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Show BOY STARVES TO DEATH. Buried uy His Weakened Parents Noar Door of Their Cabin. RENO. Nov., July 7. The 14-ycar-old son of John Bowman, who lives in a hovel made of old canvas and boards, in an isolated spot northeast of tho Clough ranch, a short distanco from the northern north-ern city limits, died from starvation. Thoro had been no food in tho shack for three days when the lad died, and Bowman, his wife and their two surviving sur-viving children were all too ill even to beg. When tho boy died, Bowman and his wife managed to summon enough strength to wrap him in tho scant covering cover-ing of his deathbed, and to carry tho corpse to a spot just outside tho cabin door. There they scratched a shallow hole In the ground and burled tho body, without a coffin or other protection save such as was afforded by the well-worn bed quilt The story of this tragedy of starvation and death was brought to tho coroner, and he will visit tho lowly home, disinter dis-inter the body and give It decent burial at tho expense of the county. Those who brought the tale to tho coroner's office declared that the destitution of the family fam-ily is pitiable. There has been no food In tho rudo cabin for days, and, besides food, the commonest necessities of life are absent. |