu deed. I j j Kvs O vw !! ( churches Tie' c.'v wa pretuselv dec. orated. Tie ling tin veil t Do congratulations o! the on il family, the court fllcial-.ti;, K.iedlsh nnd Norwegian mtnister-1- . tin members of tho j s riksdag and tie munlelal author, ties. The la-nanie.l ptesentod a contribution id $ to eon towards the king's Jubilee fund for tho Ind.geut consumptives of Stockholm t Senator Burton Preparing for Trial. United St iies Senator J. U. Burton art Red iu St. Louis Monday from his homo in Abilene, Kims, to consult with his attorney and tlm federal officers concerning his trial on tho Indictment charging him with accepting money for tho use of Ills Influence to prevent the issuance ot a fiainl order scaliist the ll'nltn Grain A Seeurith Senator Button said he eempati.v, would soon it suine Ids duties fit th senate. He refused to discuss the i Sprightly nnd active until within two (lays of her death. Mrs. Julia Flvnn It? dead In f'lileai'o. at tlm n"e of D'O years. Bronchial trouble ami weak-- I ness of die heart brought to an end her century of existence Mrs. Flynn was horn in lsoi in County Mnvo, Ire land. refer Dtiryca, a prominent breeder of trotting horses and put trier of 1). Stokes In the Patehen-WHUostock farm at I exlngton. has t tt made defendant' In ft ult hroti ht bv Sara Madden, nn actress, to recover $50,001) for alleged breneh of ptomlso of marriage. A sanguinary fight took place at ft place known ns Meyer's Well, twenty-similes west of Klncmati. Arizona, between Thomas W. Smith and two men known ns I nng and Wilbur, In which Wilbur was fatally and Lang seriously wounded. The cnrn wcr. prospectors. Archbishop Alarcon has formally blessed the premises of the n vv t'nth-- , oilc bank, which starts hu 'news in' Mexico Cdv with n canltal of xi.oafl uoo. The first newspaper rnh'lshed In Mexico to receive the npciHtiillc bene, diction of Done Plus X is tlm Cathollo K, e-- x paper ICt Palo. |