Vernal Express | 1911-03-03 | Page 6 | Gave Life for Companion

GAVE LIFE FOR COMPANION soldier frozen to death while en cn deavo ring to save woman from an alaskan blizzard nome alaska lieutenant S B west U S A of fort davis was frozen to death friday while marking a trail five miles from during the severest blizzard ever known here mrs airs davenport wife of a deputy united states marshal and for whom lieutenant west was marking the trail walked into trough the snow and reported that lieutenant west had been frozen deputy mar alar davenport went out found the body and brought it in lieutenant solomon B west who was a native of new hampshire and 33 years old enlisted in the first new hampshire volunteers as a vate at the outbreak of the spanish american war and in 1901 entered the regular establishment as second lieu tenant of the twenty second infantry ile he went to alaska with his regiment last june