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Show ELDER'S BODY RECOVERED Cablegram Announce the Finding of Remain of Elder John Klrkman Off Hawaiian Coact. Salt Lake City, Jnn. 17. Tossed about on the wuves of the Pacific for livo'daj'S, ho body o." Elder John Ed-wan. Ed-wan. Klrkman, tho mlsslonury who wns drowned In the Hawaiian Islands on Jnn. 10, was found on Jan .IS nnd burled In Klpehulu. The finding of I tho boy's body Is most remarkable; ' and tho paronts, Mr. and Mrs. John' Klrkman of 1076 East Fourth South Eticet, have :eceUed from it the first re.il solaco slnco tho grievous accident acci-dent occurred. With anguish nlmost unbeatable, they hnvo been waltlnt, for days In the hope that a cnblegram would' come stating thnt nt lenst their boy was not foiever to rest In the fathomless waves. 'I he accident as well as the finding aro truly remarkable. On the day or Ms death, the young man wns riding n mule nlong one of the trnlla Hint follows tho ver odgo of a towering clSff beside the singing ocenn, tho inula slipped nnd both fell down to tho deep water below. The cliff en compasses tho plnco for miles around nnd is of such height thnt tho water cannot bo reached by bont without n long detour. A search wns Immediately Immedia-tely begun, but tho body wns not found until five dnyB hnd gone by. Elders El-ders who hnve lnborcd In the Islands say that sharks ,nro not very numerous numer-ous there, and that this Is probably the reason why the body of tho un fortunate boy was found nt nil. If possible tho body will bo exhumed ex-humed nnd shipped to this city, whero funernl services will bo held fiom the Thirty-third wurd mooting-houso. |