The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-04-26
FINAL HUNT FOR
BODY Of BULLOCK
Although Discouraged, Friends
Have Not Given Up
Task.
WILL AGAIN GO OVER
EVERY FOOT OF GROUND
Also Will Once More Delve Into
Depths of the Jordan
River.

Tho hunt for ]. NJ Bullock atill goes
on. Though no new clue has been dis
covered, no sign TO signify his present
whereabouts. footprint to indicate the
course taken by the crratic wandcrer the
persistent searchers continue to explore
every nook and corner OF tho country for
miles In oil directions from the city, hop
ms against hope that some thicket,
stream, canyon or cnve may bo found
which affords a hiding place for tho de-
mented man. or place OF concealment
for his dead body.
Hat Bought at Hub.
II Is now known that the hat which has
from the day OF Bullocks disappear
ance played such an important part
in the story OF the missing man. was pur-
chased at the Hub Clothing store on
First South street, but that fact amounts
10 next To nothing. Bullock simply paid
~ cents for the hat and walked away.
no one In the store paying the slightest
having the smallest interest in his
identity The act OF buying that hat.
however. was the last positively known
act OF James Bullock.
On Banks Of River
To be sure this cheap piece of head
gear was found two days later on the
banks OF the River Jordan. bearing OH
tho brm. The Tribune has several
times published. the penciled line. Il am
Bullock. ! am dead but the official
search which followed the finding of the
hat, the dragging and dynamiting OF the
stream nj the point where II was picked
up, the beating OF the bushes and raklng
OF the country round about as though
with a fine tooth comb. left the man
hunters deeper in the dark than they had
been when the search began.
All Traces Lost.
Then came the story. published exclu-
sively in The Tribune. OF the blood
hound hunt for the lost auarryman-the
John Brown. travelled the toilsome trail.
of how they struck the track OF the fugi-
tive and followed II with feverish hope
lost it-picked II up, and, finally stopped
short at point where all traces OF the
hunted man had disappeared as com
pletely as though he had mounted to the
clouds sunk into the bowels OF the
earth.
Still Persevering.
But. baked n. they have been al cvory
turn. harrassed by idle rumors which
arose from no one knows where. worn
and weary and half dead from the long,
brothers OF the missing man still per-
severe, declaring that they Will never
abandon the hunt until they find James
Bullock. dead or alive While there are
tiles.
VIII Make 1t Thorough
II may they say. be that this mountain
side was not thoroughly gone over. or
that canyon was not completely explored.
Maybe this brush grown slope was not
beaten out to its uttermost limits or that
stream dragged to its darkest and deepest
depths. So, over and over the ground
until James Bullock alive. shall yield to
them some sign, or James Bullock, dead
shall Yield TO the action OF the elements
and show the searchers where their friend
and brother breathed his last.
Will Again Search River.
=. Brown and the bullock boys informed
Sergeant Roberts Wednesday that they
intend Friday morning TO again direct
their attention to the Jordan river at and
near the point at which the mysterious
hat WAS found-thc point where the police
Gonducted their operations last Sunday,
This is AT Pettits dam, only short dis
search of the river this time viii be on on
n larger scale than that OF last Sunday
and VIII extend below as we'll as above
the dam.
Experiments Are Made.
During the past few days number of
the friends and relatives TO believe that
the recent efforts TO grapple the body
With hooks or, raise II by explosives were
not as complete as they might have been
A barrel was ioated down the stream
many times 10 ascertain what direction
IL would take and where II would bring
Up after striking and passing over the
dam.
Went Over the Dam.
Indeed. II was not known, and hardly
oelleved, that the big cask would find It's
way over the dam. but in every instance
i did so. ard. instead OF hurrying on
down the swift flowing stream as II
would naturally be supposed TO do. II In
yarlably swung into the swishing eddy
at the right bank below the dam and re-
meined there
Final Effort Friday
This Is the course, It Is thought that a
dead pody would take and proceeding on
the larger part OF their efforts at the
point mentioned below tho dam