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Show band. In fact, uo ono seems inclined to make any complaint against him, and official rod tapo moves slowly without outside prodding. That he deserves the severest punishment under the law for his inhuman treatment of his dead wife can not be questioned. ' IN A l'ACPEKS GRAVE. Tbe Keioalm or Salt Lake Woman Are Hurled In the I'utter'a Field. It would be well for pcoplo who are devoting their time and puzzling their intellects over the problem of the proper method to ptirsuo in an attempt to Christianize the heathen of foreign land, says tho St. Joseph Herald of a recent date, to givo an occasional thought to tho solution of the question of what is to be done with the heathen residing at their very doors. Sentiment as to the cultivation of Christian spirit in savages in uncivilized communities may bo all right, but practical pcoplo would like to see a little more of it practiced at home, where il seems to be badly in need. Tho Herald yesterday told of the frightful eoudition in which Mrs. Maggie Mag-gie Dale was found In her room, at H-'O South Fourth street, and of her death at the city hospital. 'The woman had been deserted by her husband, who, previous to his departure, sold all tho household furniture, leaving only a small pallet in the corner of the room whereon his sick wife might lie. For four days and a half she laid there suffering suf-fering excruciating pain, alone with a bustling city about her and not a helping help-ing hand extended until the hour of her death. Yesterday her remains wero taken from the city hospital to 1). E. Heatou's undertaking rooms and prepared for burial. As the sun was sinking behind the bluffs of the Kansns shore tho coffin which contained all that was mortal of the unfortunato woman, was lowered into tho grave, iu tho potter's field. There was uo service for tho dead; not a word of praise for tho past or hope for tho future. Tho burial, though of a higher degree of decency of course, was much the same as that accorded a brute. An old lady called at the undertaker's room beforo the body had beeu removed, re-moved, and said she had known the woman years ago in Salt Lako City, Utah. "Maggie went to school with my children in Salt Lake City," said the old lady. "She was vivacious and rather wild, but good hearted. : She ran away from home aud got into bad coni-! coni-! pany and led a fast life, but after all she had u kind heart aud u pleasant word for all. Three years ago she married mar-ried Jim Dale, the worthless scoundrel who abandoned her. I telegraphed her folks in Salt Lako City about her death, but they have not answered. I will not tell her maiden name, God bloMj her soul; she was a good girl ouce." Then the old lady walked up to tho casket aud gazed upon the w an face of the dead and tearfully turned away murmuring: "Poor girl, poor girl." No effort is being made to discover the w hereabouts of tho woman's hus |