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Show Continue Search for Youth Lost Hunting OPv.WTSVILU;. t. 25. Martin Tanner, fourteen-year-old son of Mr. , and .Mrs. Alma Tanner of Tooele, who was lost i i. toiler IS w hile hunting dei r with Marion Tanner, his 16 -year-old brother, has not been located by the large searching party that has been scouring the hills to find some trace of him. The boys started from home on October Oc-tober IS with a party to hunt deer in the mountains south of Tooele. A heavy snow storm set In and the boys became separated. Melvin and Marion, Mari-on, who were trailing a deer togetht r, also became separated and the older boy fired several shots into a peculiarly peculiar-ly shaped pine tree to call his brother back mmi the ha.se. When .Martin appeared, he was too exhausted to pro-ceed pro-ceed further and Marion went to a farm house, quite a distance away, to procure a horse. Due to tho storm and the darkness, he could not retrace his -tep and n ported I he aff it ' o Sheriff D. M. Adamson of Tooele. A posse ranging from 100 to 200 , men has been searching ever since for Martin Only yesterday, the tree where the brothers had separated was found. Sheriff Adamson expects to find iiu body of Martin today. It is believed that the boy, in his exhausted condition, condi-tion, could not have gone far and must be buried In the snow which ranges from one to throe feet In depth. It is I also believed that the boy could not have sustained life during the time i since his absence, the temperature In j the canyon having been intensely cold since his disappearance. |