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Show "BUM M.U JOXES." A SLmte Blind Mull Carrier, Wlio U Wonder. Suddenly l)lc. Poor old -'Blind Man Jones" has received his sight at last. Wed nesday eve his tired spirit was released re-leased "from' his poor old body and took its flight into the spirit land a land where there are no worthy blind; no worn-out good. Owen P. Jones was about 75 years of age. He lost his sight in a mine years ago. Notwithstanding the fact that he has been stone blind ever since, for over a score of years his business has been that of a mail carrier around Brigham City. He delivered mail regularly to the remotest re-motest parts of the town. His remarkable re-markable tact of picking his way about the streets of the city has been the wonder of not only several sev-eral generations of children, but of every stranger in the city as well. A pouch is shouldered containing j probably a hundred or two letters and papers and although the names on all these pieces, destined to scores of different houses in the four co mers of the city, are read over to him but once, he seldom made the mistake of leaving the wrong parcel at the wrong house, children unable to read generally running out to get the mail at the familiar sound of the whistle of "Blind Man Jones." Last week he was picked up in a snow drift-chilled drift-chilled to the bone. Pneumonia set in and he breathed his last a few days later. |