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Show DYING MAN 10 BE SENT TO HOSPITAL County Gommissionecs Act After Af-ter Reading Tlic Tribune Storv on Monday. Yilliin ;i tan minutes after a Tribune representative interviewed Theodore Weber Sunday nlghVln the cellar of tho COtinty jail, and learned that he was dying dy-ing from tub n ulosls of the bowel?. City Physician Wilcox visited him and admin- Istered opiates to relieve his terrible suf-fi suf-fi ring. II was the first medical attention that the unfortunate man had received for a week, but the prediction Is mad!: that it lll net be the last that will be forthcoming, for upon reading the storv Monday morning the members of the Board of County Commissioners called at the Jail and agreed that he should be sent to .1 hospital. Commissioners Make Denial. County Commissioners W w, Wilson. John ( '. Muck. iy and E. D. Mlll-r deny that City Physician Wilcox or any one else has ever told them of Weber's condition, con-dition, or even tnentinoed that such a man was 111 at the city Jail According; Accord-ing; to a Htal'-ment made to The Tribune by them, the ttrst they knew of the mat-U mat-U r was when thev read th story Monday Mon-day morning Individually and collectively collec-tively they stateii most emphatically that no word had been Bent i" them at any time in an) way concerning the young man In question, They did say. however, that the practlve of shipping hobos and tramps Into the State had been In voeuo by the authorities it different California. Nevada. Idaho and ii.rado cities for Some time, and that they were getting tired of attempting ti take care of the unfortunates who rightfully belonged to other States, it wan pointed out that if every man who applied for admission to the inunu Infirmary or hospitals was ac-cemmodated ac-cemmodated then- would not be enough funds with which to take care of tho WOCth) people who reside right here at home and who at times are compelled to ask for aid. Weber Repeats His Story. When the Commissioners called at the basi ment of the city jail Monday after- n and questioned yuung Weber, hp re- told hlx .story of how lie had suffered for l in weeks, practically without medical Btti ntlon Jb- wan still lying on his back in i he cement floor with a ragged quilt f"i- a mr and still suffered terrible pain from the disease which will, at the longest, end his days within a short time lie .said lhat Ills mother had written to him at Rochester, ft. V. some time ago t. Illng of his father's death and asking him to return and assist her in making a living. He started for home, but was compelled to stop on the way and earn more money to pay his carfare At Denver Den-ver tie was taken 111 and later was sent to Grand Junction by the authorities, who evidently hud no place for him for they promptly iorwurded the voting man to Salt Lake, v |