| Show LOCAL AND OTHER MUTE BITERS R S FROM MONDAYS MO DAILY JULY 28 THE NEVADA COMPANY the tha list of names of the emigrants in the company which came across the ocean in the steam ship nevada will be found elsewhere in this issue the company left new york on the nth ath and may be expected here about the first of august the next Is expected to leave liverpool in the first or second week in september and the last for the season lu in the tore fore part or of october SAILING bauge bange frederick Cul cui calmen calmer meris merls is the builder and proprietor of the new sailing barge now lying in the hot spring lake ready to be engaged by excursion ests FRUIT ripe apricots grown in the edth ward were in the market today to day we also alro saw some ripe early harvest apples this morning from an orchard in the same ward emelie fairlin L SETHER A lost bundle of clothing addressed emelle L sether ogden utah was brought to this office on saturday which the owner can have by calling lor for PRACTICAL ENERGY speaking sneaking of the arrival of the wisconsin company of emigrants at new york the graphic of that city says the practical energy of this people is one great secret of their success and cannot be too much admired robbert ROBBERY IN COTTON cottonwood WOOD on friday a gen gentleman tieman was robbed in little cottonwood kanyon of a quantity of jewelry cash and notes of hand the whole probably amounting to from 1500 to 2 1000 the robbers are arc still at large FALSE rumona rumor A rumor ramor which has been current in town today to day to the effect that butcher had been lynched by the residents of bingham is incorrect we took pains to ton quire inquire by tele telegraph raph today to day concerning ti the matter watter and received answer that butcher was safely in jall jail KANAB july 26 20 editor deseret news the twenty fourth was very agreeably celebrated the citizens united en masse around the family table speeches toast toasts singing and dancing were the order of the day C 11 II nANT reporter HARVEST COMMENCED grain cu cutting eting has commenced in this thia county and a large number of broad acres are hipo ripe and ready for tor the mower mowen the yield Is generally very I 1 rge throughout the county in some few places the tho ineat looks thin in the nield field bu but t will yield better than a casual ob observer seiver server ver ven would suppose being well headed and filled out bean BEAR riven RIVER valley manufacturing MINING AND RAILROAD co this lath is the oli ell titie title titie titio of a company which was incorporated on the 2nd and dinst with a cap eap tal 0 of in shares of f 50 cat cag kow kom biow e each ac b ebenezer II 11 young is president aurelius Au rellus relius minery miner vice president david cooper cornelius G davidson otis oils H earle T thomas omas IL cutler and soren boren P neve directors gustave johnson treasurer ff W nuckols secretary we are informed that the objects of the company aro arc to manufacture lumber ties lies and charcoal 7 to mine for sulphur and to bulla buila a railroad from its timberlands timber lauds lands to tap the U P 11 R near tie side station a distance ol 01 between fifteen and twenty miles KATE SUPPOSED TO ro BE IN ix UTAH A gentleman just enst in from utah county informs us that about a week ago a strange half halt naked and apparently balt halt starved woman came down from th the e mountains nf apar ar provo and called at the b house ouse of mr Cluff ot of that ci tyland very much alarmed the family of that gentleman by be her hen r strange appearance and manner on being interrogated she gave a strange and improbable account of herself stating that she had walked from Alon montana tana when the provo marshal saw her be thought she answered the description of the notorious kate bender and on the idea striking him he examined the printed description which further confirmed him in his bis belief she appeared about ten years older than kate bender was indicated to be by the printed circular but this may be accounted for on the grounds of travel exposure anxiety etc she is also a german and speaks broken english excitement AT there was considerable excitement in bingham on saturday after the termination of the inquest on the bodies of the cottons and threats were made about lunching lynching lyn ching S ij butcher on saturday evening coroner taylor issued a coroners warrant tor for the appearance of butcher before the nearest tj justice justlee u stice also tor sor two other parties unknown to the j u ry oa receiving abe tb e warrant justice justlee kinney kinnes sent a pwe of men from his office to the prison in the upper part of disarm butcher were proceeding to tho the place where he was for this purpose sey seq a crowd gathered and threats of lunching lynching lyn ching him were treely freely indulged in but several parties used their influence against such a proceeding and ani the crowd were eventually quieted and butcher who previous to this time tinie had ait alt although houch bouch under arret arre arrest t been carrying a loaded shotgun shot gun was disarmed the examination before justice kinney was to take place today to day when a number of witnesses additional to those who testified at the tho inquest w uld give testimony mr hoffman was engaged to conduct the prosecution and mr loeber boeber editor edito ros cos of the T ingham pioneer had been retained for the defense bingham has been the scene of more than one bloody tragedy there Is quite a large number of graves at the mouth of the kanyon some of which contain the remains of a few parties who were killed by acci acel dent while the balance contain the remains of individuals who have halve met with violent deaths at theli theil the hands ands of their fellow fello v creatures theo theme killing affairs comin commenced e aced in picking off one at a time then two and now comes the latest bingham tragedy in which three men bit the dust UTAH SOUTHERN RAILROAD ith bishop chop A 0 smoot and Isles sm john B milner and george halliday of the executive committee of thirteen appointed by the people of utah county to purchase all ali the shares of stock have bave for sale are in town As payment for tor the stock the people of the vie county agree to do the grading supply the ties lay the rails ralls and in fact to build the road station houses etc from its present terminus to provo and also to continue the work beyond the latter point to at ly the shares will be distributed among the various settle settie settlements menta ot of the counts county each taking as many or as few shares as it chooses the following Is a list lintot of the rum aum ium ber her offered to the settlements settlement sp and which has been arranged according to the taxable eam pro property each ty in each the shares being lob iob provo shares Spring springville ville spanish fork W salem 75 payson santa quin goshen pleasant grove zno american fork alpina luehl lehi cedar fort fairfield 75 each of the above named settlements has been given till tuesday au aug g ath to report whether it will take t the whole amount of shares offered to it and it if not the balance will vill be returned to and disposed of by the executive committee to those settlements desiring to take more shares than thau the allotment first offered to them the work of building the extension of the road to provo will bo be commenced immediately mr orrawell simons of payson has been appointed to take the contract to arrange for tor the supplying y in ot of the whole of th tha the lumber required a and ng he will di divide vide the amount to be supplied to the different settlements tle ments according to the number of 0 shares they agree to take the same will bo be done with regard to the ties bishop william bringhurst having been appointed to superintend the latter department it will not be compulsory for the settlements to pay for their stock in supplying lumber and ties lles as they will have the option of paying in other ways it if they so choose but the opportunity port unity will be offered them la in case it would be most convenient for tor them to pa pay y in this way there was a large largo gathering of the people ot of the county at alpine on satur saturday 7 and yester yesterday dayl when two days meetings were held the interest created by the railroad bringing together a large abarge number bumber ot of people from the various settlements and an all excellent spirit prevailed the action of the people of utah county with regard to the building of the utah southern railroad shows that they are growing in unity it is pleasing to note that so much of the true spirit of co opera tion tiou exists among theland the mand there la is no room for doubt that their efforts wiil will vi 11 be successful in this enterprises enterprise which wiil will be so batis satisfactory is to them that they will reet feel encouraged to become still more uit united ted and their cour course sewill will probably act as an incentive for tor the people of other counties to emulate their example the three gentlemen ot of the executive committee named at the commencement of this article have come to the city in the interest of this railroad ni rhe THE BRITISH MISSION Miss lox rox the following are from the millennial star of july 1 RELEASE elder E F A box is released to return to utah in charge of the tho july ath co company T NOTICE rany otice so far as now known there will be no company between th the e goh of july and the forepart of september next ABSTRACT or correspondence elder R T burton writing from birmingham on the uit among other matters matter sp says 1 6 brother E W snow held two meetings yesterday at nales owen had a very good attendance quite a spirit of inquiry was manifested 1 I 1 remained here and attended the sabbath school at ten am and m meetings act at sau au and pm there was va s a very good attendance at both es especially at the e evening meeting A goodly number of strangers sti angers were present presents pre senty several of whom were apparently much interested ate rested in the truth in the morning before the sabbath school I 1 baptized four persons and several more are expected to be baptized next sabbath elder fl W snow and myself leave here this evening svening for tor coventry leaming ton stratford and loxley where wo we have appointments for meetings and expect to return here on saturday evening THE BINGHAM TRAGEDY coroner george J taylor tay lor went to bingham canyon on friday morning to hold an inquest on the remains of gabriel ii cotton gilbert cotton and gabriel gab ri el Cot cotton tonJ jr r I 1 the three men shot by samuel butcher and others the inquest commenced at the mouth of the canyon on friday was resumed at bingham city on saturday and concluded on the evening of that day the coroner returned to the city yesterday and to himie are indebted for fai the following report of the proceedings SOLOMON GEE being sworn testified as follows I 1 was at mr butchers about ten minutes before the quarrel mr cotton sen came along and he and mr butcher had words this occurred at two yesterday afternoon I 1 could not hear all that was said but they were talking very hard the old man inan cotton had lefland left and gone below to mum fords ranch when young cotton came along and asked butcher where his father was butcher told him he had gone down to mum fords fordys young cotton replied you are a damned ned liar flar at this remark butcher and young cotton commenced shoo shooting ting they both had revolvers and shot guns I 1 saw the boy cotton shot off his horse by butcher both cotton boys ame oame there and quarreled led leJ 1 saw 11 W taylor shoot at tJ J I 1 F tasker isker Tc J F TASKER was then sworn and said mr butcher shot twice or three times at me when I 1 went down I 1 then went back and saddled a horse and aud went down again and saw the old man cotton cutton go out of the hollow ravine and butcher following him with a gun guu in his ills hand band old man cotton waved liis ills his hands for me to go away and I 1 went and harnessed barness 6 lo 10 up the horses to the wagon MRS MARY JANE COTTON I 1 and the little boy went down to butchers butcher shot the old gentleman gentleman fent Sent leman ieman twice meaning her husband I 1 begged him not to shoot but he shot him again there was another man who shot him afterward I 1 did not know who he was mr nin cotton cotton was 52 years of age gabriel 19 and bert 21 WM KIRK said he went down to mr butchers on business and had a chat with him we had bad words he said I 1 took his poles I 1 denied it harshly he struck me and I 1 struck him back he drove me back up the canyon and told me I 1 had better go and get cottons band and he would clean them out I 1 walked backward with a stone in each hand for defense the old man cotton was down at the cross fence dont know why he was there when I 1 got back we then went down to butchers and had bad some words with him about the mornings fight light I 1 left cotton at butchers quarreling and went down to Mum fords where cotton followed me immediately afterward the eldest boy came down and told us that his brother was shot old man cotton and the bov then went up around the north side of B butchers u ers h house ouse CALEB COTTON a boy between nine and ten years of age said one man beside butcher came up and shot his father he did not see his father shoot SARAH C BUTCHER said that mr kirk came down and talked r ough rough as though lie he wanted to fight BO so the children said she also said that kirk hit butcher in the mouth butcher then pc peed acied ed up mr kirk and threw him down and I 1 and mr air gee took him afrand off and would not let him strike kirk butcher followed kirk quite a distance the fuss was about poles kirk said ill go and fetch some one that will soon settle you butcher replied you had better get cotton and his band kirk came again on horseback and butcher said sald I 1 1 had better galdy saidy billy you get down and settle that allair I 1 never allow anyone to strike me in the mouth get down and ill whip y you 0 u cotton spoke up and said you told him to bring down cotton and his band I 1 am come and I 1 am always ready for anything you want butcher said 1 I aint talking 0 to you I 1 dont want anything to do with you so you had better pass along the road they then quarreled and cotton called butch cher chen era atlar liar ilar they quarreled quite a while cotton then went down to Mum fords where kirk had gone gon ejust just before I 1 saw young gabe cotton coming with a shotgun shot gun asked if his father was there butcher told him he was at Mum fords then gabe said you are a lying son of a b h he lie is there then drew his shotgun shot gun to shoot but it snapped red butcher then shot him with a single shotgun shot gun and he be fell off the horse home bert another son of cottons then came and asked where his father was but no answer was given except I 1 told him I 1 believed his brother was shot he be was then in the road and fired two shota shote into the house old man cotton arrived just at that time and wanted to know who had been shot butcher sald bald to wm taylor take care of that that mail man bert cotton taylor told bert to togo go into the houseye house hou he went down two steps and stood there old man cotton then began to talk and called butcher a liar and a son of a b h and said isyou if you want anything or me nie you can have it lie he then fired two shots at butcher utcher JS when butcher took the same shotgun shot gun used before and shot him and lle he fell I 1 was scuffling with Bert who was trying to take the gun away from me to defend ills his father it was a double shotgun shot gun that was lying beside the steps then butcher turned and shot bert with a derringer because as he said bert had tried to kill him butcher never left the house except to go to the tiie stable butcher wm taylor and gee were |
