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caught and arrested the man. Later, when his trial was to be held in Beaver, Mr. Phillips sent for Lehi to be a witness. Here he met the famous cattle rustler, Jim hlarshall, who had helonged to the Ku Klux Klan during the Civil War and was the employer of the defendant. Jim Marshall tried to bribe Lehi and used every method he could think of to xet him to drink, but in vain. However, he was able ta buy off the rest of the witnesses, thus making their testimony invalid. Lehi alone, was able to identify the man and the horses that he recognized during the cattle drive, and his testimony convicted the man who was then sentenced to two years of prison. When Jim Marshall came to Cedar City some time after this, he looked Lehi up and told him that he intended to steal him blind because of what he had done. However, not long after this, Jim Marshall died, a drunkard. Years later, Lehi met the young man who had been convicted, and he thanked Lehi, saying that it had been the turning point in his life. After lie served his sentence, he found work and was living a good life.' Late in the fall of 1878, Lehi's younger hrother Kumen was camping at Antelope Springs, about twenty miles west of Cedar City, with the Co-op herd plus some of the Jones cattle, keeping a lookout for cattle rustlem. He was riding in the mountains south of the springs when he ran across a corral Imilt in a canyon in very thick cedars. Tracks in the skiff of new-fallen snow showed that an outfit had left that morning with a wagon loaded with beef. Signs showed plainly that two critters had been butchered the night hefore. Kumen dismounted and set fire to the corral which readily burned, as it had been built of dry timber piled together. When he was headed hark to camp he met a man on foot with a gun on his shoulder. about a mile from the burning corral. The man told Kunien that he was prospecting for mineral. This story Kumen dnuhted hut was not disposed just then to arxue the point with him, but made inquiries ahout horses that he supposedly was looking for. When the stranger noticed the heavy smoke ring over the hill and wondered what it was, Kumen told him it was likely Indians and said he was in il hurry as he was meeting other men. He headed for his lonely camp and, after a few days, came to Cedar City.' Kumen stated in his diary as follows: "The next trip out, there were five or six of us,' and we were all 'armed for hear.' T h e first night we unexpectedly ran into a camp of the rustlers, and prospectors, who were a little worse surprised than we, as they thought it was some of their own party that they were looking for. They were rattled and some of themso frightened that they could hardly talk, and expected us to order 'hands up all?' I t took some time for the natural color to return to their fares. The next morning, when they saw that we had found whrre a dressed

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Title	Lehi Willard Jones: Biography
Creator	Jones, York F., 1925-; Jones, Evelyn K.
Subject	Jones, Lehi Willard, 1854-1947; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History; Mormon Church -- Utah
Description	Life of Lehi Willard Jones, centering in Cedar City, Utah, 1854-1947, and history of much of the development of Southern Utah
Source	Lehi Willard Jones
Date Digital	2008-01
Date Original	1972
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Contributing Institution	Digitized by: Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah
Publisher	Woodruff Printing Company
Language	eng
Genre	Biography
Website	http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/lehiwillardjones.html
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CONTENTdm file name	1334.cpd

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Description	caught and arrested the man. Later, when his trial was to be held in Beaver, Mr. Phillips sent for Lehi to be a witness. Here he met the famous cattle rustler, Jim hlarshall, who had helonged to the Ku Klux Klan during the Civil War and was the employer of the defendant. Jim Marshall tried to bribe Lehi and used every method he could think of to xet him to drink, but in vain. However, he was able ta buy off the rest of the witnesses, thus making their testimony invalid. Lehi alone, was able to identify the man and the horses that he recognized during the cattle drive, and his testimony convicted the man who was then sentenced to two years of prison. When Jim Marshall came to Cedar City some time after this, he looked Lehi up and told him that he intended to steal him blind because of what he had done. However, not long after this, Jim Marshall died, a drunkard. Years later, Lehi met the young man who had been convicted, and he thanked Lehi, saying that it had been the turning point in his life. After lie served his sentence, he found work and was living a good life.' Late in the fall of 1878, Lehi's younger hrother Kumen was camping at Antelope Springs, about twenty miles west of Cedar City, with the Co-op herd plus some of the Jones cattle, keeping a lookout for cattle rustlem. He was riding in the mountains south of the springs when he ran across a corral Imilt in a canyon in very thick cedars. Tracks in the skiff of new-fallen snow showed that an outfit had left that morning with a wagon loaded with beef. Signs showed plainly that two critters had been butchered the night hefore. Kumen dismounted and set fire to the corral which readily burned, as it had been built of dry timber piled together. When he was headed hark to camp he met a man on foot with a gun on his shoulder. about a mile from the burning corral. The man told Kunien that he was prospecting for mineral. This story Kumen dnuhted hut was not disposed just then to arxue the point with him, but made inquiries ahout horses that he supposedly was looking for. When the stranger noticed the heavy smoke ring over the hill and wondered what it was, Kumen told him it was likely Indians and said he was in il hurry as he was meeting other men. He headed for his lonely camp and, after a few days, came to Cedar City.' Kumen stated in his diary as follows: "The next trip out, there were five or six of us,' and we were all 'armed for hear.' T h e first night we unexpectedly ran into a camp of the rustlers, and prospectors, who were a little worse surprised than we, as they thought it was some of their own party that they were looking for. They were rattled and some of themso frightened that they could hardly talk, and expected us to order 'hands up all?' I t took some time for the natural color to return to their fares. The next morning, when they saw that we had found whrre a dressed 59
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