| Show PIONEER GOES r MAD AD ADI I I H E B Phelps Will wm Be Examined For Sanity I 4 WORRY DIAKES MAKES HIM CRAZY 4 ONCE BUO BUP BuT NOW PENNI PENNILESS LESS LES LESSI I Goes Around Buying Imaginary Goods Prom From Mythical Firms laid f aid i Soiling Selling the Articles cles to Customers Who Bo Do Not Exist Hearing Will WillBe Be BeHeld Held Beld By Deputy Clerk Blair A complaint was sworn to in the district yesterday by Pauper Clerk Clark James Sabine jr charging char H HB HE HB B E Phelps of C street with being of unsound mind Phelps it will be 00 re re Is la the man who wandered away from lila his home some seine three weeks ago with the result that the chief chit of police was WM asked by Mrs Phelps and family to aid in the search reh se for the tho missing man Mr Phelps is Ig well wall known in this city as being one of ot the pioneers of J f 47 41 and further at one time during his career caruer in Salt Lake as an extensive merchant and owner of real estate Ap Apparently Apparently Apparently former prosperity pro has preyed upon the mind of the rold pioneer with the result that today he spends his time in walking around aimlessly and buying and selling mythical consignments of goods from imaginary wholesale houses and to visionary customers cu Is Sometimes Rational national Mrs Phelps Phelp yesterday stated to the county commissioners that her aged husband hu talked in a perfectly rational manner maimer on OIl occasions but sooner or later he would be seised Thed with lapse of memory walk aimlessly away and upon being interrogated would wot d not even know his own name she said that he would at times time go out into the yard and not be able to find his way back to the house boWIe a few yards distant but would roam around until led into the residence While the wife of the afflicted man does not nut want him sent to the asylum at Provo she feels that her husband ought to be placed d under restraint 1 With that end in view she sh has appealed that he may ma be bo examined as to his mental condition and the proceeding will take place today The demented pioneer plOD I as previously stated came to Salt Lake in 1847 ISH in company comp ay with his father Judge W W Phelps Two years later late he went to California to Join the argonauts in ini i their search for nuggets He wu suc successful to a moderate extent in his hunt burst for gold COld and subsequently u re returned returned turned to Utah and embarked in tho the thom m mercantile business 5 and erected the store at t W 64 South Main street which in those th e days was wan a 8 a pretentious build building buildIng building ing Failed Palled In Business All went well for several years Jears with the tilt dry goods and general mercantile business bu during which period Mr II Phelps acquired consIderable realty including the quarter section of the block whereon The Herald Hen d building now stands extending from train Grants Livery stable on the north round to where the Ford Foro hotel botel now DO stands on the west He also owned a farm on State street beyond the city limits haute Subsequently he be failed for and his property began to slip through his fingers Making a I herculean he ulean effort to stem the downward trend of his affairs affaire he once more entered the th mercantile business and for a time tune operated a notion store just north of The building I Mr Phelps is the hood heed of a large family the majority of or which lives in inthis InthIs I this city |
