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Show DID HE FREEZE TO DEATH? The Death of John Mi iter in Deflle of the Hills. The dead body of John Mixtcr, employed as herder at Chrismon's ranch, was found ou the trail that winds through Parley's canon yesterday, and Coroner Harris being notified last evening, the remains were removed re-moved to the undertaking establishment of Joseph E. Taylor. At 3 o'clock this afternoon after-noon an inquest was concluded and a verdict ver-dict arrived at that deceased came to his death from exposure and exhaustion. "It might-have been that he froze to death," said a juror, but as deaths of this nature were not indigenous to this kind of weather, the amendment was not recognized. Poor Mixtcr, who is well known to the people up in the little empire in the hills, went out on October 1st to look after some cattle that had strayed, and failing to return, re-turn, a searching party was organized yesterday yes-terday morning and began to scour the hills. They had searched but a short time, when the bark of a dog attracted their attention, at-tention, and following its course, the pulseless pulse-less body of the dead herder was found lying ly-ing in an open spot, the arms crossed and the head lying in perfect resignation. The weather was cold when he disappeared, a heavy snowfall occurred in the city ahout the same time, and it is possible that the weather hastened death. Mixter was a German, Ger-man, 50 years of age and unmarried. - - |