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Show 111 STRANDED HERE WITH FIVE CH1LDBEW Mrs. Melchoir Miller Is in Pitiful Piti-ful Plight and Without Funds. In a strange city, without funds, without with-out a friend, and with live small children chil-dren under her care, Is the pltltful plight of Mrs. Melchoir Emily Miller, late of Cheyenne. Wyo.. who arrived hero from Los Angeles early Sunday morning. Application Ap-plication has been made to the County commissioners for assistance, but they have refused on the ground that they had previously sent the woman and her family fam-ily to Los Angeles. Could Wot Find. Husband. Mrs. Miller und her husband llrst came hero from Cheyenne nbout threo weeks ago. Mr. Miller went on AVest In search of work, with Los Angeles as his objective object-ive point The woman and her children wero dcstltulo and the commissioners furnished fur-nished her transportation to California, When she arrived there she was unublo to find her husband. Walked Streets All Night. As exclusively published In The Tribune under data of March 9. Mrs. Miller, with her little family, walked the streets of the California city two days and nights, searching for her husband, beforo she made an appeal for aid. She says that without making any thorough Investigation Investiga-tion of the case, the authorities thero asked hor from what city she had come, and bolng answered "Salt Lake." they furnished her a ticket and told her to go back Being Inexperienced and half dazed by her misfortune, she did so and now finds that her husband Is In Los Angeles, but without funds to assist her. Funds Are Exhausted. Mrs. Miller has, since her nrrlval in the city, been staying at 375 West South Temple Tem-ple street, paying for her accommodations accommoda-tions with a small sum of money that was given her by tho pnsscngcrs on the train, but this Is now exhausted. |