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Show Another Victim. The almost always fatal jungle fever of French Guiana has killed another of the gentlemen wSo went from here last Winter. This time our correspondent, corres-pondent, Sir. Walter McKay, is the victim. Mr. Clark, formerly of the Davenport mine, Little Cottonwood, but how in Guiana, writes to a friend in this cily that McKay died on July 2ith, at his camp, about one hundred hun-dred miles from Cayenne, in the interior. Mr. McKay left here for the Guiana gold fields last December with a large party of Utah prospectors and miners, and for some time the readers nf the Herald were kept po&ed.on the whereabouts and doings of the company, Mr. M. being our correspondent. Several months have passed since we orh:i intimate friends have heard from him,- and now comes the intelligence of hia Bad death in the wilds of South America. The deceased was well known and highly respected in this community. He has been for years a partner of Mr. John P. Harlow, of Little Cottonwood, and was half owner ot the celebrated mine which bears his name in that canon. He was a native of Canada, where his parents and a number of relatives now resiie. |