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Show A LOST MAN CAUSES MUCH EXCITEMENT Joseph Maxfield Loses His Way Home. Is Found ! Later By Searching Party Par-ty Near Milburn A great commotion was aroused in Mount Pleasant late Wednesday evening upon learning of the sudden disappearance of Joseph Maxfield, aged 4 5 years and a former resident of Spring City, who had come to Mount Pleasant from Bingham to rest up and recover from a serious case of stomach troubles caused by being leaded while working in one 3 of the mines of Bingham Canyon. Mr. Maxfield is a brother of Mrs. Amasa Aldrich of this city and had spent part of the day at her home, f During the afternoon he had writ-e writ-e ten a letter to his wife at Bingham , and gave it to Postmaster Braby requesting re-questing him to seal the letter and ' mail it for him. From the address e on the envelope it was noticed by the Postmaster that something was e not just as it should be and the stamp was also placed on the left lower corner of the envelope cover-'1 cover-'1 ing part of the writing. Although t it was not properly addressed it I would have found the person it was intended for. The Postmaster was i not alarmed at the time. Later Mr. Maxfield went into the Wasatch Mercantile Co.'s store and purchased candy for the children and two bottles bot-tles of Olive oil for himself. As he left the store it is thought that he in-) in-) tended to cross the street and go to the Aldrich home. Upon learniing that he had not , returned home in the evening and his overcoat was left at the Aldrich home some anxiety was manifested in his behalf. Mr. Aldrich and a I number of friends searched the business busi-ness districts of the city for his whereabouts, but nothing could be learned of the missing man. Telephone Tele-phone messages were sent to Fair-1 Fair-1 view and Spring City and the search 1 went on. At 9:30 o'clock in the evening more anxiety was expressed and the mayor was approached uoon the subject and it was advised that a searching party be called out. The alarm was given and about 100 men responded to the call. All the central cen-tral part of town was searched and then it was learned that Peter Swen-sen Swen-sen had seen a man resembling the one sought, out near Birch Creek along the county road going north. This was the first clue they had of his whereabouts. He had fallen in the snow shortly before Mr. Swensen had noticed him. The searching par-ty par-ty immediately started for Fairview and informed everyone along the way of the missing man. A party was given at the home of Wilford Rasmussen at Birch Creek, that evening and as some of the guests were going home to Milburn at about 5 o'clock in the morning, they found Mr. Maxfield sitting beside be-side the road in the snow near Mil-burn. Mil-burn. He had taken his shoes off ' and seemingly was preparing for a rest during the night, being almost exhausted when he was found. He was brought to the City Marshal Marsh-al at Fairview who cared for him until an autimobile could be found to bring him to Mount Pleasant. Only On-ly a short time elapsed until he was cared for at the Winters hospital. It was found that he had stood the cold night well as his feet were not frozen and only a little frosted on one ear. Thursday he seemed to be feeling very well at the hospital but did not know how he missed the Aldricn home or where he had been the night before. Neither candy or Olive oil had been touched while he wandered through the snow. |