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Show PROBABLY FROZEN TO DEATH. Elko, Nev., 15. Woodruff & Elinor's Eli-nor's mail carrier hiw just arrived from Cornucopia ou'snow shoes. He met deputy shcrifl, John Ellis, twenty-five miles from here thirteen days ago, coming to Jijlk-a pn snow shoes. Suejiff .Bills had been to Cornucopia to serve a writ of attachment, and beyond all doubt became bewildered and froze to death in the terrible storm which was raging at the time the mail carrier met him. Toe mail carrier got within a mile of a house . last night on snow shoes, but owing to the fury of the storm in tiie mountains moun-tains was obliged to camp, and only saved his life by exerting every energy. en-ergy. The Masonic order willseud a party in search of fill is' body to-morrow. The weather to-day has been very stormy. It has snowed and Plowed incessantly since morning, and at present the storm is unabated. All hopes of the passenger train getting through from the east to-night has been abandoned, |