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Show jl Electrocuted j Power Wire, Saturday Oct. 19 r, LeRoy Halt, 16, son ' and Mrs. James LeRoy accidentally killed when '1mm his horse on a live ;'5lle wire, which evidence Z fis shot down, about two ''north or Veyo aud a mile ' if the Truman ranch, Sat-'V-Wber 19 at approximation). approximat-ion). Those who investi-. investi-. the accident are of the '3 hat the horse never ..j .ne wire but felt the ' thMUgU the ground and ( the boy onto the wire ., be was when he was . by Milton Bowler after a ' wa5 instigated when the "returned to the ranch show-is show-is of ha?ing fallen to the -j The power had to be if before the body of the Sild be removed. Only his , ms touching the wire, young man had left the just a short time before i way to Veyo to get some When the horse returned ita and Milton Bowler iiiiely started a search for cce they realized that some-.: some-.: serious had happened. Mr. was the first to find him 3d the judgment to keep iither from attempting to go is body until the power :n turned off. Cottam reports that he : i committee of men to :sate the death and they - :i the burned ends of the which show clearly that had shot the wire down. i had crossed the live wire ; ::?of.the hunters hid re-'' re-'' i that it was down, but he . 'bought that it was a tele-wire. tele-wire. The time of the ' m was set by the short after the boy had left the ' ': that the horse returned i the fact that the live end 11 wire was hanging between ' Mephone wires and was :' -l them as it swung back toti. Complaints had come ;i ::om a number of people h : tilephones in that district 'i ii telephone company had " with it in their office. 'je belief of the men who -Sited the accident that ? ser shot the wire down sst he had done so since ill make a noise when it - :jt and spark when it con-;"ie con-;"ie ground. Small fires Kb started by the wire 'e it had contacted the 1 SheriJ Cottam states Je Power company had men tempting to locate the They were handicapped, -s. because or location of and some difficulty was ;;red "h tracing the break. where the wire was about twenty feet from Since this was the e deer season, it is the ; Sheriff Cottam that it a deer hunter that acci- ' ot the wire down. .5 the CCC camp doctors but it Was, of course, ,; Tbe body was brought on page f0Ur) IMPROVEMENTS (Continued from nrst page) the W. P. A. project on which we are waiting will accomplish that. Probably the help afforded is worth the wait. Our Sewer-Drainage System As soon as the W. P. A. set up is released and ia working order we will proceed immediately to carry out our Sewer-Drainage project, pro-ject, making it adequate for all the city. Buying the Cottonwood Water s" soon as our water-piping contract is let or we are authorized author-ized to proceed "force account, we are in a position to purchase immediately the Cottonwood water wa-ter and the Cottonwood Reservoir Reser-voir stock. People can in great probability count on getting pay for their stock before taxes are delinquent. Other Matters Many other projects have been submitted to W. P- A. officials for approval, such as oiling many other streets in our city, "Temple Street" being be-ing first in our contemplation, supplementing our culinary water wa-ter project if necessary, bringing Virgin River atT I ley fr the north t0 Washington Field S'6 of J inS our parks and 1 1 z too nuine:j: j |