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Show MURDERED FOR MONEY, BODIES THEN BURNED. Saloonkeeper and Wife of Kerrys-town, Kerrys-town, Wash., Suffer Horrible Death. Seattle. Murdered for their monoy and cremated in tho building whoru they lived, to hldo tho ovldenco of tho crime, wns tho fato of Phillip H. Ross and his. wifo, a young couple, who had been living near Kerrys-town, Kerrys-town, n smnlt town on tho Northern Pacific railway, near Knnnsltct, In this county, on Sunday night, Last March Ross nnd his wife located lo-cated about two miles from tho town of Kerrytown and Rosa opened a su-loon, su-loon, living with IiIh wlfo nbovo tho saloon building. All ot tho peoplo living In that locality hnvo been in tho habit of having their checks cashed by Ross, and ho always kept a considerable consid-erable sum ot monoy in tho saloon for that purpose About 11 o'clock Mondny morning A. S. Kerry of tho Kerry Lumber company hnd occasion to go out to tho Ross plnco, and when ho arrived ho found tho building In ru'ns nnd tho charred remnlns ot tho young couple in tho debris. |