Show dan B not A dead one in the family album portraits in wednesdays salt lake tribune state senator dan B shields Is shown before and after before he acquired tame fame and a after ate er reaching the distinction of being one of the states foremost citizens with the following story of incidents in his career anyone who knows dan B shields today will not be inclined to number him among the dead uns but he was once it was in the late unpleasantness with spain the young man from park city his mother Is living there yet had enlisted in torreys torreas Tor reys rough riders and was quartermaster sergeant in that regiment in those days it will be remembered the medical service of the army had not learned to cope effectively against typhoid the present state senator was a victim find and tells about it 1 I was very sick one day I 1 woke up and I 1 have a remembrance ot of finding myself in an unfamiliar tent I 1 could coul d just see around me the feet of perhaps a halt half a dozen other soldiers I 1 was not able torise up to see who they wire were or i what their condition presently someone came along alone and took me away irom from there I 1 learned when I 1 was better that all ot of us had bad been taken to that tent that night to die I 1 was the only one to fool them tile the feet I 1 had seen been were the feet of dead men senator shields Is a native of kansas but he came to utah at an early age with his father the late john shields of the long well known firm of brothers general merchants the boy did all the things that a youngster whose father was a storekeeper in a mining camp might be expected to do he worked in the mines around the store drove a delivery wagon served customers I 1 mr shields later inter taught school in j summit county he has practiced law in park city and 5 served RS as city attorney in 1908 b he came to salt bait lake and was j elected to the legislature of 1916 1915 and two years later as attorney general of utah |