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Show 1 ' f r "LiJ!:a tn.v-;:re. -Hi: c - v.t - f cf gclJ-crazo, r f tl. 3 inc t r.rrav: ' . 2 v; . TL f. ' 1 ( f this unfortunate E:,;n should 13 tlj ?ct L. --i t: younglVnriicrri v;L"Tcre drawn Into i V I. rt-i rt-i -'king quest ?.r ;'(-'. 1, -.vl. l:-cr ne liflo: : ; ro.v 'Ctors, sacri.lce tLcir cuillis and die disappointed in the end. " ' ' 1 ; 1 - 1 - A Ccrnicn in Oae Day's News. ; It is seldom that the news of a day does not tell the story of one great tragedy. Great, not because of the prominence or wealth of the person around whom the story centers, but "because of the pathetic circumstances which make the tale a real sermon based on every day life. Ilere we have the story of an aged man who searched for gold all his life only to find eternity. Weak from old age and overcome by exposure, Edward Bodda has died by the road-tide road-tide near Butte, .His body was. found by a wood-chopper. wood-chopper. ' It is thought that the aged man, when he wandered from the home of his brother on Sunday Ust, did so iiv the hope of finding the gold for which te had searched during his younger days. He Was -paid to be getting weak mentally. He had talked frequently of iate "about prospecting. These facts end the statement of men in the vicinity of the Con-Eelly Con-Eelly ranch, near which the body was found, that they ?aw the aged man wandering about with a pick ever his shoulder, give rise to the belief that Bodda T-as looking-for gold. In searching the clothing, Coroner Egan found a letter from a son in South Omaha in which the writer and his .wife begged f ? 2ged man to. come and spend the rest of his life " :th them. From the tone of the letter it appeared though Bodda had osked that he, might be al- 1 to do this and as though -his children were ' tl.r.t EG fcave made the request . - - 3 j- ! r .1 a tragic .story. From youth 1 t- J ( .;; l l.in' ia his declining days this " V . " ' ' ; " - -3 taken up with |