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Show Drowned in Dear River. j Bbigham City, Aug. 1G, 1S78. 1 Edito.s Herald: A boy from here, workiogonthe Coup farm, by the u.-vme of Peter Christensen, was drowued in Bear river yesterday, near B3ar River city. He was 20 years of age. From the , informst oo received here it appears that while taking the horses, with j which be was working, to water, he, concluded to have a swim and lest his balance, on discovering which another boy who was with him threw out a rope which the swimmer grasped and by its aid reached the shore, where he frantically took hold of the boy having the rope, and both were Dluneed deeD in the river. The one haviug tho rope, however, reached tbe bauk again, nearly dead. Thu body of Cnristensen has not been found yet. Deceased was the sn of C. O. Cnriateusen, who cf-me in lately from the east and made his homo here. Box Elder. |