Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 311, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1913 — CHARLES ILIFF WAS MURDERED IN CANADA [ARTICLE]

CHARLES ILIFF WAS MURDERED IN CANADA

Son of Stearns Iliff Found Shot to Death in His Cabin in British Columbia. Relatives of Chafjes Iliff, formerly of this county, but, for some years a resident of the west and for the past eigln; years residing at Lac la Che. British Columbia, Canada, have been notified hf murder. His parents, Mr. and airs. Stearns Iliff, his sister, Mrs. Riley Tullis, and three brothers, George, Will and Ulysses, all reside iii this county, south of Rensselaer. Only meagre accounts of the killing of Iliff have reached here and it will probably be several days before the full particulars are received. Iliff, according to the reports by - telegraph, was- found—deatL Jn his cabin, prpbably on Christmas day. He worked some as a surveyor and helped in locating prospecting parties and is presumed to have also either taken out a claim there or to have purchased some land. Lac la Che is 195 miles from a railroad and up almost to Alaska. It was the intention of niff’s friends there to ship the remains back to Rensselaer for burial, providing the body could be taken to a railway station. There are no regular roads there arid at this time of the year the ground is covered with snow and it is very difficult to follow the trails. Kurther word is expected daily. Mr. Iliff was about 37 years of age and had been in the west and northwest since he was a boy of fifteen. He paid a visit to his relatives in this county about six year* ago. All kinds of hard and soft coal at the Grant-Warner Lumber Co., Phone 458.