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Show WAS HE DROWKED? Will Taylor, of This City, Said to Dt Lost on the Columbia River. l,8lTSVIal 1,'I.EIOUIt HEKKS K.O' I Mrangtr 11 riles in (he Voing Man's hwcclheart Telling Her of Her flier's lif.tlli. Four week ago two young men left tbelr hornets In tbe Tenth warJ in tbia oily to oecome wandurirs over tbe lace of tbe country with no particular dt. tire or care a lo how or where they should travel. They wet full uf life. t'arlug and ambition and wtre tbor-ou.hl) tbor-ou.hl) Imbued with the spirit uf adventure, lliey were Will Taylor, a auu of William Taylor, (oreirui o l'lckaid'a taaiule aud harness shop anil "Nome" Kiramau, tun if Jobu Ivlrk-man Ivlrk-man an old aud well knuwn Halt Laker. On reaching Ban I- rencleco II seems they secured emj loyment c' tome kind on one of tbe steamers which piled th water of Ihe 1'aclUo ictan and tho Columbia liver, and It la believed wei working their way northward, ltail night n young lady In tno Tenth ward, who It salt! to have lean a tweetbearl of young Tayloi, wat greatly allocked anil grieved ou receiving re-ceiving a loiter from nu utter ttrauger announcing the aid newt of her lover't death. The unwelcome cam. tnuiilcation wa penned at 1'ortland, Oregon, on the luth lott. It contained Information to tliu ellect that on the night of the Will thu taplalti uf the ateaiuer on which himself aul the two young experience seek lug Salt laker. were engaged, iirdere.1 1 aylur 011 deck aa nlglitwatoli " 1 he night waa stormy an J a ill and Taylor Tay-lor belug unaceiustomed tu that kind ol work reque(txl that an add hand ha put 011 in lilt stead or nt least that ho be give 11 companion. The captain, itlsaalj, grow lurlaus aud resorted to u luslla.lo of txplctie' for whleh old "tas" aro nutu . Having reliuied himself somewhat he went oil deck. Homo hours later the stoainer Is said to lutvt, struck a sand barm tbeCiium-hla tbeCiium-hla liver noontime hundred inllisli.-low inllisli.-low Portland, put oil Astoria, and tjppled over on Itssldi. Yuvng Taylor It said to havu fallen Into the rivet aud wa drowned. Tho ttieam Is very wile at this olnt ami the writer wno eigne hlmeelf "riholnl" t)t It wa u mile and a half to tbori , an I that tt was Impossible for Ta)l 1 I a have reached it nllve. lie tayt th" ship "lay ou her side and Will ' suiely dead." He alnioulahed Ml-e to go and till thu )cung men's mother and explain hoar he came to write tu M'. by say. lug he found 11 lei.ir from her In Will's bunk. When young Ta) lor left he kxvo his pare is 110 Intimation of his Inten- , llolito goawaj, ao,l when he failed tu mine home as usual In thuuieulughli parenle were lery nmoli worried, Hu liau tare n seen leet In thu lomiatiyuf youug Kiramau, aud tho fitherof lho latter was called ou He ealdthathu undvrstuod that hla sou had gone out to a sheep camp ns a herder. Mr 1 10 lor wat uot sillillej that hie sou had ihoseu that avo-vatioii, avo-vatioii, an i piosetuteat his lutpilrles farther, ite learned that the day alter the disippearauce, Henry Wagner lias seou itutii of the )oung men at Ogdeu, where he spoke to llietu, anl they slated their deetlnulluii lobe. Hun Franclsio. A few days I iter a letter can.e from young Ta)lor tu 11 friend In this ully. It was dateu at Hacraruento, Later It was liarntd that hlsaddrest was 41. lluth street, Han 1 rami. 10. Tin cause tf hla departure wat a mystery. He hai a good home, and bom u good mutation. Thtru was nothing known that would Induce him to tal.u such a step. He had several times stlgfeute I lo Ihu young la ly referred to tnat he would Hut lu go te sea for u few mouths, anil at ono time remaiked that ho thought he would do tu without letting hla parents know un)thlng about It. Bj far ua apjeart ut reeeul, tins Is the pi Hoy wlili li he follow til. He paid hie el ub dues u few months In ad value, and lulormud the) ouug lady I tat hu would be tone tx ur seven muuths. The 11 hu lett A llitluoiera week apon letter came to his sweetheart, sajlng thutUehal engagi'd with aieesel to go on a six w eeka' voyage, that hu wtula Ivavu May M, and tliu vessel would call at I inland, Sluce then no word haa leen receded from him direct. The lather ut Ihu )ouug nun waa called uiHiu I) a Niwa reporter toda), I ut he declined to nay nn)thlug be-)ondthe be-)ondthe fact that the ullalr had a iiry "sus Icleui" and "crooked" look to him aud that iimllng uu auswir to a telegram he had tent lo the writer of MIm letter hu prtftrrcd to remain alii lit. Ihe m we cautud n great deal of ixcllement thruukhout the Ttnlh ward and further particulars aro anxiously awulted. |