Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-05-23
WAS HE DROWNED?
Will Taylor, Of This City, Said 10
b. Lost on The Columbia River.
LEFT SALT LAKE FOUR WEEKS AGO
A Stranger Writes 10 the Young Mans
Sweetheart Telling Her Of Her
Lovers Death.


Four weeks ago two young men left
their homca in tho Tenth ward Ia this
city to become wanderers over tho iaco
Of the country with no particular de.
sire or care as to how or where they
ehould travel. They were full Of life,
iar,,, or,i ,,,,,i,I,n and w.ro tho,.
So W."
oushiy Hhoueu WIN tno sp''lt I"
adventure. fhey weTo VIII Taylor
son OF William Taylor, foreman OF
picia,t,s s.d,i, ,,,,, h.rne,s .bon md
80. $500,
NViie hit@heu, aull VI 'Vhh MIN
man nn old anu well known bait
l.akcr,
n, ,,.ot,,,, g,,, F,.rct.co a ..,r,.
=, -
they secut'u employment OF eolho
/ kind on ono VI the steamers which
Piled tho watefa of the Pacific ocean
| a,d ,h,, r,tnr,bie ,,v., and a. 4.
|
Oeio'eo were "o'Nins 'ne'' why
| northwafd.
| Last night n young lady ia tho
r.,in wa,J ,yb, la anil Ia hnvs been
- -. -.
sweetheart OF young iayIoi ""9
I HA'NNfN FhHhkNh ehh hshNN'f VS.
ceivin, a letter from nm inter stranger
a,,nnnotn, tho a,d n.ws NJ her
a""'""S"b '"o '''
IoNet'S ueAtn' inc uh"eicVhne cVhl'
municaiion was penned at Portland,
OREGON. on the 18Th Inst. 1t contained
Information 10 tho effect that ON the
pight OF the l7th The captain OF
the stenmer on which himself mud
the two Young experiences seeking
Salt I,alkers were engaged, ordered
paylnr ON deck as .iniyhtwAtch,O The
MINT wae stormy and cold and Tay.
Tor beinp unnceustomed TO that kind
of work rpuueslcd that nm old hand hs
mt ON In his stead or Mt least that no
be given a compnuIon, Tho captain,
M h,id. grew furious anu resorted to
a fusiladc OF oxplclives for which old
ogarsO are notoi. Having relieved
himself somewhat he went OIL deck.
Some houra later the s,eamer II said to
nave struck a sand bar In the Column
lila river about one hundred miles be-
low Portland, Just OIL Astoria, and
toppled over on il side,
Young Taylor il said TO have fallen
. into the river nnd was drowned. The
stream, ia very wide ut this uoint and
, inc writer VINO signs himself. 'Shohai''
. says n was a mile and a half to shore.
Y nnJ that Al waa impossible for Taylor
!. 10 have reached IL alive. He says the
A shin "lays on her side and WIN IL
surely dead.O He admonished Mis-
u 10 90 and tell tho young
y mama mother and explain how he
n game 10 write 10 Mis- - by say
ING he found a letter from her 10
VIM bunlr'
o when Young TAYLOR left he CAV,
" his nareris no IntImatlon of his inten
d lion 10 90 away, and when he failed tC
IA come home n. usual ia the evening hi,
naTents were very much worried, IL,
o had been seen last In tho company o
II young KIrkman, and the father OF th,
G latter WAS called on, He said that h,
IA und.rstood that his son had gone ouI
Ia. sh.on oaInn ns n herder.
70 Nh raylor WINS moi satisfied
70 that bIa 11n Ind chosen that ayo
Di yai,on' and prosecuted his ipauirle
II 6,,thep 40 learned that the day afte
D. ~. Jtsanns,,ancs Harry Wagner
n re- 80, hotn ~ the voi1ng men n
- OgJen' where IA, smoke To them. an,
~ ,hav statrS th.ir defamation 10 be "a,
u E,.pcisco A f.v daya lator a lette
49,, ~, yn,ny Tavi9r tn "A friend Al
l. iii. ciiy II was dated nj Sacramento
% I.n,sr II WINS learned TINT his nddres
. ,vas aIo Rush street. San Francisco.
u Tbe cause of Ills Departure wa
u n myst.Ty. He had a good home
u and hoya n yond r.putation, Their
u was nothine known that woul
ID induce him to take such q stet
Hehnd several times suggested to tn