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Show INSANE MAN RECOUHTS WEIRD TALES TO BOARD Tells of Vast Pilgrimage of People Who Tried to Scare Him. Frank Powers, an aged man. who has been a resident of Suit Lake City since 1S00. was adjudged Insane by Judge Armstrong In tho third district court Tuesday and committed lo the Stale Mental hospital at Provo. lowers 's I no means violently insane, but his cond lion is such that he connot caro for litni-self. litni-self. His business Is that of took. Powers told a number of weird atones lo tho members of the commission tilio examined him. One was that e ' went out to the homo of some man DUim in the hills to Iho north of tho city recently and that everybody In Salt Lake Citj camo out. on street cars to see him and near him. Wlicn asked how he cars sot out there. Powers said they ran on the ground as a wagon would. V lc a is 0 i said that many of Ihe people had guns, nnd that It wns their purpose to sec tr he had grit? He assured tho .committee that ho did have and that ho stood pat. Powers lo.st his wife last September, and has not been well balanced menially since that time. lie says lie has no relatives rela-tives in the city. H was arrested several sev-eral davs ago at Fifth East and ionth South, where ho had tho occupanta of a house thoroughly frightened, because he was Insisting that he had a room upstairs up-stairs and had a right lo go up and retire. |