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Show Singular Cose. The Ogdcn Junction of Tuesday evening has the following: This morning, alxnit 11 o'clock, Messrs. Forst and Ringrosc found a ri.ne(.iLL h-mL-ino- man standbier, as if stupilial, on the railroad track near the depot, and on enquiry learned that he had been in this position for two or three hours. In one hand he held a dried sunflower stock with an iron nut on it. and in the other sonic fragments of waste paper. Seeing t.lmt. he. was in dancer of destruction if a train should pass, they tried to remove him, but he stood motionless and did not appear to understand them. They concluded to bring him to town and'hand him over to tho authorities. They lifted him carefully care-fully into their job wagon, and on reaching Main street. SheritV Brown look charge of him. lie waseonveyal to Bcrgstrom's boarding house, Dr. P. L.Anderson being in attendance, and put to bed. On examining his papers it was found bv letters addressed to him that his name is William Cullen Cas-ton, Cas-ton, that he is an attorney nnd has been in practice iu Portland, Oregon, that lie came here by way of Boise City and was on his way to Iowa. Not a cent of money was found on his person, nnd the only thing of value he possessed was a railway ticket to Omaha. Dr. Anderson bled him and he became a little sensible, asking the ! doctor if it would not bc as well to "cut that arm oil', while he was about it." When he arrival and what brought him into the condition in which he was fouiid, no one seems to know, but it is evident that he has been in pecuniary difficulties, and that ho is a man of respectability. There was no evidence that ho had indulged in liquor or been under the influence of any opiate. He will remain re-main at Bcrgstrom's for the present. |