The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1897-02-12
TALE or A TRAVELLER.
4 MyHsrou. Disappearance is unra,eie,
~ ~.

Bartlett Burton, one Of the Sym ms com.
pany'e travelling salesmen, who lives at
RichGeld, returned nome froma visit
with relatives in Indiana aud Illinois, |
aud thereby hangs tale.
Bartlett Buuon's iathet'e name was
Isaac Borton, the photography having |
been Americanlzed by the present gene |
t,tiou. On the 22nd Of last July he
died Mt his home In vcrnal, Utah. where
he had spent the last twenty-five years
OF hi- life.
The Borton or Burton family lisa large
one, the hrst two prcgentorsoi which
there Is authentic account having come
to America with William Penn. The
oldcfgenerutious Areall siaunch Quakers
aud clinging to the simple and hospim-
bile life Of the Friends. They are cx.
trcmelv reserved and clannish, con-
filming their intimaces to the immediate
family circle.
Some years ago colony Of Quakcrs
settled In Kosciusko county, Indiana.
Among them were several Of the Borion
families. when Bartlett horton went
bark In December he found number Of
grown relatives, living At Menione all
their lives. who had never seen their
cousins who lived at Bourbon only
twelve miles away. The family reunion
which was held in honor OF the Rich
field Borton was the meeting oi many
members who had lived Ia the same
county for forty years and had never
recognized one another before, and on
| that occasion two brothers who lived on
adjoining farms met for the first time
In three years.
AsrKASoE DlsArrEARASoE.
Isaac Borton was born September ~,
1899, In Portage county, Ohio, and spent
most oihis boyhood days there. lie
was IL years old when his parents
moved to Indiana. In 1886, the lad,
% years Of age, left home aud iourneyed
to the then far West, stopping Mt Iowa
City. lie was one 81 the teamstora Who
helped tvaustcr The ofnclai effects o.
Iowa when that States capital wa
changed from Iowa City to Des Moincs
! Then the young man pressed on 10 JON
Jim Lanes army AZ Lawrence, Kan.
= aud there met one Edward Lyon, whom
he had met Ia Ohio. This was In 1858
l Borton fell sick and was nursed back I,
= health by Lyon at his home. Gonzales
, cent he puohed on to the ranch Of Mart
Anderson, near the little town Of Grass
e hopper Falls, soiourneying there seyera
B days. Here ut the ranch he indited the
4 last letter ever written by him to hi
= parents ut home. His father and mother
aiterward made frequent inquiries as tC
his whereabouts, mailing many letter.
10 his last known address, and sending
4 messages to men living in the section
g where he was last seen, but to no avail
SUSPECTED % MURDER,
. Finally, Martin Anderson, the ranch
= man, went back to Indiana and met the
e elder Bortons. lie told them that lssa'
I had left his place with large sum o.
money, and expressed the opinion tina
d the young man had been robbed and
It murdered. An investigation followed
h No trace Of the missing man could b
y found subsequent to his departure iron
y Anderson's. In the lat,er's possession
were found valuable effects which wer
II identified ~ the property Of Borton, an
r. the upshot was that Anderson wa
At pointed out as the murderer Of liaa
~ Borton. Ills escape from hanging wa
Al due only to the fact that all the ey
dence against him was purely circun
stantial, and for nearly forty year
Martin Anderson was pointed out a
= the murderer. On the day Of his deaf
seven years ago the father Of Isaac sill
~ believed that his son had been FOUL
assassinated for plumber, and charge,
his family TO make every effort to brinI
the guilty Anderson to justice.
n cLRASEDUP TnE MYSTERY.
!, IL WAS onlN lhHt lhN NH"A iu"hN iluI
!. toms son, Bartlett BoFton struck up
n correspondence with his Indiana con
nections. When he learned thei
whereabouts he went TO them in DE
, cember and not until then did they
, know the history Of their iraternity''
Loot member. lie told them that when
A., his father departed from Martin Ander'
sons ranch ae had left there trunk
: full Of chattels too burdensome to carry
on his overland tour to the Rockies
and that the trunks contents were the
goods In Anderson's keeping which
formed one link in the chain Of circum-
stantial evidence that came near hang
ing him. Since that time tho wanderer
had pitched his tent in Montrna, Idaho
and Utah had run ferry on the old
Emigrant crossing over Green river, had
at length settled in Uintah county,
where he had raised a large family, and
where his widowed wife and some Of
his children ye. reside at Vernal. All