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Show oo CALLED BACK TO GET MARRIED Salt Lake, Nov. 25 John McKIn ney. a well to do young rancher and sheepman of Fairfield, came near to enforced postponement of his wedding as the result of the break for the Mcxienn Raphael Lopez into that section sec-tion last week nfcKlnnep last evening took for hi bride Miss Rhoda Johnson. 104 North Waal Temple, a graduate nurse of th8( L D S hospital. Saturday he was with the po6e of thirteen men. In eluding Deputy Sheriffs R. L Bidding' ton, C. L. Schettler and Julius So-renson, So-renson, which came within firing range of the Mexican. Between th. two events, Mr. MrKinney found him self pressed for time. When news of the murder of Wit-back, Wit-back, Grant and Jensen reached Fair field, which is on the other side of Lake ridge from the scone of the kill ing, McKinney was making prepara tions for coming to Salt Lake Under Un-der the circumstances, he, being perfectly per-fectly familiar with that section of the eoutftry. deemed It his duty to volunteer vol-unteer as a guide and posse member With the deputies, he assisted In ( the chase which brought the pursuers Into the canyon below the side or the mountain on which Lopez was in trenched When R L Bddlngton niadu a break for safety from nlB i ilous position behind a tree trunk It was McKinney whose shots detracted detract-ed the Mexican's fire from the run ning sheriff and possibly saved Ed-dington Ed-dington from injury. McKinney didn't exactly forgot tliat he was to be married Monday evening eve-ning He had won Miss JohnsonV promise after a heart siege oi tome length and the importance of the mutter mut-ter was flrmlv fixed In his mind Bui he felt that he was needed. Then, say Miss Johnson'n friends, came a telephone call Sunday. "Is this you, John? Have you for i gotten about tomorrow night?" "Not a bit. Tin just about ready to start,' is said to havV been the BJ58W er. McKinney arrived at the Cullen hotel ho-tel yesterday. I had rather a hard time gettin) in." he said, "and I'd like to travel stayed with that chase. But there are a few things that come before all, else and one's rweddlng is one of th tn I couldn't postpone "Had we been provided with a search) icht. the Mexican would nevi have gone any further than his barri ca(dc of Saturday We could bait fixed it so that it would have lighted! up his hiding place, and could hal shot at him if he tried to put the llht out with a bullet It would ha. been easy to keep him there till mor nlng, and in the meantime some men on id have crossed Hlg mountain and got above him. so that he would eithe1" have been shot down or starved out, and with little danger to his pnrsu era Rut there were no Be art bJlghtl near and we didn't get any reinforce ments." |