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Show INVESTIGATE UTAH ROCK INSCRIPTION SALT LAKE. Oct. 2. The Inscrlp-lj tlon "D. Julian, May, 1836." discoveretl ;: recently by Captain II. T. Yokey of.1 the launch Shannon Belle carved upon . a rock on the banks of the Green river! ir BMtern Utah, is beins? Investigated L by Utah historical authorities. The in-1 DCrlplion, according to Captain Yokey, I, Is carved so deeply that it will outlast , the hieroglyphics cf the cliff dwellers' Which .ire found nearby. I Opinion has been expressed that M j Tullan was perhaps a Canadian trapper ivho wandered down through Utah 11 years before Hrlgham Young at the head of his little Mormon band first tattled In the desert wilderness on the site of the present Salt Lake City Be-lde Be-lde tho namo Is a device, tho head of i moose or elk, and a boat, thought to represent the trademark of some early fur trading company Captain Yokey says he has hoard of he finding of a skeletnn near the place if the inscription, with the skull rcst-ng rcst-ng on the bones of the hands. Whether the skeleton Is that of 1). Ju-lan Ju-lan and whether the carving of tho name was the last net of a coura- Hugeous Hu-geous explorer who had wandered from his parry, is the mystery local Ihlst.orlans seek to solve I oo iH |