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Show A NEWSPAPER FAKE. No Such Manas Bell Was Ever Killed at St. Georg'e. There is located at the small town of St. George, Utah, a correspondent whose imagination would do credit to! Old Pluto Inspired by the mercenary desire to gain wealth by doubtful methods, meth-ods, he forwarded to the San Francisco Examiner ihe following dispatch, which appeared in that" paper on the 10th inst: St. Georgk, Utah, August 9. For a numoer of years there has been living on a ranch six miles west of this city, a I man named Richard I'.ell. He whs sober and industrious, and an uncompromising uncom-promising anti-Mormon man. lie paid 1 little attention to politics, except to go regularly to the polls and vote against j everv Mormon interested. He had a ; wife ynd two sons, the latter aged lsj and lfi. j Manvthreats have been made against j Bell by the Mormons, but as he and his j sons were known to be dead shots with the ride, the opposition was confined to threats. Twice attacks were made on Bell when he was out at night, but both, times the assailants were worsted. worst-ed. On the 6th of August John Hichrads. of this place, had business with Bell and rode out to his ranch to see him. When he cot there be found the place j apparently deserted. He thought the family had gone away temporarily and was just about to leave when his attea-1 1S ,. ,.,. mm ii. 11 1 .in .1111 |