Show SQ So TEMPORARilY INSANE I I TRIES TO lUll SElf LOGAN Sept 0 Despondent D.-Despondent over Ill health and md financial reverses Robert Robort RobertI j I S. S Campbell former general manager of tho UIO Utah Light and Railway Hallway ay company I secretary of ot the tho last state senate and andi I I i former mayor of Logan tried to kill kUl killI himself at nt the homo of oC his Leo I son yes yes- 03 i afternoon According to tho attending tt phy n Dr T. T B. B Budge Mr lr Cl Campbell wa was vas from temporary rv 11 dementia I ia induced by liv ill dl health hN Hi His His' condition is jc improved ca today and md it i is believed h he lie will ill recover tT Tho The funil family wa was about to sit lit down clown to dinner when Mr Campbell said aM that he was going soing to take a a. bath and went ont to the tho bathroom His Ills wife wiCe followed him almost Almot immediately lv and nd found him cutting cut cut- ting tine at his throat with a pocket knife H Ho lie had hail made rondo t two o lone ong 00 gashes one of oC which had nearl nearly severed hi his jugular SC vein ein Mrs Campbell Campbell's a 8 screams brought the son Mn and Rod his wife to h her r assistance and tho three managed to O overpower Mr Campbell and take tako the tho knife from front him Dr Budge was summoned and ordered him removed remo to the hospital where his wounds were dressed Mr lr Campbell was wn connected with the Utah Light and Railway for about twelve years At the time it was n. n purchased lcd by bJ harriman he h was general manager of or tb the company Ho lie tendered his resignation which was accepted Later he liu was appointed secretary of the the- state senate At tho the close lose of the J leis legis il laturo ho came to Lo Logan nu to J with hi his son Fon For or some time he ho has been en in failing health and his family had planned to take him to the tho coast this mornin morning or his bis health Robert S. S Campbell was one of tho the best known and most moat popular men who hns has ever oer lived in this eit city His lEts ac nc acquaintance ac- ac numbered thousands of ot persons perSons per per- sons sona and every ono one of lC them liked H Bob Dab PI Campbell as ho he was best known He Ue was connected with th the Ilah Li Light ht and Railway company compan in various C capacities for nearly twelve years during durt dur- dur t ing all of ot which time ho was popular i both with his superiors and those thoo under under un un- un- un der him I When Then he ha was named l as general man man- ager of the tho company the employees ees felt r that th as ns long on as ns ho lie remained in that position position po posit po- po sit ion they would have hn a n a friend at court while the owners of the tho felt nt at all tim times tims that they thc had bad in Mr r. r Campbell a R man who would woud guard well their interests I Tho The news of oC hi his act ct yesterday came as it to distinct shock lIbock to 10 his bus many man friends in this thil cit it who ho am am a unit in tho the 1 opinion that he was wu mentally dt of through h ill health and fim financial losses loss's I nt rut the time timo he made tim tho attempt on hie his I life P. P Mr r. r Campbell was wall born in this city a little more morl fifty years ago When a young man he ht removed remo to Logan and m married a Lo Logan nn girl irl with whom he lie reared n ft large family After liin living in Logan LoJan for a n number of ot years t rs and find becoming becoming be boo coming prominent nt in business and politics poll poli ties tics Mr Campbell moved mo to this city where he was en engaged as chief clerk in inthe in inthe inthe the office of William B B. Preston presiding in ing bishop of tho Mormon lonnon church He lie left this position to enter the employ of the street railway company then tho the Consolidated Light and nud Railway com coni- pany Mr Ir Campbells Campbell's mother is still l living ng and is is a resident of Lo Logan |