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Show iSaIbbheirs? A Wealthy Colorado' Miner Diei aid There is Mo One 'to Claim His Fortune. ANOTHEB BW WYOMING CANAL, It Will be Sixty Miles Long and Wilt Have a Capacity of Irrigating i Million Acai of Arid Land, , Special fci The Time. Kedci.ikf, Colo., July 2. Jos. W." Groom, one of this county's earliest citi-zeus citi-zeus and p rincipal owner of the Bodio mine, one of tho camp's bonanzas, died at this place yesterday morning and was buried this morning. Mr. Groom was 07 years of ago and had tho euvi-: ablo reputation of being a straight man. None of his relatives, if any are living, can bo found. Iu fact an air of mystery mys-tery surrounds his early life. A neat fortune awails his heirs if they hear of his death. With the amount left by him in property and money besides tho Lodie (issue vein, tho sum represents nearly $100,000. llo was originally from New York. ' |