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Show uu FORMER SALT LAKER INJURED BY FALL SALT LAKE, March 27. As a result re-sult of a fall in his room at the St Francis hotel in San Francisco, Charles O., Whittemore, formerly United Unit-ed States district attorney for Utah and prominent resident of Salt Lake, it; in a critical condition, according to information in-formation received last night from the California city. Mr. Whittomore had walked to the telephone in his room and lifted the receiver, re-ceiver, when, from some unexplained cause, he felL His head hit the door jamh of his bathroom and three ugly gashes were cut in the scalp, at the base of tho brain. Attending physicians physi-cians say complications might cause serious results. In addition to having been United States attorney here, Mr. Whitteinore wasJdentiflod ia-aJegal capacity yritb. I ii-'ti, , i hm ui,..i, ,-i -i tt,' -f, ii.(,dia ml, the organization of the San Pedro, Los 11 Angeles & Salt Lake railroad. Later 1 he became associated with the Las Ve- mj gas & Tonopah railr.oad, of which he is now vice president and general coun- m sel. He is also president of the Gold- M field Merger Mines company, a' $5,000,- - Ja f 000 corporation, and vice president of ' Wt the Goldfield Deep Mines company, a Mi ' $10,000,000 corporation. il j |