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Show PERISHED IN THE SNOW. buries Saftord Looses UN Life iu the ; Drills N-ur le I.aiuur. The l)e Laiiiar ( Idaho) .Wiijiti Bays: "A man named ( harlc- Salfurd, who hud one arm nniputaled below ttie elbow, has been ! -awing wood and doing odd jobs around Le Lamar for some tune. He started on Tuesday morning to walk to the railroad, j intending to go to his home In Uew, Idaho. The snow is very deep and only one or two teams had been over the summit at that time. It was a during undertaking, but the man waa strong and hardy an but little waa thought Of it here, until word eaiue on Wednesday Wed-nesday that he hud been found, frozen to death, upon the Reynolds creek summit, lint little was know n of the man here, except ex-cept that w hile here he hau been a good worker. Bo was about thirty years old and it is learned from the postolllee that he had a wife living at Gem, Idaho, and that she had recently sent him a remittance to pay his ex-penses ex-penses home. Coroner Riehter took charge of bis remains, which were takeu to Silver City and interred. "Louis Hayes, the man who had his feet badly Irocn'in a wood camp anil was taken from here to tin' county hospital at Silver ( It a fortnight since, has had to suiter ihe I amputation of one of his feet. i)r. Riehter did the Job, taking it off just above the ankle ile is now doing well." "Two or three small slides have occurred in Long Uulch, on the south side of Florida mountain. One of them took the snow sheds from the mouth of No. i.' tunnel at the Trade Hollar nunc. The buildings at the Pluto are marly buried and the family which has been living there bus sought other quarters." "A man who measured the snow iu Cow Crook district In several places, reports it a- lour and one. half l et deep on the level I ground. It li deeper than that ou the sum- I raits." |