The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-05
IDAHO MANS PLIGHT.
Jesse Agnew of shoshone Wakes Up
In Denver.


Jesse Agnew, confidential foreman in
charge of a 700G-acre sheep ranch
owned by millionaire Frank r. Good
ing, near Shoshone, Ida, left there
while demented some days ago and
reached Denver, he knows not when
or how.
Staggering weakly. Agnew entered
the police surgeons Office at noon to-
day and placed himself in care of the
authorities.
Il realize my heIplessness, he said
slowly, and I know that my mind is
weak. I'm afraid to walk about the
street.
4 don't know how I got here. re
member riding twenty miles on horse
back from the ranch to see Mr.. Good
ing at Shoshone, L think. 1 intended
returning, but when I regained my
mind 1 was on a train. ! never drink
and it's q plain case of deranged mind.
Il can't trust myself at all. Already
some one has taken advantage of my
condition, and all my money but so
cents is gone. I think 1 had about $50
or SO when I left ShOShone but don't
know exactly I can't tell how or when
or why I left Idaho. I feel certain that
/ was in Shoshone, however, on the
9th.
My health has been poor for a year,
and very poor for several months. L be-
lieve my whole system, mental and
physical, must have collapsed suddenly.
The strain of watching the work on
the big ranch was very great. Then L
had some bitter domestic trouble.
THE combination was too much for
me, guess. I feel all right now. but
1 wouldn't trust myself to walk across
the street. Mr.. Gooding, for whom I
worked, is the biggest sheepman in
Idaho. He owns 100 600 sheep and
twelve ranches, in several counties.
The ranch of which 1 was foreman
cuts 1000 tons of hay.
There was a monthly payroll of ST.
700. The shearing, feeding, fencing,
very great. I had to look after every
thing. Some time ago my physician
told me L must give up riding alto
gether. because of painful kidney
trouble. But I couldn't stop. A man
in charge of a ranch must ride about.
Il kept on. My stepson is an unruly
boy. chastised him. My wife angrily
objected. We had bitter quarrel some
time ago. 1 wanted to do the honora BILE
thing, and feeling sure that we had
best live apart ] was planning to get
her a little cottage in Boise and make
provision for her future, when this oc-
CURED
Yesterday I was in Cheyenne, I
think. I remember telegraphing and
writing both TO Mr. Gooding and to nv
wife about my condition and where
abouts. I think I told them I was
coming to Denver for treatment. 1 in
tended to do so anyway.
81 must have good medical treatment
and protection. didn't dare trust my
self in a small. strange town to some
quack doctor, perhaps, who might give
me poisonous medicine to allay my
pain. I fear that I may become a to
tai lunatic.
"A little more wandering like the last
few days, however. and I would have
been gone, I know"
Aguew is quiet, sensible man.
whose bronzed face and hands shows
his life in the open air. He speaks with
difficulty. and is evidently very weak.
His clothes show travel marks and
lack Of care. His head seems to pain
him, and he presses his hands to his
temples frequently in a pitiful way He
is a man of about 40 years of age, and
says he has a daughter Il years old
and three son, one of whom is a naval
cadet at Annapolis and a Philippine
war veteran. The police will notify
his rela tiveS and employer and care for
him until mora ic known Of ha casa