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Show BLIND BOY WINS 11000 SCHOLARSHIP Students of the school for the Deaf and Blind yesterday called the attention atten-tion of Supt. F. M. Drlggs to a photograph pho-tograph of Arthur Henkol of Rock Springs, Wyoming, a graduate of the Utah Stato School for the Deaf and Blind. An article about the young man accompanied the photograph, telling tell-ing that he had accomplished an almost al-most marvelous feat in earning $1000 In scholarship commission during th past summer and that he is now in the Valparaiso, Ind., university. Henkol was born in the west and, whllo still a yonng child, became despondent de-spondent with life and tried to end it with a revolver shot. The bullet, however, only ruined his eyc-sinht and, as soon as he was physically able, he was sent to the school ;it Ogden. He remained here for slv years and graduated from the Eighth grade with honors. From the Ogden school he went to the Rock Springs high school and graduated from a two years' course at the head of his class. He then became be-came eager to enter college and. in order to raise funds to accomplish this purpose, he undertook a canvass for a magazine. |