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Show uu mm r 1 Corpse of Carson Lon Secured After Vigorous Vigor-ous Search North Yakima, Wash., April 13. Never in tho hlstorv of the stato has a search for a missing person been prosecuted as vigorously as was the hunt for Carson Long, whose body was found last night in the Yakima river near hero Wealthy relatives of the young man, who was tho son of Alderman T K. Long of Chicago, hurried hur-ried to North Yakima, hired detectives detec-tives and for many days employed a , 1U1 UU Ul II1UII, UU OWrtl-t .ivaj fcwyv of ground over which it was thought young Long liosslbly could have wandered. wan-dered. Money was "spent lavishly, but It brought no result and the relatives returned home, leaving the search In tho hands of officers and private detectives. de-tectives. Carson Long wns sont west last November No-vember to learn tho lumber business, but returned to spend the Christmas holidays with relatives In Chicago and Eau Claire. Wis., whero his fiancee, Miss Goraldinc Shaw, resided. Ho reached here March 1 aud went to his former boarding place. That evening even-ing he took somo headache tablets and arose tho following morning apparently ap-parently in his usual health and set out for tho offices of the lumber com-panv. com-panv. Ho walked along the railroad tracks, hut no one saw hlni aftor ho started across thc railroad brldgo over the Yakima river. When ho did not return homo a search was begun and his relatives were notified His parents were on the Isthmus of Panama and wore not told of their son's disappearance unUl thev arrived at New Orleans ten days later. Tho father, with the boys' uncles, un-cles, C. N. Lockwood of Kali Claire, Wis., and William Carson of Burlington, Burling-ton, la., hurried to North Yakima. The general belief Is that joung Long was affected by the headache medicine aud in a spell of dizziness, while crofasing tho river,- tell from tho bridge. It Is believed that in tho Inll from the brldgo his legs aud arm wrjio brokon. , , , , Corson Long was 24 years old and formerly was prominent in athletics at! the University of Michigan. |