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Show SID S1IIAT OGDEN. John M. Dyer, a Former Nebraska Newspaper News-paper Man, Sends a Bullttt Through His Brain. FINANCIAL LOSS WAS THE CAUSE. He Lost All His Money In a Carnival EesUnrant, and Becoming Bank xnpt Took a Dose of Lead. Oc.kkv, July 3. Special Telegram to Tiik Tim ks. The second tragedy of tho carnival season was enacted last night. In many particulars It i oven more Nhockiutr than that whereby Misa Brow n lost her life. John M. Dyer was the victim. Pyer was proprietor of tho "King's Cnto" restaurant, a largo eating house temporarily tem-porarily constructed for the carnival week. It w as expected that the crow ds in attendance upon the festivities would be much greater than they really are, and lyer invested everything ho possessed pos-sessed in the Tenturo. Since opening 1.1CK WENT AGAINST HIM, however, and tho culmination camo last night w hen ho was closed up. having hav-ing no money lo pay his service, Ituls llvains and another Salt Lake mau fur-ulshcd fur-ulshcd menus to keep tho restaurant open for a few hours longer ho that tho waiters might get at least a little money for their services. Hut later in tho evening tho establishment was permanent perma-nent ly closed , a nd o n t ra n cos bo a rd od ti p . Dyer keenly appreciated the extent of tho misfortune which had not only fallen upon himself but tho men who had helped him. Being an old newspaper news-paper man himself bis request that the papers say nothing about tho ca.su was granted. ' Late in tho night he kisaitkahkp from tho sight of uuy who knew him and ho was utner again seen alive. At au early hour this morning ouo of tho inmates of tho reform school, which is situated about a mile from Ihn cafe, in looking about tho grounds discovered w hat ho supposed to bo a drunken man sleeping ou the grass. Approaching him, however, tho shocking discovery w its made that the man was dead, a horrible wound in tho head and A 11KVOI.VKK LYING AT Ills KIKK bearing evidence of the circumstances which hail attended his death. Tho man was Dyer. Overcome by his misfortunes, mis-fortunes, having risketl tho result of tho labor of years on tho restaurant and lost, ho hail wandered into the grounds and shot himself. Tho cot imo lay on tho sod tho blood which had oozed from the wound ill tho head forming a pool which waked hair und clothing. The eorouer was notified and removed tho corpse lo Larkiu's undertaking establishment down town. UVKIl W AS A MAN of about thirty-two years of Bgo, and was in lifo a jolly anil good ualurod person. He came to Ogilen from Nebraska Ne-braska where ho was iu tho newspaper business. 'Two years ago he owned and published the Telegraph at North Platte in that state. Whim ho sold the Telegraph he cleared l) about 2.HH which ho placed in the restaurant nt Ogdcn. i,ast night, before tho place was closed up, ho remarked re-marked to a friend that ho had everything ho owned In tho world in tho cafe, and that luck soomou to on running (lead against him, but he evidenced evi-denced no particulaily deep feeling In the matter. Ho was in partnership w ith a iiinu named Blakesly but he himself him-self seemed to accept nil the responsibility responsi-bility of the establishment. Dyer's family is al present residing in Lincoln. Neb. They have been telegraphed, tele-graphed, but thus far no directions relative rela-tive to the disposition of thn hotly have been received. Ho was widely known in Nebraska and the west, and his ability abil-ity as a newspaper man was pronounced. pro-nounced. . , m |