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Show A BROKEN HEART- A Communication From tha 81. tor of tha Late Seott Reals. When Scott Seals made up his mind to abandon the struggle here below and thrust himself upon the horizon of another an-other world, he carried out his plans with scrupulous reference to dramatic detail. Among other things that came within the pale of the ghastly preliminaries prelimi-naries to which the last hours of life were studiously given, was the ponding of two telegrams to his sister in Kansas, lie informed Brig Young, when order-iug order-iug the carriages for his own funeral, what he had done, and intimated that the hour for the funoral would bo governed gov-erned by her arrival. He had haunted the telegraph office all day, but no reply re-ply came. He despaired of hearing from her, and at 0 o'clock that evening took his own life. Now conies the response re-sponse wail from the sister to this office, in the following letter: Ei.rhaht, III.. Jan. R. Kd tnrof ThrTimbX Salt Lake t'lty-I received re-ceived ynur paper daieJ Dec. 8 ', yeittr-rt'iy. yeittr-rt'iy. mm ninrlliii the death of my dear lirother Si'ott Seals. I than you for sneaking of li ra ao tenderly. God known I loved him. I knew his welm te7 t knew be drank. 1 have not Knt lantfuaite to expr ss the anxiety I have had about him. Many, many t in 9 In my dreams I hava h?ai'd his voice calllnir me h If he was In trouble, and I have awaken 'd with my eyes tilled with tears, pleading for him that justioe might he sh wn htm. I Implore the rlttzens of Salt Like t) close your saloons on Sunday. Aet before It la toj late. Th a time It was my brother a week or a month U may he your brother. ' We were orphans, 10 that yon will fully "Bailie my (rrief. I will my. I am blind. I wan edueVed In the int tutlon for the blind at J u ksouvllle. 111. Cau you tmavlne what a broth t would be to me. If It was Go i s will 1 wish I too was at ret. Hut 1 must wait until our Heavenly Father bids me come. From a broken hearted sister, Ko.iis Seals. |