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Show JAPANESE EiS HIS LIFE I! HANGING TO I TREE In response to the Information received re-ceived late yesterday afternoon by the sheriff's department that a man had been found hanging from a tree, in Shanghai canyon, the sheriff located the badly decomposed body of Tome-sukl Tome-sukl Higashi. a Japanese. The man undoubtedly had commit- : ted suicide by hanging himself to a I tree. The body was found hanging lrom a tree on the edge of the canyon can-yon with the feet barely hanging over the cliff. The body is believed to have i been exposed to the elements for over B month. R D. Ashton, an Ogden man. who was prospecting in the canyon, found the body, and notified a party to tele-phono tele-phono the information to the sheriff at Ogden. The body was removed to the city and taken in charge by Kirk- ndftH'fl undertaking establishment. The Japanese was about 37 years old and well dressed. His clothing put bim above the common Japanese la-I la-I borer, according to the sheriff. He apparently had taken the canyon ' car to Pineview and then walked the quarter mile eastward to the ertcanco I Of Shanchai canyon, the sheriff said, as a return ticket was found among hh I effects. In his coat also was a return ' ticket over the Bamberger line to Salt Lake, dated June S. BH oo m |