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Show FREEZES TO DEATH ON ALASKA TRAIL Young Army Officer Perishes Braving Blizzard in Frozen North. Nomo, Alaska, Feb. 24. Lieut. 8. D. West, U. 8. A., of Fort Davis, was frozen to death yesterday whllo stalking stalk-ing 'trail five miles from Tlshou during dur-ing tho severest blizzard ever known, hero. ' .Mrs. Davenport, wife ot a deputy U. 8. marshal, for whom Lieutenant West was marking the trail, walked Into Tlshou through the snow and reported re-ported that Llutenant West had boon frozen. Deputy Marshal Davonport went out, found the body and brought It in. x Lieut. Solomon D. West, who was a natlvo-ol New Hampshire and it years old, enlisted In tho first Now Hampshiro volunteers as a private at the outbreak ot tho Spanish-Amorlcan war, and in 1901 entered the regular establishment as second lieutenant of tho twenty-second Infantry, Ho-wont to Alaska with his regiment laBt iuno. tj |