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tumn scene is yellow. This yellow Is caused by waste matter-stuff that is left behind as useless when the little pumps take in the material that makes the green color; and crystals of lime that were left when the chemical fac tories of the plant turned the albumen into liquid so it could be pumped, also help to make the yellow.
 To change the starchy matter into sweet liquid another chemical process is used, and as it does not succeed well if the light is too strong the plants man. ufacture curious substance which turns red the moment 1t touches any of the many acids that exist in almost all leaves
 Thus the red, yellow and orange colors or the autumn woods are anything ex- cept mere tricks of nature, intended only to delight. As everybody knows, these tints are especially powerful for resisting the passage of the suns rays; further more they have the property of changing light into heat. This heat again spurs all the plants cells to new activity, so the autumn foliage of the woods is by no means sign of sleep, It is then that the chemical laboratories are at their most feverish toll.
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BOOK SPECULATION.
Money Can Be Made By Selling Rare
 Volumes.
From Stray Stories.

From Stray Stories.
 The original subscribers for copy of King Edward VII. prayer book. which after nearly three years labor has just been completed find themselves in the happy position of being able to sell their claim to a copy for nearly ten times the original subscription If they feel inclined to do so.
 Ten copies were printed on vellum. and two years ago the subscription for . copy was s200 The price today for copy is s1,S00, which was obtained by one of the original subscribers quite recently.
 An edition de luxe of shelley's poems was subscribed for not long ago at s7.5O per copy. The volumes took some six months to prepare, and fifty copies were issued. Some months after the edition came out one of the subscribers disposed of two copies at the remunerative figure of S3O0.
 Not long since a well known dealer bought mp the whole of an elaborate edi- ton of Milton's poems. The edition con- sisted of 100 volumes, each costing the dealer $15.
 He put five on the market in New York some time later. and they secured the fairly profitable figure of s75 a piece. The dealer finally disposed of the re- mainder at an average figure of sl65 for each book
 Subscribing for high priced books with i a view to making money on them is. how | ever, risky work fo- an amateur who l has no real knowledge of the book mar
 ket The speculator in high priced edi- | tions must be prepared to lose. The av- craze individual who makes money over books. as a rule. does so unexpectedly.
 and for reasons of which he is entirely | ignorant.
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He Saw Double.

From Chicago News.
 Naggs-What did your wife say when she let you in at 3 o'clock In the morning? Jaggs-I was so frightened l didn't hear what she said.
 Naggs-What frightened you?
 l thought I was a bigamist.
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One Better.

From the Detroit Free Press.
 Little Betty-My sister has new hat trimmed with humming birds.
 Little Johnny-H'm, that's nothing! Ma has bees in her bonnet-I heard Pa say so.
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The Newest Things in WOmens s Footwear

our minds and hearts to Chirsts will. o man, O woman, the greatest enemy Of Jesus Christ today is not the infldel and scoffer outside of the church. It is the man and the woman inside of the church who do not cooperate with Jesus in his purpose to save the world for Christ through the agency of his church. If we yield ourselves to his will even the small est and most insignificant can become mighty for God for as Joshua hath said; "One man of you shall chase thousand for the Lord your God he it is that fghteth for you. as he hath promised you. Take good heed, therefore, unto yourselves that ye love the Lord your God"
 St. Marks of Venice.
 The symbol of the dove which Isaiah uses to describe the church could not be better illustrated than by the spectacle in the great square of Venice, which is fanked on the one side by the famous Cathedral of St. Mark. With but few | exceptions l have seen all the great i cathedrals of the world. I have seen some as white as that of St. Peters, whose walls even though they may be l hundreds of years old, seem to be as | white as the whitest of alabaster. l | have seen some dark as an Africans skin, | others red as an Indians. l have seen some cathedrals which impressed me by their gigantic size The higher l climbed on the roof of Milans greatest structure the more my awe and bewilderment. I have seen some that were perfect poems in stone. But. take it all in all though 1t cost not nearly as much as some oth- CTS, the most impressive cathedral ever saw was St. Marks of Venice.
 Like unto natural scenery, St. Marks is the Yellowstone park, not the Yosem- ite or the Gothard pass, among the cath edrals. It impressed me not with it's size so much as it's exquisite colorings, its roof, its walls, it's arcades, all blended as the colors of rainbow frozen in stone. The tops of it's lofty columns were not hideous with grimy gargoyles. They
 were chiseled into flower gardens. which grew at your feet or with their leaves hung down from above. These different flower gardens were go perfectly chiseled ! that it seemed as if the winds, sweeping
 up from the Venetian canals were gently ! swaying them as the rosebushes bending
 under the touch of a summer breeze in
 your fathers garden.
 over the front doorway were the four 1 massive bronze horses which Napoleon i carried away to Paris after his conquest in Italy. but which the overthrow of the Bonaparte dynasty restored to their places. With arched neck and snewy limb like creatures of life they seemed l just ready for q battlefield charge or a
 run over the hills after the hounds or a gentle caress by mistress or chivalric | knight. There, within those walls the l chancei and auditorium blend in such per- feet harmony that when I stood before
 the altars picture of the dying Christ
 I felt for the first time in a European i cathedral that I was In the presence oi God and in the place of prayer.
 Gods Feathered Loved Ones. But. though I saw many places in the l Venice cathedral that entranced me
 after all, my greatest lesson learned there
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Gospel Tri.Imphs.

In the first place. let me say that such a movement as this, foreseen by the profit and prefgured under the symbol of flight of doves, is in accord with the record of history. Again and again there have been revivals which have brought into the church vast numbers at one time. Since the day of Pentecost, when 5000 were converted under the preaching of the apostle Peter, there have been such great movements. How many were won to the truth by the teaching of Luther? What vast multitudes were gathered un- der the preaching of a Wesley, a Whit field, Finney and a Moody and of a Torrey and a Chapman. a Munhall and a Harrison of the present day We know that Peter the Hermit, clad, like John the Baptist, in untanned skins, walked through Europe, lifting high in his hands the cruciflx, until thousands and tens of thousands of devotees were ready, In 1o96 to follow this enthusiastic ascetic to Palestine as the advance guard of the crusaders. We know that thousands upon thousands of Cromarty miners used to hang upon the words of John Wesley m the early mornings at o'clock, before their days work begun. We know that no building was large enough to hold the crowds who wanted to hear Moody. Great halls had to be erected in Boston and New York and Chicago to hold the huge audiences. The Philadelphia denot on account of its great size had to be used in place of church. Thousands upon thousands found Christ in the re- vivals Of the seventeenth century under the preaching of the Puritans. Tbou- sands upon thousands found Christ in
 the Methodist revivals of the eighteenth
 century. Thousands upon thousands
 found Christ in the first part of the nineteenth century, when Charles c. Fin
 ney had such power over sinners that a
 dying blasphemer said, Don't Iet
 Charles G. Finney preach my funeral
 sermon, or he will preach my soul into
 heaven in spite of my own desires"
 A Flight o. Doves.
 The selection of figure of a flight
 of doves is significant. It is, above other things, a suggestion of immense multi tudes. But few people realize the mar
 velous numbers and propagating powers of the doves of olden times Biberg tba ornithologist estimated that if q con- mon pair of domesticated r.gecns matched | nine times year-whfch number of
 hatchings IS not extraordinary for an av- craze pair of these birds-and if these
 pigeons laid two eggs at one time. and | all the fedglings which were matched | should live and hatch in turn, that single pair of pigeons would produce fin four years nearly fifteen thousands descend ants. The fecui iity of the dove Is about as great as the reproductive powers of
 the English sparrow or the Australian rabbit. The most graphic description ever written of the innumerable multi tudes of the doves was penned by Alex
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Gods Feathered Loved Ones.

But. though I saw many places in the Venice cathedral that entranced me, after all, my greatest lesson learned there was outside the cathedral walls and not within. l learned that lesson there not from the cold stones of building, but from the warm hearts of living doves. There. from behind the towers and from
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-02
Jul MURDER Is OUT
AFTER SEVEN YEARS
Continued From Page ons.>

lHgton- ~ " 'i9is
He had drifted westward and was
Norklng as q teamster and in ofher
eapdctLies. At Terrace, Utah. he met
= ooed ana Won Mrs. Elizabeth wilson.
l'es Hancock, divorced wife Of "a
wealthy salt Lake man.
Liquor was his weakness. It made
MN AZ tines a. demon. After some five
ye4Es q welded life his wife Ief. him
Dscause o. MS abuse. He espoused the
cup more warmly. and though he him
self had a reputation for honesty on
tne common ground of debauchery ne
met and became 81 companion Of Abra-
ham Hunter. common thief.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-02

picture Of Wretcheuness when seen il
her cell at the jail yesterday afternoon.
Her face plainly shows the traces Of
years of dissipation ard trouble through
which she has passed. she declared
she was glad the arrests had been made
and hoped that the guilty parties would
be punished and her name cleared fer
ner children's sake
when Beutler was murdered the po-
lice dragged me from my home and
threw ne into jail on the charge Of
killing him. Ny life was ruined ami
even though 7 was adjudged not guilty.
people would point me out on the street
and say: There gees the woman THAI
killed her husband
Il hope. now. for ms children's sake.
that the mystery will be cleared up.
don't care for myself. but please keep
my childrens names out of the paper
When asked if she believed Hunter
guilty OF the crime, Mrs. Beuuer re-
piled:
Il don't know about Hunter. but I al
ways did think Rice was implicated.
( When he was brought into the police
station shortly after the murder and
saw me- 1 could tell by the expression
on his face that he was guilty.
THE day before Beutler was muir
/ dered, Rice called at my home al Muir
ray and asked where the old man
lived. He said that friend had some
I'm breIlas that he wanted repaired
and wanted Beutler's address 50 as to
( secure the job for him"
/ Rice denied yesterday that he called
/ upon Mrs Beutler at the time referred
! TO- He admitted that he was at her
/ house several days prior TO the murder
/ but he said he went there on bust
ness" and denied asking Mrs. Beutler
for her former husbands address.
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THE SALT LAKE HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY , 1904


when they Separated. shortly after
ward she married Fred Beutler, the
man who Is believed 70 have been muir
dered by Hunter. Rice and Muncy. IN
speaking Of her second husband az the
county jail yesterday afternoon. Mrs
Beutler said.
BeUtier was an umbrella repatrer
and made considerable money he was
q miser and starved himself and me
until 1 was finally forced 10 leave him.
"Beutler would not trust the banks
with his money. Only once did he ever
make 2 deposit. and that night he was
unable TO sleep for fear the place would
20 broke The next morning he. has
tened UPTOWN and drew the money ne
had deposited and never after that had
any business with a bank.
"Beutler kept his money in two buck
skin bags which ne always carried with
him. He always kept them in rear
trousers pocket, and when walking
along the street kept his hand on the
bags constantly. When he would go
&c bed at night he would place the two
bags III der his pillow, and every time
be CHANGED TO wake in the night would
make > e that the bags were still
there.
q done know how much money he
had. as he would never let me handle
the bags. He must have had quite q
sum, though, for he never placed any
thing but gold coins in the buckskin
Lags He was very stingy and forced
us 10 live on almost nothing. II Beut-
Ter had no change smaller than s.
gold piece he would make me eat bread
and water until he made some more
money. I lived with him for a while,
out his misery ways finally became 80
unbearable that was forced 10 leave
him.
Mrs BeutIsr presented striking
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-02

with the same Indifferent air and
shifty gaze that he has borne count
less times in the past when charged
with petty crimes, Abe Hunter listened
to the accusation of murder and made
his usual plea.
4 don't know a thing about it" he
said. land haven't any idea Why they
have me here.
Petty thief. drunkard and vagrant."
This is the description of Hunter given
by a police officer who has dealt with
him in times past. It was estimated
yesterday that Hunter has been in the
clutches of the law no less than TWEEN
ty-fve times. His long suit" vas
stealing chickens. and so many times
has he been convicted on the charge OF
robbing hen roosts that he has come
to be known in police circles as
Chicken Hunter
Abraham Hunter was born in this
city fifty years ago. He YVES son of
Isaac Hunter. who lived for a number
Of years in the Sixteenth ward. When
Hunter was 9 years old, ii is claimed,
he committed his first crime by steal
ing a horse Since that time his name
regular intervals for crimes ranging
from drunkenness TO petty larceny.
Once he was suspected Of highway rob-
berry, bat was released after being de-
tanned at the station for several hours.
Tor d number OF years Hunter en-
gagged in hoTsetTading. Lately. how
ever, according to the police. he has
scorned labor Of any kind and spent
most Of his time ioafng about saloons
and begging drinks.
When seen yesterday at the county
Jail. Hunter was willing 10 talk, but
said ne knew nothing about the crime.
His eyes shifted nervOUs.y about the
room, but otherwise he appeared to be
perfectly calm and collected.
Hunter strenuousiy denied any con
neetion with the murder and said that
Murcy lied when he accused him.
WHY, he wasn't there, himself. so
how can he know anything about it,
How do you know he was not
there?" queried Sheriff Emery.
Seeing that he had made a bad break,
Hunter replied with some hesitancy;
We'll, / was told that Jack Rice ard
another man did the job
Hunter has gray hair and mus
tache and beard Of the same color. He
has light blue eyes that keep continu-
ally shifting about When arrested
Hunter wore a shabby suit Of clothes
and was covered with vermin. he was
! immersed in a solution of carbOiiC acid
and water. provided with new clothing
and then placed in the upper tier OF the
rotary.
During the past year Hunter has be2a
arrested for the following offences:
! Nay 81, 1868. he was convicted Of steal
ing CHECKERS and given a sentence Of
thirty days: April Il. convicted OF
Il 1yarrg-ce. Given Gz-a dave
convicted Of stealing suit Of clothes
sentenced To forty days. In the month
: of November Hunter was arrested on
suspicion of having nald up two boys at
the point Of q revolver and stoleE some
groceries. but sufficient evidence could
not be- secured 10 warrant holding him
cor trial so he was released.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-02
RICE is ANNOYED AND
DECLARES He is INNOCENT

just once yesterday afternoon did
Jack Rice lift his eyes from the floor
fOrN any length Of time. AT the re-
peatcd request of the photographer,
Rice Strengthened Up and gszed at an
object n the photographer's hand until
his picture had been taken. Then he
pulled his hat down over his eyes once
more and ceutered his vision on the
floor.
Rice is 80 years old and rather small
in stature He was dressed yesterday
somewhat after the fashion OF q sheep
herdeT. He wore q soft blue shirt.
si0UCh hat and a pair OF OveralIs. He
kept the hat pulled down over his eyes
and most Of the time had his hands in
his pockets. His face is covered with
a sandy beard of several weeks growti:
and his hair is rather long and has an
unkempt appearance
For hours yesterday afternoon Rice
paced back and forth I'm his cell In
nervous manner. His eyes were con
tinuGiiy fastened on the cement floor
aad most of The time he was smoking
cigarette. He was aveTse 10 talking
and answered most of the questions
put - him by a single word. When in
formed that his companions had
''peached" on him, he said sarcastical-
":
1T was very kind Of them 80 impli-
cate themselves. Their stories won't
stick, though. for 7 can prove positively
that I was not here when the murder
was committed"
he would not tell where he was at the
time but said 1t would all come out 81
the trial, and he added:
II hope they don't keep me here for
two or three months without giving me
a trial. 1 want to get this thing over
with as soon as possible"
Rice IS a married man and has a wife
and Eve children living az Grantsville.
The youngest ore is years old and
The oldest one y.
It was learned yesterday that Rice
was arrested In 1896 on the charge Of
stealing tallOw from q slaughter house
near this city. He was convicted and
sentenced to serve SIX months in the
county jail. Rice used q wagon be-
longing TO George Muncy 10 haul the
tallow away from the slaughter house.
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Long and tedious was the process Do
which Sheriff Frank Emery and mis-
force of deputies ferrcted out the men
who are charged with the murder %
Fred Beutler, and secured sufficient
evidence 6te warrant their arrest. The
task occupied a period OF several
months during which time the sheriff
and his men have worked cay and
night i'm their effort TO discover tine
guilty parties. At times officers have
Swallowed Hunter and Muncy during
drunken carousals i'm saloons. often
spending whole nights in this manner
They have spent hours iu listening
with their ears against Il crack In the
wall OF Muncy's room IN the hope that
he would make some reference @ the
crime that might give the officers a
clue 10 the perpetrators OF the murder
After more Tran three months OF the
hardest kind of detective work. Sheriff
Emery and his deputies, prominent
auoug whom are Andrew Smith, jrr
IS. r. Booth and Fred Butler. succeed
SO In locating three men and obtaining
81 full confession from one of them. II
& q piece of work Of which the sheriff
and his men can wen be proud
sheriR's First Glue
sheriff Frank Emery received his
derers some months ago. At that time
1Irs. Muucy called at the jail and re-
ported that her husband was content
plating a robbery. while investigating
the woman's story the sheriff discov-
cred something that led him tO believe
that Muncv was Implicated IN the Beut-
Der murder.
At this time Muncy and his wife
were ro0ming in the cid Jewish Syua-
cogue on First West and Third South
streets. Sheriff EMERY secretly secured
the room adjoining those occupied By
Muncy and his wife and since that
tinle the different deputy snerins have
taken turns Staying there at nights IN
the hone Of cverheariug some allUsion
20 the crime. Abe Hunter was also
carefully watched ana several times Of
neers were detailed 10 spend the night
with him. drinking ia saloons hoping
TO get him 70 make a statement OF the
AFFAIR during his drunken moments.
Not. however until last tuesday
nsEht did the officers lying in wait at
1Funey's house hear anything Of value
IL connection with the case. Deputy
Sheriffs Andrew Smith. jr- and v.
j.. Booth were in the adjoining rooms.
4vIth their ears close - a crack in the
partition bstWeen them ana Muncy
and his wife
A man and his vile were calling on
aEr. and Mrs. Muncy. The converse
ton turned 10 the murder Of q soldier
ir T'sovo some years ago, which Muncy
said was committed by Peter Baum.
After the visitors had gone, Mrs Mum
CT remarked:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-02
ABE HUNTER A NOTORIOUS CHARACTER
HAS BAD RECORD IN POLICE CIRCLES

ing a G. A. r bronze button, who
drove one of the B. & .. Transfer COM
pany's vans. That was George W.
Muncy. While he was packing goods
and loading or unloading furniture
within the last seven years he was
going around with the knowledge that
he vas a murderer. Perhaps he was
thinking actively Of his crime.
Muncy is a. man Of striking appear
ance. due principally to his large frame
and his manner OF wearing his whis-
kers. His shoulders droop as a result
OF age. dissipation and his occupation.
He talks readily and easily, although
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in the city although her whereabouts
are known 70 only Sheriff Frank En-
cry and some Of his deputies. She
VII remain here until after the trial
and is expected 10 he one OF the best
Witnesses against the accused men, as
1t Is believed she knows considerable
about the crime.
Airs. Muncy has already aided the Of
fcers 10 some extent and it IS thought
that since her husband has turned
states evidence and confessed 70 his
part in the crime she can help them
further The sheriff does not think il
necessary TO place Mrs. Muney IN Jail
to keep her here for the trial. and has
allowed her to remain at her rooms.
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his language is collooaial and fun Of
grammatical flaws.
on one point he is especially proud.
and that is his war record. More than
one person who knows him has listened
10 him as he Tec0unted his experiences
with Grant. OF with Sherman in the
march through Georgia. and has hooked
at the deep scar still remaining whers
a mime bah entered bis arm. on the
subject OF the murder he was reticent
yesterday TO all save Sheriff Emery
and Assistant County Attorney Whit
aker.
II have told my story and the sheriff
has asked me not 10 talk TO anybody
about the case he said. e want to
90 as ne says. That's the reason I
don't care to say anything.
But he did relate, as stated previous
Is. what q terrible burden ne had been
carrying, and what q relief confession
Was. after an.
Mrs. George Muncy. Who has played
such an important part in the un-
travelling of the murder mystery. is still
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-02
MRS. BEUTLER TELLS OF THE LIFE OF
MISERY SHE LED WITH MlSER HUSBAND

A pretty girl Of IS years vas Miss
Harriet .AIsfee. u0w Mrs. Beutler, when
she married ABE Hunter IN this city
twenty-five years ago. Born IN Eng
lana AIRS Bewier came TO Utah when
= girl. upon The conversion % Ilet par
onts to the Mormon faith. she was
sI1en all The ADVANTAGES 49, - -
such AN early period anu -, ~
,-ere acouai1tea with her IS sifl say
sat s.5e r-as educated AID good look
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