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Show Cbeyenne, Wyo Oct. 3. At daybreak this morning a sergeant 'of the Seventeenth Infantry found a dead private at tlie foot of a railway rail-way embankment near Fort Ilu-sell Ilu-sell The body was that of John Baker, a recruit, and he had been shot down from the rear, most Ilkefy hy Privates Miller and Wlc, wltli whom lie was in Cheyenne most of thenlglit, They are under arrest. Itaker liad monej won In a gambling gamb-ling Iwuse, and besides Wie had declared aplnst Ills life over a woman. Jierotd, with him to the nearest oasis for a supply of the necessary fluid. Thespahl Journled on through tho scorching sands for a day and a night before he came to tlie oasis of Uartha, but when returning to where he lea I'rossard be lost his bearings and liad to go back to tlie oasis, Thereasmal) expedition was fitted out by the local sheik, and after a long search the dead body of the joung soldier was found half devoured by hyenas and Jackals. The carcass of the siahl's horse was also discovered not far away. It appears that the soldier had killed the horse witli his sword and then drank its blood. He had likewise cutout the animal's lungs and put them asi le, but before he could use them as food he was elthtr surprised by thu beasts of the desert or succumbed suc-cumbed to the Intense heal coupled with a return of thirst. J'aU Mall Gazette. |