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Show ..... COALVILLE TIMES. AFTEU'SEVN; YEA113 -- C-- gntcri-- Buslnexx Manigsr. Cdiior R. JONES, flW t S . tebmm or fWslll. h'UnHa' Ctah, RiPTioir. , la ft 4W M0a Yr.r Wlh t 1 i MURDERERS OF .A JBAT LAKE MISER REMIND THE BARSl An Almoat Forgotten Crime Brought to Light by the Betrayal by Hit Wife of One of the Murderer. - MW Hll M (Ime or tbeuriier,JutSwas rejeus, ; J jrom lark of direct evidence. It Job Soon after his d!iharta here be ent to Tooele county. and vx zh-ebusiness, In the gaged later marrlpd, having now a wife lad everal children, and with his depxr y tore the murder of Buetler was dropped as an Impenetrable mystery. Both Rice and Hunter deny til knowledge of the crime with which Is claimed It hut they are charged, t let-falseveral remarks Rice b l Which It will, be hard for him to satisfactorily explain. It is said that when be was found at Grantsville and that Sheriff' Emery wanted to -see him, he exclaimed: What In It must with want me; sheriff does the be about that Buetler case v The statement is made that Muncy and his wife frequently quarreled, aid that he had threatened tohave her sent to the Insane asylum.-Sli- er lug spirit of revenge, gave the officers a clue which led to Muncys arrest. -- prc-tlcall- It Is believed that a murder mystery teven years standing is about to be cleared np in Salt Lake,. City, three George W, Muncy, John Rice aJ UTAH STATE NETYSj men, Abe Hunter having been, lodged to Jail, charged with the murder, Oa'tho Tbo Lace Houae, one of Salt Lakes night of February 25, 1897, of Fred , largest dry goods booses, bas filed a Buetler, a miserly , petition In bankruptcy. death in a who was found strangled to I CSydd Fullmer of , Greet River fell cabin lq Salt Lake. fro a loft about twelve feet to the In a signed confession made before trownd and broke bis arm, besides re Sheriff Emery and County Attorney Westervelt Muncy . states that on the ' t I ewivlng other injuries. A loading hotel of Salt Lake City fflght In question he and John Rice and bas placed a ban on cigarette smoking Abe Hunter went to Buetlers cabin by Its employes, habitual smoking be- for the purpose of robbing the old man of 31,000 In money which they undering cause for discharge. In the bouse; A gun club bas been organized at stood he had concealed on the Buetler threw he ALMOST A CYCLONE. , that (Muncy) Pleasant Grove with twenty members, held him down while Rice and bed ft being the Intention to challenge all Over Colorado and stuffed rags In his throat to stifle hla High Winds Sweet comers la shotgun shooting, Wyoming Towns. Cries for help, and that after proceed? Assistant Count Physician Odell of winds prevailed Monday along lng tbns far they were frightened by High Balt Laks county was the victim of .a sleigh lag accident last week. In which WHEN THE INDIAN SENATOR TAKES HIS SEAT. be sustained a broken collar bone, ? Tbs bowling cluh of paysonand Springvllle bad a contest of five games at the latter place last week. The ThfH jfell t . M f W DjjtMMM0IMI 40 OH 46 of IHII IQ fj-a- umbrella-mender- - Springvllle club was victorious by 193 points. The cases of diphtheria reported from Mantl recently have all been eradicated and again health ' and strength Is reported by the health board. While coasting in Salt Lake City, Joseph Calder, aged 17, ran Into an electric light pole, bis skull being crushed, death ensuing within half an - li, of Ameri-ea- n Fork, waa thrown from a cutter caa day last week, bis bead striking a telegraph pole, Inflicting Injuries which will ley him np for some time' t For the past (wo years the receipts of the Ogden city police court have been 105,013.06, of which 163.368 60 was from fines and forfeitures and tbs Quays territorial bill provides that one of ths senators representing the territory shall bs of Indian descent. A section of Senator balance miscellaneous receipts. n. ' C, Hudson, aged 70, was found unconscious On ; the Spring Branch road in Grand county, having been stricken by apoplexy. Mr. Hudson was one of ths early pioneers of this state. All arrangements for a conjoint debate between ths University of Utah and the Colorado College of Colorado Sprltts 'Lave b- - t n" compTf hJan11F two schools will meet In Salt taka City on the 32nd of April. Henry Crouse of Moab bas received' a new commission f hotary(pnbUd, At the exptratlon of bis term be will have been la continuous service, for twenty-thre- e years. Hs was the first notary public in Grand county. F. N. ChrlstlanSen of Ephraltq came near meeting death last week when he was thrown from a sled and severely kicked on tfie breast by horse. Hi will be unable to attend to bis usual duties few several days. " The senate. In executive session, bas confirmed the following nominations of postmasters In Utah tBJwn R. Booth, Nepht;' John Peters American Fork; Larson- - , Lawrence. t Spanish Fork; Joseph ODell, LOgan, Wllden A Black have bought the old telegraptne.Xrom fa rowan , to Beaver. Jhfyhaleisold wenty-,y- c miles 0 wire to St. George parties nd will use the rest "of it for fencing pur; poses around their fame In Beaver. Otto Sleloff of Chicago1 wagi given' the decision over Jerry McCarthy in Salt Lake on the 39th, at the end ,of twenty slow rounds. McCarthy Wa unable to land effectively on the east ern welterweight at any stare of the r--- fig MTT The Commercial club of Mantl has taken up the matter of the erection of a modern court house at the Temple city, to cost about 325,000. The club .guarantees 1 5,000 for citizens and asks the commissioners to start "Work at once. , A bulletin just Issued by the Utah state bcerd of horticulture shows that portions of southern Utah are admirably adapted for the cultivation of raisins, and believes that more attention should b paid to this profitable In- some one knocking on the 4oor, when the three would-b- robbers made (heir scape, leaving their victim alone In hip death struggles and without even looking for the money which led them to commit the crime. , The man Muncy was never suspected of ab connection with thb murder of RuuUur 'iifM.il "very "receatly when he let fall sums slight illusion to it In conversation with , hit wife, who reported what he had said to the officers. Muncy, the man who makes ths confession. Is 56 years old and a Virginian by birth, and Is said to come from a good family. When a young man hs emigrated to Illinois, and at the breaking .out of the civil war enIllinois reg listed In the Forty-eight- h lment. f At the close of the warjie was discharged with tharrank of sergeant, In the regular and at once three army, serving years. Following this service he drifted to the far west and has lived In Utah, Idaho Wyo5 ming nd Montana. f ; John Rice; One of the trio behfha tho barv waa arrested on suspicion a( the e ' bv LAV ORDER REVOKED GOVERNOR- - col6rados the Prisoner Turned Over to the Civil Authorities For Trial Troopers Will Support Civil Authorities Aft -rI i Past Yearth Philippine One gf Mufchpf Is reported that the rebels In Oww Suffering Among TV People, man Southwest Africa are burying The president on Monday sent to the prisoners alive. senate the annual report of the PhilipOne of the questions In the Russ pine commission. Including the report Japanese trouble Is that there must be of the civil governor of the Philippines no Japanese settlements in Manchuria and the reports of the heads of the exTwo clergymen of Port Cheater, N, ecutive departments for the period T have been warned by letter ts The 1903. 23, December ended report under leave their charges, penalty ot of the commission contains a detailed death. statement by the auditor for the bodies-havOne hundred and twenty-liv- e islands of expenditures under the apHarwich from the taken relief been for the of 33,000,000 propriation mine at Pittsburg, Pa., and probably of distress in the Ul&nds. Governor Taft says the year was one fifty more still remain In th mine of much suffering among the people of 8peciat prayers were offered In most the Philippines, on account of a short of the churches of Loe Angeles, Cat, food supply, but that the worst Is last Sunday, when pastors' and congrepassed. While he does not consider gation united In an appeal for rain. the future as bright as It might be, he Fir started by an explosion of believes we are beginning an era in the chemicals tn the large silk mill of history of the islands which, with the N. J deA assistant of proper tariff reduction In Ashley the entire Loss 3150,000. plant. the United States and proper naviga- stroyed PresiVico John Mitchell, President tion laws for the Islands, a 111 be one of Secrtary-Treasureand Lewis dent decided material developments. Mine Worker Speaking of the conditons In the Wilson of (he United without opposiIslands, Governor Taft says that at no have been time has there been less ladronism tion. Fire at Progreso, the chief port of than when the report was written, December 10, 1903. Yucatan, destroyed an entire square ol business houses and public buildings. THE INTRIGUES IN COREA. Including the market. The loss Is 33? l- 1 Governor Peabody of Colorado Waa revoked his order of December I list declaring Teller county to be In a state of insurrection and rebellion, and proclaiming martial law. By the executive authority Military Commander has Issued a proclamation announcing that peace and good order are being fully restored and it has been shown that the civil authorities are able and willing to control the situation, perform their legal functions and to enforce the laws. It Is announced that w detachment of the national guard will remain at Cripple Creek for a time, but will act in support and In subordination to the legally constituted civil authorities." All the prisoners In the bull-pehave been delivered to the civil authorities. Stephen Adams, W. F. Davis, Chas. Kennlson, Thomas Foster and Charles McKinney, charged by the military with having caused the Vindicator mine explosion, by whft two men American-EducateMove to Have were killed, and with hiding plotted on Prince Throne. the to wreck a train on the Florence A One of the Intrigues at the Corean Creek Cripple railroad, will be tried at court about which . Miss Scldmore this term of court. They have been confined in bull pen or Jail for more write to tho Cnlcago Tribune centers around Prince Eu, whom the emperors than two months. n d ARE ACTIVE. Reported to Have Attacked Indians on Panama Territory. A report has reached the isthmus that Colombian troops are lighting with the Indians on the San Bias coast, which fs In Panaman territory. It Is Impossible, however, to obtain reliable confirmation of this. A letter was received In Panama some time ago from Captain Torres, commanding the Panama troops at Chepo (on the south side of the Isthmus and directly south of the San Bias country), saying he bad decided to cross over to the Atlantic side. There ts a possibility that the Indians are lighting with Captain Torres command, mistaking them for Colombians. V5371C CSV wife. Lady Om, seeks to make successor to the throne In place of the crown prince, who Is regarded as a weakling. The subject Is made more Interesting to Americans by the fact that Prince Eu ia being educated In this country, being bow at the Ohio Wesleyan university, Delaware, O. TAF.T AT THE HELM., New Secretary of War Takes the Oath ' of Office.' ' At noon Monday William H Taft of Ohio took the oath "of office as secretary of war, In the presence of the members of the cabinet, the general staff of the army and a number of personal friends. The ceremcny occurred at the war department, "lie Immediately entered upon his new duties. The ceremony took place In the large reception room attached to the secretarys office In the war department, and the transfer of authority from Elihu Root, the retiring secretary, to Governor Taft, while simply made, was more Impressive than any similar event In many years. BIRTHDAY Entire ' City of OF KING OSCAR. Stockholm Rejoices the Ruler. The festivities In honor of with1 ths birthday of King Oscar were inaugurated at Stockholm Jan. 31 with special services ia all ths seventy-fift- h Should Have Tried Work. The wedding at Saginaw, Mich, last week, of Corporal Charles A. Valois of h dustry. One-thir- ONE CURE FOR THU BOY BANDIT. xCtrAX rt,TeXA V Must Pay ths Penalty. Fell Dead at Sweethearts Door. Ths supreme court of Missouri has Henry Schmidt, Jr, partner In a affirmed the judgment of the lower upholstering firm, dropped dead at the court which found Fred Lewis, alls door of his sweethearts home In sM Fred Collins, the Union bank robber, York City. la his pocket was fowl a who, with William Rudolph; murdered Charles J.. Schumacher' Pinkerton detective,' In resisting arrest la January, 1903. guilty of murder hi the first degree, aodJxed March 11 aa the data of his execution, , Rudolph escaped from the SL Louis yaall and It still a fugitive' from jS-tlc- a. - - wedding ring. Bchmldt planned to be married some time ago, but th ding did not take place, owing to lout difference. He was determine! however, to marry the girl, and affi several day railed again at her h ' At the door he was told she had vote out for a drive' with another W)tar Schmidt started back and fell dead. 000,000. ' Two y ears Imprisonment and perpetual exile Jq Siberia Is the sentence Imposed on a Moscow student named Andrleff fo? assaulting a Russian general Iff the Streets of Kazan. . During the week practically aO the shingle mills on the Menominee river In northern Wisconsin and the upper peninsula will resume operations after being shut down for three months. Charles Andette died shortly after boxing five rounds with Thomas Johnson In a saloon at Detroit. It Is thought the exertion of fighting caused a bloodvessel In his head to burst Johnson was arrested. Since January 1, 723 case of t phold fever have been reported In Columbus, 0., and there have been twenty-three new cases-wer- e deaths. Elghty-onreported Sunday, the htghesl dally record for the month. M. Bunau-Varlllthe minister from Panama, through his attorneys, h demands for retraction upon Poet and the New York World similar to those made upon thw New York Evening Post. Awakened by the barking of his dog, Paul Delchman ran from his sleeplng-rooJnto his drug store In St Louie and there fought a pistol duel with-onburglar and killed another. Eight shots were ezchangad at close range According to a report submitted hr Dean George E. Vincent to President Harper of th University of Chicago, the experiment, of segregating the sexes In the Junior college work during the past year has been a success. Fresno, Cal., Is flooded with Pinkerton and railroad detectives, who are looking for an anonymous letter writer, who declared that unless the Southern Pacific paid him 310.600 he would wreck every train from Stockton to Los Angeles. Senator Burton of Kansas has been Indicted by the federal grand jury at 6L Louis on a charge of accepting money from a grain company foe Influencing postoffice authorities In respect to a recommendation concerning a possible fraud order. Frank Dawson has been convicted of murderlhg' Anna Hartman In the circuit court at Paris, Mo., and sentenced to he hanged March 17. Dawson killed Miss Hartman as the result ef e broken engagement The tragedy occurred at a dance six weeks age. The president has appointed W. B. Martin to succeed Mrs. Minnie Cox at postmaster at indlanola. Miss. This postofflee was closed some time ago, the white inhabitants ot the place refusing to accept their mall from Mrs, Cox, who Is s negress. James and William Smith and Frank Marshall were arrested and counter teltlng machinery and dies seized at Brooklyn, N. Y. They were turning out United States half dollars from Mexican coins of the same denomination. e Americans to keep them. United States Inthe Twenty-sixtand" Mabel H.. Stein had a a fantry, tragic endln&Tuesday when the young r. e Would Pull Down the Flag. Ernest Birch, governor of British North Borneo, who bas arrived in London, says that General Leonard Wood, while recently at Sanhakah, capital of North Borneo, Informed him that the question of the ownership of the islands off the coast of British North Borneo, over which a United State vessel had hoisted the American flag, would he amicably settled, as there was no strong desire onthe part of the ' of the space originally awarded Utah for her mineral exhibit ait the St Louis Worlds fair has been withdrawn by the managers cf the fair and a vigorous protest against the ae- -' tlon has been sent In by Director Gen, eral Whitaker, Senor de Palish, a Mexican sheep herder, whose feet were fresen while on the desert west of Ephraim, underwent an operation last week. Gangrene had set la, and to prevent further spread, the toes and a portion of the right foot were amputated. A defective flue In the opera house ceased a 110.000 blase at Mercnf on the 30th, Only the most heroic efforts on the part of the firemen and citizens prevented the flames from wiping out the entire business district as ft did v about two years ago. MARTIAL WILLIAM WHITNEY DEAD. the eastern slope of the Rocky mountains In Colorado and Wyoming and Former Secretary of Nsvy Succumb to Appendicitis. considerable damage to property was two Denver men In lost their Williams wrought Collins Whitney,' fo lives as a direct1 result of the gale. Secretary of the navy, died at Bis hod Chkrles Ormsbyand William Daniels In New York City' Tuesday, at the ax cam A In contact with a live slectrlg of 4, death being caused by bl wlrs which had been blown frompy'olsoning following an operation hV fastenings Into the street and tre'( appendiclts. William Collins Whitney 1 waa born In Conway, Mass, Instantly killed by the shock, , July. 5, Reports sre being received tom 1841, and was a descendant of John points In northern Colorado tellfg of Whitney, one of the English Purltaff the destruction of farm building! and leaders, who settled at . Watertown, haystacks In the country district; and Mass, in 1625. Mr. Whitney was made the falling of trees, small bulldogs, secretary of the navy by President Cleveland In 1885. He was the leader chimneys, etc, in the towns. of the Cleveland forces In 1892. Mr. Flvs Children Cremated. Whitney was eften spoked of as a presAt 2, oclock Tuesday moroln ths idential possibility. residence of Peter Christianas, at WILL RATIFY PANAMA TREATY. Council Bluffa, Iowa, was destroyed by Vote on the Measure la Expected fire, hla five children, ranging $ age About the Middle of the Month. from a babe in arms to 11 yetrt of age, burned to death, and Mrs. Chris It Is the general expectation In adtiansen burned so that she wQ d s. ministration circles that the Panama The husband waa In the country it ths time. No one knows how the fire treaty will be ratiflod about the middle varied. The dead: Edna, 11 years; of the present month, and In anticipaFrank, 8 years; Lila, 4 years; Ana 3 tion of that event Secretary Shaw will ears; baby, 6 months. soon take steps looking to a recall of a portion of, the public funds now In the bands of the national bank depositories. Just what percentage of these public deposits will be called for has not yet been definitely determined, but there Is reason to believe that It will approximate 20 per cent, or 380,000,-00- . , t NEWS SUMMARY. TAFTS REPORT, -- - COLOMBIANS boor after the accident Lester Cblpman, aged i BULL PEN IS OPENED Oocorl! T T The city was profusely KoS churches. deo-Orate- The king received the concouple took poison In a rooming house. gratulations of the royal family, th Mrs.' Valois Is dead and her husband Is, court cfficiplsrthe Swedish and NorIn a critical condition. The match met wegian mlhlsters, the members of the with disapproval by the parents of the riksdag, and the municipal authorities. The last named presented a contribuyoung couple. They left a letter say- tion of 340,000 towards the kings jubhad turned them their parents ing that out and they bad no place to go and ilee fund for the indigent consumptives of Stockholm, decided to die together. Senator Burton Preparing for TrtaL Father Suicides White Daughter United Staes Senator J. R. Burton Dances. arrived la SL Louis Monday from his While hla daughter's guests were home In Abilene, Kans., to consult being Introduced at a dancing party at with hla attorney and the federal his borne in SL Louis, Henry Hago-mei- r concerning hi trial on the Incommitted suicide In an adjoining dictment charging him with accepting r Hage-mciroom by taking carbolic acid. money for the use of his Influence to had been enjoying the festivities the issuance of a fraud order prevent and then suddenly stepped for RiaUo Grain A Securities the agalnet ! Into a vacant room and swallowed the Burton 1 said h Senator company. acid- - ID g ri an W to the discov ery would scon resume his duties In the and the party came to an abrupt termisenate. He refused tor discuss the Innation. The death of a son and busl dictment. ness reverses led to the deed. rs e Sprightly and active until within two days of her death, Mrs. Julia Flynn is deed In Chlcaeo, at the age of 100 years. Bronchial trouble and weak-,aes- s of the heart brought to an end her century of existence Mrs. Flynn was born In 1804 In County Mayo, Ireland. - Peter Duryea, a prominent breeder of trotting horses and partner of D. Stokes in the Patchen-Wilke- s stock farm at Lexington, Ky., has ben made defendant in a suit brought by Barn Madden, an actress, to recover 350,000 for alleged breach of promise of marriage. A sanguinary fight took place at a place known aa Meyers Well, twenty-si- x miles west of Kingman, Arizona, between Thomas W. Smith and two men. known as Lang and Wilbur, in which Wilbur was fatally and seriously wounded. The men were prospectors. Archbishop Alarcon has formally blessed th premises of the new Catholic bank, which start business In Mexico City with a capita! ef f6,09C,.' 000. The first published la Mexico to Teeeive the benediction of Pone Plus X apostolic is th Catholic paper Et Pals. w |