Show SHERifF BURNS JOBI JOBIN TO BE BURIED 1 IN N MT PLEASANT T J J. J Milton 1 Burns Durns former resident and city marshal of or Manti Monti and three times sheriff of Sanpete e County Count who was murdered by Robert Mar 1 Marshal shah negro at Castle Gate last Monday Monday Monday Mon Mon- day evening and died led tho the following Tuesday evening will bo ho burled buried in Mt tIl PIc PIcas Pleasant as ant tomorrow at 2 It was wasa a real shock to the tho people of ManU Manti and of or Sanpete County to hear of the tho terrible tragedy Mr Burns Durns was a good of officer ricer quiet and efficient In his biB capacity as as' as an au officer and a citizen he lie ma made e a large circle of friends wherever he went The murder Monday evening was wasa w 3 a cold blooded attack Mr Durnas Burns Durn as City Marshal at Castle Gate and special officer for the U. U S. S Fuel Company so Ale time before had taken taken tak tak- en on a 3 pistol from the negro which seems to have embittered him hint The Tho negro who was a miner drew his pay Monday Monda and then lay in waite for or Burns Durns He met the sheriff on the Price river bridge and raising his gun which he carried in a paper sack he shot the sheriff in inthe the abdomen nt at close ran range ranee e. e hit him uin u in the face with his lies gun bun Knocking out his teeth and then tried to throw his body into the river Some little boy s sav saw the affair and screamed thus attracting other men who came came and fired at Marshal who escaped into the hills The Tho negro was later later caught by bythe bythe bythe the sheriff but hul a a. mob had formed who took him away from the officers and lynched him The Tire murder of ot Marshal Burns recalls recalls recalls re- re calls the almost similar murder othis of ot his father Cather Sept 26 6 1894 thiry years Jears ago James Burns Durns was then thon tho the sheriff of Sanpete County Count Ho lIe was wasa a fearless officer He also had In Incurred the enmity of a man Arme Armed with a writ of replevin he lie with two other men w went nt Into Spring City held heM heMb Canyon to secure 50 some me sheep Kofford and Peter MickIe b by Morn It is reported these men had threatened threatened threatened threat threat- ened the sheriff before Following a short parley Kofford and MIckle 1 opened fire on the sheriff sherif and riddled riddled riddled rid rid- before ho he his body hody with bullets could defend himself Taking all the tho equipment the tho horses and camp murders escaped into the bad lands of south eastern Utah They were never novel apprehended The former Mt in sheriffs sheriff's body was was was' buried hurled Pleasant Tho The sons sons of ot the tho fallen sheriff mado made it a lifes life's study to apprehend apprehend ap ap- Kofford and amI Mickle Mickley SOUTH AltI IU RELIEF TV Social Aspects of Education Mrs Erastus Jensen Song Mrs 1 O. O C C. C Peterson Household Hints Mrs 1 Edward Davenport |