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Show T" ei; VOL. XI. llliUIUlVOl NO 14 LOGAN CITY, tJT All. SAT U 11 DAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1901. 'darkness climbed clear to top, reach lLO.;inB that point .boat dayiBht. We laid down ahd slept until noon, then after a long talk decided it (would he better for us to go The De to the Hot Springs and find out who it was that shot at us; if offi' TFSiTSFIF lil'A 2 vyy yj Defendant Tells His Side of raEI DRUtiK LEON CZOLGOSZ SENTENCED Sccsational Testimony st Inquiry Into lawf you suffer the punishment of Islander Disaster. plorable Tragedy. death, lie move the prisoner. cers, then we intended tp surrender. The crowd slowly tiled out of the We had been traveling for some room and court adjourned at 2:2G. time when we heard someone shout Oct. The death warrant, signed by There Had Been no Boat Drill Passengers Him On Vitneu to us. I did not know which way . Hi Mother Precede Justice White, is addressed to the Were Not Awakened Pilot and Captain the sound came fron, but I beard Stand James Stokes Also Tells About some one jell stop, and I stopped, Ageut and. Warden of Auburn Said to Have Been Intoxicated Inquiry Majors Making Confession la His State prison, and directs him to a was at fired immediately volley Will be Continued. Defendants execute the sentence oLthocourt Story Varies us, and as I wheeled in the direcPresence within the walls of the prison on tion of the report of the gnns, I By Officers CreatlyTrom some Victoria, B. C., Sept. 25. Brisaw the day during the week begin Stand. a Oa secoud .volley fired. My His Demeanor October 28th next. deuce Could But Not causingl of rather sensational clinras-t- o Desired by to brother fell at the second volley. Speak ning Tlk of tlje through body pass He' had seen the men quicker theUer was brought out at the enquiry Loud Enough To B Heard Said, That Leon F UolgoM said currentof than fired had and least I . at had, Con-lilltalbeJ(ilu.Uie gainer Island-eleetrtci- ty Was Plot Had Not ,, no There " Abe Majors, for the first oue gjot aj them, I had not drawn of j sulbncntntensityTis Crime Until Two Days Pre- to cause death, and that the appli- - er tucli was continued this aftertime, on Thursday, told his side of my revolver, it was still in my template!Its Commission. vious to cation of the said current of elec- - noon. Dr. A. W. Phillips, who the tragedy iu which Win A. scabbard. tricity be continued until he, the lost his wife and daughter in the When my. brother fell, I leaped Brown lost his life, and as a result said Leon F. Czolgosz, Jbe dead, do the hill behind a roek that disaster, said he could find no life u of which Majors may lose lm own. was about 10 or 12 feet below his preservers in his state room, and Ho told it m a nervous, yet (body. As I lay there two (V three 1 Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 26. Leon when he.did find them m the cabin A.C. Board Meeting. way, that contrasted shots were fired at me, then Capt. positive . Czolgosz, the assassin of Presithere was nobody to assist or inThere was a meeting of the strongly with the cool, t deliberate '(Brown called out: Stop shooting dent McKinley, was this afternoon struct them howto put them on. manner of his accusers. He spoke boys, I believe we can take him sentenced to be electrocuted in trustees of the Agricultural Col' raised one hand above ve lege held on Wednesday - after- He was not aroused, and only in that low smooth tone, that has State the Auburn prison and roek during yelled: noon, at which the following busi went out because his wife heard a waving it, become habitual with him, and,;thepor sake stop shooting week beginning October 28, 1901. ness was transacted: noise and was uneasy. When they despite the repeated promptings amj come, down and, help my before sentence was passed the Authority was given the Presi- reached the deck all the boats and As I raised assassin evinced a desire to from his counsel to speak louder, dent to purchase six acres of land brother, lies dying. rafts had left, aud they were drawn speak, struck the bullet to the a in Logan north field from Mr. head safe rock, that say it is jury ray down with the boat. He came to not could his he voice mt get Schweitzer. missed considerable of his evidence, jj close to my face, and threw dirt all the surface again, but his wife and lover me. Ijdropped my baud to above a whisper, and his words The salary of J. 1L Nelson, farm did not. Before he was .put upon the . h r both of were repeated to the court by his foreman, was increased from $50 daughter . J Ltnnd. G. also of Seattle, Stokes of Brieham "1 W. Preston, ' i I1 to $55 per month counsel. lestiftrf that while in jail at the th UP nd st.00J testified thatjhe boat in which he W. D. Beers was engaged as left the Tliere was no one else but me, latter place, for formication he Bro ship only contained fourthe hillside Ion instructor at a salary of teen lymsdead military in confess a said that Abe the it Gordon came down and handheard Majors prisoner whisper. $150 persons, one of whom was a year. per Brown. killed fireman. They did not pick np was he who No one else told me to do ifc, and cuffed me, Belfiap holding his rifle of Prof. Close as The resignation of witnesses was some others, as their boat was leaking on me all the while. Then Cordon no one paid me to do it. I was horticulturist of the college was and they were not oarsmen. The who had testified before, and then asked me where my gun was I not told anything about tbe crime, accepted. indication that the captain the prosecution rested.. Attorney looked under A. Wright of Ogden was em only J. my coat, and saw and I never thought anything was his action in intoxicated was MeGurrin for the defense made a that the scabbard was empty; the about it until a couple of days be- ployed to take general charge of to some friends farewell a statement and waving vigorous very plain the outside work of the horticul- on had slipped out while I lay be- fore I committed the crime. gun at wharf the defens what the of the Skaguay with his to jury Then Justice White passed se- tural department, at a snlary of hind the rock, and Cordon went in an arguactions his and hands would prove, and" when he i?11 down below the rock and picked it ntenced foUws: In taking the $100 per month, to begin on Oct. ment. mother tbc clmlcd Mrs. Wssner, ' life of our beloved' President yon 1st. As I turned my head -No one seemed to have charge of of heprisOTicr was sworn, bhe1 P . shocked , V threatened which committed a crime The the of allowance Secretary .. the . ; boats, but when he left the testified that Majors was her son. and outraged the moral sense of for office help was increased $100 steamer there seemed to be no more was born on April' 2. 1881, in over ray the civilized world. You have per year. turned then Cordon to take away, It took California. She nave a brief his- ;brothepis Various expenditures for np passengers and he aid so, 1 confessed that guilt, and after M body the men about two minutes to toiy of Ins career, telling of bis tbo 1, lack bandied pistol fal learning all that at this time can paratus needed in the different de lower a boat. They did not seem sentence of ten years for burglary tfc jead mans band. They be learned from the facts and cir- -' partments of the College were to understand it. In one boat when but fi teen years old. bhe; tbe bm, kft Cor- - cumstanees of the case, twelve authorized, after which the Board there weije only seven men, and identified the white band ed revol-(al0ne witli me, while Belnap good jurors have pronounced you adjonrned. they all looked like members of the yer nsrf in evidence, as the prop-- , Mr guiltj' of murder in the first defor Presently, help. crew, one of them having a uniform-on- . erty of the defendant. Said he had b'bami,t.rlain and some others eame gree. You have said, according to to Farmers. Important He judged they, were mem- always helped to support her. and Mt the testimony of credible witnesses h wer(r I the crew, because they had of bers We have appointed Mr. George Then Majors was pat in the wit-- : c'h.lmberlain osked sheriff Cordon and yourself , that no other person clothes on. They may have Cache Co., rough ness chair, and in substance told , Brown. Cordon re aided or abetted you in the com- C. Rigby, of Newton, j.uled Cache been laborers or. miners. -tbis storyi My brother nnd I; Cordon mission of this terrible act. God Utah, our buying agent at know don,t ,ied; j No oue aroused the passengers started from Oakland, ( alitormn, bas sjBce asked me,' many times grant it may be so. The penalty Junction, where he -- will be represented by Mr. M. C. Rigby, lie! and no one ordered the boats to in February lo99, intending to go tel wbo kdkd Brown nnd has for the crime for which you stand is heard a man at the M ent to Seattle, beard hi Alaska prepared to buy wheat, oats, standby. ordLT t0 induce me to do so convicted is fixed by the statute, d b at ,,...eau give evidence to . alfalfa seed, iuquest rye, potatoes, there, stones of distress and softer-deoied bavinB ever aud it now becomes my duty to barley, tnm Thp the effect the that sopiloLwas drunk, and oter farm products. We mg in Alaska, and so changed pnr (Msed t0 tbe shooting of Brown pronounce this judgmeht against licit a share of lm eame as remarked wife his ftn(l your esteemed pat minds, btayed in Seattle almut two,. in and made you. The sentence of. the courtis or elsewhere, lie that at jail aboard the Skaguay ship months, working about halt' time. of-t- hestory that in the week beginning Octo- ronage. prosecutions he had been looked ns light though I earned eighty, dollars and sent The C. A. Sinurlliwaite He ber 28, 1901, at the place, in the about his trying to escape Mrs- - Preston testified drinking. home $10 to mother. manner and means prescribed by Co. of Ogden, Utah, said he thought it was merely that the captain looked as though Left Seattle and went to Baker of no had he trying thought he had been drinking. joke; City, failed to get work and so .to escape. This ended his direct Captain McLeod, of the steamer concluded to go to Salt Lake City. examination. Danube, testified that when run-nin- g We beat our way to Cache Junc- ( d Allison north and thinking there is Attorney tion and then getting put off the and the latter admitted ice present, he keeps a lookout, Majors, train started to waik to Brigham. that he had' served a senand when the weather is thick two Beached there after dark, after to refused He tence for burglary. lookouts. Boat drills, he said, are having vainly tried to sell some of give details of the Hanson hold-u- p not generally practiced on this our belongings in order to get until he then and do to so, coast. pressed something to eat. I was almost said his brother did most of the Green of Tacoma swore Mnce barefooted and feet were very sore. :Qrk- conneeted with the robbery. positively that the captain and We met Fred Hansen just out to said a letter, shown was pilot were drunk. The captain side of Brigham. We held him up, IJe been written by him, while was at the bar for two hours, and have and tied and gagged him. 1 took in the State CorSheriff to he had seen him take two drinks. prison, nothing from him exeept his shoes don, hut refused to identify either If all the boats had not left the aud socks, which on. I in the body of the the handwriting ship mauy more lives would did not know that anything else missive or the have been saved.. Two of the tnle signature. had been taken from Hausen, until, life preservers picked lip after tho The defendant showed himself to when going down the road my cross alibis wreck had been weighed at Juneau, the during alert, on brother told me Ik had taken all be avoided and iortyr lie carefully and weighed forty-liv- e examination, of HansenV belongings. We went Mr. him for set six pounds, respectively. The in by everv trap south. When in front of Hot when apparently quiry will continue tomorrow. Allison, aiuU Springs hotel, which we mistook cornered said he couldn t remem-for a warehouse, two men jumped Conference. or was so excited that be toward qs, commanded us to stop, ber, no clear conception of this The Seventy-secon- d and then fired at us. We rau east, had or the other. He identified that of the Chinch of Jesus Conference with the men pursuing ns and the letter mentioned above, on y Latter-daBaints will of Christ firing m they ran. When near and explained in morning 4th Friday October on commence Friday, two large rocks by the roadside, con its manner ite plausible ntLlOja ju,JnAheJabcr gackdLft my brother tu- ned and yelled to M contradicted a lte-jvkq ilmTdyT d my PJy.jsLei:fc:! i st afementlnaJe bti previous "daVT TIIE WHITE XTOUSE DRAPED. LOltEXZO SNOW, nnd stop firing, we will fire too. 28, on April whereabouts tcn In, vo sliowu tlieir grout love for William aboutiiis josT.im r. smith, 1 lie men went back and we struck, wern Nw't ror a: l.u tra,m3 of First Presidency. ,1 moutii-lui'.b tb t'nkl;l,,i'W " liavie out in nnrthonricriy direction. We' public nnd private buildingj and rosiiliMioi s nl;,iu s tlcj ll Liu 11 a) in mourning. on tliis wd occasion. The iliustr-tiu- ii gs on soon t.anie to mountains, and iu (Continued . , The Assassin to be Electrocuted 28th. Cne-Tol- - I r , . q0s I i jP ! twJ ! . I m I . -- I 1 - cross-examine- - Iput L j Sen.i-Annu- al , Hemi-nnnu- : - - i . tr al |