Show SALT LAKE NEWS county sued for david D erwan brought suit against salt lake coulty for on a warrant given to A II 11 andrews co for furniture in 1894 andrews en doretta and eold the warrant lo 10 erwan alao a warrant for issued and sold in the bame way another note of another of the total claimed Is with interest at 8 per cent since august mr E II 11 pierce has been adjudged a bankrupt and the case referred to referee baldwin morris levy has been from all his debts president snow and party and party left on the short line train last evening tor deseret where they go to attend confer president joseph F smith and apostalo lyman elder symour B bishop V B preston arthur winter lerol C snow and C if wll ken accompanying president snow found dead in sanitarium yesterday morning at 11 as thomas leslie the engineer ot the sanitarium was making his rounds he found that the door ot one ot the private plunge baths in that institution was locked finally upon receiving no response be burst the door open when he was horrified to see the body ot a man lying submerged with the exception of bis face across the steps of the lour foot pool he called to two men who were bathing in the public bath to help him pull the body but they absolutely refused unaided he lifted the lifeless form out of the water and laid it on the floor and summoned dr harvey whose office Is in the same building the doctor at once recognized the body to be the remains of laron cum manga A superficial sufficed to show that life bad been extinct tor come hours and that the cause of death was apoplexy it transpired that mr cummungs bad been in the habit for a year past of adjourning to the sanitarium at about H p m two or three times each week and staying all night enquiry at his room south east temple street elicited the fact from the landlady that yesterday mr cum mangs complained of not feeling well and at 1130 last night told her that he was going down to the sanitarium to sweat it out laron cummungs Is brother to mr M E cummungs and is well known in this city principally for the prominent part he took in the home dramatic club his tastes and bent have always been towards the boards some ten years ago he went east and joined the ranks of the profession where he played with various companies he returned after an absence of seven years and took to his old occupation of clerical work being employed in the city and county building and associated with mr D C dunbar two big deals john deck one of best known mining men is now in chicago and has been there tor three weeks past negotiating a deal which it successful will place in the pockets 0 a small number of his associates something like halt a million dollars the property which now looks as though it would change hands within a comparatively ively short time is none other than that held by the utah asphaltum company near abbley consisting of great beds of asphaltum the like of which are not duplicated in this section what success mr beck is meeting with those interested will not divulge but the general tenor of their remarks indicate that the outlook for a sale is most favorable stopping at the grand hotel in san francisco Is A E hyde of this city who is there for no other purpose than the closing of a deal for the sale of the utah guano companies properties on gunelson Gunn lson and hat islands great salt lake the amount ot money involved Is something like and the prospective purchasers are people who expected ted the property some time ago and pronounced it 0 K these parties see in california a vast field for the use of guano as a fertilizer and proposes taking hold of the immense guano beds in this vicinity in a letter mr hyde intimates that the deal will in all probability go through deseret news |