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Show SHOCKING TRAGEDY. Frank Brown of Hamilton's Fort Ends Life at Fay, Nev. Found Dead With Bullet Wound in Head and Empty Rifle In Room Interment in Cedar. Tho pooplo of Co'dor woro greatly sbookod whon uows wns reoolvod by phono last Tuesday that Frank Brown of Hamilton's Fort had committed suioido at Fay, Novada, by shooting himself. Tho shook was tho groator booauso Mr. Brown was a woll-kuown and highly rnspootod citizen, and no apparent lonson could bo found for tho dood. Further inquiry brought tho information infor-mation that tho unfortunato mnn had been on a drinking bout for sovorul days, nud it wns supposed that ho hnd btiaomo temporarily unbalanced, or had perpetrated tbo dood in n lit of despondency brought oil by romorso of conscience Thoso explanations, howovor, woro only conjooturo, as no ono was with Mr. Brown at tho time of tho shooting. II o was Btnying ovor night in a log room at tho roar of tbo hotol, and failing to mako, his upponr-nuoo upponr-nuoo tbo next morning, tho room was entered and tho dead body found with a bullet holo through tho head nnd nn empty riflo lying on tho floor noar by. Tho family was at onco notified of tho sad ocaurronao, and a team im modintoly started out to moot tho remains, re-mains, which arrived horo Wednesday Wednes-day oven 1 rig.. Tho funeral services woro hold ln the tabornaolo yesterday afternoon, cnmmenoiug nt 2 p. m., and thoro was a largo nttondanoo. Tho. speakers woro R. W. Uoy-borno, Uoy-borno, Prinolpnl Q. W. Decker, El-dor El-dor Honry Leigh and Bishop Lunt, all of whom spoko consolingly to tho "LoreuveaV famiiy Iucinout Lwi mndo in Iho Cedar GityOemostory. Tbo deceased lonvos a wifo nnd nlno children. Ho has always boeu rcgardod as nn houornblo, upright; citizen nud tho community siucoroly grieves with tho family in tholr allllction. |