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Show OLD MAN MAY HAVE BEEN DROWNED Salt Lake. April S. That W. A Bills, 80 years of age, who has ben missing since Monday night. may have been drowned in the Jordan river, riv-er, Is feared by the members of his family. His hat nnd gloves were j found on the west bank of the river yesterday morning by Samuel How ard of Rlverton. The rivor will be dragged today. The aged man left the home of his son. G S. Bills in Rlverton. at 5 : 50 o'clock Monday afternoon, saying that he was going to Salt. Lake. Later ho was seen attempting to wade i.h'-river. i.h'-river. A farmer directed him bae' toward the home of his son He ha? not been seen since Near w here the hat and gloves were picked up. tracks showed that he had snt down on the bank, also f'mrT n h id staggered about In the slough as If lost. Tracks were found leading dow n to the river at a point w here the fater is seven or eight feet deep Fence netting was stretched acros the river yesterday, about two miles downstream from where the tracks were found, In the hope that if the river held the body of the man it would be caught Parley Bills of 1.132 South Eleventh West street, a son of the lost man, appealed to Sheriff Sher-iff John S Corless last nighi for hel; in searching for his father. oo |