Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-08-09
A TERRIBLE DEATH.
4 HapItSS CbInamln Slowly Dying Of
(alC.r and Starvation,
STUNNED ny nis coUSrnYnEy,
Aud uncared for In a Community Which
Is Proud 81 H. Civilization aud
Charitable, Progressive spirit.

a NEWS representative this after.
noon nee Imp,uieI Unv Oi tue u,ty',
leading medlc.l men 10 perhaps tue
iJulesi spIl In the sluus OF SAT- Lake.
ltissl.u,tud on an alley that lies he.
tween safe sud Commercial streets,
anu EXHIBITS the r;t1nz, II oHille evl.
truCe NJ the n,ccsiiiy NJ an &C .rslonal
visit from the sanitary insyectJr and
gbtuagc collector
Thc Jlj 70, Ut ths visit was t. Inquire
into the cpnIi'luu u tue haylc,-
Cuiuumnu, whose suffering was called
GO the attention VI tus public several
weeks ugU. During thu laNt DAY OF
twu N was rumUird that hO WAS
tiil c.ri with tho trrtibl- disease ~
L., roy. nud since then he la. bteu
examined ~ y large nu Yer Of the
most pt mlrtut puS s!rians Of the city.
Among tUtm IL Dr. Wright, whose
ruiy u IT. 90 look after cpualy cases.
Al are unantmIisly agreed TINT tho
MJuguhsu suiivtrr IA not troubled Win
iuy. - uut thHt re has generous
growth which sD far as hn IL concerned
ls lust ~ hNINs lopt1sy can be.
Tue NIwi mAn expected, from re-.
pptls, o. uud very baI state uf
niaiis, uui was not prepared for IA.
shocking disclosure winch followed.
rho most careful inquiry brought out
tho Information that the victim IL forty
ycats 0ia2e, that he came 10 America
when tut nitr-u; that for the pasi six
yeats he hgs lived IN Utah, the most Of
that time In Biughnm; that four
mJn'hs Rgr he war stricken with his
present alllicIlun, Since II came upon
in nr hn. teen n creature Of horror
ia the eyes Oi bic country.
men. For tlWr, under the
direction NJ the city physician ne Va.
mcngyily provided Tor. But he hnu
neither relatives, iriends OF money,
sud ~ the roots OF the cancer CT, pt
through his body he gtajuaily b.cans
~ wenK that he could not go Tor tue
little foot that under other ciroum.
stances hu could have secured pJsses.
Sion ~.
Al present no Ia most pitlab'e OBJ.
jet, being reduced IN flesh until he Is
little more than a skeleton, Hg rns
beru elected from the apartments ecu.
ped 10y thr rest " the ChlnAnon, ~
fact driven rom their quarters al o.
geihof. hir only piscc Of rrunss IN
vacant FuOt on the tunry s.dr Of n
brick buildiug amidst drcsyinc vegciR-
ton, foul smelling bones VI ducE,
! cnicssus aud fish.
II IN sgid tbgt lie II only n Chinnman
and that death In but short time OH
At most ami thst II makes but iittlp
difference. The fret twu parts OF tbs
nj IfI IaI L.
not. The fact that he ~ u Chin,m.n
does not deprive him II the right to
receive assistance through the proper
ntiiciAl channels. He n whsteysf else,
IL n human being Aud ~ such should bp
Cared Tor either by tho city or coun
tor III. remainder u his days Ist as
readily M though he were the ~, uJcst
Csurasion IN The lsud. When tho
doctor and n now p'Ief man left he had
trtu row dei with m uTy enough TO
nlla, thu langs Of hunger wrir' he
said were Suawing at his yitnli
In an awful manner. lilo ulbsss
very good Engish aud said
that he had hal nothing 10 eat for
several days with the exception Of hyp
uants worth OF uako and four small
crackers which he freely admitted that
ho stole yesterday afternoon when hs
pulled himself into Chinese Apart.
mrnt during the temporary absence VI
its regular inmates.
rhis IN Ons ~ IN" Cases over which
city aud county CiliCi.ls WTEngls n, 10
the "a psuse 10 be incurred. Hut tbsTa
should 10 no such shameful exhibition
repeated. Action should either DO
taken by ono Or the other OF Jointly,
aud " there In 10 DO any dIsgraceiul
guarding done then lot II come after
tue poor Chlnaman las received at
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