Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-25
Trouble Grew Ou, Of lorg.aindrg feud
0ye' Water.
SHOOTING WAS ON SUNDAY.
houndy shot sccgmiilcr Then Went
Home aud KILLED HIMSELF Roth
Respected ,itiycn..


Special per pcsnret Telegraph.
kuunb. July 25=Our of the most hur-
rlblo tragedies in the history W Kane
county occurred last Sunday morning
at s"rgmIIlrr. ranch Go Upper Rnuab.
For som" years past o. frud Of deep
bitterness has existed between Daniel
sccgmiIler and Dir neighbour william
Roundy over land and water mattot-
their land being contiguous and water
Interests vested m the same system,
sunday morning Mr. Roundy Instructed
hIs son CO. take the Wntor aa Il WIS his
turn. and hc would ride mp 90 sceg-
mlIl"r'H and inspect the reservoir which
was mostly constructed upon Mr. seeg.
mlller'H ground, Apparently h. was In
c"uHDd ui nullug the reservoir empty,
ana rode down Co Mr. Spogmlllpr'a cor
raj TOD ur hls horse and Inquired for
HIN li the house.
Emma Secgmlllcr answered Roundy.
ana as hct uNUHluht IN bad. ana not
recognize Nnuudy She told Seprmilirr
mat ID man wanted Co SEQ him. hut ua
Mr SevEmlllDr was lying down be- rr-
puustud her o. ask the man In. iloundv
refused 90 gu in saying be- wanted 90
talk with Seegmillcr Whrreupun Mr..
SurEmlllpr got up and followed
Nj goundy out TO the barn yard There
they We're seen TO converse fuf few
minutes. when shot was fred and two
OF secgmlllcrH hired hands. looking out
ut the window, saw Noundy fire two
more shots az SepEmillyr uH the latter
was running Tor shelter. A. the nrst
shot he wheeled and fol- AZ this. Mt.
hnNder. mo 81 feerinl Ter hands called
un Ruuudy a. stop Intending 90 put
him under arrest lloundy replied. m
you want me. Nj snyder you viii find
ME az my house. and az once lgft Tor
his house.
Snyder ran 10 assist soegmiiler. and
Emma brought uamph1r bottle. etc. to
revive him. but be- died ln about ten
minutes without speaking a word. ale
though conscious
one shot took effect In the loft shoul-
der HhattcriuE the same la "a dreadful
manner, one shot entered the left side,
ana the last shot through hl- heart.
an the shots coming out In front
EUundy lu passing hlH brother byron .
place, called to The latter and said. tell
your father I killed SgeEmIllor." lie
then proceeded tu hiH barn put up the
horse ha had been riding, and went In
90 the house, inpuiring uf his son for
hs mother, lie went Into the Kitchen
and said 90 his wife. Good bye I have
KILLED Seegmillor. that Be-, I have shot
him three times. 4 am going
lie then shook hands
with his vito and hl8 SON, bidding them
! good bye, They prevented him from
! going when hr said. LET mo go. quick,
! flr Snyder ~ after mo with % gun"
| liH then went out TO the barn, they
] following him Co the gate. thinking 10
/ Intercept him there Tor further particu-
lars.
While standing there they heard "a
/ shot, ANA rushing 10 the barn found him
] expiring, with n bullet through his
/ heart, fired boy his own hand from a
I thlrty-twu Culiher revolver he having
| shot SecgmlIer with % fnrty-four colts,
] Upon word reaching kHn1h President
| WUpllcy and the county attorney At
| once repaired 10 the scoug impaneled
l "a Jury, ana found they both came 10
/ their death as detailed above.
They were buried yesterday after
/ noon az Upper kuuab President Wool
! ley aud Chamberlain Of knnhb aud
] President Crosby OF punguitch. with
! ward officials and others being present
a deep gloom pervudrs our town both
| men having b,on highly respected and
/ Influential citizens
kuulb ala not celebrate yesterday
! because Of the tragedy.