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Show CLEVELAND S. LARSEN, young soldier of Salt Lake who died Sunday at Fort Riley, Kan. 1 I ..:'.:-'.:.&.?;. ?. -: I plillliill SILT LIE SOLDIER ' DIES ITJT. RILEY Sergeant Cleveland S. Lar-sen Lar-sen Succumbs to Pneumonia Pneu-monia at Kansas Post. Cleveland S. .Larsen, 24 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Larsen of 1718 South State street, died of pneumonia Sunday night at Fort Riley, Kan. Mrs. Larsen, the young man's mother, and his fiancee, Miss Marian Wells, who were on their way to his bedside in response to a telegram telling of his serious condition, were intercepted at Rawlins, Wyo.f and returned to Salt Lake. Sergeant Larsen left Salt Lake February Febru-ary G, having enlisted in the medical corps of the army. Upon arrival at camp he was made lance corporal in the medical med-ical officers' training school and shortly after was promoted to provisional sergeant. ser-geant. The youth graduated from the Latter-day Latter-day Saints" university in 1915, being president of his class in his senior year. He was a student at the University of Utah at the time of his enlistment, and was a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. He was popular with his fellow fel-low students and also in Farmers' ward, where he resided all his life. The original cause of the young man's illness was ptomaine poisoning, with which he was stricken two weeks ago and which developed into pneumonia. The body will be brought to Salt Lake for burial. Funeral ariangements will be announced later. j Both parents, four brothers and five sisters survive Sergeant Larsen. |