Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-08-04
TIE DRUCE CHARGES
]. A. Shaisr, One Of lac Accused,
Replies 10 Then.
BRUCE RE.AFflRus ALL M SAID
lie Claims That a Full Days Work
Was Never Done for tho city.
-Localors OF tho Mogdl.


city'a expense, hled himself down from
the mountains yesterday and last
evening sworo to tho following eli.
davit, which appeared In the morning
papou;
sALr LAKE CITY. Aug. o, 1893.
LIZA. shnrir. % resident % s... G.i.o
Citv, and tho rurThory OF Utah, dur1ge
aud say ihHt am an ON pl1To ui the
sult Lake city waiOrworEa department.
and that my business has u1au tO run
tunnels, prospect for water, clean out
springs aud remove docAyod matter from
tho water sources supplying slil Lake
city with water through th1 pipes. Ia
lew Of tho iuct chat ono vs.. %. Druco
has mndo statement To the public uudor
oath that certain dishonest labor .hss
boon performed by mo and mu, thoro-
fore, 20 place before tho public The cir
cumstancos under which w. ID. Druco
has been influenced TO make his scnsa-
/ tional aindavit.
ON tho id.h of June, i'..t uulor in
| struciions from w. II. Ryan, the super
intendont OF the Salt Lnho City water
works, 1 was moved with a camping out.
/ tlt 10 point la City Crock canyon about
| eight milos from salt Lake City, Ur three
| fourtns Of II mile FROM tho forks oi saii
| crock, where snuwRlidcs had washed the
/ dead stumps aud dCcaycd matter from
the mountains, TO put tie road IN pas
sable condition and TO remove all foreign
/ and docaycd matter from tho crock, with
/ these instructions on the lih VI June,
/ lspJ.
! employed ono W d. Druco TO assist
mo In tho performance Of sali work. My
Instructions from w. n. Ryan wore "a
work oighi hours each day i0r tho said
0 sal all. -. d O. al
| Same ne $3.50 UCr DAY, ana that tho
said w. ID. bruce was 10 receive $3.50
por day for his services. out uf oach
and ovOry twenty-iour hours, / worked
| oight hours and no more. After this
work was done for said city, malo au
arrangement on my own account with
| W. ID. Druco 10 do liitlo prospect work
on the Mogul mining claim ia tho Hot
Springs district, for which ho received
his board.
THIS claim was located and owned by
| w. III. Ryan, j. A. sha'oE J. l.. lIoko
aud r. j. Moran, and the timber used
and supplies OF all character were bought
and paid for by private funds for which
/ have rCcciptcd bills. Tho condition Of
tho mine il such that only about two to
two and half hours work could DO done
each day, as tho smoke from blasting
would require tho rest oil tile day to cloar
out.
The sensational ac,uaplUns Of W. D..
Druc0 are without t0mblanco OF iounda-
tioa, and In oyery particular incorrect.
JAMES A. SuAFEH.
Subscribed and sworn TO before me this
jrd day OF August, lsnj
LILuuRS T.. PALMER,
Notary Public.
A NEWS reporter hunted Mr.. bruce
up today and questioned him regarding
shRfeF's affidavit. lie replied: 81
nm willing to stand 10y every statement
| have made concerning this affair.
have told nothing but tho solemn
truth and viii tell nothing else.
"what have you to say In reply 10
Shafer claiming that no mad n private
arrangement with you ior which you
were to receive your b0ardY"
"Thht 10 not true. No such under.
standing was ever maize between us.
was simply to receive % 90 a day and
board for city work"
"Did you always work eight hours q
day for the cily2"
ono, sir; We never worked eight
houm day for the city at any time,
nor anywhere near that number. La
regard to smoke filling the mine no an
We could work only two hours and hall
each day, l will say that the first two
weeks we never fired shot and did
scarcely no work for the city but were
engaged In cleaning out and timbeTing
the mine. So there was no smoke dur
ing that period, Everything | said
was and Ia the plain truth and will
prove It,"
Considerable omniiy has been sx.
hibited towards Mr.. bruce since he
made his charges and there IL n
lot Of Idle and childish talk Of
"doing HIM upD aud drumming him
out OF town." 70 oil this Druce says
that he has an aged father and mother
10 support and that he doesn't pforose
to be bulldozed by anyone. He says
Salt Lake IL his home and he proposes
10 remain here. He says be has no
fear and looks upon such talk a. being
made slmply 10 frighten him. IL an
official investigntiOn Is held he says he
will tell everything freely. lie isenx.
ious that Mayor Baskin should know
all the facts.
This morning's Tribune announces
that Mr.. Moran WAsu surprised man
on "WEDNESDAY evening when no
learned from the columns Of this paper
that he was one OF the locRtors and
owners Of the Mogul mine. Moral.
Read tho NEWS; itiucteaEes your fund
Of information and according to Mi.
Moran's statement 1t has made him a
Weather man.
All Joking aside, II Ia n singular
coincidence that the councilman fro m
the Fourth should have been kept
In profound Ignorance Of his In.
creased property Interests. The follow
ing taken from tho records today
pTovte him absolutely one OF tho orig.
inal locatOr'
NOTICE or LOCATION,
Notice Is horoby given, That tho nm
dersigned, having complied with tho
requirements VI section 1924 Of the Re.
yisod Statutes " the United States, aud
the local laws, customs aud regulations
OF this district, hay0 located ffeen hum
dred feot Ia length by six hundred ioet In
width, on this, the Mogul mining claim
lode, vein or deposit, bearing gold, silver
and other precious metals, situated Ia
IIot Sprinps mining district, Snlt Lake
County, Utah Territory, tho location
| beinu described and marked on
the ground as follows, to wit:
commencing at Discovery Monument;
thence In "A northtasiorly direction 500
feet 10 conior ond stalker thence 800 loot
northwestorly 10 corner stake; lhonce 900
feet southoastOrly to corner stakei thence
1900 foot northwesloTly TO oornor stake;
thence 800 feet uorlhwe-t9Hy 10 center