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Show MAJOH STANTON SUICIDES. Former Army Officer and Mining Engineer En-gineer Shoots Himself. Los Angeles, Cal. Major William A. .Stanton, former army officer and a well known mining engineer of Gold-field, Gold-field, committed suicide by shooting himself In tho head In a private room In tho California hospital Sunday morning. Major Stanton enmo hero six weckA ago for treatment of heart dlseaso, and', while ho bad been In a 9crl6us condition his case wa not regarded re-garded as hopeloss, and he gnvo neither his frlonds nor his physicians physic-ians any intimation that ho contemplated contem-plated suicide. Major Stanton was about C5 years of rise. He was burn In Philadelphia and had a sister living thcro. Ho wns married four times. A son and a daughter by his llrst wtfo now rotttdo In Salt Lako City, wherq ho lived for years after ho loft the army, and prior to his removal to Guldlield about-(lvo about-(lvo years ago. |