Ogden Semi-Weekly Standard | 1889-02-23 | Page 3 | Horse Thieves at Grand Junction

V oni clr bally mi enry 21 HOUSE alie littly of affo officer henling criminals at orand sanction Janc tion lat night marshall kennedy and sheriff ciamei ran a ot horse into baru the mirchal mi struck a match in order to aeo where bleir game were located on the inside but upon peeping in one of them knocked the libbl boutot and began to run marshal kennedy fired twice at the escaping criminal at the second shot he ell on afa hands and knees agent Coman aDd a lady hurrying by at this moment passed in front 0 the prostrate fugitive the marshal from shouting again this Inome respite rave the fleeing man time to to hit feet and get anav evidently wounded fearing that it ia other roan would get away as ha had a etalon horse tied near by hirshal Mir kennedy returned upon reaching alio harwi the remaining thief opened firo on him aliis was returned but in the confusion lie managed to get out and escape it is that tie also was wounded that portion of the country especially ally around thompsons Thomp sons is infested by a whole band 0 lionso while hunting fortuch gentry a stiv geeki ago abo officers met with an encounter in marshal crainer played tho liero stepping around a huge rock lie was confronted by A man who snapped ft pistol at his head ron thieves they however made craika and climbing down a precipice all but one alio olli cere being on k were forced to go aromnd bews neg at a meeting of the city council held on saturday evening last maor farr gave notice formally that tie bould tender his resignation as mayor of logan city at the tient regular meeting of the council on monday paul cardon was be ore commissioner goodwan on alio boing chargi mrs cardon and I abey cardon were examined as witnesses and being no evidence to hold mr bardou the baso was dismissed A company af pf surveyors have recently surveyed a line through our city eastward for a railroad to run through box elder canyon anil into and through the settlements in cache kapey store than to communicate this possible fact the gentlemen of alg link and chain were like mules as to the probabilities of the line being built etc was a terrible accident at carribon Carri boo on the by which a young man late of alt lake city by the ahie ol 01 1 rel W itose jr had ehg misfortune mis fortuna to leavo the end of alio tore finder of the left hand cut elf and the other three wore taken off at the joint anil bis thumb was taken oil between alie arst and second joint he was brought to soda and dr hoover of montpelier was sent for to come and attend to ills injuries the doctor left hia patient in a very favorable condition the unfortunate anan was tending a planer tor the carribon Carri boo gold mining co the company was very good to him in his logon journal feb 20 the sate of chamberlains cough remedy lias been produced to great extent by tho people who have been cured by ft tolling their friend and neighbors of its good qualities and urging them to try it the most cold will soon yield to its soothing effects art sale by win driver akau aej dl loading drug agista the new discovery heard your friends and neighbors neigh bora talking about it you may yourself bo who know from personal experience exper ienco juat how good a thing it la if you havo fiver irjud it you are one 0 its frienda because ano wonderful thing about it ia that M hen once given a trial dr kings new discovery aver after holds a place in the booso K you liaa never used it and should bo with a cough void or any throat lung or chest lo secure at once fand give it a fair trial it ia guaranteed every or money refunded trial bottles ree at win arher sons drug store the dry cold weather of the early winter of croup among children mothers be ou the lockout or it and be prepared to arrest it aa boon as the first appear true croup never colica without a warning a day or two wore the attack ilia child will become hoarel that is boon followed by a peculiar rough dougli it cough is given as eoon aa this hoarseness hoa or couch ap Dearn all blanger may be avoided it has never failed even tn the roost severe caama theio in no danger in kiib alie remedy for it contains po for bale by wm driver tion and all leading arnica silva arre bobr SALVI in the world or bolg bruises nores ulcers bait rheunie feer gorea bands chilblains and all sua and cures or no py required it fa to rive perfect Ratie faction or refunded price as cents per bos for bale by vm irever yon THAT giackino so cirod liy cure we it for salo by V B main st a ui cm Cac lorla cures colic sour stomach eructation healthy eleen and promotes digestion without Injo riona alio bealh in this city 0 ete all william middleton itcaina in of nature was a shock to of people who kittil been familiar with hia ur anil un tailing KOOI aped through inana many num event la robbed of lucli of ita gloom when one remembers tho triumph which await of I 1 he faich are now remaining bot few 0 his class onn liy one alio members of that devoted baud whose lives were buo ouo long art of courage and self danial aro fruci maitti but choir corlna will live while shall hold a place in the love of the human heart in utah and abroad upon faro of the earth are thousand and ens of of leopla alio ull with gratt interest the following narrative of a noble li e william middleton aiho died dutli on the ielli day of february wa tho bon of keulen and I 1 morgan lion as born in st claar county illin uia when that part of alie country was ft wilder bibb hi father having emigrated there from north carolina bome few years prior to that dale he lived and worked with hia father until juh alien lio married miry K the daughter of charlea hutler and rebecca silkwood they settled in washington County Illinois near what 14 now known as okae villa soon after this hid mother died leaving two bona johnana Joh nand william and one daughter Ila cliel william the younne gt of the three while living here williams two oldest chil 1 dren were born and diaries F the latter on february in the tall of the same year elders george and harvey green father of green now of west weber came into that part of the countey preaching alie gospel ai revealed through ih the joseph smith william his wife alary his father and his stepmother baptized into the church 0 jesus christ of lattur day saints atie following buriok william met witla an accidee t by which he had his left ankle so badly crushed that lie was confined to ills I 1 bed for abbot ten months throwing the burden of lie labors of a frontier life 0 hi le voled ante the following vi inter another of the nn by itrich ano faith of couple as BO repeatedly proven them while absent from home on a visit to some relatives for he first time since the accident to williim some wretch set fire to their lionso and before help could reach alio spot the building and all its contents opre to ashes leaving family a sli elter of clothes william went to work and gilted up hia leonce and by alie aid of some rel alnes and ilenda they commenced keeping house again hut after thiis while absent attending a meeting of hie saints on the day tome miscreant ret fire to the smoke hoca which con tailed supplies for which aliey giai sold their farm preparatory to going to missouri Misa ouri to kettle with the saints the goods were dos troied but not liing daunted the again went to work with a will and by liard toil and strict economy they were enabled to fit axt with a wagon and team in the spring 0 bissu aliey started out for clay county missouri but on account of the troubles there they stopped in county and in the following fathered Ka with their coro co ro in caldwell county settling ling near pur west on shoal cheok william went to the woodfon his crutches not yet having been able to dia penso them ciure hia accident and cut loga with which to build a house and by the aid of his oxen and cart he drew them together and by the help til some of ki H brethren by way of an old house he succeeded in building a ble home for liis afe haid little ones in the same painful but courageous manner lie ot out rails and fenced a small farm on which to obtain a living for himself and family by this time aliey la been blessed with a precious daughter whom they named alary ann but many other aliey destined to andler bereavement lerea and before she waa i apar old the hand of death snatched her from the home to which she had brought such hope and joy judit as they began to get tolerably well ned lor living the lawlees mob against the saints and drove all those who dielt in the out lying settlements into far west where the brethren united in the dei de i fence of their city here william although still crippled by hia accident was always on liand to do bis part on cuard duty with uio rest of that tyr hand anone volunteers were called lor to go to the rescue of some of alio dainta in the outskirts of the city they were to go on horseback and william volunteered he had a horae but neither saddle nor gon he aas asked what he could do without EL weapon when ho replied 1 I can do good ettli this heavy hickory dob aut hi h i was rejected tor fear lie might be thrown from Us borea and be captured by the enemy many himoe while he aa out on duty with ills brethren protecting aar went from the mob the word the women and children in the outer eafie of the city to leave part and seek shelter in a more central spot as the mob ab approaching and it ans expected that a battle would near by this Kone rally occurred early in the morning w hen the ground was with rust tha women would take heir children out of bed leave their halt prep ired meal and flee to a place of eb olter carrying one and leading tho rest barefooted the fresty ground one ot alio children ot this amily has a vivid terol lection of these scenes to this dy william waa present when colonel hinkle one of he messengers who brought the gospel to him betrayed his brethren into tho hands of the mob he waa also pie sent hu tho brethren were formed in hallow square and required one by one to come forward and sign a deed ot trust of lands to from their homes finally with tho the and lia fatally started out in the dead of winter to escaip the aner of a curtier oua arnot wilim made lla vi ay back into Ill luoie lie came and mopped iiii and re lathea until the began gettling at clial was atran called nauvoo when he up ani located upon piece of land that lie leaded of leis erb bereft of their bwy ll dlee apa tle effects ol 01 a fall on the ice after lo ildon soine william sold goutlib to tho prophet atio alia farm lie then purchased a email tract near Cioli Jena boint a few milea bielow to which be moved laix family and he lin proving hta land weila living in aba vicinity of nan be worked every tenth day with his team a largo yoke of oxen on the temple in 1813 18 13 he rented a farm of a sir hamilton of bartaw for which lie bred to BO per aero but b la crop fuifui on account of A ot beacon and he did not raise enorah to ineat the rent lie waa sued at and some of ata property was la vied upon and od af a although be wa aloin all be could to meet his obligation while living at this place the tron blea which resulted antho death of the prophet Jon epli broke out again volunteered bis and ww to duty lie rendered ranch and e after th of alie prophet william inched aily i ily out to in county III where lio i alit raita H to lili in lie inch rented a inn filin undina inah riar on enli lui crop donni airm wag called to the bedside of tin father who lived near ninva alie had oer whorled himself in the harvest field and iho was tle illi hi lat wa eliat willum pledge see elliut bin elep another wan caboot while slie lisca and wag a decent burial at her solemn he agreed to the death of lili etther lie moved 0 o the faw bitin fare of crop featly up his fathera fi thera business and prepare tor tha tl satta from nauvoo pairing taft aill 0 thia i ear 1 he begun to burn lionora nl alie l at green tand other 0 nauva again william n lul and mill a giors traveled and day those fa miliea up to of one dirgo family le carried to hAOn liane and give them shelter for several weeks in obedience to from the leaders of tho churell Chu reli lie provided the necea aary tuti liea and facilities for his stepmother step mother and slie started out in the month of in company with the pioneers who crossed the river on lie ico and launched into the wilderness in the of this year william in company with brother Jol niHOn beatly an old far west neighbor departed on the trail of those their bad in the winter they pulled through the dmd and boughs hs by eama many days advancing adva acing a very milts front ilia previous around aliey florally reached garden grove where they stopped planted crops and recited their teams but being counseled to dg so they left their grotting grotti cg nelda to some of hu saints who hail come on tx lata to put in seed and v lio child vo no further that season and made their way up to council brulls hero william and his old traveling companion separated william diug down into missouri to obtain work lie stopped at a place culled senora in county oa thomer tho mer bottom while hero his family was ith sickness lug BOO barloa har loa 1 came near dying from marlet feier several of alie were kick at the same time one of whom lucinda Lucin dj a little girl 0 eara old died in the spring of IMS lie moved up to a settlement of tho saints just below boint near this place wai afterwards called bettys Ie settlement hera ho lived till the spring of 1850 tho last year of his residence he presided over the branch ander the direction of apostle H de before the spring opened up sufficiently to peart out on alie plains the country became looden with emigrants on their way to california iu bearch of eisold this caused in the corn market and it went up from 10 cents to almost any price a mans coi would allow him to charge william concluded to sell a few biu hela soon from lionie one day to go to hla lie left with liis son charlea it anybody called to buy corn to sell it tor onn dollar per bushel and promised the boy nil lie coald beet oer that price on hii way to ho met a nun ii pearce ft corn lie directed him to alie boy and on tho boy bold the corn for per bushel but he tore the corn osos delivered william came bai k and told the niao his confidence would cot allow liim over 1 per anabel for corn and he had ame back to prevent the bov from taking more the traveler said with an oath the man I 1 have met since I 1 left home attlio hid I 1 any at all oa the day of june 1850 william crossot tho Sli aher at a new town amt below the mouth of the river called bethlehem he carried with him besides his own party hiis tiis and ills father in baw charlea ha was eni rolled into and traveled with captain facea company the pla inai on this journey on crossing a rapid stream one of his wagons was upset and most of its contents beut either down alie river or ti the It ottom he arrived in silt balci on september and soon after Brou fart in aelier county here he found a friend in the person of john thompson who rave him and his eon work and him with provisions provi sons at reasonable bricea after the tall work was done he in partnership co with alfred bybee engaged la hording stock in the big bend of the weber iziver now known as west weber in the follow ins spring la and hla non charles F plowed and planted the first crop vest of ogden city in weber county hut this crop ailed tor want of water so he went back to hasold friend jack thompson who gave him work in the harvest field or which he obtained the life in june of this year 1851 father butler died at tha herd house and was buried by gilbert the firby boxton of ogden city tins being the first interment in tha ogden cemetery in the of thia he settled on the lot he lived on during the rest of his life for years he followed herding block for a living daring his from home at the herd in january 1853 while his BOO charles was t tending a night 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