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Show I TRACING ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP RESERVOIR MAY LEAD TO NATIONAL BOMB OUTRAGES I Believing that the pe rson or person? who placed the dynamite in the side of 1 -one of the Stephens reservoirs in i gurch Creek district, sometime dur-iinc dur-iinc the early hours of yesterday morn-ling, morn-ling, did so with the Intention of not I 'only destroying crops and property hut as. part of tho national bomb propaganda propa-ganda which the government author! -ties announced ten days ago would be started in all parts of the countn .sometime during the early part of July. Sheriff Herbert C. Peterson and Dep ) uty T. H. Blackburn, have adopted a i mew line ol investigation, which may (result in furnishing some valuable clew fro the operations of tho radtcal ele-tmcnt ele-tmcnt in this part of the country. The manner in which the shots were j paid and the careful preparations for Rhe firing of the dynamite are, in the opinion of the officers, evidence of the I Kvork of experts. Both fuses were of identical length and were arranged to 1 ?.xplod the dynamite simultaneously, i The ftve sticks of dynamite which 1 teheriff Peterson gathered at the scene I jof the attempted plot, may offer some I PitUc clew as to where it was pur-Ichased pur-Ichased and by whom. A checking of powder held by firms in Ogden and Salt Lake will be made in order to ascertain, if powder and fuse have been I stolen. Tho paper wrapper on the I sticks of dynamite indicate that it was of late manufacture. If such is the case it will probably be easy to trace I as the war time regulations of ex-'plosives ex-'plosives by the government, which is I i st ill in effect, requires the purchaser of powder and exploslvps to secure a I license from th county clerk to purchase pur-chase the same. The view is advanced l hat in the event of the plot to empty the three Stephens reservoirs was made as pari Of the national bomb outraqes thnt fh" plotters brought the powder into the city, either in suit cases, a train or t freight |