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Show MTLRATH'S BODY FOUND IN LIMY . SPOT IN CANYON SicK Man Apparently Laid Careful Plans for Suicide. Seeking a lonely and unfrequented spot in Krnlg rattan canyon. Charles Edward MKIrath, a wall known vegetable vendor, whoee dlaiJpearan e from lior.ie was re-1 , xrted to the police Friday morning, committed com-mitted aulrld by swallowing one-half ounta of strychnin In 'apstilrs, and than, to avoid Hit- terrible agonies of the dug. had buried j lit fart in a liandk'-ti hlef Honked fn cti-oloform. after v. hli h lit ra,tpel hfs rrt atom Ma head and (tied Report ai made to the pill-- Kridav iial hf had dlBfJi'penred, and -nr li niMd' (y liim tlhoul sii'--x. It aa f-Mred mat he would attempt to ri. his life mn he .i dcunundent I. of ill he 1th. He had Intimated man, times of Jute thai he would rather b- dd than in an ins me. it m saiu tha: lie trmoe an unsuccessful effort tu com mil ul Ide on AugnHt I, when ha whs fo'ind unconscious )t his bathroom, wlih all t he gaa Jta turnAi on. He said he had turned on the Kas, and was looking for a maun when tiie fumea ovtMCtftijA him. Afler M( Klral h left His hrtie Krida V morning he hoarded a car foi KtniaaMon canyon. Thla fact was remembered Ht-uiday Ht-uiday hy ihe conductor of the car. When his friends learned of this a hurrtfd esri ij of the canyon was mwde Isle Saturday Sat-urday anernoon.,ftniTa Ttearrrtnf -jmwwp was organised by the police department, the sheriff's office and a score or mora of the friends of the family. The search wsa taken .ip early yesterday yester-day morning, and the body was found hv 'ewirge Young, an ifnt of tha National fical K.state and Investment company, a few feet from the old pioneer trail Hen re hers had passed within a few feet of th body without finding It. The body was wrapped In a blanket and was brought to the clt and taken tn the O'Dimnell undertaking; establishment, where It will b prepared for burial. Members of I ha dead min i family do not believe that ha waa Inaane. Ilia mind had been burned by thoughts of hi Illness, ha having the svmptoins of cancer can-cer of fh stomach, but they believe that he planned his death In a careful and deliberate de-liberate manner, lie had returned from California, whence he had gone for his health, only a short time ago. McKlrath waa horn In Cleveland, O. Miv 27. ltt. He cam to thla state twenty-four years nn, locating in Bingham, Bing-ham, and working aa a miner. He then went to Butte. Mont., and married Kadle Hmlth. a Halt Lke girl. He returned with hla wife to tliTi city twelve years ago, making; thla place his permanent home. Hla father Uvea In Toledo, o. His widow, three aone, one daughter and three brother live In thla city. |