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Show LONG FEUD ENDS I IN DOUBLE MURDER1 Wealthy Kan. h. r ..l Juab County and Deputy Sheriff Slain on Ranch of Woman Neighbor. (Salt Lake Herald.) Deputy Sheriff Joseph Sabcy of Juab county and Jesse Kone, a wealthy weal-thy rancher on Trout creek, near Gold-hill. Gold-hill. Utah, were found murdered on a ranch belonging to a Mrs. Harris yesterday, yes-terday, according to Sheriff D, M. Ad-amson Ad-amson of Tooele county, who was j called by the sheriff of Juab county to I assist in the hunt for the murderer-.. Slu riff Adamson, with Deputy Sher iff Prank Barnoa of Salt Lakt county, left Inst night for the scene of the crime Old I ued Blamed. Sheriff Adamson says that in his opinion the shooting of Kone and Deputy Sabcy was the result of a long fued between Kone and Mrs Harris, Har-ris, who is a widow living on a ranch six miles from the Kone ranch on Trout creek Several months ago he said be was lulled by the Red Cross authorities of Denver to investigate trouble botWOOU the two. The widow had a son, I .eland Di Harris, in the army. Sheriff Adamson Adam-son said he went to the ranch, but that Mrs. Harris flourished a pistol and told him that all sheriffs looked alike to her and that she wanted nothing to do w it h any of them. She quieted down a little, be said, when he told her he bad come to help her. She saiil that some cattle of Kone's had been on the Harris ranch and that she had shut them up in her corral, refusing to let their owner have them when he came after them. At that time Kone, it is said, enlisted en-listed aid, but the woman and her 19-year 19-year old daughter ran both men off I the ranch with guns. Later the men returned and forced her to give up the cattle, Kone told Sheriff Adamson. Kone, who was about 118 years old, lived with his family on h ranch about j fifty miles south of Goldhill. He was said to lie peaceable and a good citizen. citi-zen. Son Back From Army. Mrs. Harris' son, who was in the army, is said to have returned. A possee from three counties i he ing formed to help in the Hunt for the munlerers, and a long search among the hills and on the desert near Gold lull is anticipated. Mrs. Harris' daughter a said to have spent almost the entire winter in Ogden nursing victims of influenza, ami is -aid to lie a beautiful and re fined girl. Juab county official! have enlisted the aid of other officers in the March for Mrs Harris, her pretty daughter and MR, who are believed to havi fled to the bills. The possee, made up of deputies from three count uv., ate of the opinion that the three Harrises are well armed. Women UwajT! Armed. Sheriff Adamson said that every time he saw the woman and her daughter daugh-ter they had automatic pistols hanging hang-ing over their right hips Kone is said to have told Sheriff Adamson that the ranch upon which Mrs. Harris was living was owned by somebody living in Nephi, ami that Hn, Harris had squatted on it without permission. Kone, it is said, had been given permission from the owner of the ranch to run hi? cattle upon it. |