Show DR HARRY YOUNG The Nephew of Brigham Young Who Was Killed By the Filipinos Providence Journal Dr Harry A Young whose death and mutilation through the treachery of the natives In the fighting around Manila Wednesday formed one of the most shocking details of the dispatches from our new poaasebns is well known In I this city among the medical profession and to some extent outside the circles of his own work Four years ago Jie was an interne in the Rhode Island hos hospital He came lee from New York where he had Just been graduated from tee I te-e York College of Physicians and Surgeons and after leaving the hospital hos-pital went to his home In Salt Lake City Utah whero hu established a profitable practice At the beginning of the war he abandoned this to enlist In the Utah light artillery where he was a sergeant in battery AIn A-In this he waa probably led by the love of adventure which has swayed his life for he had bean on a sheep ranch in the west illtd been among the cattle men and in a lumber camp in Michigan gan In tho course of a short life for he U hardly more than 33 when he waakilled he had been in nearly every state in the Union The Utah light artillery has worked in the thickest of > the fighting around Manila since the Insurgents provoked the fighting of Sunday In the first engagement en-gagement one of the batteries at leos did superb execution among the savage hordes of Aguinaldo and In the fighting fight-ing that followed the two batteries have occupied positions at the extreme front The Utah artillery was among the few batteries of the state militia fully equipped with modern breachloading 32inch steel rifles at the bcsinning of the war having been supplied when the new state militia was organized about three years ago It was well trained and well disciplined and the effects of its association with the regulars at Manila have been shown In the work I has done Dr Young was a nephew o Brigham Young the leader of the Mormons during dur-ing his lifetime the head of the church of the Latterday Saints His father was a brother of Brigham and was a polygamist Although Dr Young never said s directly during his stay in this city it was understood by his closest friend here that his father had three I wives and that among a family of J children the doctor about two dozen chIdren dotor had been thrown to a great extent upon his own resources I May 1 1S93 he was admitted to the hospital for the two years course of in I tents during which he served a Is usual six months as assistant and six I months as ambulance surgeon responding respond-ing with the first or second ambulance to the calls for accidents During that time he created various impressions I among those who knew him A hard earnest worker at the hospital he abhorred ab-horred sham and was so straightforward straightfor-ward that he offended some who did not I appreciate his directness He had many friends but few were Intimate with him Dr William R Mc I Guirk then also an interne at the hospital pital although six months ahead of Dr Young was probably the closest of these friends yet Dr McGuirk said he I never knew the man thoroughly When he thought he had solved the problem some fresh and unexpected trait would develop and Dr Young who seldom spoke in detail of his previous lfe remained re-mained an unsolved riddle to the last Always strictly upright and honorable abhorring dissipation and follies he was regarded as a fearless man Although a member of one of the most prominent of the < Mormon families fami-lies he was catholic In his religious belief be-lief and attended any church he happened hap-pened to choose He belief was In doing do-ing good wherever possible and ho tried to carry this out When he left the hospital he went to his home and a I short time later settled in practice in Salt Lake City I From the first he did well but the spirit of unrest was on the man a it had always been and in the few lett she s-he wrote here to Dr McGuirk he hinted of the desire for change although his prospects were unusually bright for a young physician He knew woodcraft thoroughly and had before becoming a physician taught for several years and led a roving life He came back to this city for a visit after graduating from the hospital and aer gduatng before finally settling down to practice but was a poor correspondent and his letters to Dr McGuirk ceased alto jether something more than a year ago |