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Show BOY LOST WEST OF SALT LAKE SAL? LAKE, Dec. 16 In danger or being frozen to death. Thomas Cat- j mull. 15 year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.' William Catmull, 417 Oakley avenue, ' Is lost In the swamps about ten miles west of the city, according to his com -' panions, Mavor Gatehouso, 16 years of age, and Clarence Harvey 17, who re-1 turned at an early hour this morning' for assistance in finding the boy. Tho throe boys started out to hunt , gcoso and ducks at 5 o'clock yesterday I morning, taking a horse and wagon' and traveling about ten miles west of the city. After hunting for several hours, Catmull complained of being j tired and said he would go b.-tck to the wagon to wait until tho other boys I were ready to start home. Two hours later the Gatehouse and Harvey boys I made bp their minds to return and I made their way to the wagon, onlv to find that young Catmull had not"ye,ti reached there. They searched the im- i mediate vicinity and waited at the' wagon for four hours, but the missing lad failed to return. Finally, becom-1 ing alarmed, they drove back to Salt i Lake for help. A rescue automobile party, made up ' by Deputy Sheriff Joseph Raleigh and Chauffeur Tony Mowor, loft for the 'scene about 2:30 o'clock. While tho officers admitted that the youth may have accidentally shot himself or met with some mishap, they believed he i had merely lost his way and would be! rescued in a few hours. oo I |