Show I 1 SALT LAKE AND STATE NEWS GUN OWNED BY MILLET weapon with which officer ford was I 1 killed Is claimed F SAIL gait lake april 15 11 tho revolver revolve with which police officer charles S ford was foully murdered on decem I 1 ber 14 belonged to colonel R D mil let of east bast south temple street and was stolen from colonel millets residence by garcia and owens with other property on the evening of no member ember I 1 last lait this WU was stated by colonel millet this morning while th in the boffl office ce of chief of police pitt colonel millet called to receive some of the property th that at was stolen from Us bis residence and later recovered jh iii denver by detective dick F shannon n after the porch climbing job per performed formea by garcia the mexican chinese hybrid the stolen articles with the exception of tho the revolver were shipped 6 athe the belchers to denver in that city tae afie stuff was located and recovered by detective shannon and brought back to this alt city A por portion of the articles were introduced in evid evidence ened during the trial of joe sullivan the desperado now serving a life term tor for the r murder of policeman ford INDICTS LUMBER MEN I 1 grand jury in idaho finds true bills irl barber conspiracy case caje boise ida P april 15 the second I 1 indict indictments menIs returned by the federal grand jury in idaho against james T barber samuel G moon frank martin and albert E palmer for conspiracy to defraud the government we were re brought in today the parties indicted are all said to have been connected connect e d with the operations of the barber lumber company in securing immense tracts of forest lands moon and barber are officers of the company and millionaire residents of eau claire wis martin was attorney general in ahe the regime and palmer Is in canada palmer is charged with being the chief conspirator and he be ned to canada soon after the first indictment was returned against him the specific charge lodged against the above named is that they with frank william sweet john kinwald Kin kald louis M ard john 1 I wells patrick downs and others conspired to defraud the government out gut of rich timber lands in bolso boise county the title to these lands now rests in the barber lumber company of the other conspirator not indicted br by tho the present grand graild jury so far as may be learned wells downs kinwald Kiril and sweet were witnesses before the present session of the inquisitorial body and it is believed here that they have been granted ted immunity in consideration of their testimony they were indicted by a prior grand jury for their conspiracy ANNIE BRUCE verdict of manslaughter returned by jury after Hour deliberation evanston wyo april 15 A verdict verdi c t of manslaughter was returned by the jury which has heard tho the evidence in the case of 0 the state of wyoming against annie bruce during the last week the no verdict came after many hours qt 04 deliberation at was thought would and nd in m a disagreement the verdict indicates a compromise for it 11 contains ains a recommendation ot leniency the bauco case has attracted muan attention in western wyoming bruce was found dedd dea d under peculiar circumstances atan an autopsy revealed the fact that his food had contained poison and his fits wife and daughter were arrested and the daughter placed an trial charged with the offense the defense among other things sought to show that rat poison found its way into a pie which bruce had eaten it if was thought while the defense wa was putting its evidence before the jury that the daughter would strive to jeopardize herself to save her mother RUNAWAY ACCIDENT mrs W E brown of salt lake principal victim provo april 15 mrs NT k E brown of salt lake city is visiting with mrs ferra decker of this city and met with a very painful accident late mon da day night mr ir decker in company with his wife and mrs drown brown drove doan to the depot in a double rl rig upon arriving at the depot mr air decker securely tied the horses and stepped into the station the horses bedaine frightened broke loose upsetting the buggy and threw the ladles ladies out T mrs brown receiving a scalp wound thit required fifteen stitches while mrs gnirs decker was bruised badly about the body both ladies are resting nicely WOOL SELLS AT 10 CENTS i salt lake april 15 marcus B I 1 Harr harris islas has closed a deal which throws new light upon the wool situation he has purchased five cars of Utah county wool at prices ranging from 10 to 12 cents a pound the purchase Bc Is 6 the first brought to notice aside from tho the movement of seven n cars to denver scouring mills growers have announced on repeated occasions their determination to hold out for 18 cents but the purchase just made by mr harris indicates that the market is not so tight as has haa been believed 1 CEMENT TUNNEL ABANDONED I 1 julius sends orders to have H 1 aa ve dig trench refilled I 1 salt sait lale april 16 when julius dire director actor of maintenance and way of the harriman Harri inan system sy sLoin was la in salt lake a few weeks ago fi he dei de i aided de to cut down he be expense of gliding building the depot about and yesterday came the order bibat the proposed tunnel under the tracks velch was to nr mail and abd bagg baggage a ge should be tt abandoned so after about 2500 had bad been digging tile the tunnel and several difficult engineering features fea turea had bad been ova overcome mr ordered the local cal mon inen to turnaround ind and fill tho the hold W up again the steam that had the slime out of the tunnel was set to tn work ork again sit at the gravel pit out rock and sand which is sent bac back ft to replace the block black rouck muck of lie depot site it may cost a couple of thousand doll dollars ars to fill up the afie hole hoie but t at that mr Ijar harraman Harrl riman man will bo be able za to effect quite a savi saving fig just why the order to abandon the idea of the tunnel was scot out ila has s only been surmised of co course tho the I 1 project included several hundred feet of trench which was to have been lined throughout with cement sli six and later eight or ten elevators were to have been established to lift the I 1 heavy baggage truck into and out of 0 I 1 the tunnel probably railway man men suggested yesterday it was held that I 1 the amount of business done at the salt lake depot is not now sufficient to justify a really modern depot Alean meanwhile while work on the other parts barts of 0 the depot Is processing the cemen foundation work will bo be completed by another week then will como coine some additional reinforced concrete erate work for piers abutments and tho the like the structural steel required ks Is already ordered and Is expected to be here bere in two or three weeks and I 1 by that timo the building it is expected will be ready for it I 1 continued on page five SALT LAKE AND STATE NEWS continued from pago page three COPPER MINE IN LUCIN DISTRICT silence has surrounded operations of salt lake company broken salt lake april 16 la in a while same some one returning from a visit to the lucia mining district of utah has brought information relative to a property which has been tl wonder i although a silent one the property belongs to the salt lake copper company an organization composed compo aed of prominent boston and new york capitalists ita lists of whom the lewisohn brothers of new york const constitute itte pr prominent members but so little in the past has been allowed to leak out for publication li that local circles know of the property only in a decidedly indistinct way several times in these columns all the aval lale news has been given of the salt lake copper companas comp anys steady ore shipments ments and of the splendid equipment at the mine for a big 0 output principally among which was the long tramway reaching from the cro bins to a point within easy reach of the railroad the official family of this organization has broken at last the campaign of silence surrounding the operations of the company and as could be expected a very condition of affairs Is found to exist this silence was broken when the company offered shares of the treasury stock for private subscription at 10 per share less 1 commission the boston news bureau to fol lowi lowb this announcement with a state ment of what the company has done in the past few years ot of development work ork 1 during 1907 the salt lake copper company shipped to the salt mt lake ore market tons of copper ore for which a net profit was registered of the company has ore ON contracts with both the united states Smelt ipg refining company and the american smelting smelling Sm elting refining company within this organizations lines are acres of territory in which up to date have been blocked out tons tona of 11 per cent copper ore 27 tons of cent per copper coppe 11 1 ore 1 and abd tons of 72 per cent copper ore tho the company Is capitalized for shares of stock par value 10 each tennessee copper company interests figure prominently y in the of official fitial roster of the salt lake company GOLD COLD CIRCLE A AMOD GOOD CAMP willard F snyder returns with good news from all over camp salt lake april IG willard F P snyder president of the national development company who resumed wednesday afternoon from a visit to the gold cl role district of nevada ro ings brings b good ne salt lakers laker s re carding the camp that hag haa attracted their attention and money during the past few weeks the di district he states is growing fast and new strikes are being made on all sides the ores aro are not all on the surface elther either for the veins are strong and look better with depth as work proceeds while in gold circle a company was organized in which salt lake talent figures prominently the company is called the nevada gold circle mining company and Is composed of the following directors L A moore S M levy 0 W watts J T A voley poley and H W lane the company owns the tincup and tho Prying fan groups and will begin development work on a large scale without delay mr snyder states that on the gold crown property in which he Is 19 interested two leaters leasers are sacking gold ore while others are getting to work the company Is sinking on the main vein while a tunnel Is following the vein L A gordon will place men at w work as soon as possible ible on the st SL raul paul fraction IV W it grant Is now making arrangements to place tho the water witch property on off an active operation basis numerous owners of properties axe are going to lot let additional leases in the camp go that gold circle will be one of nr po ha busiest young districts in the state mr snyder states that there alq seventy five men now bit at work fn an the camp several new strikes have bave been made in the last few days on the eastern star property a fifteen foot ledge runs from 12 to 60 while an eighteen inch streak goes per ton near this property the gold knobs hunkey dory big pour flour and an golden arrows groups aro are showing up fine ore several leaters leasers on the oe gold I 1 crown baby midas rico mckay fraction ripsaw and banner proper ties are now opening up very gratifying gold rock DECISION REACHED ON OH THE CADETS j JUNKET trip becomes reality at meeting of citizens in commercial club salt lake april 16 at a mc meeting ting of a number of citizens mayor bransford presiding at the commercial club wednesday night it was pra practically c ta decided that the battalion of C ca lets of the salt lake high school will make the trip to san francisco to see admiral evans fleet may 7 it was proposed several days ago that the battal loni of neatly nearly three hundred members be sent to the ceasr but up to last night no decisive action was waa taken in the matter several questions camo came up for discussion cus sion but the most important was that of financing the undertaking this caused considerable discussion but it was decided that the necessary to carry out the undertaking could be secured among the business nien men of the city and the members of the battalion itself captain webb commander of the cabets cadets reported that over has already beon been subscribed among the members of the battalion and that cadetis cadets had bad signed up to go to california and thero there were forty one more who have signified their intention of going As ag the official permission of the th board of education has not been secured president henderson and ad Mathoni Matho albah hah thomas of the board were present however and said they bad talked with the different members and that there theme would be no trouble in securing its consent A special meeting of the board will be hold held thursday at noon to consider the proposition |