Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-01-27
fiction BUREAU
STILL GRINDING.
,.s,on.Colored Story of Race Ro-
''' nance and Dire Tragedy
Ia Utah
SUICIDE FOLLOWS SUICIDE.
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|, Adj, to Get Material For
A Good Story

81, ec,ion bureau in Salt Lake Is
-, s,,nding out It's lurid products
WV o'..,loraly the mill is put to work
=, some story that is not necessarily
W sNormou," but that only when
o., &c better money In sight
'rs,rb appears to have been the case
sssr the following was written FOR
a. Denver Post and which appeared
Wv ma, raper on Sunday last under a
81, lake date line OF jan 49, From
-. ho.derland where Titan, Arizona
us Ns1ada Join there has come
n.I rge true story Of love, devotion
sH IS ",9ragedy that might well form the
Sg. for a thrilling novel; Out theie'
.ssra nature and men are crude
pa And uutamed, two characters
E..ssioneJ as strong and true and
gS'a,ihl as any TO be found In the
,ims OF romantic hction' a.. 49,.
TSs woman was Mary Darling the
-" was George Travers, or their
N az .,orred love and Its terrible ell
~.y The ranchmen and cowboys stlll
,nsak IN whispers
Hyser Kanab, Utah. on the ranch OF
o.ssr Powers. Mary Darling was TAX
iran she was a little babe. A year
ss me was III beautiful, and the most
S 1ssS,tsd glr In the little settled dis
, ,.l', in which she lived. In Mary's
Vas there flowed the blood of the first
o,5s OF the soil, though to small ex-
,.nt So slight was the trace OF IN
S,r ancestry that the girl appeared
y, erst glance to be a Caucaslon, al
,sopeh a slight trace Of Spanish blood
rIsb, have been suspected. In hair.
s,rS and figure she had nothing IN
' '@r, with the PIutes, although II
nss Known that her grandmother had
bssn OF that race Since infancy she
s,d been one OF the Powers family
,,sats5 AS one Of themselves, and IN
sysry way regarded az white girl,
wbat little education could be pro-
.nrs5 IN the cattle country she mad
made the most of Many men Of the
,,rroundlng .anches paid hum
Ts court 10 '.e dark-haired beauty,
mt She laug,ed them all away
LOVE ENTERS HER LIFE.
Tssn George Travers came into her
me- with him she learned the mean
ng Of love the greatest Joy, the deep
IN woe, for him, finally, she laid down
her lfe
George Travers had spent most OF
lis years In trying TO wrest fortune
fom the hills OF Nevada and Utah. He
ni won a comfortable competence. He
"a, biz. handsome, athletic, as rugged
a he land that gave him sustenance.
Ga day while she was riding on the
tis Marys pony stepped into hole,
gnbIed, threw his Rider, and fell on
hr George Trayers, riding that way,
found the girl with a spralned. ankle,
picked up the slight form, and carried
htr On his horse to the ranch house, 10
miles away
That was a year ago. The prelimln-
ly counting was brief. Within two
weeks Mary and the young prospector
had discovered that they loved each
other and agreed 10 marry. Apparent
y theirs vas happy case,
JOYOUS PLANS FOR THEIR
GIRL"
The kindly old ranchman and his
wife, who had been the foster parents
Of the girl were anxious only for her
happiness, and the miner, with neither
kh nor kin to bother about him, was
free agent to marry whom he chose.
About this time Mary wrote to a school
GIL friend who had moved to Salt
Lake;
4 used TO think was happy, but /
DID not dream there could be so much