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Show WAS HE DROWNED? 1 Will Tajlor, of This City, Said to II Bj Lost on the Colombia Itlier. ffl LCtTSlI.TIKC10UIt HECKSAOO' !H A Stranger Urllts tu tho Young Jim's Ijj Mrctllitarl Telling Her of llcr 111 I-otrr's Heath. Mil I'our weeksago two young men loft flrJl their hoiiien In the Tenth worJ In this Mfcl clly lo become Mandators over thu Inco Rlail of the country with no particular dc- filV tiro ur care as to how or where they ihould travel. They weru full uf life-, ffl c'orlDgDiiJ nmbltbn aud ware tbor- Hsl ouiihly Imbued with the spirit of HjlV ndvontuic. 'lhey wero Will Toylor, n MJ! tou of William Taylor, fotemai ol l'lckord's saddle and harness shop and I "Kouio" Klrkmou, sun cf John Kirk- M man on old nnd well known Bait 9 Laker. 9 On reaching Han I'ranclrco It rcemi M they tecurtd cmjloymoiit of somu M kind ou Clio of tbo steamers which '- lied tbo waters of Ilia 1'aclllo tcean W and thu Columbia liver, and It It bellovcd weru working their way iiorlhward, & I.ttt night n young lady In tho M Tenlli ward, who ti laid to have been ,;l a sweetheart of ycung Taylor, was WM greatly shocked and grieved ou re- Kjfl celvlDg a letter from au utter stranger TU onnouuclug tho lad news of her fl lover's death. Tho unwclconio com- muulcatlou wai penned ot I'orllsnd, 1 1 Oregon, on thu lOtlt lest. It oonlolncd I Information tu the edect that on Iho I' night of thu 17th tbo captain of H tbu steamer on which himself and M'fl tho two young experlcncu seeking H I Bolt liakera were engaged, ordered ILL Taylor ou deck as 'nlghtwatch." Trio HI night was stormy and oolj and Toy- LUifl lor belug unaccustomed to that kind jB ol work rcquealod that an old hand be WM put uu In his stead or at lesst tbat he ( be given o compuulon. The captain, ll'l It Is oald, grew furllus aud resorted to ' ; ufuslladuuf expletives for which old M "tars" are nolo). Having relieved I i!B himself aomewhat he went oil deck, i IH Bomo hours later the steamer Is ssld to iH have struck a sand bar In theColum- Ijll Ida river about one hundred mllesbe- M low Portland, utt oil Astoria, and fflj toppled over un Its side. iM Young Taylor Is said to have fallen UBJ Into Ibo rtver and was drountd. Tho 9M stream la very wlJe ot thla point and : 9J the writer Who signs himself "Bhubal" f flj s)s It was a mile and a half to shore, ' BJ aud that tt was Imiaeslble for Taylor f JHJ to havo reached It alive. He saya the H hip "lays on her tide and Will Is f.iMl aurely dead." He admonished Mlts ,BJ to go and tell tho young ilpj man's mother and explain bow ho J jIBJ camo to write to Miss by say. ilHJ Ing hn found n Itl.ir from her fa t'lUt Will's buuk. jH When young Tajlor left ho gave 1IH his paroais no Intimation of his Inteu- UlrH tlon lo go away, and when he failed to 111 come home annual In tho evening bis HfQ parents were very much worried. Hu ItHsfl bad been teen laat lu the compauyof lilal young Klrkman, aud thu father of tho FlIH latter waa colled on. He aoldtbothu i ! H understood that hit tou hod gone out 'ifll to a sheep camp as a herder. Ijr Mr. Tajlor was not iitlaflod llfafl tbat hla ton hod chosen thot ovo- " MM vatlon, and prosecuted his Inquiries MM farther. Itu learned thot tho day after iWt the disappearance, Hoary Wagner MM has teen both of the ycung men at tHU Ogdeii, whero he tpoke to them, and f MM they ttated their destination to be Bon . Francisco. A few days later a letter j! oH came from young Tsylor too friend 111 8'JaH this clly. It wos doted otBacromento. FiJH Later It waa learned that his address MM wos 412 Hush street, Ban Francisco. ! HjB The causu of his departure was ( a mystery. Ho bad a good homo, ijBJI aud boru a good reputatiuii. Thero aiaVl waa nothing known that would rraVl inducu hlui to tabu such a step. V'flfl Huhad aeveral Itmen suggested to tho fioH young lady referred to that bu would r'fljai llku logo teeeo for n few mouths, and ffflU otono time remarked thot ho thought Hll he would do ao without letllug ills ' 'ikflfl parents know anything tbout II. Bo BjB far us opicars at preteul, this Is tho (;l taller which hu followed. He paid J,fljB hla club dues a few mouths In advance, , and luformed the youug lady that ho , HH would be gone six or seveu months. :HH Then hu left. Allttloovero week ago a letter came HH to his sweetheart, saying that he hod ' engaged with a vessel to go on a six iHBj weeks' voyage, that be would leovu ' 'flH May 14, and tho vessel would call at . ,'tsjHJ l'ortland. Blucu theu no word boa iUm been received from him direct. . iflH The lather of tho youug man wai alVH called upou by a New u reporter today, fiflH but be declined to say anything be- J'BjBJ yond tho fact that tho nllalr had tt vjJSJoi very "suspicious" and "crooked" look lOsH to him oud tbat lending on stusivcr to ''isVB a telegram be had lent to the writer of I flJBj Mils letter ho preferred to I VHJ remain elleut. 'ilBrjJ The news caused n great deal of 'vtUM excitement throughout the Tenth V ward and further particulars nru I'lsH onxloutly awaited. iHH |