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Show EMERGE8 FROM POOL AND DIES.I Dr. Henry Hopkin of Oregon la Sud- denly Stricken at Sanitarium Baths. Salt. Lake. Feb. 17. Just after emerging em-erging from the pool in tho Sanitarium Sanitar-ium bathB, andwhlle his wife and two daughters-ia-law were flitting chatting in a near-by room, awaiting his arrival to escort them to dinner. Dr. Henry Hopkins of Eugene, Ore , yesterday afternoon succumbed to heart disease. Dr. Hopkins, who was 63 years old, and a veteran of the civil war, was traveling with his wife and daughter-in-law, Mrs. Mary Hopkins, to Salido, Colo., whore his five sons are now op-orating op-orating a mine, and with such success that they had sent for the father and mother to come there and make their future home. The party of three arrived ar-rived in Salt Lake from Oregon yesterday yes-terday morning and stopped here to visit another daughter-in-law, Mrs. Martha Hopkins, the wife of Fred Hopkins. Hop-kins. The latter but lately left for the Colorado mining town, and since then his wife has been employed as an attendant in the Sanitarium baths. Yesterday afternoon Dr. Hopkins, after af-ter visiting his daughter-in-law at the baths, decided that he would take a plunge. While in tho pool, his wire, his two daughters-in-law and Mrs. H. Tucker, another attache of the baths, sat in the gallery watching him swim about. Whllo he was paddling about Mrs. Hopkins called down to her husband that she did not think that he could swim the length of the pool, and Dr. Hopkins accepted what he seemed to consider a challenge. Striking out. he went the length of the pool, and then started back, but, apparently exhausted, exhaust-ed, stopped midway and clambered up one of the stairways and rested on tho concrete edge of the pool. The vomcn at this time retired to an adjoining room. When they returned it was to notice a crowd of attendants and bathers standing around the dressing room occupied by Dr. Hopkins and to receive the first intimation of the j death. |