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Show WAS HEIR TO A FORTUNE. Salt Lake City. Maiy 20. Alter dragging himself woarlly from his room to the washroom in the Lincoln hotel on East First South street this forenoon James McCarty, aged fifty- j five years, succumbed to the weakness of miners' consumption and had to be i assisted back to his bed, where he : died a few minutes later. I In earlier days the deceased man was well known In the Montana regions re-gions and came 'to Salt Lake City about nine years ago. A few years later he fell heir to an inheritance . in Ireland, which provided a compe- ' tence that relieved him from work. Broken In health from his work in tho mines, he went to California about ; three or four years ago for a better j climate. During that time he visited I Salt Lake at intervals and returned ' here from San Diego about four weeks ago for the purpose of attending to several business matters. While here he complained of ill health, and while up and around yesterday he showed ling a glass of water In one hand and la whisky flask filled with water in I the other. Ho was so weak that he was unable to walk and asked Mrs. Johnson to assist him to his room. Mrs. Johnson called to two young men young men passing through, the hallway, hall-way, who carried the aged miner to his room. As he was placed on the bed he began gasping and Mrs. Johnson, John-son, realizing that the man was in a dying condition, called John Hlne, one of the proprietors. Before a doctor could be summned McCarty breathed his last. So far as Is known McCarty had no Immediate relatives in this country. He had confided his business matters largely to Bishop Scanlan. who will direct the disposition of the body. The remains were removed to O'Donnell's mortuary. great weakness. Late yesterday afternoon he had gone to his room in the Lincoln house and so far as Is known remained there during tho night. He had evidently slept with his clothes on and had lain on top of the bed covering. About 10 o'clock this morning ho was noticed by a chambermaid in the wash room and a few minutes later he was found by Mrs. C. J. Johnson, the housewife of the hotel, resting against a steam radiator In the hallway, hold- |